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A Review of “Spies, Wiretaps, andSecret Operations: An Encyclopedia ofAmerican Espionage”Wendell G. Johnson aa Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IllinoisPublished online: 13 Dec 2011.

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BOOK REVIEW

Spies, Wiretaps, and Secret Operations: An Encyclopedia of American Espi-onage. Edited by Glenn P. Hastedt. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011,2 vols., 900 pp., $180 (ISBN: 978-1-85109-807-1).

For many community college students, espionage is a twentieth-centuryphenomenon closely associated with the cold war. Espionage and counter-espionage, however, stretches back to colonial times. Spies, Wiretaps, andSpecial Operations will provide readers with information about important in-dividuals (Nathan Hale, Jonathan Pollard, Allen Dulles), organizations (KGB,CIA, Mossad), and events (Walker Spy Ring, U-2 Incident, Bretton WoodsConference) in the history of American espionage.

Spies, Wiretaps, and Special Operations covers seven time periods: theAmerican Revolution; the era between the Revolution and Civil War; theCivil War itself (including both Union and Confederate undercover work);the diplomatic intrigues of the Spanish-American War; World War I (includ-ing the decades immediately after the Great War); World War II; and theCold War. The encyclopedia provides information not readily available else-where. For example, in the entry “Early Republic and Espionage” we learnthat American intelligence was unprepared for the War of 1812. “China andU.S. Intelligence/Espionage to 1949” describes American efforts in Chinaprior to the First World War. “Code Talkers” discusses the contribution ofChocktaw-speaking soliders in the Mousse-Argonne campaign of 1918. Inaddition to presenting information in its entries, Spies, Wiretaps, and SpecialOperations seeks to explain espionage within bureaucratic and geo-politicalcontexts. With an eye towards the post 9/11 world, the editor notes that theboundary between war and peace has become blurred, and successful anti-terrorism policies depend increasingly upon successful intelligence gatheringoperations.

The encyclopedia contains an alphabetical list of entries, glossary, bib-liography and comprehensive index. Although this reference work concen-trates on the history of American intelligence, other entries are includedwhich provide context for this history (Mata Hari and MI-5). Recommendedfor students in American History and Political Science.

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