Joseph E. Persico (68 page)

“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. 263–80.

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. 98–99.

“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. 192–93.

“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. 297–98; Eric Larrabee,
Commander in Chief,
p. 56.

“[W]hat started as a European war. . . .”: Larrabee, pp. 56–57.

“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. 1–6, 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. 165–66.

“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. 13–14.

“He had read the inscription. . . .”: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 19.

At the end of his third year: Ford, pp. 18–19.

He did not cut much: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 21.

“The Awakening of Japan”: Ford, p. 19; Brown,
The Last Hero,
pp. 19–20.

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. 28–29.

Less than a month later: Ford, p. 23; Brown,
The Last Hero,
pp. 37–78.

The 69th Regiment: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 52.

He was awarded: ibid., pp. 54–56.

“Wild Bill is. . . .”: ibid., p. 56.

“Look at me. . . .”: Ford, pp. 11–12.

On October 19: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 62.

“They can't get me. . . .”: ibid., p. 63.

Wild Bill was awarded: ibid., pp. 63–70.

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. 3–4.

America's Office of Naval Intelligence: Polmar and Allen,
Spy Book,
p. 30.

“Gentlemen do not read. . . .”: ibid., pp. 606–607.

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, 1932–1945,
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. 202–203.

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. 71–72.

“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.