Brings to light the long history of spies posing as journalists in
Washington. Covert intelligence gathering, propaganda, fake news
stories, dirty tricks--these tools of spy craft have been used for
seven decades by agents hiding in plain sight in Washington's
National Press Building. This revealing book tells the story of
espionage conducted by both US and foreign intelligence operatives
just blocks from the White House. Journalist Steven T. Usdin
details how spies for Nazi Germany, imperial Japan, the Soviet
Union, and the CIA have operated from the offices, corridors, and
bars of this well-known press center to collect military,
political, and commercial secrets. As the author's extensive
research shows, efforts to influence American elections by foreign
governments are nothing new, and WikiLeaks is not the first
antisecrecy group to dump huge quantities of classified data into
the public domain. Among other cases, the book documents the work
of a journalist who created a secret intelligence organization that
reported directly to President Franklin Roosevelt and two
generations of Soviet spies who operated undercover as TASS
reporters and ran circles around the FBI. The author also reveals
the important roles played by journalists in the Cuban missile
crisis, and presents information about a spy involved in the
Watergate break-in who had earlier spied on Republican presidential
candidate Barry Goldwater for then-President Lyndon Johnson. Based
on interviews with retired CIA, NSA, FBI, and KGB officers, as well
as declassified and leaked intelligence documents, this fascinating
historical narrative shows how the worlds of journalism and
intelligence sometimes overlap and highlights the ethical
quandaries that espionage invariably creates.
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