The Secret Front

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Before Bletchley Park could break the codes, somebody had to hear the signal.

On Britain’s Yorkshire coast, men and women sat behind wireless receivers listening into the invisible communications war unfolding across Europe. They copied call signs, frequencies and groups of coded traffic, often without knowing what the...

In April 1961, approximately fourteen hundred Cuban exiles landed on the southern coast of Cuba.

They had been trained in secret.

Armed in secret.

Transported in secret.

Behind them stood the Central Intelligence Agency and the government of the United States.

Ahead of them stood Fidel Castro.

Within seventy-two hours, the invasion was broken.

But the...

Eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team were dead.

The Games continued.

And somewhere inside Israel’s intelligence system, the files began to open.

After the 1972 Munich massacre, Mossad launched one of the most controversial covert campaigns in modern intelligence history. Palestinian figures were watched across Europe. Sources were developed....

A dead man. A false identity. A briefcase full of secrets designed to be stolen.

In 1943, the Allies faced a problem.

Sicily was the obvious next target after victory in North Africa.

The Germans knew it.

So British intelligence built a man who did not exist.

His name was Major William Martin.

He had an identity card. A bank account. A fiancée named...