Spies have long existed in the popular

Spies have long existed in the p o p u l a r imagination as glamorous and shadowy figures. But how much is known about the real-life practitioners of the "black art" of espionage? In this enthralling look into the world of covert intelligence, renowned historian of espionage Ernest Volkman strips away the myths and Hollywood hype to reveal the actual human dramas behind "the world's second oldest profession."

Spies is a twentieth century "Hall of Infamy" packed with gripping true spy stories profiling many of this century's most notable agents, assets, sleepers, spymasters, and moles. These are the women and men whose espionage feats have, for better or worse, irrevocably altered the course of history. You'll read of the amazing exploits of legends such as:

? "Counterfeit Traitor" Eric Erickson, the American businessman who, posing as a Swedish Nazi, helped stanch the flow of oil to Hitler's war machine and end the war in Europe

? Fritz Kauders, the Viennese Jew who went from being a small time confidence trickster to become one of Germany's most valued spies and a Soviet double agent

? Amy Thorpe, the gorgeous American debutante turned superspy

? British agent 17F, Ian Fleming, author of some of the most outrageous (and effective) "dirty tricks" in the annals of spydom

? Dutch housewife turned burlesque dancer, turned secret agent Margareta Zelle, a.k.a. Mata Hari, who, contrary to popular belief, was neither beautiful nor a very good spy

? B r i l l i a n t Soviet superspy R i c h a r d Sorge, whose intelligence gathering operation in Japan balked Nazi Germany's attempt to seize Moscow

With wit and crisp, journalistic precision,

Volkman recounts a number of surprising

espionage curiosities, including Pope Paul

Vl's work for the CIA, Graham Greene's less

than glorious stint as a British agent, and

the bizarre story of "Papa's Crook Factory,"

Ernest Hemingway's amateur spy ring in

Havana. Also included are pioneers of mod-

ern espionage such as the hard-hearted

"Fraulein Doktor," Elsbeth Schragmueller.

The mother of modern intelligence training,

she was the creator of the "discard," the

deliberate sacrifice of one agent to protect

another more important one from detection.

Her story, along with others such as those of

Laventri Beria, architect of Stalin's police

state, and of Claude Dansey, the cantanker-

ous and much reviled spymaster of Britain's

MI6,

bring

history

to

life.

A solid reference work and an exciting read,

Spies offers a uniquely intimate look into the

shadowy world of espionage.

ERNEST VOLKMAN, formerly a prize-winning national correspondent for Newsday, has been a journalist for more than thirty-five years He specializes in the dark world of espionage, a subject about which he has written hundreds of articl es and several books, i nc l udi ng Secret Intelligence--the companion volume to the U.S. television series by that name, for which he served as consultant--and Warriors of the Night, a critical history of American intelligence that is now required reading in several U.S. military intelligence training courses. Mr. Volkman has lectured on intelligence at a number of universities and government agencies, has served as a consultant for several foreignproduced documentaries dealing with espionage, including those done by ITV and BBC in Great Britain, and he has appeared on various American news programmes including "Nightline" and "Today."

Contents

Introduction vii Glossary xi

The Agencies xv

The Moles

Fritz Kauders: Triumph of the Schieber 2 H. A. R. Philby: The Mole's Mole 8

Anthony Blunt: "The Pope Wants You!" 17 Oleg Penkovsky: Soldier for Peace 23

George Blake: The Manchurian Candidate 31 Nikolai and Nadjeda Skoblin: Death and the Kursk

Nightingale 37 Israel Beer: The Man Who Never Was 43 Vladimir I. Vetrov: The Murder of Line X 48

Defectors: The Storm Petrels

Afansy M. Shorikhov: Flight of the Football Fan 56 Igor Gouzenko: The First Man 61

Anatoli Golitsin: Even a Paranoid Has Enemies 70 Whittaker Chambers: The Man with Two Faces 76

The Legends

Leiba Domb: The Red Orchestra 82 Wilhelm Wassmuss: The German Lawrence 90

Ian Fleming: Art Imitates Life 94 Dusko Popov: The Real James Bond 98 F. W. Winterbotham: The Spy in the Sky 103 Amy Thorpe Pack: The Siren Spy 107 Richard Sorge: The Greatest of Them All 112 Ruth Kuczynski: The Radio in the Teddy Bear 121 Herbert Yardley: The American Black Chamber 127 Eric Erickson: The Counterfeit Traitor 132 Elsbeth Schragmueller: Fraulein Doktor 136

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CONTENTS

Margareta Zelle: Mata Hari, The Eye of Dawn 140 Wolfgang Lotz, Eliyahu Cohen: The Eyes of Israel 144

The Traitors

Larry Wu-Tai Chin: The Spy in the Casino 154 Klaus Fuchs: The Man Who Stole the Atomic Bomb 158

Alfred Redl: Feasting with Panthers 163

The Spymasters

K'ang Sheng, Tai Li: Terror in China 170 Markus Wolf: The Hour of Karla 177

William Stephenson: The Saga of Intrepid 183 Claude Dansey: The King of Z 189

Feliks Dzerzhinsky, Jan Berzin: Midnight in Lubyanka 195 Kenji Doihara: The Snake in the Basket 205

The Infamies

Laventri Beria: "Give Me a Man" 210 Reinhard Heydrich: A Terrible Secret 215 Gabor Peter: The Hunchback of Budapest 222

Some Mysteries . . .

Heinrich Mueller: A Nazi in Moscow 230 Rudolf Roessler: The Enigma of Lucy 237 Vitali Yurchenko: The Spy Who Changed His Mind 247 Nicolai F. Artamanov: The Double Agent Who Wasn't 254

. . . and a Few Curiosities

Ernest Hemingway: Papa's Crook Factory 260 Graham Greene: Our Man in Havana 266 Giovanni Montini: The Pope as Spy 270

W. Somerset Maugham: Our Man in Petrograd 277

Index 281

Introduction

"Espionage," former CIA Director Allen Dulles once remarked, "is not a game for archbishops."

Just so. The game of intelligence--to use the modern polite euphemism for spying--has been called "the world's second oldest profession," and it has much of the same tawdry reputation as its two historical contempories. According to historians, espionage was one of three primordial professions that emerged at the beginning of the human experience on this planet: shaman, harlot, and spy. Shamans ultimately became politicians and lawyers, while spies and harlots evolved into . . . well, spies and harlots.

It is a matter of opinion which profession has acquired the most odious reputation. There is no dispute, however, about which profession has the most ambiguous reputation. Spies are alternately reviled and honored, rewarded and ignored, praised and disowned. This is largely a matter of perspective. Nathan Hale, the American spy during the Revolutionary War, is honored by his countrymen for his famous statement ("I regret that I have but one life to give to my country") upon the occasion of his execution by the British. But the British view of Hale is very different, understandably considering the number of British soldiers who died as a result of the intelligence he provided to General Washington. Similarly, the great Soviet spy Richard Sorge was posthumously honored by a commemorative postage stamp issued by Moscow some 25 years after his execution by the Japanese. But Germany will never proffer such an honor, for thousands of its young men died in the snows around Moscow in the winter of 1941 at the hands of Siberian troops shifted west to defeat the German onslaught against Moscow--a deployment that took place after Sorge found out the Japanese had decided not to invade the Soviet Union.

Even today, in a time of vast national espionage establishments that has made the business of spying institutionalized,

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