Camp X
By David Stafford
AN EXTRAORDINARY INSIGHT INTO SPY TRAINING IN NORTH AMERICA DURING WORLD WAR TWO.
Camp X was the first secret agent training camp ever to be built in North America. Established in 1941 on the shores of Lake Ontario by Britain’s Special Operations Executive, it trained dozens of Americans and Canadians in the art of secret war. Camp X recruits learned paramilitary skills, close combat, disguise, secret ciphers, propaganda and undercover operations.
Many of its graduates went on to became secret agents in enemy-occupied Europe and Asia. Others were sent to South or Central America to counter Nazi espionage and subversion against the Allied war effort.
Camp X agents were also entrusted with some of the most sensitive intelligence material to pass between secret services across the Atlantic, using the Camp’s HYDRA radio station.
Based on eyewitness accounts and secret files from London, Washington and Ottawa, the cast of this real-life spy adventure includes Sir William Stephenson (‘Intrepid’), OSS chief ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
It is essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of modern espionage.
‘Required reading for any potential 007.’ Sunday Mirror
‘The course of study at Camp X reads like a James Bond training school.’ Indianapolis Star
’True and fascinating . . . told in vivid detail.’ Stars and Stripes
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