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Reviews of “Hoover’s Secret War Against Axis Spies: FBI Counterespionage During World War II”:

  • GreatCharlie.com
  • Washington Times
  • The Weekly Standard 
  • Review by Retired FBI Executive Edward Appel, Sr
  • “World War II” magazine
  • “America in WWII” magazine
  • Review by Hayden Peake in CIA’s Studies in Intelligence
  • Review by Francis MacDonnell, Southern Virginia University, in the 2015 Michigan War Studies Review
  • Review by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones in “The Historian”, Summer 2016

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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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