Long before President Truman called for the export of U.S. know-how and capital to other nations of the world (in his famed Point Four), the same idea had occurred to a small, forward-looking group of ...

Spymasters, especially from the comfortably distant past, tend to be referred to as “legendary” when historians get around to telling their stories. Henry Hemming, writing about the wartime exploits ...

In 1945, Sir William Stephenson was back in Ottawa, fresh from running Britain’s spy station in New York, where he had coordinated Allied espionage efforts. He arrived at a moment of national shock: ...

In response to Joseph Persico's Feb. 28 editorial-page piece "Deception Is Part of the Art of War, But Shhhhhh!": Not all of the details of Nazi intentions in South America were a "tissue of lies," as ...