Joseph E. Persico (69 page)

“Hang on until we get in”: ibid.

“If you speak publicly of it. . . .”: ibid.

“First, I told him. . . .”: Andrew, pp. 104, 107, 108.

“the product of a mind. . . .”: ibid., p. 108.

The Japanese had reason to believe: Ladislas Farago,
The Game of the Foxes,
p. 473.

“As communicated to me. . . .”: ibid., pp. 473–74.

“I have discovered that the United States. . . .”: Andrew, p. 109.

They continued to send: Farago, p. 474.

And because the Japanese: Doris Kearns Goodwin,
No Ordinary Time,
p. 265.

“There is more reason. . . .”: Andrew, p. 110.

After hurried consultations: ibid., p. 111.

The Prime Minister grabbed: F. W. Winterbotham,
The Ultra Secret,
p. 46; Jeffrey M. Dorwart,
Conflict of Duty,
p. 16.

The Germans calculated: Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen,
Spy Book,
pp. 192–93; David Kahn,
Seizing the Enigma,
p. 68.

The British quickly took the lead: Winterbotham, p. 31.

Among Turing's associates were: Polmar and Allen,
Spy Book,
p. 74.

Ultra was the designation: Winterbotham, p. 46.

Eventually, over a thousand: Polmar and Allen,
Spy Book,
p. 80.

So paramount was secrecy: ibid., p. 74.

Churchill demanded to see: Winterbotham, p. 189.

What doomed Coventry was: Nigel West,
A Thread of Deceit,
pp. 10–17; David Stafford,
Churchill and Secret Service,
pp. 194, 195; Christopher Andrew and David Dilks,
The Missing Dimension,
p. 149.

In exchange, their Bletchley counterparts: Andrew, p. 107.

“were not as security minded. . . .”: John Costello,
Days of Infamy,
p. 305.

“divulging to the President. . . .”: ibid.

“devise any safe means. . . .”: ibid.

Britain's eavesdropping on a friend: Andrew, p. 107.

chapter viii: donovan enters the game

“collect and analyze all information and data”: Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen,
Spy Book,
p. 135.

“to carry out when requested. . . .”: ibid., p. 135
n
189.

Ignoring civil service. . . .: Ray S. Cline,
Secrets, Spies and Scholars,
p. 42.

Conyers Read: Stanley Lovell,
Of Spies and Stratagems,
p. 183.

“It is a curious fact. . . .”: Cline, p. 41.

Gregg Toland: Ephraim Katz,
The Film Encyclopedia,
3d ed., 1998, pp. 435–36.

“All who knew him and worked. . . .”: Curt Gentry,
J. Edgar Hoover,
p. 135.

After only three weeks: Thomas F. Troy,
Donovan and the CIA,
p. 110.

The bureau initially earmarked: Nathan Miller,
Spying for America,
p. 243.

payroll of ninety-two employees: Polmar and Allen,
Spy Book,
p. 135.

Within months the staff: Anthony Cave Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 174.

Most of his funds were: ibid.

His staff first occupied: Cline, p. 42.

It was equipped with air conditioning: ibid., p. 57.

“closely resembled a cat house. . . .”: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 174.

As
Life
magazine put it: Troy,
Donovan and the CIA,
p. 94.

He pressured the Bureau of the Budget: Brown,
The Last Hero,
pp. 175–77.

He was further preparing to conduct: PSF Box 128; Bradley F. Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 93.

“This seems to be a matter. . . .”: M 1642, Reel 22, Frame 425.

“making the American people ripe. . . .”: PSF Box 128.

“. . . [S]ince the appearances of articles in. . . .”: ibid.

“Roosevelt has named the Colonel. . . .”: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 166.

“Mr. Donovan is now head of the Gestapo. . . .”: ibid., p. 791.

When he took his complaints: Gentry, p. 135.

“I stopped him from becoming AG. . . .”: ibid., p. 148.

A full year before: Leslie B. Rout Jr. and John F. Bratzel,
The Shadow War,
p. 37.

Well before Donovan signed up: Gentry, p. 264.

Running this worldwide network: ibid.

“[H]e goes to the White House. . . .”: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 159.

“more of a spoiled child. . . .”: ibid.

The FBI still controlled: Phillip Knightley,
The Second Oldest Profession,
pp. 32–35.

The penetration was so complete: Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner, eds.,
VENONA,
pp. 15–16.

These triumphs, which Hoover described: Charles Wighton and Gunter Peis,
Hitler's Spy and Saboteurs,
p. 17.

“[A] thing like that ought not be given. . . .”: Athan Theoharis, ed.,
From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover,
p. 333.

“Anything that I said. . . .”: ibid., pp. 331–34.

Astor's conversations with the director: ibid., p. 330.

“most dangerous file clerk”:
NYT,
Sept. 15, 1991.

“Roosevelt's folly”: Miller, p. 244.

“There was no indication. . . .”: Adolf Berle Papers, Box 213, FDRL.

“into the entire motion picture industry. . . .”: ibid.

“what you ought to do. . . .”: Troy,
Donovan and the CIA,
p. 163.

“It appears that some question. . . .”: POF Box 4485.

“Wild Bill's face got red . . .”: Ernest B. Furgurson, “Back Channels,”
Washingtonian,
vol. 31 (June 1996).

chapter ix: “our objective is to get america into the war”

“The heat in Washington. . . .”: Doris Kearns Goodwin,
No Ordinary Time,
p. 262.

Washington mythology had it: David Brinkley,
Washington Goes to War,
p. 23.

“There was nothing. . . .”: Goodwin, p. 262.

“told me that he was going. . . .”: ibid.

Getting a man confined to a wheelchair: Gordon Prange,
December 7, 1941,
p. 16.

“As Mr. Roosevelt made his first turn. . . .”: Eric Larrabee,
Commander in Chief,
p. 32.

Steaming toward the
Augusta:
Goodwin, p. 264.

“To some of my very pointed questions. . . .”: Irwin F. Gellman,
Secret Affairs,
p. 257.

“reasonably longer distances. . . .”: PSF Box 59.

Elliott, the first Roosevelt son:
Current Biography
1946 (New York: Wilson 1947), p. 516.

His metal leg braces: William Doyle,
Inside the Oval Office,
p. 7.

As Churchill strode up the gangway: Suckley, Binder 20, p. 61.

Starling's impersonation was the first time: John Gunther,
Roosevelt in Retrospect,
p. 45; Grace Tully,
F.D.R., My Boss,
p. 247.

“We have all been laughing. . . .”: Suckley, Binder 20, p. 57c.

“magnificent presence in all his youth. . . .”: Warren F. Kimball,
The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman,
p. 355.

He subsequently held: Goodwin, p. 33.

He took to soldiering: John Charmley,
Churchill,
p. 141.

“I am so devoured by egoism”: ibid.

“I don't like standing near the edge. . . .”: Lord Moran,
Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran,
p. 179.

She was genteel, prudish: Suckley Papers, Wilderstein.

“He is a tremendously vital person. . . .”: Suckley, Binder 20, p. 61.

“. . . [A]ll that was romantic in [Churchill]. . . .”: David Stafford,
Churchill and Secret Service,
p. 6.

“free exchange of intelligence”: ibid., p. 200.

“Are we going to throw all our secrets . . .?”: ibid.

“I simply have not got enough Navy. . . .”: Goodwin, p. 265.

“the wrong war. . . .”: ibid.

Their first objective: Gellman, p. 258.

Roosevelt and Churchill had agreed: Frank Freidel,
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
p. 387.

These goals were to follow: Goodwin, p. 266.

Britain's sea losses: David Grubin Productions, “FDR,”
The American Experience,
PBS.

1“Our objective is to get the Americans. . . .”: Thomas F. Troy,
Wild Bill and Intrepid,
pp. 63, 229; Troy,
The Coordinator of Information and British Intelligence,
p. 88.

“was obviously determined to come in. . . .”: Freidel, p. 387.

Three weeks after the Atlantic conference: Gellman, p. 257.

The U-boat's captain: Jeffrey M. Dorwart,
The Office of Naval Intelligence,
p. 258.

The
Greer
then fired several depth charges: James MacGregor Burns,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom,
p. 139.

Since the U-boat had remained: Gellman, p. 259.

When her sister was stranded in Europe: Gunther, pp. 162–63.

The loss of his mother: Robert Thompson,
A Time for War,
p. 353.

Wearing a light gray seersucker suit: Burns, p. 140.

“The United States destroyer
Greer.
.
.
.
”: ibid.

“It is clear. . . .”: Gellman, p. 354.

He meant that American warships: Burns,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom,
p. 141.

“. . . [W]hen you see a rattlesnake poised. . . .”: ibid.

“to subvert the government . . .”: Christopher Andrew,
For the President's Eyes Only,
p. 102.

“Hitler will have to choose. . . .”: Thompson, p. 355.

“There is no longer any difference. . . .”: ibid.

Six weeks later, on October 27: Tully, p. 33.

On the dais, the President: Thompson, pp. 356–57.

The President seized on the incident: Nathan Miller,
Spying for America,
p. 246.

“We have wished to avoid shooting. . . .”: Burns,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom,
p. 147.

“Hitler has often protested. . . .”: Thompson, p. 357.

“a principal agent for Germany. . . .”: Leslie B. Rout Jr. and John F. Bratzel,
The Shadow War,
pp. 32–33.

An MI6 report: ibid., pp. 26–27.

The American military, at that point: Miller, p. 229.

“has on it certain manuscript notations. . . .”: Thompson, pp. 357–58.

Wheeler's suspicions: William Stevenson,
A Man Called Intrepid,
p. 299.

“Where did it originate?”: ibid., p. 298.

The map's provenance: Thompson, p. 359; Stevenson, p. 297.

Sandstede, however, was not murdered: Thompson, p. 358.

“Air Traffic Grid of the United States . . .”: ibid., pp. 358–59; Troy,
The Coordinator,
p. 149.

The letter from the Bolivian attaché: Andrew, p. 102.

“manufacturing documents detailing. . . .”: Thompson, p. 360.

The answer clearly lies: Goodwin, p. 282.

The truth was that since June 1941: F. H. Hinsley,
British Intelligence in the Second World War,
vol. 2, p. 174.

Further, Hitler had not: Thompson, p. 244.

On November 8, after a close House tally: Goodwin, p. 283.

That same month a Gallup poll: Gellman, p. 252.

“German
and
Russian militarism. . . .”: Bradley F. Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 87.

FDR's least recognized agent: Jeffrey M. Dorwart,
Conflict of Duty,
p. 168.

Within days, he delivered: Wayne S. Cole,
Charles A. Lindbergh and the Battle Against American Intervention in World War II,
p. 131.

Lindbergh, the President explained: ibid.

“about the whole problem. . . .”: Dorwart,
Conflict of Duty,
pp. 168–69.

“Conditions both within and without. . . .”:
The
“
Magic
”
Background of Pearl Harbor,
vol. 1,
February 14, 1941–May 12, 1941,
p. A-12.

“There are still Japanese. . . .”: PSF Box 84.

But American-born Japanese: ibid.

“Your reporter . . . is horrified. . . .”: ibid.

“[I]mmediate arrests may be required.”: PSF Box 97.

If negotiations between America: Hinsley, vol. 2, p. 76.

Within the War Department: Charles Higham,
American Swastika,
p. 135.

Officers who thought: FBI Report, Dec. 5, 1941.

“Aren't you afraid of delivering . . .?”: Higham, p. 140.

“a right to know. . . .”: ibid.

“Wedemeyer spent two years in Germany. . . .”: FBI Report, Dec. 5, 1941.

“the greatest mind. . . .”: Higham,
American Swastika,
p. 141.

FDR'S WAR PLANS!:
ibid.

“. . . President Roosevelt calls. . . .”: ibid., pp. 141–42.

“What would you think . . .?”: ibid., pp. 144–45.

chapter x: catastrophe or conspiracy

“Mr. President, it looks as if. . . .”: William Doyle,
Inside the Oval Office,
p. 35.

“My God, there's another wave. . . .”: ibid.

“His chin stuck out. . . .”: ibid.

“. . . [W]e received indications. . . .”: ibid., p. 36.

“. . . [T]hey were to agree to cease. . . .”: ibid.

“equalled only by the Japanese. . . .”: ibid.

“It looks as if out of eight. . . .”: ibid., p. 37.

“demonstrated that ultimate capacity. . . .”: ibid., p. 38.

Senator Tom Connally of Texas: ibid., p. 39.

“They will never be able. . . .”: Ronald H. Spector,
Eagle Against the Sun,
p. 93.

“. . . If there is anyone I. . . .”: Jeffrey M. Dorwart,
Conflict of Duty,
p. 172.

He had summoned the COI chief: Day-by-Day, Dec. 8, 1941.

“Colonel William Donovan, come. . . .”: Thomas F. Troy,
Donovan and the CIA,
p. 116.

Stacks of books: Doyle, p. 26; John Gunther,
Roosevelt in Retrospect,
p. 362.