By Jay Jakub

Spies and Saboteurs is the tale of the origins of the Anglo-American "Special dating" in human intelligence assortment and specified operations, which happened amid the worldwide conflagration that was once the second one global struggle. it's the tale of William "Wild invoice" Donovan--the father of America's valuable Intelligence Agency--and of his dating with mythical British spymasters. depending virtually solely upon lately declassified OSS and British intelligence files and survivor interviews, it examines the transatlantic organization in espionage and sabotage, guerilla struggle and disinformation. It explores the evolution of covert relatives from a "tutorial" association with the U.S. as scholar, to an unequal then complete partnership, and finally to festival and competition within the prosecution of the clandestine war.

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Such circumstances forced the British to walk a fine line between COl - upon which they had already expended great energy - and the rest of the US Government with which they had to collaborate closely to achieve their wider war aims. The skill of Britain's spymasters, saboteurs, soldiers, politicians, and diplomats proved equal to this task. London found a way in 1941-2 to further ties to COl without jeopardizing other interests. America was not able to contribute much of informational substance to the transatlantic partnership, but compensated by aiding the British via the Lend-Lease program and by using COl to funnel financial resources to BSC, SOE, and SIS.

12 Stephenson identified Donovan, who was very close to Navy Secretary Frank Knox and War Secretary Henry Stimson, as a friend of Britain who could further his objectives, foremost with regard to materiel assistance, but also in US intelligence coordination. With a future transatlantic military partnership on the horizon' the intelligence issue increasingly preoccupied the forward-thinking Stephenson. Donovan had traveled widely before the war,13 was well versed in international affairs, a war hero, and a public figure.

S. officials of government departments and the armed services '69 on the centralization of intelligence; the two soon established an informal means passing key items from BSC to the President. This included information on Nazi subversive activities in the Western Hemisphere, which was often also passed to J. 70 Donovan and Stephenson - 'Big Bill' and 'Little Bill' as they would be remembered in intelligence folklore - forged a pupil-tutor relationship which laid the groundwork for future collaboration.

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