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03557aam a2200373 i 4500 001 8E2789C8383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240702013519 008 240517s2024 nyua b 001 0beng d 010 $a bl2024010557 020 $a 080654368X 020 $a 9780806543680 040 $a NjBwBT $b eng $c NjBwBT $e rda $d SILO 050 14 $a UB271.G72 $b E453 2024 082 04 $a 327.12410092 $2 23/eng/20240517 100 1 $a Fink, Jesse, $e author. 245 14 $a The eagle in the mirror : $b the greatest spy story never told / $c Jesse Fink. 264 1 $a New York : $b Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp., $c 2024. 300 $a xxxi, 319 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-308) and index. 520 $a "Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis, the Australian-born British intelligence officer and master spy accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century. The longest serving spy for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Ellis came to New York at the beginning of World War II as deputy to William Stephenson at British Security Coordination (BSC) and helped set up for William Donovan the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), what would eventually evolve into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). At one point in the 1940s he was considered one of the top three secret agents in MI6, controlling its activities 'for half the world.' Ellis allegedly received prior warning of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and, through the conduit of Stephenson, relayed that warning to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. After World War II, Ellis was awarded the the Legion ofMerit by President Harry S. Truman. But in the 1980s espionage writer Chapman Pincher and retired Security Service (MI5) intelligence officer Peter Wright posthumously accused Ellis of having operated as a 'triple agent' for Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. In 1965, while under interrogation in London, Ellis had allegedly made a confession that he had supplied information to the Nazis prior to the war. The scope of Ellis's purported betrayal was considered even worse than notorious British traitor anddouble agent Kim Philby, who defected to the Soviet Union in 1963. However, Pincher's and Wright's accusations against Ellis have never been comprehensively proven. Was Ellis guilty or was an innocent man framed? Did he take the fall for someone else? Orhad the intelligence agencies of the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia been fatally compromised by a 'super-mole'? Internationally bestselling author Jesse Fink unravels a gripping real-life international whodunit in this long-overdue biography of the unheralded Dick Ellis, one of the most consequential figures in modern history"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Ellis, Charles Howard, $d 1895-1975. 610 10 $a Great Britain. $b MI6 $v Biography. 650 0 $a Spies $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Moles (Spies) $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Australians $v Biography. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Secret service $v Biography. 650 0 $a Espionage, British $x History $y 20th century. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20240704010700.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240702031834.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702030033.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8E2789C8383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search