Can you keep a secret? Maybe you can, but the United States government cannot. Since the birth of the country, nations large and small, from Russia and China to Ghana and Ecuador, have stolen the most precious secrets of the United States. Written by Michael Sulick, former director of CIA's clandestine service, Spying in America presents a history of more than thirty espionage cases inside the United States. These cases include Americans who spied against their country, spies from both the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War, and foreign agents who ran operations on American soil. Some of the stories are familiar, such as those of Benedict Arnold and Julius Rosenberg, while others, though less well known, are equally fascinating. From the American Revolution, through the Civil War and two World Wars, to the atomic age of the Manhattan Project, Sulick details the lives of those who have betrayed America's secrets. In each case he focuses on the motivations that drove these individuals to spy, their access and the secrets they betrayed, their tradecraft or techniques for concealing their espionage, their exposure and punishment, and the damage they ultimately inflicted on America's national security. Spying in America serves as the perfect introduction to the early history of espionage in America. Sulick's unique experience as a senior intelligence officer is evident as he skillfully guides the reader through these cases of intrigue, deftly illustrating the evolution of American awareness about espionage and the fitful development of American counterespionage leading up to the Cold War.
Preface Introduction: The Peril of Disbelief Part I: The Revolutionary War1. Espionage and the Revolutionary War 2. The First Spy: Benjamin Church 3. The Undetected Spy: Edward Bancroft4. The Treasonous Spy: Benedict Arnold Part II: The Civil War5. Espionage and the Civil War6. Allan Pinkerton and Union Counterintelligence7. The Chameleon Spy: Timothy Webster 8. The Spy in the Union Capital: Rose Greenhow9. The Counterspy as Tyrant: Lafayette Baker 10. The Confederacy's Reverend Spy: Thomas Conrad 11. Union Espionage Part III: Espionage During the World Wars 1914-194512. Espionage before World War I 13. Prelude to War: Germany's First Spy Network 14. US Counterespionage and World War I 15. Spy Hysteria between the World Wars 16. German Espionage in World War II 17. The Spy in US Industry: The Norden Bombsight 18. The Double Agent: William Sebold 19. German Intelligence Failure in World War II 20. The Spy in the State Department: Tyler Kent 21. Japanese Espionage in World War II Part IV: The Golden Age of Soviet Espionage-the 1930s and 1940s22. The Origins of Cold War Espionage 23. America's Counterespionage Weapon: Venona 24. The Golden Age Exposed: Igor Gouzenko 25. The "Red Spy Queen": Elizabeth Bentley 26. Spy versus Spy: Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss27. The Spy in the Treasury: Harry Dexter White 28. The Spy in the White House: Lauchlin Currie 29. The Spy in US Counterespionage: Judith Coplon Part V: The Atomic Bomb Spies: Prelude to the Cold War30. The Atomic Bomb Spies 31. The Executed Spies: The Rosenbergs 32. The Atomic Bomb Spy Who Got Away: Theodore Hall 33. The Spy from the Cornfields: George Koval Notes Conclusion: Espionage in the Cold War and Beyond Bibliography About the Author Index
