Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII

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Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII

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an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII

Statement of responsibility

Scott Miller

Title variation

• Agent One Ten
• Agent One Hundred Ten

Title variation remainder

• an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
• an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII

Creator

• Miller, Scott, 1960-

Author

• Miller, Scott, 1960-

Subject

• Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969
• Espionage, American -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
• Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
• Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography
• Spies -- United States -- Biography
• Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Switzerland
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States
• United States, Office of Strategic Services -- Biography
• Biographies

Genre

• Biography
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

• Presents an account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of disenchanted Germans in a plot to assassinate Hitler and end World War II before the invasion of opportunistic Russian forces
• In November 1942, American spymaster Allen Dulles slipped into Switzerland just before Nazi forces sealed the border. His mission: to report on the inner workings of the Third Reich. Code-named Agent 110 by the OSS, he discovered a network of Germans-- industrialists, students, diplomats, and generals-- conspiring to overthrow Hitler. Dulles was reluctant to help what looked like a lost cause. The Gestapo had penetrated anti-Nazi rings, rounding up their members with ruthless efficiency. Brave attempts to stage a coup or blow Hitler's plane from the sky had failed. Dulles also knew there was little appetite in Washington for giving the German underground what they coveted most-- the assurance that Germany would be well treated after the war. Instead, President Franklin Roosevelt would accept nothing less from Germany than unconditional surrender. Aided by his mistress, an American journalist, Dulles built a network of secret agents and secured the trust of resistance leaders. In clandestine meetings on bridges, in cemeteries, and high in the Alps, he became convinced that Moscow aimed to dominate postwar Europe. His new German friends offered him a chance to thwart those ambitions. Agent 110 organized commando raids and schemed to protect his informants from the Gestapo. He desperately sought Washington's support in Operation Valkyrie, a plan that nearly succeeded in killing Hitler, and worked with a ruthless Nazi SS general to secure the surrender of all German forces in Italy. Dulles himself would eventually lead the CIA during the Cold War, driven by his wartime distrust of the Soviets. Scott Miller brings alive this dangerous, dark period with chilling tales of spies, idealists, and traitors matching wits in a vicious world

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.54/8673092

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

D810.S8

LC item number

D835 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography