Peter Eisner

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1 month ago | spytalk.co | Peter Eisner

The so-called Five Eyes, an intelligence-sharing coalition among the United States, Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, which has been a pillar of U.S. national security interests for decades, appears now to be at risk with the “America First” policies of the Trump administration. Not that the relationship of the English-speaking nations has always been smooth and unencumbered, writes Richard Kerbaj in The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The Untold Story of the International Spy Network.

Dec 17, 2024 | spytalk.co | Peter Eisner

There’s no  reason that my brief for writing reviews for SpyTalk has to be actually limited to espionage. I have written about military history, sagas of the World Wars and current cloak-and-dagger dramas, but this year a number of stories about spies themselves really captured my attention. Here are a few I picked. Traitor’s Odyssey: The Untold  Story of Martha Dodd and a  Strange Saga Soviet Espionage.

Nov 25, 2024 | spytalk.co | Peter Eisner

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Nov 25, 2024 | spytalk.co | Peter Eisner

THE BEST AND MOST TIMELY LESSON WE CAN TAKE from Traitor’s Odyssey, the latest biography of wartime Soviet mole Martha Dodd, is that, with luck, sometimes a well-placed U.S. turncoat can end up being an abject failure. Otherwise, Dodd, the daughter of William Edward Dodd, U.S. ambassador to Germany at the beginning of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, might have done serious damage.