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Room 3603

von H. Montgomery Hyde

Weitere Autoren: Ian Fleming (Vorwort)

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With headquarters in New York City at 630 Fifth Avenue, Room 3603, the organization known as the British Security Coordination, or B.S.C., was the keystone of the successful Anglo-American partnership in the field of secret intelligence, counterespionage and special operations.The man chosen by Winston Churchill to set up and direct this crucial effort was Sir William Stephenson, known to the world of espionage as the Man Called Intrepid (see page __). A fighter pilot in the first World War, he had become a millionaire before he was thirty though his invention of the device for transmitting photographs by wireless. The late General Bill Donovan, director of the Office of Strategic Services, said of him: Bill Stephenson taught us all we ever knew about foreign intelligence.Sir William Stephenson put all his papers and much other relevant material at the disposal of H. Montgomery Hyde, a member of his wartime organization who knew him intimately. The result is Room 3603, a unique picture of the British Secret Service in action, and of the remarkable exploits of its brilliant but personally unobtrusive chief in the United States.… (mehr)
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The story of the British Intelligence Center in New York during World War II

With headquarters in New York at 630 Fifth Avenue, Room 3603, the organization known as the British Security Coordination, or B.S.C., was the keystone of the successful

Anglo-American partnership in the field of secret intelligence, counterespionage and “special operations.”

The man chosen by Sir Winston Churchill to set up and direct this crucial effort was Sir William Stephenson. A fighter pilot in the First World War, he had become a millionaire before he was thirty through his invention of the device for transmitting photographs by wireless. The late General Bill Donovan, director of the Office of Strategic Services, said of him; “Bill Stephenson taught us all we ever knew about ...
  MasseyLibrary | Jan 15, 2023 |
I picked this up for two main reasons: 1. The Ian Fleming foreword, and 2. Although I was aware of the British intelligence operations based in New York during WW2 (I’d referenced them in one of my pulp stories) I didn’t really know the details. This series of recollections and case stories by one of their former operatives provides some degree of insight. However as this was written in 1962 most of the content has been superseded by declassification of certain material and more recent scholarship. But it remains a readable first hand account of an often overlooked area of wartime Anglo-American cooperation. ( )
  gothamajp | Apr 1, 2021 |
Original in corrected proof copy
  Sapper533 | Apr 16, 2019 |
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With headquarters in New York City at 630 Fifth Avenue, Room 3603, the organization known as the British Security Coordination, or B.S.C., was the keystone of the successful Anglo-American partnership in the field of secret intelligence, counterespionage and special operations.The man chosen by Winston Churchill to set up and direct this crucial effort was Sir William Stephenson, known to the world of espionage as the Man Called Intrepid (see page __). A fighter pilot in the first World War, he had become a millionaire before he was thirty though his invention of the device for transmitting photographs by wireless. The late General Bill Donovan, director of the Office of Strategic Services, said of him: Bill Stephenson taught us all we ever knew about foreign intelligence.Sir William Stephenson put all his papers and much other relevant material at the disposal of H. Montgomery Hyde, a member of his wartime organization who knew him intimately. The result is Room 3603, a unique picture of the British Secret Service in action, and of the remarkable exploits of its brilliant but personally unobtrusive chief in the United States.

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