![]() There is also a family full of spies, some on one side, some on the other. There are spies, moles, double agents, and even a suspected triple agent. Others appear in paragraphs that require a re-read to sort out who is spying or counter-spying on whom and which side each one is on. Nagy’s scrupulous research has unearthed “hundreds of spies who went behind enemy lines to gather intelligence.” Not all of them in this book, but there are so many that some vanish from the narrative and hide out in long endnotes. ![]() He looks beyond episodes of spycraft to seek out and appraise the roles of intelligence and counterintelligence in a long war that had few American military victories. The Culper Spy Ring, portrayed on TV as the supreme espionage organization of the war, for example, was Washington’s “fourth and overcredited spy ring,” Nagy writes. Nagy has performed a public service by showing that spying during the Revolutionary War was not as thrilling - or as visible - as it is depicted in fiction. In George Washington’s Secret Spy War, John A. ![]()
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