Gimpel, Erich. Tr., Eleanor Brockett. Spy for Germany. London: Hale, 1957. Agent 146: The True Story of a Nazi Spy in America. New York: St. Martin's, 2003. Gimpel, Erich. Tr., Eleanor Brockett. Spy for Germany. London: Hale, 1957. Agent 146: The True Story of a Nazi Spy in America. New York: St. Martin's, 2003.
According to Seamon, Proceedings, Apr. 2003, this is Gimpel's autobiographical account of his activities as a Nazi spy, ranging from Peru in 1935 to his infiltration into Maine in World War II with orders to sabotage the Manhatten Project. The story is told in "serviceable, often awkward English."
Harrington, Dale. Mystery Man: William Rhodes Davis, Nazi Agent of Influence. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1999.
Adams, I&NS 16.3, notes that American businessman Davis "built the largest oil refinery in Nazi Germany" and "became the sole provider to Germany of oil from Mexico that comprised almost 30 per cent of Hitler's supply.... The work is troubling in that ... Davis was a 'mystery man', and many of the author's assertions cannot be proven from the available sources."
Hart,
Scott. Washington at War, 1941-45. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall,
1970.
Wilcox: "Account of FBI activities during World War II."
MacDonnell,
Francis. Insidious Foes: The Axis Fifth Column and the American Home
Front. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Hansen, History 26.1, calls Insidious Foes "the first comprehensive treatment" of the Fifth Column scare in the United States between 1938 and 1942. MacDonnell's work "is notable for its judicious argument, cohesive organization, and enlarged perspective."
Mosley, Leonard. The
Druid. New York: Atheneum, 1981.
Wilcox: "Account of German spy who was captured by the British, who failed to recruit him."
Wiant, Studies in Intelligence 46.2 (2002), reviewing Nigel West's Counterfeit Spies (1998), notes that "Mosley's work suggests that there was one German spy in Britain who was not under the control of MI-5, but West's careful investigation shows how Mosley was drawn in by questionable archival records and a willingness to suspend disbelief in his own sources."
O'Donnell, Pierce. In Time of War: Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America. New York: New Press, 2005.
According to DKR, AFIO WIN 25-05 (4 Jul. 2005), this work concerns the landing in 1942 of "eight German-Americans, equipped to carry out sabotage, on the U.S. coast -- whereupon their leader telephoned the FBI to turn in himself and his fellows." President Roosevelt "ordered a secret military trial.... [T]he government announced that six of the defendants had been executed and the remaining two given long prison sentences."
See also, Louis Fisher, Nazi Saboteurs on Trial: A Military Tribunal and American Law (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003); and Michael Dobbs, Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America (New York: Knopf, 2004).
Pirie, Anthony. Operation
Barnard. New York: Morrow, 1962.
Wilcox: "Account of Axis espionage activities and clandestine operations during World War II."
Rachlis, Eugene. They
Came to Kill: The Story of Eight Nazi Saboteurs in America. New York:
Random House, 1961.
Wilcox: "How they were caught, what happened to them."
Ramsey, R.W.R. "German
Espionage in South America, 1939-45." Army Quarterly 118, no. 1 (Jan. 1988): 55-59. [http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/RefBibs/intell/ww2/genmisc.htm]
Ronnie, Art. Counterfeit
Hero: Fritz Duquesne, Adventurer and Spy. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute
Press, 1995.
Clark comment: Duquesne is best known from the classic 1945 movie "The House on 92nd Street," as the central figure in a ring of 33 Nazi spies arrested in New York in 1941.
Cutler, Proceedings, Nov. 1995, notes that "Ronnie delved deep into prison records, government documents, and personal letters to create this unusual biography of a man who was eventually arrested in what J. Edgar Hoover described as 'the greatest spy roundup in U.S. history.'"
To Chambers, Counterfeit Hero is a "carefully researched and highly readable demythologizing of Fritz Duquesne." Click for Chambers' full review.
Bates, NIPQ 14.3, finds that Ronnie "has done a fine job of writing" a story "befogged with Fritz's fabrications." The author "will tell of an episode according to Fritz, then put in a documented fact which makes Fritz's story impossible."
Rout, Leslie B., Jr.,
and John F. Bratzel. Shadow War: German Espionage and United States Counterespionage
in Latin America during World War II. Frederick, MD: University Publications
of America, 1986.
Haglund, I&NS 4.3, finds that the authors have provided excessive detail ("almost numbing") in this "definitive study" of the "wartime German-American undercover rivalry" in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. The work "could use a bit more analysis and synthesis."
Turrou, Leon G., as
told to David G. Wittels. Espionage for the Führer: Undercover in
America. [UK]: Allborough Publishing, 1992. Vol. 2 in the Allborough
Espionage Series.
Surveillant 2.5: "A new edition of Nazi Spy Conspiracy in America. In the U.S. this was first published in 1938 by Random House under the title Nazi Spies in America."
Wighton, Charles, and Gunter Peis. Hitler's Spies and Saboteurs -- Based on the German Secret Service War Diary of General Lahousen. New York: Holt, 1958.
According to Pforzheimer, Studies 5.2 (Spring 1961), Lahousen "headed the Abwehr's sabbotage section" during part of World war II.
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