CONTENTS CHAPTER 1UNDER COVER AND UNDER FIRE CHAPTER 2 WHY SPIES CHAPTER 3 SPY SCHOOL CHAPTER 4 THE RIGHT TOOLS FOR THE JOB CHAPTER 5 THE MISSIONS CHAPTER 6 DOUBLE AGENTS AND SABOTEURS CHAPTER 17 CODES DUMMIES AND DECEPTIONS CHAPTER 8 WINNING THE WAR 88 100 TIMELINE ESSENTIAL FACTS GLOSSARY ADDITIONAL RESOURCES SOURCE NOTES 102 106 INDEX 110 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 112
Allied troops wade ashore during the D Day landings on June 6
CHAPTE UNDER COVER AND UNDER FIRE It was the spring of 1944 and the German army controlled France The Allied forces were planning what would become the D Day invasion of Normandy France for June of that year One of the keys to their success would be accurate intelligence about the Germans The Allies wanted to know about the Germans weapons their troop positions and anything else that would help prepare for a successful invasion René Joyeuse who was born in Switzerland worked as a spy for the Allies That spring the Office of Strategic Services OSS a US intelligence organization secretly sent Joyeuse to France He parachuted into France and lived in an abandoned farmhouse where he could begin to observe and report back to the Allies on German activities With the help of the French Resistance a group
