Lincoln's Spies

[Steve]

(08-02-2019 08:10 PM)L Verge Wrote:  As I posted elsewhere, the book has bios on four spies - Pinkerton (who affected McClellan's military strategy with inflated info), George Sharpe (who was pretty much the father of what we now term military intelligence), Lafayette Baker (an early version of the Gestapo, imo), and Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond.

Laurie, your opinion about Baker makes me think you might want to read this article about Hiram Whitley:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-secret...guantanamo