The Eagle in the Mirror (eBook)

Jesse Fink (Autor)

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2024
400 Seiten
Citadel Press (Verlag)
978-0-8065-4370-3 (ISBN)

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Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of Charles Howard ';Dick' Ellis, the Australian-born British intelligence officer and master spy accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century. The longest serving spy for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Ellis came to New York at the beginning of World War II as deputy to William Stephenson at British Security Coordination (BSC) and helped set up for William Donovan the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), what would eventually evolve into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). At one point in the 1940s he was considered one of the top three secret agents in MI6, controlling its activities ';for half the world.' Ellis allegedly received prior warning of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and, through the conduit of Stephenson, relayed that warning to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. After World War II, Ellis was awarded the Legion of Merit by President Harry S. Truman. But in the 1980s espionage writer Chapman Pincher and retired Security Service (MI5) intelligence officer Peter Wright posthumously accused Ellis of having operated as a ';triple agent' for Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. In 1965, while under interrogation in London, Ellis had allegedly made a confession that he had supplied information to the Nazis prior to the war. The scope of Ellis's purported betrayal was considered even worse than notorious British traitor and double agent Kim Philby, who defected to the Soviet Union in 1963. However, Pincher's and Wright's accusations against Ellis have never been comprehensively proven. Was Ellis guilty or was an innocent man framed? Did he take the fall for someone else? Or had the intelligence agencies of the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia been fatally compromised by a ';super-mole'? Jesse Fink unravels a gripping real-life international whodunit in this long-overdue biography of the unheralded Dick Ellis, one of the most consequential figures in modern history.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.5.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: 007 • Allied Powers • A Man Called Intrepid by William Stevenson • A Spy Among Friends by Ben Mainctyre • Australian history • Axis powers • British history • British Secret Intelligence Service • British Security Coordination • Central Intelligence Agency • Charles Ellis • Charles Howard Dick Ellis • Charles Howard Ellis • Churchill • CIA • COI • Communists • Dick Ellis • Dusko Popov • Emperor worship • English History • FDR • Franklin D. Roosevelt • German History • Great Britain • Harry S. Truman • Harry Truman • Hirohito • Hitler • Ian Fleming • Italian History • James Bond • Janapese history • J. Edgar Hoover • John Le Carre • Kim Philby • MI5 • MI6 • Mussolini • Nazi • Nazi Germany • Nazis • Nazism • Office of Strategic Services • Office of the Coordinator of Information • OSS • Oyster: The Story of The Australian Secret Intelligenc • Pearl Harbor • Philby KGB Masterspy by Phillip Knightley • Roald Dahl • secret intelligence • Secret Intelligence Service • Shinto • sis • Soviets • Soviet Union • Spycatcher by Peter Wright • Stalin • Their Trade is Treachery by Chapman Pincher • triple agent • United Kingdom • United States history • us history • USSR • William Donovan • william stephenson • Winston Churchill • World War 2 • world war 2 biography • world war 2 history • World War II • world war II biography • World War II History • ww2 • WW 2 • WW II • WWII
• ISBN-10: 0-8065-4370-1 / 0806543701
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8065-4370-3 / 9780806543703