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Counterintelligence: World War II

Counterintelligence can be described as activities designed to prevent or thwart spying, intelligence gathering, and sabotage by an enemy or other foreign entity. This guide provides books, articles, reports, websites, and videos on the subject.

Books

Agent 110 by Scott Miller
ISBN: 9781451693386
Publication Date: 2017-03-07
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Case by Case by I. B. Melchior
Call Number: D810.S8 M446 1993
ISBN: 0891414444
Publication Date: 1993-03-01
A Counterintelligence Reader, Volume II by Frank J. Rafalko (Editor); National Counterintelligence Center
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781780395364
Publication Date: 2011-09-01
The Double-Cross System by J. C. Masterman
Call Number: D810.S7 M28 2000
ISBN: 1585741302
Publication Date: 2000-09-01
Double Agent by Peter Duffy
Call Number: D810 .S8 S378 2014
ISBN: 9781451667967
Publication Date: 2015-07-07
Double Cross by Ben MacIntyre
Call Number: D810.S8 M237 2012
ISBN: 9780307888754
Publication Date: 2012-07-31
Fighting the Nazis by Paul Paillole; Robert L. Miller (Translator)
ISBN: 1929631138
Publication Date: 2003-11-01
Fortitude by Roger Hesketh
Call Number: D756.5.N6 H47 1999
ISBN: 9781585670758
Publication Date: 2000-11-01
Ghosts of Honolulu by Mark Harmon; Leon Carroll (As told to)
ISBN: 9781400337019
Publication Date: 2023-11-14
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Hoodwinking Hitler by William B. Breuer
Call Number: D756.5.N6 B74 1993
ISBN: 0275944387
Publication Date: 1993-03-24
The Luciano Project by Rodney Campbell
Call Number: D810.S7 C33
ISBN: 9780070096745
Publication Date: 1977-11-01
Mafia Allies by Tim Newark
ISBN: 9780760324578
Publication Date: 2007-03-15
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A Man Called Intrepid by William Stevenson; John Moore (Translator)
Call Number: D810.S8 S85
ISBN: 0151567956
Publication Date: 1976-03-01
The Man Who Never Was by Ewen Montagu
Call Number: D810.S8 M6
ISBN: 9781557504487
Publication Date: 2001-01-23
Operation Fortitude by Joshua Levine
ISBN: 9780762779925
Publication Date: 2011-11-22
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Piercing the Reich by Joseph E. Persico
Call Number: D810.S7 P44
ISBN: 0670554901
Publication Date: 1979-02-15
The Red Orchestra by Gilles Perrault
Call Number: D810.S8 T653
ISBN: 9780805209525
Publication Date: 1989-08-26
The Secret History of World War II by Neil Kagan; Stephen G. Hyslop; Kenneth W. Rendell (Foreword by)
Call Number: D810 .S7 K23 2016
ISBN: 9781426217012
Publication Date: 2016-10-25
The Secret of D-Day by Gilles Perrault
Call Number: D761 .P393
Publication Date: 1967
The Secret War by Max Hastings
Call Number: D810 .S7 H365 2016
ISBN: 9780062259271
Publication Date: 2016-05-10
The Secret War against Hitler by William J. Casey
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 0786155620
Publication Date: 2007
Special Agent in the Pacific, WW II by William B. Simpson
ISBN: 9780944957776
Publication Date: 1995-03-01
Stalin's Secret War by Robert W. Stephan
Call Number: D810.S7 S8516 2004
ISBN: 0700612793
Publication Date: 2003-12-02
Strategic and Operational Deception in the Second World War by Michael I. Handel (Editor)
Call Number: D743 .S72 1987
ISBN: 0714640565
Publication Date: 1987-09-01
Undercover Tales of World War II by William B. Breuer
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780471318620
Publication Date: 1999-03-25

Articles/Reports

A Decade of Catching Spies: The United States Army's Counter Intelligence Corps, 1943-1953
Trogdon, Gary Alan. Dissertation. 2001.
Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence Activities in Iran during the Second World War
Suleyman, Seydi. Middle Eastern Studies. Vol. 46, iss. 5, 2010.
Lucky Strikes a Deal
Kross, Peter. World War II. Vol. 17, iss. 7, 2003.
The Mincemeat Postmortem: Forensic Aspects of World War II's Boldest Counterintelligence Operation
Gottlieb, Klaus. Military Medicine. Vol. 174, iss. 1, 2009.
Operation Underworld
Dezenhall, Eric. The American Spectator. Vol. 44, iss. 7, 2011.
Pact with the Devil?
Newark, Tim. History Today. Vol. 57, iss. 4, 2007.

Online Resources

Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn
Federal Bureau of Investigation. File #65-1574.
British Double Agents and Operation Fortitude: A New Perspective
Maxmin, Reid. Duke University Thesis. Apr 2016.
Counterintelligence in World War II
JCS Directive: Functions of the Office of Strategic Services. 27 Oct 1943.
D Day
Batvinis, Ray. The Grapevine. Jun 2019.
How an Unlikely German Spy Unwittingly Helped Britain Win the Second World War
Keys, David. The Independent. 21 Jul 2020.
Naval Intelligence and the Mafia in World War II
Brooks, Tom RADM. NSISA History Project.
Operation Underworld: The Secret Alliance Between the Navy and the Mafia in WWII
Infamous New York. 25 Apr 2014.
OSS Double-Agent Operations in World War II
Cowden, Robert. Studies in Intelligence. Vol. 58, no. 2, 2014.
Project Underworld: The U.S. Navy's Secret Pact with the Mafia
Peduto, Gregory. Warfare History. 13 Jan 2017.
The Role of Counterintelligence in the European Theater of Operations During World War II
Dallas, William B. Thesis, Army Command and General Staff College. 4 Jun 1993.
What was Operation Underworld?
Klein, Christopher. History. 28 Oct 2015.

Podcast-- The Double Cross System

The Double-Cross System Pt. 1
Led by a charismatic intelligence officer named Thomas Argyll Robertson, the Double Cross System recruited a ragtag team of hard drinking, gambling double-agents to fight Nazis in WWII
The Double-Cross System Pt. 2
In early 1944, with D-Day looming, the British and Americans had a critical mission: mislead the Germans on when and where the liberation of Europe would begin

Video-- Patricia Warner: OSS Counterintelligence

Mrs. Patricia Warner speaks on working for the OSS during the Second World War, and how she played a role in breaking the famous Enigma encoding machine. 2009.

Video-- The "XX System": How MI5 Made Fools of the Nazis

Astonishing details on British spies turning Nazis into assets in the elaborate Operation Fortitude during WWII. 2023.