Counterspy : memoirs of a counterintelligence officer in World War II and the Cold War / Richard W. Cutler ; foreword by Joseph E. Persico.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cutler, Richard W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cutler, Richard W.

United States. War Department. Strategic Services Unit.

World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--United States.

Intelligence service--United States--History--20th century.

Intelligence service.

United States.

History.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.

Intelligence officers--United States--Biography.

Intelligence officers.

Genre:

Personal narratives -- American.

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

xxi, 173 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brassey's, [2004]

Summary:

Richard Cutler describes his career with the super-secret X-2 counterintelligence brach of the Office of Stratetic Services (OSS) during World War II, and his post-war counterespionage work with its successor, the War Department's Strategic Services Unit (SSU), which later became the CIA. While with X-2, he analyzed Ultra intercepts and vetted agents about to be sent into Germany. Cutler also provides an insightful overview of OSS operations during the war. With photographs and a foreword by best-selling author Joseph Persico (Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and the World War II Espionage), Counterspy delivers a fascinating account of espionage during World War II and the beginning of the Cold War.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-165) and index.

ISBN:

1574888390

OCLC:

54446471