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A fantastic book, one of the very finest accounts of wartime spookery...a hell of a good tale. The Wall Street Journal
The author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Wild Bill Donovan, tells the story of four OSS warriors of World War II. All four later led the CIA.
They are the most famous and controversial directors the CIA has ever hadAllen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey. Disciples is the story of these dynamic agents and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe under OSS Director Bill Donovan.
Allen Dulles ran the OSSs most successful spy operation against the Axis. Bill Casey organized dangerous missions to penetrate Nazi Germany. Bill Colby led OSS commando raids behind the lines in occupied France and Norway. Richard Helms mounted risky intelligence programs against the Russians in the ruin of Berlin after the German surrender.
Four very different men, they later led (or misled) the successor CIA. Dulles launched the calamitous operation to land CIA-trained, anti-Castro guerrillas at Cubas Bay of Pigs. Helms was convicted of lying to Congress about the CIAs effort to oust Chiles president. Colby would become a pariah for releasing to Congress what became known as the Family Jewels report on CIA misdeeds during the 1950s, sixties and early seventies. Casey would nearly bring down the CIAand Ronald Reagans presidencyfrom a scheme to secretly supply Nicaraguas contras with money raked off from the sale of arms to Iran for American hostages in Beirut.
Mining thousands of once-secret World War II documents and interviewing scores of family members and CIA colleagues, Waller has written a brilliant successor to Wild Bill Donovan.

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THE WORLD WAR II MISSIONS OF THE CIA DIRECTORS WHO FOUGHT FOR WILD BILL DONOVAN:

ALLEN DULLES, RICHARD HELMS, WILLIAM COLBY, WILLIAM CASEY

CONTENTS To Alex Annabel and Nathan If ye continue in my word then are - photo 1
CONTENTS


To Alex, Annabel, and Nathan

If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

JOHN 8:3132

CAST OF CHARACTERS


Terence Airey. British Field Marshal Harold Alexanders chief intelligence officer and his representative in the Sunrise negotiations for a German surrender in North Italy.

Harold R. L. G. Alexander. The British field marshal in command of Allied forces in Italy.

Gerhard Van Arkel. An OSS officer who recruited spies among European labor organizations in New York and later in London. He also worked for Allen Dulles in Bern.

Mary Bancroft. She worked for Allen Dulles in Switzerland during World War II and became his mistress.

Roger Bardet. A key aide to Henri Frager, leader of the Donkeyman French Resistance network. Bardet betrayed Frager to the German Abwehr.

Ludwig Beck. A retired German general and former army chief of staff who was a leader in the conspiracy to topple Adolf Hitler.

Hugo Bleicher. One of the Abwehrs most skilled counterintelligence operatives in France who infiltrated the Donkeyman Resistance network with informants like Roger Bardet.

Alphonse Blonttrock. Radioman for the OSS spy team Doctor who went by the alias Jean Denis.

David K. E. Bruce. The OSS station chief in London.

Wilhelm Canaris. The admiral in charge of the Abwehr. Canaris supported the German plot to overthrow Hitler.

Franklin Canfield. The OSS officer in charge of recruiting and training the Jedburgh commandos.

Sophia Kurz Casey. William Caseys wife.

William Joseph Casey. The head of the OSS London stations secretariat, then the agencys chief of secret intelligence for Europe. Casey was CIA director from 1981 to 1987.

Wally Castelbarco. An Italian countess and daughter of Arturo Toscanini. She aided Italian partisans and had an affair with Allen Dulles.

Leo Cherne. The head of the Research Institute of America, where William Casey worked as an analyst.

Colonel Chevrier. The code name for Adrien Sadoul, a French Resistance commander in the Yonne Department.

Barbara Heinzen Colby. William Colbys first wife.

Sally Shelton Colby. William Colbys second wife.

William Egan Colby. An OSS Jedburgh commando who parachuted into France and later led the NORSO team that infiltrated into Norway. Colby was CIA director from 1973 to 1976.

Claude Dansey. The deputy chief of Britains Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) who oversaw its Swiss operations from London.

Andr Dewavrin. Charles de Gaulles intelligence chief who went by the code name Passy.

Otto Ole Doering Jr. A senior Donovan aide who interviewed William Casey for a job at the OSS.

William J. Wild Bill Donovan. The director of the World War II Office of Strategic Services.

Allen Welsh Dulles. The OSS station chief in Bern, Switzerland, during World War II and later CIA director from 1953 to 1961.

Clover Todd Dulles. Allen Dulless wife.

John Foster Dulles. Allen Dulless brother and secretary of state in the Eisenhower administration.

Erich Fellgiebel. The chief of German army communications and a member of the conspiracy plotting to oust Hitler.

Franois Flour. Radioman for the OSS spy team Painter who went by the alias Franois Fouget.

Henri Frager. The leader of the Donkeyman Resistance network in France. Frager was captured and killed by the Nazis.

Friedrich Fromm. The general who commanded Germanys Replacement Army.

Gero von Schulze-Gaevernitz. An international financier and son of a Weimar legislator who became a key World War II operative for Allen Dulles in Bern.

Hans Bernd Gisevius. An Abwehr officer who slipped information to Dulles and became a conduit to German conspirators trying to oust Adolf Hitler.

Carl Goerdeler. A former Reich Prices Commissioner and Leipzig mayor, who was part of the conspiracy to topple Hitler.

Arthur Goldberg. Goldberg worked for Allen Dulles organizing spying for the OSS by European unions and later began an operation out of the London station to infiltrate agents into Germany.

Ides van der Gracht. A lieutenant colonel who was Richard Helmss boss in the postwar Germany missions intelligence production division.

Franz Halder. The German general who succeeded Ludwig Beck as army chief of staff and became a part of the conspiracy to topple Hitler.

Charles Hambro. The World War II chief of Great Britains Special Operations Executive.

Georg Hansen. Hansen ran the Abwehrs military intelligence functions after Admiral Canaris was fired. Hansen also supported the German conspirators plotting against Hitler.

Leland Harrison. The head of the U.S. legation in Bern during World War II.

Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf. Berlins police chief and a member of the conspiracy to topple Hitler.

Cynthia Helms. Richard Helmss second wife.

Julia Helms. Richard Helmss first wife.

Richard McGarrah Helms. William Caseys assistant in London, chief of the Berlin spy base just after the war, and CIA director from 1966 to 1973.

Max Egon Hohenlohe von Lagensberg. A Liechtenstein national and Heinrich Himmler agent who tried to cultivate Dulles.

J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI director and William Donovan rival during World War II.

Max Husmann. The head of a private school near Lucerne who served as an intermediary in the Sunrise negotiations for the surrender of German forces in North Italy.

Henry Hyde. An OSS officer who infiltrated agents into southern France and later into Germany.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner. The SS general who was chief of the Reich Main Security Office and the second most powerful man in the SS.

Milton Katz. William Caseys deputy when Casey served as chief of secret intelligence for Europe.

Albert Kesselring. The field marshal who commanded German occupation forces in North Italy.

Ernst Kocherthaler. The German intermediary who introduced Fritz Kolbe to the Americans in Bern.

Fritz Kolbe. A German Foreign Office bureaucrat who supplied Dulles with intelligence on the Third Reich. Dulles gave him the code name George Wood.

Camille Lelong. A French Jedburgh officer who was a member of Colbys Team Bruce. His code name was Jacques Favel.

Lyman Lemnitzer. An American general who was Field Marshal Harold Alexanders deputy chief of staff and representative in the negotiations for a German surrender in North Italy.

Paul Lindner. An agent with the OSS spy team in Berlin code-named Hammer.

Andr Marsac. An agent in the Donkeyman French Resistance network who was arrested by the Germans.

Ferdinand Ferd Mayer. Mayer was in charge of the German desk at OSS headquarters and oversaw Allen Dulless penetration of Germany from Bern. His code name was Carib.

Gerald Mayer. The Office of War Information representative in the Bern legation who worked closely with Allen Dulles.

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