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November 3, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Book Discussion on Double Agent

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(CSPAN) Peter Duffy talked about his book, Double Agent: The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Outwitted and Destroyed a Nazi Spy Ring, in which he recounts the life of William Sebold, the first double agent in FBI history, who infiltrated a ring of Nazi spies in New York City. In his book, the author reports that Sebold’s sixteen months of covert work resulted in the arrests of thirty-three spies in 1941. Peter Duffy spoke at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. Watch video

 

 

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Historical FBI Studies by Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD, author of "The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence" and "Hoover's Secret War Against Axis Spies: FBI Counterintelligence During World War II."

 

A retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent, Ray is now a historian and educator specializing in the discipline of counterintelligence as a function of statecraft.

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