Secrets of the Facist Era: How Uncle Sam Obtained Some of the Top-Level Documents of Mussolini's Period

by Howard McGaw Smyth

Book Overview

This account of the capture and validation of Italian-Fascist state papers during World War II, some of which only re­cently have been declassified, is the stuff of high-level intelligence and counter­espionage.

Inan account that reads like a detective story Howard Smyth reveals fully for the first time how the United States obtained the Fascist documents. As an OSS and State Department officer during the war, Smyth was intimately...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809306964
• ISBN13: 9780809306961
• Release Date: May 1975
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"