Spy sites of Washington, DC : a guide to the capital region's secret history Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton ; with Henry R. Schlesinger ; foreword by Peter Earnest

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Robert (Retired intelligence officer), author.

Melton, H. Keith (Harold Keith), 1944- author.

Schlesinger, Henry R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Espionage--Washington (D.C.)--Guidebooks.

Espionage.

Espionage--Maryland--Guidebooks.

Espionage--Virginia--Guidebooks.

Spies--Washington (D.C.).

Spies.

Spies--Maryland.

Spies--Virginia.

Genre:

Guidebooks.

Physical Description:

xvii, 331 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2017]

Summary:

This is a guidebook to the most important and fascinating spy sites in Washington, DC and suburban Virginia and Maryland. Melton and Wallace bring to life over two hundred years of the secret side to the nation's capital through history, images, and locations that readers can visit. The book contains 220 entries that give brief histories of key cases linked to a site where spies lived, worked, or were caught in the act. Melton and Wallace describe virtually every conceivable type of spy activity--all of which have played out here. The book is richly illustrated with well over 300 photos of sites, people, and spy gadgets. Also included are maps and lists of spy sites by neighborhood, city, or county so that readers can undertake their own spy-site tours. The untold or little-known stories of the secret operations and spy sites hidden throughout the DC region will fascinate spy enthusiasts and visitors and even surprise longtime residents of the area.

Contents:

A new capital for espionage, 1790/1859

Civil War spies, 1860/1865

Worldwide intelligence and world war, 1866/1932

Spies of World War II, 1933/1946

The early Cold War : spies not guns, 1947/1961

The Cold War heats up, 1962/1991

New threats and old adversaries, 1992/2015

Appendix A. Listing of spy sites by location and by maps

Appendix B. The U.S. intelligence community.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781626163768

1626163766

OCLC:

946579839