SECRET SERVICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100060022-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 22
• Content Type: NSPR

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SECRET SERVICE
Thirty-three Centuries of Espionage
by Richard Wilmer Rowan and Robert Deindorfer
introduction by Allen W. Dulles
Voltaire once remarked that the sound of history is the tread of boots
going up stairs and the patter of satin slippers coming down. SECRET
SERVICE: THIRTY-THREE CENTURIES OP ESPIONAGE reveals the stealthy
steps of intriguers going up and down the backstairs of history, century
after century, influencing the future of great and small nations and the
lives of everyone.
This is not a collection of stories, but a brilliant history sweeping
through more than three thousand years to form a Machiavellian saga
in brilliant and fascinating format.
Time and time again, the authors show how espionage methods of
deceit, vigilance, treachery, cunning and.loyalty have been used to pene-
trate the greatest secrets of every nation in the world. Methods, for
example, employed by the spies that followed Christ before his cruci-
fixion were repeated during the religious conflicts of the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries and by French agents during the Revolution and
Napoleonic Wars. In the twentieth century they have been repeated
again by the Gestapo, the CIA, the NKVD, and Interpol, and they con-
tinue to flourish in the basest practices of the Chinese Communists.
In addition to illustrating the methods of espionage, SECRET SERVICE
presents an illuminating thesis: that the strength, intricacy and secrecy
of secret service organizations reflect and depend on the victories and
blunderings of the governments which control them.
Hundreds of past masters of intrigue are treated, including Mithridates
the Great, who had a primitive secret service system; the Spanish In-
quisitors; Papal secret agents of the Middle Ages; Henry VIII and the
beginnings of British secret service; Karl Schulmeister, greatest of mili-
tary spies in the time of Napoleon; Elizabeth van Lew, secret service
genius of the American Civil War; Alfred Redl and many, many others.
Particular emphasis is placed on the development of modern spying,
including the beginnings of sophisticated espionage systems in World
Wars I and II, Klaus Fuchs, the conspiracy of Harry Gold and the Ro-
senbergs, the operations of Colonel Abel and Gordon Lonsdale, master
spies of the Cold War, and the fantastic gimmicks and intricate gadgets
which were developed after World War II.
Richard Wilmer Rowan, who brought much of this, text to public at-
tention in 1939, was the author of Spy and Counterspy, The Spy and the
Next War, and The Pinkertons: A Detective Dynasty. Robert Deindorfer
has skillfully edited and updated the material and provided all of the
chapters on espionage during and since , World War II. Mr. Deindorfer
has written for Life, Look, The Reader's Digest,. True and The Saturday
Evening Post and is well known for his books and lectures on espionage.
832 pages 6 x 9 Index October $9.50
Available in Caned.
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