Declassified: 50 Top-Secret Documents That Changed History
Washington DC: National Geographic, 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 320 pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Selected Internet Sites. Index. Autographed copy sticker on front of DJ and sticker residue. Inscribed on the title page by the writer of the Foreword Peter Earnest. Inscription reads For Ted w/Best Wishes Peter Earnest. Peter Earnest was an American intelligence officer. He was the first director of the International Spy Museum. This work includes sections on Secrets of War; Double Agents, Turncoats, and Traitors; Counterintelligence: Spy vs. Spy; Bodyguard of Lies; Espionage Accidents; In Defense of the Realm; and The Secret State. Thomas Benton Allen (March 20, 1929 – December 11, 2018) was an American author and historian. While still a teenager he was a cub reporter for the Bridgeport Herald and later served in the US Navy as a journalist. He was a reporter for the New York Daily News and then an editor for Chilton Books of Philadelphia. He joined the National Geographic Society in 1965 and later became Associate Chief Editor. He wrote more than twenty-five books. His first book, Shadows in the Sea, was published in 1963 and his final book was 1789. Many of his books and articles focused on military and intelligence subjects, and in 2004 he was named author of the year by the U.S. Naval Institute “for the sustained high quality of his literary contributions to Naval History magazine.” His writings for National Geographic Magazine included articles on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway, the Eighth Air Force, and the sinking of the USS Maine. Allen had co-authored numerous books with Norman Polmar. He had also written numerous mystery novels. More