Intrepid's Last Case

by William Stevenson

Overview

Intrepid's Last Case chronicles the post-World War II activities of Sir William Stephenson, whose fascinating role in helping to defeat the Nazis was the subject of the worldwide bestseller A Man Called Intrepid. Sir William Stephenson (Intrepid) still stood at the center of events when he and author William Stevenson discussed in the 1980s an investigation into sudden allegations that Intrepid's wartime aide, Dick Ellis, had been both a Soviet mole and a Nazi spy. They concluded that the rumors grew, ironically, from Intrepid's last wartime case involving the first major Soviet intelligence defector of the new atomic age: Igor Gouzenko. Intrepid saved Gouzenko and found him sanctuary inside a Canadian spy school. Gouzenko was about to make more devastating disclosures than those concerning atomic espionage when the case was mysteriously terminated and Intrepid's organization dissolved. Unraveling the implications of Gouzenko's defection and Intrepid's removal from the case, tracing the steps of Dick Ellis and disclosing much new information regarding United States and Canadian postwar intelligence activities, Intrepid's Last Case is a story that for sheer excitement rivals the best spy fiction--and is all the more important because every word is true. Filled with never-before-revealed facts on the Soviet/Western nuclear war dance and a compelling portrayal of the mind of a professional spy, Intrepid's Last Case picks up where the first book ended, at the very roots of the cold war. It describes one of the most widespread cover-ups and bizarre betrayals in intelligence history. This is the incredible Intrepid against the KGB.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781510729186
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	10/10/2017
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	635,566
File size:	872 KB

About the Author

William Stevenson was a journalist and author of the bestselling books A Man Called Intrepid and 90 Minutes at Entebbe, He also worked as a movie scriptwriter, a television news commentator, and producer of award-winning documentaries. He died in 2013.

Table of Contents

Part 1 1931-83 Intrepid's Last Case is Revived

1 The Case That Won't Be Closed 3

2 Disinformation at Work 6

3 A Mole Called ELLI 13

4 The BSC in Time of War 21

5 The Birth of the Bomb 25

Part 2 Summer 1945 The Search for Proof or Tangible Evidence

6 Wanted: One Defector 33

7 Enter Igor Gouzenko 37

8 …. If Suicide Should Take Place…. 47

9 "Hand Him Over for Deportation" 59

Part 3 September 1945 The End of Innocence

10 William Stephenson Hangs On 69

11 William Donovan Tries to Save the OSS 76

12 J. Edgar Hoover Suspects Subversives 79

13 Mackenzie King Saves the Christian World 84

14 Professor May Walks the Primrose Path 92

15 Harry Truman Takes Hold 98

16 Clement Attlee Goes It Alone 107

Part 4 October 1945 Moscow Calls The Shots

17 The Kremlin Covers Its Tracks 117

18 Discord Among the Allies 125

19 Wait-But for What? 133

Part 5 1946 The Bogeyman'll Get You

20 The Deterrent of Publicity 143

21 The Menace of Interdepartmental Strife 151

22 A Frenzy of Inaction 160

Part 6 1950 the McCarthy era and the cold war

23 Elitists and Witch-Hunts 169

24 The Flowering of Soviet Espionage 178

25 Danger- Mole at Work: The Burrowing of Kim Philby 189

26 A Silence of Conspiracy 197

27 A Defector Betrayed: Philby's Turkish Caper 203

Part 7 1954 The Power of Secrecy

28 Gouzenko's Two ELLIS and the Red Orchestra 213

29 Reputation and Disinformation 222

30 Conflict in the Western Ranks: "Gestapo" versus "Liberal" or Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy 228

31 A Fine Disregard for the Rules: Dick Ellis's Story 238

32 The Phoenix Founders: Dick Ellis's Later Years 250

Part 8 1931 Who Will Watch the Watchers?

33 Moles, and Bureaucrats, Cover Their Tracks 259

34 Lonely Funerals and Weeded Files 269

35 When the Cat's Away, the Moles Will Play 277

36 Victims of Deceptive Operations 285

Part 9 1988-1981 "Complete Security And Total Democracy Are Incompatible"

37 The Search for the Super-Mole 291

38 The Gentleman from England 296

39 Are There No Secrets? 299

40 With Both Eyes Open 305

Index 307

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"As long as Americans value courage and freedom there will be a special place in our hearts, our minds, and our history books for [Stevenson's] Man Called Intrepid "-Ronald Reagan

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"As long as Americans value courage and freedom there will be a special place in our hearts, our minds, and our history books for [Stevenson's] Man Called Intrepid"-Ronald Reagan

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