The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill

The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill

Author: Megan Frazer Blakemore

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-05-06

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1619633485

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Hazel Kaplansky and new student Samuel Butler investigate rumors that a Russian spy has infiltrated their small Vermont town, amidst the fervor of Cold War era McCarthyism, but more is revealed than they could ever have imagined.


The Spy Catchers

The Spy Catchers

Author: David Horner

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 2014-10-07

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13: 1743319665

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Winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History For the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner tells the real story of Australia's domestic intelligence organisation, from shaky beginnings to the expulsion of Ivan Skripov in 1963. From the start, ASIO's mission was to catch spies. In the late 1940s, the top secret Venona program revealed details of a Soviet spy ring in Australia, supported by leading Australian communists. David Horner outlines the tactics ASIO used in counterespionage, from embassy bugging to surveillance of local suspects. His research sheds new light on the Petrov Affair, and details incidents and activities that have never been revealed before. This authoritative and ground-breaking account overturns many myths about ASIO, and offers new insights into broader Australian politics and society in the fraught years of the Cold War. The Spy Catchers is the first of three volumes of The Official History of ASIO. 'The Spy Catchers is a fascinating account of ASIO's early years when the main threat Australia faced was from the Soviet regime.' - The Hon. John Howard, OM, AC, former Prime Minister of Australia 'This is one of our most important official histories.' - The Hon. Kim Beazley, AC, Australian Ambassador to the United States of America


The Spy Catchers

The Spy Catchers

Author: Dorothy Francis

Publisher: Cover-To-Cover Chapter Books

Published: 2002-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780756900755

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"Get this!" Red said. "I heard someone speaking German at 511 Chestnut. That's close to your house." Brady stood speechless. Gretchen lived at 511 Chestnut! Surely she wasn't a spy. He felt pulled in two directions. He owed Gretchen his life. But Red was his best friend. He tried to change the subject. "We need to learn more about Hallie," Brady said. "She won't salute the flag. Maybe her folks are enemy spies and won't let her salute." He and Red needed to check on Hallie -- and maybe on Gretchen too. Book jacket.


The Spy Catchers

The Spy Catchers

Author: Geoffrey Trease

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 9780241894200

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Under threat of a French invasion, three young people are suspected of being French spies.


The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill

The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill

Author: Megan Frazer Blakemore

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2015-05-05

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1619633507

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From the author of the critically-acclaimed novel The Water Castle, this richly-layered mystery featuring the charming and precocious Hazel Kaplansky will be an instant classic.


The Catcher Was a Spy

The Catcher Was a Spy

Author: Nicholas Dawidoff

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-11-02

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 0307807096

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Now a major motion picture starring Paul Rudd “A delightful book that recounts one of the strangest episodes in the history of espionage. . . . . Relentlessly entertaining.”—The New York Times Book Review Moe Berg is the only major-league baseball player whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA. For Berg was much more than a third-string catcher who played on several major league teams between 1923 and 1939. Educated at Princeton and the Sorbonne, he as reputed to speak a dozen languages (although it was also said he couldn't hit in any of them) and went on to become an OSS spy in Europe during World War II. As Nicholas Dawidoff follows Berg from his claustrophobic childhood through his glamorous (though equivocal) careers in sports and espionage and into the long, nomadic years during which he lived on the hospitality of such scattered acquaintances as Joe DiMaggio and Albert Einstein, he succeeds not only in establishing where Berg went, but who he was beneath his layers of carefully constructed cover. As engrossing as a novel by John le Carré, The Catcher Was a Spy is a triumphant work of historical and psychological detection.


The Spy's Son

The Spy's Son

Author: Bryan Denson

Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published: 2015-05-05

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0802191312

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The true account of the Nicholsons, the father and son who sold national secrets to Russia. “One of the strangest spy stories in American history” (Robert Lindsey, author of The Falcon and the Snowman). Investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson tells the riveting story of the father and son co-conspirators who betrayed the United States. Jim Nicholson was one of the CIA’s top veteran case officers. By day, he taught spycraft at the CIA’s clandestine training center, The Farm. By night, he was a minivan-driving single father racing home to have dinner with his kids. But Nicholson led a double life. For more than two years, he had met covertly with agents of Russia’s foreign intelligence service and turned over troves of classified documents. In 1997, Nicholson became the highest-ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage. But his duplicity didn’t stop there. While behind the bars of a federal prison, the former mole systematically groomed the one person he trusted most to serve as his stand-in: his youngest son, Nathan. When asked to smuggle messages out of prison to Russian contacts, Nathan saw an opportunity to be heroic and to make his father proud. “Filled with fascinating details of the cloak-and-dagger techniques of KGB and CIA operatives, double agents, and spy catchers . . . A poignant and painful tale of family love, loyalty, manipulation and betrayal.” —The Oregonian