Joseph E. Persico (74 page)

“None of these methods. . . .”: ibid.

Churchill may well have preferred: Sherwood, p. 591.

On one errand for the OSS: Churchill,
Memoirs,
p. 463.

“Why is the Prime Minister so anxious . . .?”: Ernest Cuneo Papers, Box 108, FDRL.

“The importance of the command. . . .”: MR Box 17.

“I believe General Marshall. . . .”: ibid.

The choice of Marshall had appeared: Burns,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom,
p. 392.

As Henry Stimson remembered: Henry L. Stimson and McGeorge Bundy,
On Active Service in Peace and War,
p. 441.

“to transfer [Marshall]. . . .”: PSF Box 83.

“You are absolutely right. . . .”: ibid.

“Ike, you and I know. . . .”: Sherwood, p. 770.

Ike would be coming back: ibid.

“I believe that Marshall's command. . . .”: Stimson memo to Harry Hopkins, Nov. 10, 1943, FDRL.

But Mrs. Marshall began to move: Maurice Matloff,
United States Army in World War II,
p. 274; Sherwood, p. 761.

General Pershing's position: Matloff, p. 294.

A Nazi broadcast out of Paris: Eric Larrabee,
Commander in Chief,
p. 149.

Though Marshall continued to keep: Sherwood, p. 761.

“I was determined. . . .”: Leonard Mosley,
Marshall,
p. 265.

“The [President] evidently assumed. . . .”: ibid., p. 266.

“Well, I didn't feel I could sleep. . . .”: ibid.; Larrabee, p. 150.

“I said frankly that I was staggered. . . .”: Stimson and Bundy, p. 442.

“The President said he got the impression. . . .”: ibid.

“I knew in the bottom of his heart. . . .”: ibid.

“He therefore proposed to nominate. . . .”: Winston S. Churchill,
The Second World War,
p. 357.

Roosevelt's next stop after Cairo: Sherwood, p. 803.

“Dear Eisenhower you might like. . . .”: POF Box 8912.

“Eisenhower is the best politician. . . .”: James Roosevelt,
My Parents,
p. 167.

In his report, Oshima described: Stafford, p. 274.

What if, before Overlord: Loewenheim, Langley, and Jonas, p. 432.

Thus he endorsed: Bishop, p. 289.

“to transport the Army. . . .”: U.S. Army Historical Manuscripts Collection, file 8-3, 6ACA, FDRL.

The closer the May 1944 invasion: F. H. Hinsley,
British Intelligence in the Second World War,
vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 46.

“. . . [T]here is an indirect way. . . .”: David Kahn,
Hitler's Spies,
p. 483.

“Truth is so precious. . . .”: Churchill,
The Second World War,
p. 328.

“Stalin and his comrades. . . .”: ibid.

“In particular it was agreed. . . .”: Anthony Cave Brown,
Bodyguard of Lies,
p. 389.

Beneath the pavements: ibid., p. 1.

In December 1943, less than a month: Ladislas Farago,
The Game of the Foxes,
p. 614.

London Controlling Section: Brown,
Bodyguard of Lies,
p. 8.

“I cannot prophesy. . . .”: Samuel I. Rosenman,
Working with Roosevelt,
p. 367.

“No doubt some government department. . . .”: David Irving,
Hitler's War,
p. 279.

“I am inclined to believe. . . .”: David Kahn,
Code Breaking in World Wars I and II,
p. 148.

All these conditions: Churchill,
The Second World War,
p. 507.

“Our object is to get Turkey. . . .”: Kahn,
Hitler's Spies,
p. 344.

While the ambassador was in his office: ibid., pp. 340–41.

The Allies learned of the alarming leak: Breuer, p. 32.

Cicero, feeling the approaching breath: Joseph E. Persico,
Piercing the Reich,
pp. 69–70; Kahn,
Hitler's Spies,
p. 345; Brown,
Bodyguard of Lies,
p. 398.

The crafty German ambassador: Kahn,
Hitler's Spies,
p. 344.

British intelligence operatives: Brown,
Bodyguard of Lies,
p. 402.

“the ambassador's valet succeeded. . . .”: Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen,
Spy Book,
p. 121.

chapter xx: the white house is penetrated

“all the major railroad stations. . . .”: PSF Box 4.

“The essential business of Berlin proceeds. . . .”: ibid.

“that immediate retaliatory action. . . .”: PSF Box 83.

“It seems to me that such action. . . .”: ibid.

“Entire train on bridge. . . .”: RG 457 Memorandum from General Marshall to FDR, Feb. 15, 1944.

The latter, unknown to the Americans: Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev,
The Haunted Wood,
pp. 240–41; William B. Breuer,
Hoodwinking Hitler,
p. 72.

Fitin, blond, blue-eyed, and soft-spoken: Breuer, p. 72.

“the boon companion. . . .”: Bradley F. Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 338.

As a sweetener, he immediately offered: Weinstein and Vassiliev, p. 241; Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 338.

By the end of the day: Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 339.

The Soviets soon announced: ibid.

All that now remained for him: MR Box 163.

Hopkins read Hoover's letter: Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 341; Curt Gentry,
J. Edgar Hoover,
p. 311.

“a highly dangerous. . . .”: Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
pp. 340–41.

“[m]ilitary advantages accruing to the United States. . . .”: MR Box 163.

“I don't need to suggest to you. . . .”: ibid.

“engaged in attempting to obtain. . . .”: Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 341.

“Under the statutes. . . .”: PSF Box 49.

The implication Biddle so delicately raised: Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 346.

“What do we do next?”: PSF Box 49.

“an exchange of O.S.S. and N.K.V.D. . . .”: Eric Larrabee,
Commander in Chief,
p. 171; Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 344; M 1642, Leahy memorandum, March 15, 1944.

He provided the Russians: Gentry, p. 312; Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 349; Weinstein and Vassiliev, p. 245.

Donovan also assured the Soviets: Weinstein and Vassiliev, p. 244.

One man who knew immediately: ibid., p. 257.

“[O]ur task is to insert there. . . .”: ibid., pp. 240, 257.

Thirty years old in 1944: U.S. Congress,
Hearings on Proposed Legislation to Curb or Control the Communist Party of the United States,
1948, p. 717.

“[a]verage height, medium brown hair. . . .”: Elizabeth Bentley,
Out of Bondage,
Devin-Adair edition, p. 182.

Though Lee was not a Communist:
Hearings,
p. 175; Weinstein and Vassiliev, p. 257; Bentley,
Out of Bondage
, Devin-Adair edition, p. 182.

Immediately after graduating:
Hearings,
p. 720; Weinstein and Vassiliev, p. 241.

By the time the COI: M 1642, Reel 67, Frames 457, 463.

Early in 1943, Lee:
Hearings,
pp. 720, 725.

“I am the gal. . . .”: ibid., p. 529.

An FBI agent later described Bentley: Bentley, Devin-Adair edition, pp. 223–24.

This product of a stern New England: Weinstein and Vassiliev, p. 88.

Bentley and Lee began meeting:
Hearings,
p. 529.

“. . . highly secret information. . . .”: ibid.

“Cables coming to the State Department. . . .”: Weinstein and Vassiliev, p. 257.

“He was one of the most nervous. . . .”: Bentley, Ivy edition, p. 126.

On the delicate matter of Poland's future: Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner, eds.,
VENONA,
p. 227.

“. . . he told me,” she later claimed:
Hearings,
p. 728.

Oak Ridge was the site: Richard Rhodes,
The Making of the Atomic Bomb,
p. 486.

At one of their drugstore:
Hearings,
p. 727.

“I'm finished. They'll come. . . .”: Bentley, Devin-Adair edition, p. 260.

“According to Kokh. . . .”: Robert Louis Benson,
A History of U.S. Communications Intelligence During World War II,
pp. 337–38.

He feared Donovan had begun: Weinstein and Vassiliev, pp. 259–61.

The Soviets were just as happy: ibid., pp. 260–61.

“drug stores with two exits. . . .”: Statement of Elizabeth Ferrill Bentley to the FBI, Nov. 30, 1945, p. 66.

“memorize the last two numbers. . . .”: ibid., p. 67.

“to go down one or several. . . .”: ibid.

“to turn around and start following. . . .”: ibid., p. 61.

“place a book behind my front door. . . .”: ibid., p. 68.

“a thin black thread. . . .”: ibid.

“I was to remove. . . .”: ibid.

No conversation of substance: ibid., p. 69.

“should either use a phone booth. . . .”: ibid., p. 70.

Either Bentley's training was sound: Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen,
Spy Book,
p. 56.

Soviet agents like Elizabeth Bentley: Christopher Andrew,
For the President's Eyes Only,
p. 89.

The image the President had: ibid.

“I have a weakness. . . .”: Weinstein and Vassiliev, p. 63.

She displayed this penchant: ibid., p. 51.

“[M]y father has great influence. . . .”: ibid., p. 57.

“I have access. . . .”: ibid., p. 55.

As an NKVD officer put it: ibid., p. 58.

She did not hesitate to use: ibid., p. 64.

“She should . . . be guided to approach. . . .”: ibid., p. 62.

Dodd would remain unwavering: ibid., p. 71.

There he joined the Communist Party: ibid., p. 72.

The usher's log for October 21: Day-by-Day, Oct. 21, 1941, FDRL.

The First Lady suggested: Weinstein and Vassiliev, p. 74.

“In those places. . . .”: ibid.

“[O]ne should render assistance. . . .”: ibid., pp. 82–83.

“I got a very mysterious call. . . .”: John Morton Blum,
Years of Urgency, 1938–1941: From the Morgenthau Diaries,
p. 340.

White, valued by Morgenthau: John Morton Blum,
Years of War, 1941–1945: From the Morgenthau Diaries,
p. 89.

The Treasury secretary continued: Weinstein and Vassiliev, p. xxiv; Benson, p. 322.

“ready for any self-sacrifice. . . .”: Weinstein and Vassiliev, p. 168; Benson and Warner, pp. 321–22.

“Timely receipt by us. . . .”: Weinstein and Vassiliev, pp. 163–64.

No record of this letter: ibid., p. 226.

Roosevelt was highly sensitive: Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 143.

“Bill, you must treat the Russians. . . .”: Stanley Lovell,
Of Spies and Stratagems,
p. 185.

“Pappy thought American words. . . .”: John Franklin Carter Diary, March 25, 1943.

“The Soviet people in Moscow. . . .”: PSF Navy, Box 62.

“[h]aving had my fingers burned. . . .”: Adolf Berle Papers, Box 213, FDRL.

“The list of the military secrets. . . .”: ibid.

“. . . [T]he engineers they have wished to let in. . . .”: ibid.

“The Russian denouement is unpredictable. . . .”: ibid.

The Army, Navy, and FBI: ibid.

It was not until the spring: Bradley F. Smith,
Sharing Secrets with Stalin,
p. 119.

“specifications of the latest. . . .”: ibid., pp. 119, 140.

The U.S. naval attaché in Moscow: ibid., p. 140.

Wallace is said to have planned: Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin,
The Sword and the Shield,
pp. 59, 109.

chapter xxi: if overlord fails

German towns were being incinerated: David G. McCullough, ed.,
The American Heritage Picture History of World War II,
p. 418.

“all secret and confidential intelligence. . . .”: MR Box 164.

“. . . [T]here is no substantial evidence. . . .”: ibid.

“The OSS representative in Bern. . . .”: MR Box 73.

Speer, a realist, put together: RG 457 CBOM 76.

FDR's military staff advised him: F. H. Hinsley,
British Intelligence in the Second World War,
vol. 3, pt. 2, p. 42.

“A man who does not. . . .”: Martin Blumenson,
Patton,
p. 222.

Two weeks before the North African: PSF Box 83.

“During the tea some screams. . . .”: ibid.

“This report must be kept secret. . . .”: ibid.

On D-Day, Patton: Anthony Cave Brown,
Bodyguard of Lies,
p. 474.

Two massive army groups: ibid., pp. 460–61.

Its genuine units: ibid., p. 474.

“A man must be alert. . . .”: Blumenson, pp. 222–23.

The Russians even agreed: Bradley F. Smith,
Sharing Secrets with Stalin,
p. 181.

“. . . [D]etails for the preparation. . . .”: MR Box 104.

“Would it not be well for you and me . . .?”: Francis L. Loewenheim, Harold D. Langley, and Manfred Jonas, eds.,
Roosevelt and Churchill: Their Secret Wartime Correspondence,
p. 486.

“. . . [I]t is our firm intention to launch Overlord . . .”: ibid., pp. 488–89.

“pay a handsome tribute . . .”: ibid., p. 488.

“probably the most important. . . .”: Smith,
Sharing Secrets,
p. 193.

Kept from the D-Day secret: Loewenheim, Langley, and Jonas, p. 487.

“We call him Joan of Arc. . . .”: Brown,
Bodyguard of Lies,
p. 570.

“Personally, I do not think. . . .”: Loewenheim, Langley, and Jonas, p. 484.

The Prime Minister agreed . . .: James Leutze, “The Secret of the Churchill-Roosevelt Correspondence, September 1939–May 1940,”
Journal of Contemporary History,
July 10, 1975, pp. 1498–99.

“The resistance army. . . .”: MR Box 17.

Ike was to lead him to believe: Brown,
Bodyguard of Lies,
p. 582.