Spy Sites of New York City - Softcover

H. Keith Melton; Robert Wallace; Henry R. Schlesinger

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9781603802611: Spy Sites of New York City

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603802614 ISBN 13: 9781603802611

Publisher: The Foreign Excellent Trenchcoat Society, 2012

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For more than two centuries, New York has been a center of international espionage. From the Revolutionary War to the present day, spies have met in the city's dark alleys and fashionable hotels. They've traveled by horseback, streetcar, subway, taxi, and limousine. They have lived in the shadows of assumed identities, posing as Wall Street executives, United Nations diplomats, and Greenwich Village artists. Motivated by profit or patriotism, these secret agents were hailed as heroes and scorned as traitors.

This is the clandestine history of New York City. Here are the stories of covert operatives who turned the tide of wars and shaped the history of nations. For the first time, their secret world is compiled in a single volume covering virtually every major espionage case that involved New York from the Revolutionary War on.

Meet heroes and villains, the celebrated and obscure, of Big Apple espionage. Included are the locations of safe houses, office buildings, hotels, and apartments where history's real life spies lived, worked, and sometimes died.

Welcome to New York! Two hundred years of secrets, deception, and deceit.

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About the Author:

H. KEITH MELTON is an internationally recognized intelligence historian and authority on espionage technology. He is an historical consultant to the CIA and Technical Tradecraft Historian for the Interagency Training Center, Washington, D.C. Mr. Melton's other books include Ultimate Spy and co-authored with Robert Wallace SPYCRAFT: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs from Communism to al-Qaeda and The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception. He may be contacted at keith@spy-sites.com.

ROBERT WALLACE is the former director of the CIA's Office of Technical Service, founder of the Artemus Consulting Group and contributor to the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence. In addition his books with Mr. Melton, Mr. Wallace co-authored Nine from the Ninth: A Vietnam Memoir. He may be contacted at bob@spy-sites.com.

HENRY R. SCHLESINGER is a New York-based writer.

Review:

Exceptional! Spy Sites of New York City: Two Centuries of Espionage in Gotham by H. Keith Melton & Robert Wallace, with Henry R. Schlesinger. Introductions by Oleg Kalugin, KGB Maj Gen (Ret); and Peter Earnest, Executive Director, International Spy Museum...This little book is far more than about New York City addresses occupied by spies at one time or another. It's a condensed, readable history of spying in America from the Revolutionary War to the present, compiled by experts with lifetime experiences. --Association of Former Intelligence Officers

In their new book, Spy Sites of New York City, H. Keith Melton, a historian, and Robert Wallace, former director of the CIA s Office of Technical Service, highlight them all. Grab your trenchcoat and fedora and take a tour. --New York Post

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