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Naftali, Timothy J. “Intrepid’s Last Deception: Documenting the Career of Sir William Stephenson.” Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 8, Number 3 (July 1993): 72-99.

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Downes, Donald. 1953. Scarlet Thread: Adventures in Wartime Espionage. 1st ed. Verschoyle, 87-93

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The Second Washington Conference
PREFACE
This volume of documents on the conferences at Washington (1941-1942) and Casablanca (1943) is published in [...]

The quasi official history of BSC (Nigel, ed West, British Security Coordination: The Secret History of British Intelligence in the Americas 1940-1945 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1998), 16), which will be discussed later in some detail, dances neatly around the subject of Stephenson’s relationship with FDR: “…for WS kept in close touch with the White House [...]

Robert E Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History: Enigma Books, 2008), 270

source: Thomas F. Troy, Wild Bill and Intrepid: Donovan, Stephenson, and the Origin of CIA, 1st ed. (Yale University Press, 1996), 35

The British are emphatic about Hoover’s role in coming up with the name for William S. Stephenson’s organization: The British Security Coordination. They make constant reference to it:
Hyde, H. Montgomery (foreword by Ian Fleming). 1964. Room 3603. Dell Books, New York,  3, 58.
Hyde, H. Montgomery. 1982. Secret Intelligence Agent British Espionage in America and the [...]

Athan G. Theoharis, The FBI: A Comprehensive Reference Guide, ed. Athan G. Theoharis, Tony G. Poveda, Susan Rosenfeld, and Richard Gid Powers: Checkmark Books, 2000), 161

Nigel, ed West, British Security Coordination: The Secret History of British Intelligence in the Americas 1940-1945 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1998), 5
This document is also often referred to as “The BSC Papers,” particularly before their initial publication by St. Ermin’s Press.
A history of the document, according to Tim Naftali, and Nigel West, the publication’s editor: H. [...]

Thomas F. Troy, Wild Bill and Intrepid: Donovan, Stephenson, and the Origin of CIA, 1st ed. (Yale University Press, 1996), 95

Thomas F. Troy, Wild Bill and Intrepid: Donovan, Stephenson, and the Origin of CIA, 1st ed. (Yale University Press, 1996), 93

Thomas F. Troy, Wild Bill and Intrepid: Donovan, Stephenson, and the Origin of CIA, 1st ed. (Yale University Press, 1996), 63

Jeffrey M. Dorwart, Conflict of Duty: U.S. Navy’s Intelligence Dilemma, 1919-1945: Naval Inst Pr, Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A., 1983), 126 [Graf Spee], and 131-132 [naval observers]
At that time, reserve officers were designated “naval observers,” to mitigate the neutrality issue.

The search for Paul Fairly began like this:
Mr. Shear,
I have no information pertaining to a LT Paul Fairly. You may be able to track him down in the Register Commissioned Officers the U.S. Navy.  [Author's note: Efforts to find Fairly's name in the Register, which is on deposit at Davis Libarary at [...]

What developed should have been obvious: Fairly was not an officer. Instead, a search of the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis revealed this crucial document:

The document shows Fairly to be a lowly Yeoman and, more, not even a member of USN at the time of his encounter with Cynthia/Betty Pack/Madame Brousse.

From an email:
Subject: Re: Research questions
Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 10:42 AM
From: Karen Jania
To: Jeff Shear
Cc:
Conversation: Research questions
Dear Mr. Shear:
According to the necrology file on Ms. Wells, (a file of information collected by the Office of Alumni Records on deceased University alumni), her father was H.H.Wells, a Banker and Merchant in Morris, Minnesota. She was [...]

This letter was either retained by Madame Brousse or by her mother, most likely her mother. Obviously no operative would want to be caught with any evidence suggesting that they were leading a double life. The letter was signed, J. Howard, a name commonly used by British intelligence as a generic cover, much as the [...]

Source for both views of the address book: Churchill Archives Center, Churchill College, Cambridge
Harford Montgomery Hyde Papers, “Cynthia” File number 2
There is something especially interesting and odd about Madame Brousse’s address book. Curiously, virtually every name entered into her “little black book” is written (it was actually brown and wallet-sized) — in the [...]

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Not only was Brinkley sued by Lais, but so was H. Montgomery Hyde, who got the worst of it.
Sins of The Father? Sons Say Brinkley War Book Is Wrong on Liaison With Spy
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The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext) – Washington, D.C.
Author: Charles Trueheart
Date: Jun 20, 1989
Start Page: c.01
Section:STYLE
Text Word Count: 952

David Brinkley, Washington Goes to War: Random House Value Publishing, 1999), 54
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Thomas F. TROY, Wild Bill and Intrepid: Donovan, Stephenson, and the Origin of CIA (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996)

S, Lovell Mary . Cast No Shadow the Life of the American Spy Who Changed the Course of World War II. New York: PANTHEON, 1992, 133-135
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/6517/bagrationart.html
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David Laurence Aaron is an American diplomat and former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Carter, who wrote a fictional biography of Madame Brousse: David Aaron, Crossing by Night: Avon Books (Mm), 1994). In the course of his research, Dr. Aaron met and interview H.M. Hyde and Count Michael Lubienski.

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Hyde, H. Montgomery. Cynthia. New York: FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, 1965, 138
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S, Lovell Mary . Cast No Shadow the Life of the American Spy Who Changed the Course of World War II. New York: PANTHEON, 1992, 133
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Hyde, H. Montgomery. Cynthia. New York: FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, 1965, 138
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Churchill Archives Center, Churchill College Cambridge
Fioretta, A Tale of Italy, is a romantic first-person narrative about a little girl growing up in Naples, a tale in which inspiration and fortitude triumph over misfortune and poverty. In the story, a little girl, Fioretta, uses her magical singing voice to save her impoverished father. Betty dedicated the [...]

Passenger and Crew List of SS “Excalibur,” arriving at New York, New York, October 30, 1940, page 147; Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957 (National Archives Microfilm Publication T715, roll 6506); Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Record Group 85; National Archives Building, Washington, DC.
Finding Fairly’s name on [...]

Hyde, H. Montgomery. Cynthia. New York: FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, 1965.
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S, Lovell Mary . Cast No Shadow the Life of the American Spy Who Changed the Course of World War II. New York: Pantheon, 1992.
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Churchill Archives, Churchill College Cambridge

See comments at 15 October 1940

“A shipboard romance with a man whom she names in her memoirs only as ‘Norma W.’ helped to while away the tedious Atlantic crossing.” Lovell Mary S, Cast No Shadow the Life of the American Spy Who Changed the Course of World War II (New York: Pantheon, 1992), 133

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Winston, Sir Churchill, The Hinge of Fate: The Second World War, Volume 4: Bantam Books (Mm), 1950), 317
Author’s note: Earlier that spring, the issue before the Allies was a cross-channel invasion planned for 1943. WSC’s comment quoted above regarding the plan of attack came ahead of the Second Washington Conference, in talks with General [...]

Mark A. Stoler, Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.s. Strategy in World War II (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 67-83
Author’s note: Stoler writes — “In January (Allies and Adversaries, pg. 71) Eisenhower included North Africa as one of the political “side shows” that should [...]

From an email written by Naftali to the author on 24 May 2007 – “The BSC in 1942 was fighting for its existence, as was the OSS. The acquisition of codes/cipher material would have been very useful in the struggle for resources in both intelligence communities. Sigint was then, as now I guess, the coin [...]

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