Authors: Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR,World War II Espionage
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The luck of the Irish: Whalen, pp. 209â10.
Learning of the ambassador's: Charles Higham,
American Swastika,
pp. 26â27.
“ruthless and scheming”: Leutze, pp. 479â90.
During this Washington sojourn:
NYT,
Feb. 16, 1967.
“Before long he. . . .”: Whalen, p. 286.
“[H]e would say what he Goddamned pleased. . . .”: ibid.
In this matter, at least: ibid., p. 313.
Kennedy declared: Farago, p. 343.
“Appalling . . . it means. . . .”: Tyler Kent Papers, Box 1, FDRL.
“entirely contrary. . . .”: Whalen, pp. 314â18.
The British were convinced: Goodwin, p. 103.
“Today's threat. . . .”: Thompson, p. 241.
Pieces of the corpse: Nathan Miller,
Spying for America,
p. 202.
“protect this country. . . .”: Christopher Andrew,
For the President's Eyes Only,
p. 91.
He had appointed Woodring: Goodwin, p. 23.
Instead, he had had to settle: ibid., p. 71.
Afterward, they could watch: Day-by-Day, Dec. 10, 1939, FDRL.
“I don't think it is likely. . . .”: Troy,
The Coordinator of Information and British Intelligence,
p. 12.
Henry Stimson was a product: Richard Rhodes,
The Making of the Atomic Bomb,
p. 618.
At seventy-three: Goodwin, p. 71; Rhodes, p. 618.
chapter iii: strange bedfellows
In 1939, when the war: Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen,
Spy Book,
pp. 267â68.
“I do not wish. . . .”: Curt Gentry,
J. Edgar Hoover,
p. 231.
“I spoke to J. Edgar Hoover. . . .”: ibid.
The FBI, in the name:
NYT,
Sept. 15, 1991; Polmar and Allen,
Spy Book,
p. 203.
“working in Buffalo . . .”: Gentry, p. 231.
“Tell Bob Jackson. . . .”: ibid.
“I have agreed with. . . .”: Athan Theoharis, ed.,
From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover,
p. 134.
Nevertheless, Hoover, who: Robert Thompson,
A Time for War,
pp. 240â41.
“[H]e could make. . . .”: Doris Kearns Goodwin,
No Ordinary Time,
p. 78.
“got along very, very well. . . .”: Gentry, p. 223.
“I was very close. . . .”: ibid.
“Edgar, what are they trying . . .?”: ibid., p. 224.
“The two men liked. . . .”: ibid., p. 223.
“the treacherous use . . .”: Goodwin, p. 103.
“Here are some more. . . .”: Gentry, p. 225.
“a little too suave. . . .”: Wayne S. Cole,
Charles A. Lindbergh and the Battle Against American Intervention in World War II,
p. 68.
Lindbergh's defense: ibid., pp. 41â43.
“a defense hysteria. . . .”: Goodwin, p. 47.
“When I read. . . .”: Cole, pp. 128â29.
“Dear Edgar”: Gentry, pp. 226â27.
“Within the last few days. . . .”: Astor, PSF Box 92.
Vice President Henry Wallace: William Doyle,
Inside the Oval Office,
pp. 19â20.
A White House stenographer: ibid., pp. ix, x, 10.
“Ah, Lowell. . . .”: ibid., pp. 19â20.
Willkie may have been: Theoharis, p. 201.
“the most formidable candidate. . . .”: Goodwin, p. 142.
“a serious mistake”: Gentry, p. 227.
“had no wish . . .”: Goodwin, p. 125.
“Dear Caesar”: PSF Box 72.
“this infernal counterespionage. . . .”: Adolf Berle Papers, Box 211, FDRL.
This time the FBI: Theoharis, p. 200.
“a carefully measured appearance. . . .”: Brian Loring Villa, “The Atomic Bomb and the Normandy Invasion,”
Perspectives in American History
2 (1977â78), p. 465.
The objective of German diplomacy: Bradley F. Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
pp. 22â23; Robert Edwin Herzstein,
Roosevelt & Hitler,
p. 333.
“today relies far more. . . .”: Herzstein, p. 337.
Boetticher had been in Washington: David Brinkley,
Washington Goes to War,
pp. 33â34.
Boetticher's deliberate revelation: Alfred M. Beck, “The Ambivalent Attaché: Friedrich von Boetticher in America, 1933â1941” (Ph.D. diss., Georgetown University, 1977), pp. 276â80.
“a careful record be had . . .”: Ladislas Farago,
The Game of the Foxes,
p. 356.
“The Germans desire to make peace. . . .”: ibid.
“Naturally, any information. . . .”: ibid.
Yet, he did manage: ibid., pp. 369â71.
“no wish to be a candidate again. . . .”: Goodwin, p. 125.
After Nazi storm troopers smashed: Thompson, p. 199.
“American mothers, wage-earners . . .”: Farago, pp. 381â89.
Ostensibly, the ad: ibid.
“Willkie's nomination is unfortunate. . . .”: ibid., p. 381.
“after lengthy negotiations. . . .”: ibid., pp. 378â79;
NYT,
July 23, 1997.
These tracts: Farago, p. 385.
“[A]ny old-time politician. . . .”: Goodwin, p. 186.
“The first number. . . .”: ibid.
“If we're attacked. . . .”: Thompson, p. 275.
“Now this Mitsunaga fella. . . .”: Doyle, pp. 33â34.
“With all their technical imperfections. . . .”: ibid., p. 11.
“The supreme law. . . .”:
NYT,
July 23, 1997.
chapter iv: spymaster in the oval office
He enjoyed Roosevelt's trust: Jeffrey M. Dorwart, “The Roosevelt-Astor Espionage Ring,”
New York History,
vol. 62, no. 3 (July 1981), p. 318.
“British intelligence in this area. . . .”: PSF Box 12.
“his government was preparing. . . .”: PSF Box 82.
“It seems to me. . . .”: PSF Box 92.
He turned Astor down: Christopher Andrew,
For the President's Eyes Only,
p. 93.
Confidential correspondence: Curt Gentry,
J. Edgar Hoover,
p. 265.
“In regard to the opening. . . .”: PSF Box 92.
“We will be making a great mistake. . . .”: Andrew, p. 98.
“Knowing your affection. . . .”: Mrs. Johnson to FDR, PSF Box 92.
The President told Missy LeHand: PSF Box 92.
“The story about the theft. . . .”: Astor to FDR, PSF Box 92.
Could the President instruct Stark . . .?: PSF Box 52.
“I simply wanted you to know. . . .”: PSF Box 40; Thomas F. Troy,
The Coordinator of Information and British Intelligence,
p. 174.
“Astor must have a job. . . .”: Troy,
The Coordinator,
p. 177.
His successor was: Andrew, p. 93.
He settled in Britain: Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen,
Spy Book,
pp. 535â36.
His mission was to protect: Bradley F. Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 22.
“very tough, very rich. . . .”:
Toronto Globe and Mail,
Jan. 16, 1999.
“broken-down boarding house”: Andrew, p. 94.
The truth is rather: Nigel West,
A Thread of Deceit,
p. 131.
Late in 1940: Dorwart,
Conflict of Duty,
p. 123.
During the years of peace: Phillip Knightley,
The Second Oldest Profession,
p. 212.
In this position: Troy,
Wild Bill and Intrepid,
pp. 102â103; Dorwart,
Conflict of Duty,
p. 123.
“As Area Controller. . . .”: PPF Box 40.
His authority had been: Troy,
Donovan and the CIA,
p. 49.
“number one man”: PSF Box 92.
“Dear Mr. President, One might suppose. . . .”: ibid.
“I have reported. . . .”: ibid.
“You're going to be elected. . . .”: John Franklin Carter Oral History, p. 2, FDRL.
“brilliant, cynical, occasionally cockeyed. . . .”: Ernest B. Furgurson, “Back Channels,”
Washingtonian,
vol. 31 (June 1996).
“pretty well loused up. . . .”: Carter Oral History, p. 8.
The President was aware: Nathan Miller,
Spying for America,
p. 236.
“Techniques for gathering information. . . .”: ibid.
Its members worked: Furgurson.
And FDR grasped: Dorwart,
Conflict of Duty,
p. 168.
“The overall condition was attached. . . .”: The Year of Crisis, John Franklin Carter Papers, April 14, 1945.
State was then to finance: Adolf Berle Papers, Box 57, FDRL.
“Jay Franklin (J.F. Carter) came in. . . .”: ibid.
Besides collecting intelligence: PSF Box 97.
It would no doubt: ibid.
Carter's operatives: Berle Papers, Box 57.
Thus he wore: Robert Thompson,
A Time for War,
p. 202.
“If you will stop shipping. . . .”: John Morton Blum,
Years of Urgency, 1938â1941: From the Morgenthau Diaries,
pp. 349â50.
“breath . . . taken away. . . .”: ibid.
“[T]his thing might give us. . . .”: ibid., p. 350.
“By all means, they are great guys.”: ibid.
“. . . [H]e [FDR] has mentioned it. . . .”: ibid., p. 366.
“burn out the industrial heart. . . .”: Thompson, p. 287.
“Well, his asking for 500 planes. . . .”: ibid.
“Is he still willing to fight?”: Blum,
Years of Urgency,
p. 367.
“This would give us a chance. . . .”: ibid., p. 366.
“The four of you. . . .”: ibid., p. 367.
“As war administrator. . . .”: William Doyle,
Inside the Oval Office,
p. 9; James MacGregor Burns,
Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox,
pp. 83â84.
The U.S. Army Air Corps: Thompson, p. 289.
“to try to get. . . .”: Blum,
Years of Urgency,
p. 368.
FDR unhesitatingly approved: Sykes Main Page, “The Flying Tigers,” pp. 1â3 (Internet).
Magruder came back: Roger J. Sandilands,
The Life and Political Economy of Lauchlin Currie,
pp. 114â15.
chapter v: the defeatist and the defiant
When that effort failed: Robert Thompson,
A Time for War,
p. 264.
“[F]rankly, if your proposal. . . .”: Thomas F. Troy,
Wild Bill and Intrepid,
p. 25.
“fiendish memory”: Frank Friedl interview with Admiral William Leahy, May 24, 1948, FDRL.
His rejection: Nathan Miller,
Spying for America,
p. 240.
“I fear that to put. . . .”: Troy,
Wild Bill,
p. 25.
“That you took the time. . . .”: PPF Box 6558.
He named another Republican: Troy,
The Coordinator of Information and British Intelligence,
p. 16.
On July 9: Troy,
Wild Bill,
pp. 46â47.
Over a quarter-million: H. Montgomery Hyde,
Room 3603,
p. 72.
But on a single day: Bradley F. Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 21.
There was no point: ibid., p. 33.
“a wave of pessimism. . . .”: Christopher Andrew,
For the President's Eyes Only,
p. 95.
“We would appreciate. . . .”: Troy,
The Coordinator,
p. 57.
“the height of nonsense”: Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 34.
“We are already making. . . .”: Troy,
Wild Bill,
p. 49.
“Please take this up. . . .”: Troy,
The Coordinator,
p. 58; Troy,
Wild Bill,
p. 49.
Donovan was a man: Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 34.
“Stay where you are. . . .”: Troy,
The Coordinator,
p. 43.
When he learned: Anthony Cave Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 148; Troy,
Wild Bill,
p. 41.
On the morning of July 15: Troy,
The Coordinator,
p. 155.
On reaching London: Thompson, p. 262.
“
FRENCH SIGN PEACE TREATY
. . . .”: Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 14.
The American-born Lady Astor: Troy,
The Coordinator,
p. 64.
“There is at the present moment. . . .”: ibid., p. 65.
“I am happy to tell you that Winston. . . .”: ibid., p. 67.
Donovan's most prophetic: ibid., p. 68.
“hard as granite. . . .”: Phillip Knightley,
The Second Oldest Profession,
p. 112.
Menzies had been alerted: F. W. Winterbotham,
The Ultra Secret,
p. 30.
That he received more than a cursory: Thompson, p. 263; Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 150.
The Royal Air Force: Troy,
The Coordinator,
p. 72.
“was to discover. . . .”: Thompson, p. 263.
“so he can tell me. . . .”: Troy,
Wild Bill,
p. 57.
He painted a picture: ibid.
Donovan continued to tell the President: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 150.
He had a recommendation: Thompson, p. 263; Andrew, p. 95.
Through their own sources: Hyde, p. 40.
“President has sanctioned. . . .”: ibid.
Churchill had begged: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 150.
Donovan began lobbying: Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
pp. 37â38; Doris Kearns Goodwin,
No Ordinary Time,
p. 142.
“He couldn't keep his mouth shut. . . .”: Irwin F. Gellman,
Secret Affairs,
pp. 102, 172.
Two years and nine months: Richard J. Whalen,
The Founding Father,
pp. 327â32.
“I wouldn't say no. . . .”: Troy,
The Coordinator,
p. 85.
“I intend to go. . . .”: ibid.
There the President cheerily: Fulton Oursler Jr., “Secret Treason,”
American Heritage,
December 1991, p. 61.
Murray, the Outlaw: Grace Tully,
F.D.R., My Boss,
p. 128; Suckley, Binder 4, p. RB11.
Oursler had scored: Oursler, pp. 55â58.
The high point: Philip Ziegler,
King Edward VIII: The Official Biography,
pp. 391â92.
His presence in England: Michael Bloch,
Operation Willi: The Plot to Kidnap the Duke of Windsor,
p. 4.