Part Two Of Two Parts Those of us who have always felt that during WW II we were protected by J. Edgar Hoover and the F.B.I. may learn much from this account of German espionage in the U.S. and Great Britain. Germany's intelligence service, the Abwehr, specialized in cloak and dagger. For example, German spies burrowed into communication centers in Washington and London, stole our super secret Norden bomb sight, succeeded even in tapping the Roosevelt-Churchill hot line. "Farago has pieced together a fascinating chronology of Nazi spying inside and outside the U.S. and England between 1920 and 1945." (Newsweek)
Ladislas Farago was a military historian and journalist who published a number of best-selling books on history and espionage, especially concerning the World War II era.
He was the author of Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, the biography of General George Patton that formed the basis for the film "Patton" and wrote The Broken Seal, one of the books that formed the basis for the movie ''Tora! Tora! Tora!''.
One of his more controversial books was Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich .