Agent 110

An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII

Scott Jeffrey Miller

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781451693393
• eBook ISBN:
  9781451693409
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The "lively and engrossing" ( The Wall Street Journal ) story of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles built an underground network determined to take down Hitler and destroy the Third Reich. Agent 110 is Allen Dulles, a newly minted spy from an eminent family. From his townhouse in Bern, Switzerland, and in clandestine meetings in restaurants, back roads, and lovers' bedrooms, Dulles met with and facilitated the plots of Germans during World War II who were trying to destroy the country's leadership. Their underground network exposed Dulles to the political maneuverings of the Soviets, who were already competing for domination of Germany, and all of Europe, in the post-war period.Scott Miller's "absorbing and bracing" ( The Seattle Times ) Agent 110 explains how leaders of the German Underground wanted assurances from Germany's enemies that they would treat the country humanely after the war. If President Roosevelt backed the resistance, they would overthrow Hitler and shorten the war. But Miller shows how Dulles's negotiations fell short. Eventually he was placed in charge of the CIA in the 1950s, where he helped set the stage for US foreign policy. With his belief that the ends justified the means, Dulles had no qualms about consorting with Nazi leadership or working with resistance groups within other countries to topple governments. Agent 110 is "a doozy of a dossier on Allen Dulles and his early days spying during World War II" ( Kirkus Reviews ). "Miller skillfully weaves a double narrative of Dulles' machinations and those of the German resistance" ( Booklist ) to bring to life this exhilarating, and pivotal, period of world history—of desperate renegades in a dark and dangerous world where spies, idealists, and traitors match wits and blows to ensure their vision of a perfect future.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Preface
• Time Line
• Principal Characters
• 1. Portal on the Reich
• 2. “I Have Never Believed in Turning Back”
• 3. The “Eternal Plotter”
• 4. “Roosevelt’s Emissary”
• 5. Unconditional Surrender
• 6. “Because You’re You”
• 7. “A Yankee Doodle-Dandy”
• 8. “Utterly Without Scruples”
• 9. “Imposing Their Brand of Domination”
• 10. Two Bottles of Cointreau
• 11. “Who, Me? Jealous?”
• 12. “There Is Just the Glimmer of a Chance That This Man Is on the Square”
• 13. “You Could Have Peace in Eight Days”
• 14. “I Wouldn’t Tell Dulles”
• 15. The Committee for a Free Germany
• 16. “Twenty Percent for Liberation and Eighty Percent for Russia”
• 17. “A High-Tension Power Line”
• 18. “The Qualities of a Genius”
• 19. “Obviously a Plant”
• 20. “Now All Is Lost”
• 21. “I Trembled With Emotion”
• 22. “I Do Not Understand What Our Policy Is”
• 23. “The Soviet Maintains a Steady Flow into the Reich of Constructive Ideas”
• 24. “Aren’t They Ready to Act Yet?”
• 25. The Wolf’s Lair
• 26. “Communism Is Not What Germany Needs”
• 27. “I Never Saw Them So Completely Downtrodden”
• 28. Reunion with Donovan
• 29. Light Had Gone Out
• 30. “I Felt That the Walls of the Cellar Were About to Collapse Around Me”
• 31. “An Implacable Enemy of Bolshevism”
• 32. “A Common Desire to Know What the Germans Were Planning”
• 33. “Gero, Are You Standing or Sitting?”
• 34. “I Can See How Much You and Allen Care for Each Other”
• 35. “I Was Puzzled About What the Soviets Would Do with This Information”
• 36. “I May Be Crazy”
• 37. “I Cannot Avoid a Feeling of Bitter Resentment Toward Your Informers”
• 38. “This Is the Most Terrible News I’ve Ever Had”
• 39. “In View of Complications Which Have Arisen with Russians”
• 40. An Overloaded Mercedes-Benz
• 41. “I Will Never Forget What You Have Done for Me”
• 42. “Countless Thousands of Parents Would Bless You”
• 43. The Crown Jewels
• 44. “It Was Three Allies and One Enemy”
• 45. “Most of My Time Is Spent Reliving Those Exciting Days”
• Postscript
• The Characters
• Photographs
• Acknowledgments
• About Scott Miller
• Bibliography
• Notes
• Illustration Credits
• Index
• Copyright