Includes bibliographical references.

Was Columbus Jewish? -- Ben Franklin : patriot or spy? -- Who was Agent 355? -- The plot to kidnap Benedict Arnold -- The plot to kidnap George Washington -- George Washington : America's first spymaster -- The Beale treasure : fact or fiction? -- The strange case of Meriwether Lewis -- The case of Aaron Burr -- Zebulon Pike : explorer or spy? -- Secret funds for Texas -- Mutiny on the U.S.S. Somers -- Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings -- Dr. Mudd and the Lincoln assassination -- John Wilkes Booth & the Confederate Secret Service -- Lafayette Baker and the cipher code -- The Baltimore plot -- New York's first terrorist attack -- The 1919 World Series -- What happened to Amelia Earhart? -- The Lindbergh baby kidnaping -- The plot to oust FDR -- JFK and the Nazi spy -- FDR's two spy ships -- The mysterious death of Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. -- Target FDR -- Operation Bodyguard -- The Pearl Harbor attack -- "Papa" was a spy -- What happened to Flight 19? -- The CIA's secret European networks -- Reinhard Gehlen and the CIA -- What happened at Roswell? -- The Venona secrets -- Top hat and fedora -- The plot to kill Fidel Castro -- The Bay of Pigs -- The Kennedy assassination turns 50 -- Bobby and the mob -- Project Azorian, Howard Hughes and the CIA -- Anatoliy Golitsyn : the first "dangle" -- Yuri Nosenko comes calling -- Watergate, the FBI & CIA -- Death on the Chesapeake -- The CIA and Operation Condor -- The strange case of Edwin Wilson -- The fall of Pan Am 103 -- The first World Trade Center attack -- The unmasking of Valerie Plame -- The strange story of Gregory Scarpa Jr. -- Mohammed Atta in Florida.