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The luck of the Irish: Whalen, pp. 209–10.

Learning of the ambassador's: Charles Higham,
American Swastika,
pp. 26–27.

“ruthless and scheming”: Leutze, pp. 479–90.

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. 314–18.

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. 267–68.

“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. 240–41.

“[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. 41–43.

“a defense hysteria. . . .”: Goodwin, p. 47.

“When I read. . . .”: Cole, pp. 128–29.

“Dear Edgar”: Gentry, pp. 226–27.

“Within the last few days. . . .”: Astor, PSF Box 92.

Vice President Henry Wallace: William Doyle,
Inside the Oval Office,
pp. 19–20.

A White House stenographer: ibid., pp. ix, x, 10.

“Ah, Lowell. . . .”: ibid., pp. 19–20.

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 (1977–78), p. 465.

The objective of German diplomacy: Bradley F. Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
pp. 22–23; 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. 33–34.

Boetticher's deliberate revelation: Alfred M. Beck, “The Ambivalent Attaché: Friedrich von Boetticher in America, 1933–1941” (Ph.D. diss., Georgetown University, 1977), pp. 276–80.

“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. 369–71.

“no wish to be a candidate again. . . .”: Goodwin, p. 125.

After Nazi storm troopers smashed: Thompson, p. 199.

“American mothers, wage-earners . . .”: Farago, pp. 381–89.

Ostensibly, the ad: ibid.

“Willkie's nomination is unfortunate. . . .”: ibid., p. 381.

“after lengthy negotiations. . . .”: ibid., pp. 378–79;
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. 33–34.

“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. 535–36.

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. 102–103; 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, 1938–1941: From the Morgenthau Diaries,
pp. 349–50.

“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. 83–84.

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. 1–3 (Internet).

Magruder came back: Roger J. Sandilands,
The Life and Political Economy of Lauchlin Currie,
pp. 114–15.

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. 46–47.

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. 37–38; 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. 327–32.

“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. 55–58.

The high point: Philip Ziegler,
King Edward VIII: The Official Biography,
pp. 391–92.

His presence in England: Michael Bloch,
Operation Willi: The Plot to Kidnap the Duke of Windsor,
p. 4.

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