Introduction: The peril of disbelief
The Revolutionary War : Espionage and the Revolutionary War ; The first spy: Benjamin Church ; The undetected spy: Edward Bancroft ; The treasonous spy: Benedict Arnold
The Civil War : Espionage and the Civil War ; Allan Pinkerton and Union counterintelligence ; The chameleon spy: Timothy Webster ; The spy in the Union capital: Rose Greenhow ; The counterspy as tyrant: Lafayette Baker ; The Confederacy's reverend spy: Thomas Conrad ; Union espionage
Espionage During the World Wars, 1914-45 : Espionage before World War I ; Prelude to war: Germany's first spy network ; U.S. counterespionage and World War I ; Spy hysteria between the world wars ; German espionage in World War II ; The spy in U.S. industry: the Norden bombsight ; The double agent: William Sebold ; German intelligence failures in World War II ; The spy in the State Department: Tyler Kent ; Japanese espionage in World War II
The golden age of Soviet espionage: the 1930s and 1940s : The origins of Cold War espionage ; America's counterespionage weapon: Venona ; The golden age exposed: Igor Gouzenko ; The "Red Spy Queen" : Elizabeth Bentley ; Spy versus spy: Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss ; The spy in the Treasury: Harry Dexter White ; The spy in the White House: Lauchlin Currie ; The spy in U.S. counterespionage: Judith Coplon
The atomic bomb spies: prelude to the Cold War : The atomic bomb spies ; The executed spies: the Rosenbergs ; The atomic bomb spy who got away: Theodore Hall ; The spy from the cornfields: George Koval
Espionage in the Cold War and beyond.