Secret Intelligence Agent: British Espionage in America and the Creation of the OSS
Secret Intelligence Agent: British Espionage in America and the Creation of the OSS
St. Martin's Press | 1983 | ISBN: 0312708475 | English | 312 pages | PDF | 36.4 MB
Recruited through the old-boy network into Britain's MI-6, H. Montgomery Hyde began his spying career sharing a room with Philby co-conspirator Guy Burgess. Before World War II was over, he knew J. Edgar Hoover, the Duke of Windsor, Hollywood filmmaker Alexander Korda, advertiser David Ogilvy, Charlie Chaplin, Betty Grable, and double agent Dusko Popov ("Tricycle"), the first operative to use the "microdot." His exploits ranged from New York to Algiers and Casablanca, from invading diplomatic pouches to sleeping with a dancer in Tangier to expose her Nazi connection—proving that the secret triumphs of Anglo-American intelligence were not without their share of glamour and high adventure.