Soldiers, spies, and the rat line : America's undeclared war against the Soviets

After Germanys surrender in World War II, Jim Milano, a young U.S. army intelligence officer, led a small, independent group of soldiers charged with carrying out some of the first intelligence efforts of the postwar era. Inventing the techniques of Cold War espionage for themselves and improvising unorthodox methods, the major and his creative cohorts confounded Soviet forces and created escape routes for defectors. In the pages of Milanos fascinating memoir you'll find the shadowy world populated by spies, prostitutes, refugees, scoundrels, and heroes comes alive. In the fall of 1948, a dilapidated Italian freighter made the long, slow voyage from Genoa in Italy to Valparaiso in Chile.