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The Dark Game

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by Paul B. Janeczko


  “spy academy” and “codes, ciphers . . . enemy arms”: Erika Ostrovsky, Eye of Dawn: The Rise and Fall of Mata Hari (New York: Macmillan, 1978), pp. 128–129.

  “little mysteries of counterespionage” and “professional secrecy”: Magaret H. Darrow, French Women and the First World War (New York: Berg, 2000), p. 294.

  “reading Berlin’s messages . . . the German recipients”: Tuchman, p. 14.

  “ingenuity . . . inspired guessing”: Tuchman, p. 14.

  “England to make . . . few months” and “lost territories . . . Arizona”: Tuchman, p. 146.

  “arranges the conditions . . . for your Excellency”: Tuchman, p. 102.

  “Never before or since . . . secret message”: Kahn, p. 297.

  “were completely confused . . . their wiretaps”: Kenny A. Franks, Citizen Soldiers (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984), p. 30.

  Chapter 4: Espionage Gets Organized in World War II

  “collect and analyze . . . available to the government”: Central Intelligence Agency, “The Office of Strategic Services: America’s First Intelligence Agency” (Washington, D.C.: Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2000). https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/oss/art02.htm.

  “The woman who limps . . . destroy her”: McIntosh, p. 114.

  Virginia Hall’s contacts: Binney, pp. 124–125.

  “would give anything . . . bitch”: Binney, p. 123.

  Cuthbert story: Binney, p. 123; McIntosh, p. 118. “God knows . . . the mountains”: Binney, p. 123.

  “briefing officer for the boys”: Binney, p. 129.

  “I found a few . . . eager to help”: Binney, p. 131.

  “still operational . . . to get busy”: McIntosh, p. 125. “thousands of bulbs”: Binney, p. 138; McIntosh, p. 127.

  smallest commercial camera: The Guinness Book of Records (New York: Facts on File, 1995), p. 158.

  “the greatest . . . World War II”: Haufler, p. 78.

  “rabid Nazi supporter” and “I began to use . . . staunch Nazi”: Haufler, p. 80.

  “fifteen ships . . . Lisbon”: Haufler, p. 82.

  “He came to us as . . . he had already set up”: Haufler, p. 83.

  “Gerbers . . . flowers please”: Pujol and West, p. 142.

  “Harris and Garbo . . . times of their lives”: Holt, p. 212.

  “Gutter Fighting,” “You’re interested only . . . or be killed,” and “a silent, deadly . . . quickly”: O’Donnell, pp. 4 and 5.

  “He wined and dined . . . and dined him,” “We were simply to come . . . they didn’t know us,” and “With any lie . . . truth as possible”: O’Donnell, pp. 10 and 11.

  “surely there’s no harm,” “notebooks full of information,” and “Just being a nice guy . . . areas”: O’Donnell, p. 12.

  Chapter 5: Cold War Spies

  dig a hole and bury it: Stafford, p. 79.

  a stack 10 feet wide, 15 feet deep, and 8 feet high: Stafford, p. 120.

  “Most intelligence . . . project starts”: Dulles, The Craft of Naval Intelligence.

  “We’ve got a problem”: Stafford, p. 148.

  “It’s gone”: Stafford, p. 153.

  “I handed to him . . . previous day”: Huntington.

  “asked me to meet . . . fresh developments”: Huntington.

  “a bonanza to Western counterintelligence specialists”: Stafford, p. 138.

  “Whether it was sexy . . . doubt it”: Huntington.

  “The evidence suggests . . . to go to war”: Weiner, p. 129.

  “very close approximation . . . were faced with” and “Text of message . . . Signature of message”: Wright, pp. 233 and 232.

  “the enemy will have . . . technologies,” “Our intelligence tells us essentially nothing,” and “another Pearl Harbor,” and “an extraordinary absence of knowledge”: Taubman, p. 24.

  “was just appalling”: William J. Broad, “Spy Satellites’ Early Role as ‘Floodlight’ Coming Clear,’ New York Times, September 12, 1995, C-10.

  adapted from sailplane designs: Pedlow and Welzenbach, p. 47.

  “would be impossible . . . equipment intact”: Ambrose, p. 279.

  “no idea . . . orange-colored light”: Nash, p. 395.

  “I must tell you . . . have said”: H. Hanak, Soviet Foreign Policy Since the Death of Stalin (New York: Routledge, 1972), p. 115.

  “there was no authorization for any such flight”: Ambrose, p. 286.

  “Quivering with excitement . . . to detect” and “represented . . . electronics”: George F. Kennan, Memoirs, vol. 2: 1950–1963 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1972), pp. 155 and 156.

  “Every room is . . . disturb things.”: http://www.spybusters.com/Great_Seal_Bug.html

  Chapter 6: Moles in Our House

  “social drinker” and “no serious alcohol problem”: Senate Select Committee.

  “trying to make . . . desperation”: National Security Archives interview with Aldrich Ames. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode21/aldrich1.html.

  “wrapping up our cases with reckless abandon”: Senate Select Committee.

  “virtual collapse”: Senate Select Committee.

  “blatantly excessive”: Senate Select Committee.

  “conscious decision . . . to the FBI”: Wise, p. 180.

  “back to square one” and “always there . . . wanted to solve”: Senate Select Committee.

  “I am ready . . . message at pipe”: Senate Select Committee.

  “The best stuff . . . his computer”: Wise, p. 237.

  “FBI . . . the car”: Wise, p. 2.

  “running my little scam”: National Security Archives interview with Aldrich Ames. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode21/aldrich1.html.

  a third of the thirty-four anti-virus programs: http://theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/14459.

  “relatively simple . . . meticulous”: Jeremy Wagstaff, “Digital Espionage — Off the Shelf,” Jakarta Post, April 20, 2009.

  “dubs the . . . dragon’”: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/spy-system-focu.

  “a propaganda campaign”: “China Denies Spying Allegations,” BBC News, March 30, 2009. http://bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7972702.stm.

  “nonsense”: John Markoff, “Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries,” New York Times, March 28, 2009.

  bold, brave FBI agent in the dark suit”: Vise, p. 32.

  “an oddball out,” “very dour,” fairly long . . . appearance,” and “He was brighter . . . the Bureau”: Vise, p. 81.

  “one of the smartest FBI agents I ever met”: Monica Davey, “Secret Passage, Chicago Tribune Magazine, April 21, 2002.

  “Do Not Open . . . Cherkashin”: Vise, p. 70.

  “If you wish . . . I can call”: Vise, p. 82.

  “He forgot that . . . risk he was” and “valuable . . . the CIA”: Vise, p. 207.

  “Dear Friends . . . active service” and “higher do-nothing . . . program”: Vise, p. 214.

  “What took you so long?”: Vise. p. 216.

  “cooperation concerning . . . problematic”: Adrian Havill, “Robert Philip Hanssen: The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold,” TruTV.com. http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/spies/hanssen/14.html.

  “five-hundred-year flood” and “as artful a spy . . . been caught”: Vise, pp. 241 and 238.

  Allen, Thomas B. George Washington, Spymaster. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2004.

  Ambrose, Stephen E. Ike’s Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 1999.

  Andrew, Christopher M. For the President’s Eyes Only. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

  Axelrod, Alan. The War between the Spies. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992.

  Bakeless, John. Spies of the Confederacy. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1970.

  — — —. Turncoats, Traitors, and Heroes. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1960.

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bsp; Bamford, James. Body of Secrets. New York: Doubleday, 2001.

  Beesly, Patrick. Room 40: British Naval Intelligence, 1914–1918. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

  Bennett, Richard M. Espionage: An Encyclopedia of Secrets. London: Vergin Books, 2008.

  Binney, Marcus. The Women Who Lived for Danger. New York: William Morrow, 2002.

  Blackman, Ann. Wild Rose: Rose O’Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy. New York: Random House, 2005.

  Coleman, Janet Wyman. Secrets, Lies, Gizmos, and Spies. New York: Abrams, 2006.

  Davies, Barry. The Spycraft Manual. St. Paul, MN: Zenith Press, 2005.

  Dorril, Stephen. MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service. New York: Free Press, 2000.

  Dulles, Allen W. The Craft of Intelligence. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2006.

  — — —, ed. Great Spy Stories from Fiction. New York: Harper & Row, 1969.

  Feis, William B. Grant’s Secret Service. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

  Fishel, Edwin C. The Secret War for the Union. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

  Ford, Corey. A Peculiar Service. Boston: Little, Brown, 1965.

  Haufler, Hervie. The Spies Who Never Were. New York: NAL Caliber, 2006.

  Hunter, Ryan Ann. In Disguise! Stories of Real Women Spies. Hillsboro, OR: Beyond Words Publishing, 2003.

  Huntington, Thomas. “The Berlin Spy Tunnel Affair,” Invention & Technology Magazine, spring 1995. http://www.americanheritage.com/

  articles/magazine/it/1995/4/1995_4_44.shtml

  International Spy Museum. Spying: The Secret History of History. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2004.

  Kahn, David. The Codebreakers. New York: Scribner, 1967.

  Keegan, John. Intelligence in War. New York: Knopf, 2003.

  Knightley, Philip. The Second Oldest Profession. New York: Norton, 1987.

  Markle, Donald E. Spies and Spymasters of the Civil War. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2004.

  Masterman, J. C. The Double-Cross System. New York: Lyons Press, 2000.

  McIntosh, Elizabeth P. Sisterhood of Spies. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998.

  Melton, H. Keith. The Ultimate Spy Book. New York: DK Publishing, 1996.

  Nash, Jay Robert. Spies. New York: M. Evans, 1997.

  O’Donnell, Patrick K. Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs. New York: Free Press, 2004.

  O’Toole, G. J. A. The Encyclopedia of American Intelligence and Espionage. New York: Facts on File, 1988.

  — — —. Honorable Treachery. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.

  Owen, David. Hidden Secrets. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2002.

  Pedlow, Gregory, and Donald E. Welzenbach. The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954–1974. Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, 1998.

  Persico, Joseph E. Piercing the Reich. New York: Viking, 1979.

  Polmar, Norman, and Thomas B. Allen. Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage. New York: Random House, 1997.

  Powers, Thomas. Intelligence Wars. New York: New York Review Books, 2002.

  Prados, John. Presidents’ Secret Wars. New York: Morrow, 1986.

  Proctor, Tammy M. Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War. New York: New York University Press, 2003.

  Pujol, Juan, and Nigel West. Garbo. London: Grafton Books, 1986.

  Randall, Willard Sterne. Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor. New York: Morrow, 1990.

  Richelson, Jeffrey T. A Century of Spies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

  — — —. The Wizards of Langley. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001.

  Rose, Alexander. Washington’s Spies. New York: Bantam, 2006.

  Ryan, David D., ed. A Yankee Spy in Richmond. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1996.

  Sayers, Michael, and Albert E. Kahn. Sabotage! The Secret War Against America. New York: Harper, 1942.

  Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. “An Assessment of the Aldrich H. Ames Espionage Case and Its Implications to U.S. Intelligence,” November 1, 1994. http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1994_rpt/ssci_ames.htm.

  Smith, Richard Harris. OSS: The Secret History of America’s First Central Intelligence Agency. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2005.

  Stafford, David. Spies Beneath Berlin. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2003.

  Stern, Philip Van Doren. Secret Missions of the Civil War. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1959.

  Taubman, Philip. Secret Empire. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

  Tuchman, Barbara W. The Zimmermann Telegram. New York: Macmillan, 1958.

  Van Doren, Carl. Secret History of the American Revolution. New York: Viking, 1941.

  Varon, Elizabeth R. Southern Lady, Yankee Spy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

  Vise, David A. The Bureau and the Mole. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002.

  Volkman, Ernest. Spies. New York: Wiley, 1994.

  Wallace, Robert, and H. Keith Melton. Spycraft. New York: Dutton, 2008.

  Weiner, Tim. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. New York: Doubleday, 2007.

  Wise, David. Nightmover. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

  Witcover, Jules. Sabotage at Black Tom. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1989.

  Wright, Peter. Spycatcher. New York: Viking, 1987.

  Chapter 1: Outspying the British

  Image of Abraham Woodhull meets Caleb Brewster: Reprinted by permission of the Three Village School District, Setauket, NY

  Image of A page from Major Tallmadge’s codebook.: Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, George Washington Papers, 1741–1799. Series 4. General correspondence. 1697–1799. Image 23.

  Image of Benjamin Franklin: Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection. Photograph of a portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1785, in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

  Image of General Benedict Arnold and Major John André: Reprinted by permission of www.earlyamerica.com

  Image of Major John André: Reprinted by permission of Clements Library, University of Michigan

  A page of a letter written in invisible ink by Major John André to General Henry Clinton.: Reprinted by permission of Clements Library, University of Michigan

  Chapter 2: Spies in Blue and Gray

  Image of Elizabeth Van Lew, Union spymaster: Photograph by A. J. DeMovat. Reprinted by permission of the Virginia Historical Society

  Image of A stereograph of the old Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia: Courtesy of the Collection of the New York Historical Society

  Image of The U.S. spy balloon Intrepid lifts off: Courtesy of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

  Image of Rose O’Neale Greenhow,: Courtesy of the Library of Congress

  Image of Cipher found on Greenhow’s body after she drowned: Courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Raleigh, North Carolina

  Image of Harriet Tubman, African-American spy: Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

  Chapter 3: Espionage Comes of Age in World War I

  Image of Brigadier General John “Black Jack” Pershing: Courtesy of the Library of Congress

  Image of Aftermath of the attack on Black Tom Island: Courtesy of Liberty State Park Historic Collection

  Image of The spy Mata Hari: All efforts have been made to find the rights holder of this photograph.

  Image of The Zimmermann Telegram: Courtesy of the National Archives

  Image of A group of Choctaw code talkers: Courtesy of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures

  Chapter 4: Espionage Gets Organized in World War II

  Image of Assorted fake travel documents: Courtesy of Lora Katling and the CIA Museum

  Image of Virginia Hall sending a message on her wireless radio.: Reprinted by permission of Jeff Bass

  Image of Miniature Minox camera,: Photograph © Oliver Woelki

  Image of Garbo in a disguise (left): Courtesy of the N
ational Archives, U.K.

  Image of The chart Garbo: Reprinted by permission of Press Association, U.K. (photo) and the Imperial War Museum, U.K. (diagram)

  Chapter 5: Cold War Spies

  Image of Sandbags line the walls: Courtesy of the CIA Museum

  Image of The Berlin spy tunnel: Reprinted by permission of Dorling Kindersley/Maltings Partnership

  Image of Each page of a one-time pad was used for a different message: Reprinted by permission of Dirk Rijmenants’ Cipher Machines and Cryptology

  Image of A U-2 spy plane: Photograph courtesy of Master Sargent Rose Reynolds, U.S. Air Force

  Image of The listening device found in the American embassy in Moscow: Reprinted by permission of Mick Gillam/Dorling Kindersley

  Image of The pilot’s emergency pack from Powers’s U-2: Reprinted by permission of Rianovisti, Russia

  Chapter 6: Moles in Our House

  Image of An incriminating note written by Ames: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

  Image of Aldrich Ames,: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

  Image of Robert Hanssen,: Getty Images

  Image of In a dead drop code-named Ellis,: Getty Images

  Image of The Corona spy satellite: Photograph by Eric Long, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution (SI97–15881–10)

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  PAUL B. JANECZKO is a multi-talented poet, anthologist, and writer. His award-winning poetry anthologies include A Poke in the I, A Kick in the Head, and A Foot in the Mouth. He also collected Seeing the Blue Between: Advice and Inspiration for Young Poets and wrote Worlds Afire and Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing. He says, “Ever since I was a kid, I have delighted in cloak-and-dagger tales, so it was a blast to get a chance to write some of my own.” Paul B. Janeczko lives in Maine.

  Copyright © 2010 by Paul B. Janeczko

  Cover photograph copyright © 2010 by Peter Hince/Stone/Getty Images (spy) Photography credits appear at the end.

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