er of counterspies. [131] Unfortunately for the Axis, the US continued to work throughout the hostility of counterspies and had success. [Johnson, 123] One critical part of intelligence was to keep the atomic bomb a secret. [Richelson, 134] Not only from the Axis, but Russia was trying to spy on the US’s attempts as well. [134, 135] The FBI and the CIA did much work in the defeat of these spies by arresting them, searching houses for documents and such. [140] This part of the US Espionage was critical for if the Atomic bombs plan were wrecked the war could’ve gone on longer, or if the technology had fallen into the hands of the Axis the war could have turned into a different scenario.Throughout many different other battles the US had information on various military movements of the Axis because of the share of there information with the British. [O’Toole, 392] British intelligence had some information the US did not have against the Axis which proved very useful against their enemies. [393] British intelligence became of much use to the US throughout the world war and they intern continue to give there espionage information to them as well. This boded for a greater advancement in espionage because each of the countries best combined for great possibilities in that field. [395] Again, when USA intelligence ran into some trouble they continue to help with their efforts in winning the war by sharing and receiving information from the British.Perhaps the greatest contributions of the espionage in the USA were when the assault on D-Day took place. A plan finally arose after many days of scheming. [Richelson, 154] It was called JEDBURGH. [154] The plan basically took many three manned teams that would infiltrate the area once the invasion began and started to gather intelligence, while others linked up with the masquisards. [154] They then continued to tell of German military movements, decipher intercepted messages and to...
