Sharing Secrets with Stalin: How the Allies Traded Intelligence, 1941-1945

332 Pages·1996·44.19 MB·English

by  Bradley F. Smith

Bradley Smith
reveals the sufprisingly rich exchange ofwartime
intelligence between theAnglo-AmericanAllies
and the Soviet Union, aswell as the procedures'
and politics that made such an exchange
possible/
Between the late 1930s and 1945,Allied intel-
ligence organizations expanded at an enormous
rate in orderto acquire the secret information
theirgovernments needed towin thewar. But,
as Smith demonstrates, the demand for intelli-
gence faroutpaced the abilityofanyone ally
to produce it. Forthat reason, Washington,
London, andMoscowwere compelled to share
some oftheir most sensitive secrets.
Based on interviews and extensive research
in Anglo-American archives and despite limited
access to tenaciouslyguarded Soviet docu-
ments, Smith's book persuasivelydemonstrates
how reluctant and suspicious allies, driven by
the harsh realities oftotal war, finally set aside
their ideological differences toworkclosely
with people they neithertrusted nor particularly
liked.
Bradley Smith's many books include Reaching
JudgmentatNuremberg; TheShadowWarriors:
OSSandtheOrigins oftheCIA; TheRoadto
Nuremberg;Operation Sunrise, theSecret
Surrender; The ULTRA-MAGICDeals; The War's
LongShadow;andAdolph Hitler: His Family,
1
Childhood, andYouth. '
Sharing Secrets with Stalin
Modem War Studies
Theodore A. Wilson
GeneralEditor
RaymondA.Callahan
J.GarryClifford
JacobW. Kipp
JayLuvaas
Allan R. Millett
DennisShowalter
SeriesEditors
Sharing Secrets
with Stalin
How
the Allies Traded Intelligence,
1941-1945
E
Bradley Smith
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Contents
Preface ix
ListofAbbreviations XV
1 Overture 1
2 Searchingforan Intelligence Partnership 28
3 Moaning andDealing 48
4 TheTurningPointsofLate 1941 71
5 DifficultTimes 92
6 ConvergingandDividing Paths 119
7 TheFirstVictorious Summer 142
8 AWinterofMoreContentment 162
9 TheD-Day Era 185
10 ThePenultimatePhaseBegins 208
11 VictoryonOneFront 229
12 AnEndtoWar? 245
Notes 255
Bibliography 291
Index 297