
Double Crossed
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What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Office of Strategic Services. They entered into a world of lies, deception, and murder, confident that their nefarious deeds would eventually help them expand the kingdom of God.
In Double Crossed, historian Matthew Avery Sutton tells the extraordinary story of the entwined roles of spy-craft and faith in a world at war. Missionaries, priests, and rabbis, acutely aware of how their actions seemingly conflicted with their spiritual calling, carried out covert operations, bombings, and assassinations within the centers of global religious power, including Mecca, the Vatican, and Palestine. Working for eternal rewards rather than temporal spoils, these loyal secret soldiers proved willing to sacrifice and even to die for Franklin Roosevelt's crusade for global freedom of religion. Chosen for their intelligence, powers of persuasion, and ability to seamlessly blend into different environments, Donovan's recruits included people like John Birch, who led guerilla attacks against the Japanese, William Eddy, who laid the groundwork for the Allied invasion of North Africa, and Stewart Herman, who dropped lone-wolf agents into Nazi Germany. After securing victory, those who survived helped establish the CIA, ensuring that religion continued to influence American foreign policy.
Surprising and absorbing at every turn, Double Crossed is the untold story of World War II espionage and a profound account of the compromises and doubts that war forces on those who wage it.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- PART I: BEFORE THEY WERE SPIES (1883-1941)
- One: "The Moral and Spiritual Defenses of a Nation"
- Two: "Between Hope and Despair"
- Three: "A Conquering Faith"
- Four: "Prophecies Yet to Be Fulfilled"
- Five: "What a Fine Schooling You Are Having"
- PART II: GOING TO WAR (1941-1943)
- Six: "Converted to Our Service"
- Seven: "Spies and Lies in Tangier"
- Eight: "The Double Opportunity to Serve God and Country"
- Nine: "It's Your Souls We Want"
- PART III: TAKING THE FIGHT TO THE ENEMY (1943-1944)
- Ten: "The Next Jump"
- Eleven: "A Great Hodge-Podge of Conflicting Loyalties"
- Twelve: "The Angry Saint Who Kept a Soldier's Faith"
- Thirteen: "The Thorough Beating They So Richly Deserve"
- PART IV: OCCUPYING HOLY LANDS (1944-1945)
- Fourteen: "America's One Priority in the Arab World"
- Fifteen: "Top-Notch and Absolutely Fearless"
- Sixteen: "The Beginning of the End of Japan's Ungodly Power"
- Seventeen: "Pilgrim's Progress"
- PART V: WINNING THE WAR (1945)
- Eighteen: "God Help Us!"
- Nineteen: "An Unusual Opportunity"
- Twenty: "The High Point of Muslim Alliance"
- Twenty-One: "Between a Strife-Torn Earth and Wrath-Darkened Heavens"
- PART VI: LEGACIES (1945-PRESENT)
- Twenty-Two: "The CIA Holds Nothing Sacred Including the Sacred"
- Acknowledgments
- Discover More
- About the Author
- Also by Matthew Avery Sutton
- Praise for Double Crossed
- Notes
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