Authors: Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR,World War II Espionage
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“The position of the Duke. . . .”: Warren F. Kimball,
Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence,
pp. 52, 53.
“out of Hitler's grasp”: Bloch, p. 4.
Prior to leaving: Paul R. Sweet, “The Windsor File,”
Historian,
Winter 1997, pp. 263â80.
Churchill, his patience stretched: Bloch, p. 4.
He once confided: James MacGregor Burns,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom,
p. 603.
He considered it: Goodwin, pp. 73, 191, 192.
“Windsor is completely insignificant looking. . . .”: Suckley, Binder 8, p. 166.
“Mr. President,” Oursler said: Oursler, p. 61.
“[I]t would be a tragic thing. . . .”: ibid., p. 58.
“Do you suppose that . . .?”: ibid.
“Would you enter into . . .?”: ibid., p. 60.
“Fulton,” he said: ibid., p. 61.
“He could barely listen. . . .”: ibid., p. 62.
“Why don't you just be . . .?”: ibid.
“You know your father was. . . .”: ibid.
“Everyday from the offices. . . .”: ibid.
“Now I have nothing to prove. . . .”: ibid., p. 64.
“You cannot kill eighty million. . . .”: Ziegler, p. 460.
Nearly a year later: Tully, p. 325; Day-by-Day, Oct. 28, 1941.
“Britain has virtually lost the war. . . .”: Sweet, p. 280.
chapter vi: “there is no u.s. secret intelligence service”
“asked me if I would go. . . .”: Thomas F. Troy,
The Coordinator of Information and British Intelligence,
p. 119.
Supporting this explanation: ibid., p. 127.
In pursuit of his assignment: Bradley F. Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 41.
“[Colonel Stewart Menzies] tells me that Mr. Stephenson. . . .”: Anthony Cave Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 152.
On the night before: ibid.
“taken fully into our confidence”: Christopher Andrew,
For the President's Eyes Only,
p. 96.
“great influence with the President”: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 153.
As he settled in: Andrew, p. 97; Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 155.
“It was Donovan who was. . . .”: Troy,
The Coordinator,
p. 127.
“I must thank you. . . .”: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 155.
Hopkins, the onetime social worker: Robert E. Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins,
p. 203.
Still, Donovan managed to report: Troy,
The Coordinator,
p. 183.
“Disputes were settled. . . .”: Andrew, p. 97.
FDR had confused the code names: ibid.
“the toughest division. . . .”: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 160.
“the British government gathers. . . .”: Troy,
The Coordinator,
p. 191.
“some one appointed by the President. . . .”: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 161.
“take over the home duties . . .”: ibid.
“sole charge of intelligence. . . .”: ibid.
During the cabinet meeting: Troy,
Wild Bill and Intrepid,
p. 115.
Miles's riposte was swift: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 159.
“In great confidence. . . .”: Andrew, p. 97.
Along with Little Bill Stephenson: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 163.
In late May: Troy,
The Coordinator,
p. 215.
“Even the more senior U.S. Navy. . . .”: Andrew, pp. 98â99.
“These three departments. . . .”: ibid., p. 99.
“There is no U.S. Secret Intelligence Service. . . .”: ibid.
Godrey agreed with those Americans.: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 160.
“On this tenth day. . . .”: Doris Kearns Goodwin,
No Ordinary Time,
p. 68.
“I wondered about the Italian vote. . . .”: ibid.
“With this speech. . . .”: ibid., p. 69.
Its productive capacity: ibid., p. 23.
“Dear Mr. President (Cousin Franklin). . . .”: PSF Box 38.
“The moment approaches. . . .”: Goodwin, pp. 192â93.
“I began to get the idea. . . .”: ibid., p. 193.
“could not keep. . . .”: Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 58.
“a very long day at the White House”: Henry L. Stimson and McGeorge Bundy,
On Active Service in Peace and War,
p. 368.
Roosevelt feared that: ibid., p. 369; Irwin F. Gellman,
Secret Affairs,
p. 253.
“He is trying to see. . . .”: Stimson and Bundy, p. 369.
Soon after the meeting: Gellman, p. 251.
“When we were squidging. . . .”: Small Collections, Lunny/Leahy, FDRL.
“principally a defensive measure”: Stimson and Bundy, p. 368.
“But you are not going. . . .”: ibid., p. 369.
“He seems to be trying. . . .”: ibid.
“Now this is a patrol. . . .”: Gellman, p. 254.
Indeed, when a month after: ibid., p. 255.
“Should he order . . .?”: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 162.
The Roosevelt voice: Sherwood, pp. 297â98; Eric Larrabee,
Commander in Chief,
p. 56.
“[W]hat started as a European war. . . .”: Larrabee, pp. 56â57.
“seven hours distance. . . .”: ibid., p. 56.
The President shared: David Stafford,
Churchill and Secret Service,
p. 228.
“The blunt truth is this. . . .”: Samuel I. Rosenman,
Working with Roosevelt,
p. 285.
“Our patrols are helping. . . .”: Sherwood, p. 298.
That stage was over.: ibid., p. 296.
“an unlimited national emergency. . . .”: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 162.
“The President was able. . . .”: Rosenman, p. 355.
“They're ninety-five per cent. . . .”: Sherwood, p. 298.
To the admiral, whose association: Gellman, p. 255.
Nevertheless, FDR continued: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 162.
Thereafter, the admiral was invited: ibid., p. 163.
“Memorandum of Establishment . . .”: Andrew, p. 99; Troy,
The Coordinator,
p. 215.
“Strategy, without information. . . .”: William J. Donovan to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Memorandum of Establishment of Service of Strategic Information,” June 10, 1941, pp. 1â6, FDRL.
“[T]here is another element. . . .”: ibid., p. 5.
Donovan was later to claim: Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 66; Troy,
Wild Bill,
p. 122.
“I am getting to be. . . .”: Troy,
Wild Bill,
p. 123.
In 1932, Donovan had been: Curt Gentry,
J. Edgar Hoover,
p. 266.
“would almost certainly pull my leg. . . .”: Andrew, p. 99.
“Oh yes, those West Indies. . . .”: ibid.
“mustered up the semblance of a laugh”: ibid.
“Hall had a wonderful intelligence service. . . .”: ibid., p. 100.
“one intelligence security boss. . . .”: ibid.
“This would be a full time job. . . .”: Troy,
The Coordinator,
p. 209.
“I want to have him give. . . .”: ibid., p. 217.
After leaving the White House: ibid., p. 220.
“JBJr. Please set this up. . . .”: Troy,
Wild Bill,
p. 130.
They compromised finally: POF Box 4485.
However, they said, he could use: Troy,
The Coordinator,
p. 221.
“undertake activities helpful. . . .”: POF Box 4485.
“It is sufficient to say. . . .”: Troy,
The Coordinator,
p. 219.
Donovan, unconvincingly, wanted: Troy,
Wild Bill,
p. 121.
“assembling and correlating. . . .”: POF Box 4485.
Guesses by journalists: Brown,
The Last Hero,
pp. 165â66.
“power to visualize. . . .”: Nathan Miller,
Spying for America,
p. 243.
The two men differed: Smith,
The Shadow Warriors,
p. 32.
“Donovan saw President today. . . .”: Troy,
The Coordinator,
p. 220.
“[A] most secret fact. . . .”: Andrew, p. 101; Troy,
Wild Bill,
p. 133; Brown, p. 166.
He had been born to first-generation: Corey Ford,
Donovan of OSS,
pp. 13â14.
“He had read the inscription. . . .”: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 19.
At the end of his third year: Ford, pp. 18â19.
He did not cut much: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 21.
“The Awakening of Japan”: Ford, p. 19; Brown,
The Last Hero,
pp. 19â20.
Franklin Roosevelt had indeed: Ford, p. 20.
The unit, christened: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 26.
He was a leader: Ford, p. 23; Brown,
The Last Hero,
pp. 28â29.
Less than a month later: Ford, p. 23; Brown,
The Last Hero,
pp. 37â78.
The 69th Regiment: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 52.
He was awarded: ibid., pp. 54â56.
“Wild Bill is. . . .”: ibid., p. 56.
“Look at me. . . .”: Ford, pp. 11â12.
On October 19: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 62.
“They can't get me. . . .”: ibid., p. 63.
Wild Bill was awarded: ibid., pp. 63â70.
After the war Donovan: ibid., p. 70; Gentry, p. 134.
He was first drawn: Gentry, p. 134; Robin W. Winks,
Cloak and Gown,
p. 65.
“a common mick”: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 86.
“The law is the law. . . .”: ibid.
In 1924, Donovan was promoted: Miller, p. 240.
Donovan was pulled under: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 121.
Thus far, in their marriage: ibid., p. 78.
“He was soft-spoken. . . .”: Joseph E. Persico,
Piercing the Reich,
p. 6.
“The spy is as old as history. . . .”: Phillip Knightley,
The Second Oldest Profession,
p. 3.
“One good spy is worth. . . .”: ibid.
“dos'd themselves. . . .”: Andrew, p. 6.
“immediate and pressing Duties.”: ibid., p. 7.
“to establish a secret correspondence. . . .”: ibid.
President Abraham Lincoln: Knightley, p. 3.
The Confederates employed women: Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen,
Spy Book,
p. 566.
Sir Francis developed an organization: ibid., p. 589.
England's lead in entering: Knightley, pp. 3â4.
America's Office of Naval Intelligence: Polmar and Allen,
Spy Book,
p. 30.
“Gentlemen do not read. . . .”: ibid., pp. 606â607.
By the 1930s: Andrew, p. 92.
“a real undercover. . . .”: ibid.
“I could never really understand. . . .”: Sherwood, p. 882.
Secretary of State Hull might not: Jim Bishop,
FDR's Last Year,
p. 90.
“You are one of the most difficult. . . .”: Robert Dallek,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932â1945,
p. vii.
“cryptic giant”: John Gunther,
Roosevelt in Retrospect,
p. 146.
“Later, as the psychologists. . . .”: ibid.
“[H]e simply liked mystery. . . .”: ibid., p. 50.
“Roosevelt had the courage of a lion. . . .”: ibid.
“[A]lthough crippled physically. . . .”: Sherwood, p. 882.
The President ate heartily: Goodwin, pp. 202â203.
chapter vii: spies versus ciphers
“seems to those of us. . . .”: William L. Shirer,
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,
p. 843.
They had worked out a system: ibid.
In early August 1940: James MacGregor Burns,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom,
pp. 71â72.
“grasp of world politics. . . .”: Shirer, p. 843.
Then his informant gave him: F. H. Hinsley,
British Intelligence in the Second World War,
vol. 1, p. 444.
They were, the bureau reported back: Shirer, p. 843.
FDR chose to be direct: ibid., p. 842.
“Mr. Ourmansky turned. . . .”: ibid., p. 843.
He called Hans Thomsen: David Brinkley,
Washington Goes to War,
p. 38.
On April 3, Churchill asked Cripps: Shirer, p. 843; Phillip Knightley,
The Second Oldest Profession,
p. 195.
On May 15, Sorge cabled: Lyman B. Kirkpatrick Jr.,
Captains Without Eyes,
p. 62.
The Soviets' best source in Switzerland: ibid., p. 61.
“who has a record. . . .”: PSF, May 16, 1941, Carter to FDR.
“The Germans are reported confident. . . .”: ibid.; Bradley F. Smith,
Sharing Secrets with Stalin,
p. 14.
“any statement Churchill might make. . . .”: Joseph P. Lash,
Roosevelt and Churchill,
p. 356.
“Not at all. I have only. . . .”: ibid., p. 357; Martin Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill,
vol. 6, p. 1119.
“Nazi Germany as the dominant power. . . .”: Burns,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom,
p. 95.
Therefore, Russia had to try: ibid.
Within three hours Stalin: Kirkpatrick, p. 66.
For several days: Dmitri Volkogonov,
Stalin,
p. 409.
Magic meant, once again: Christopher Andrew,
For the President's Eyes Only,
p. 105.
But who should deliver: Roberta Wohlstetter,
Pearl Harbor,
p. 176.
Intelligence that could determine: Andrew, p. 108.
The inanity increased in July 1941: Gordon Prange,
At Dawn We Slept,
p. 119.
He determined who got to see FDR.: Robert E. Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins,
p. 207.
When Colonel Bratton informed: Andrew, p. 109; Prange, p. 119.
Fearing to contradict: Andrew, p. 109.
“[F]ather summoned me. . . .”: James Roosevelt,
My Parents,
p. 258.
“This must be completely confidential. . . .”: ibid.
“would do everything he could . . .”: ibid.