Woodward Publishes Review of “The Nazis of Copley Square“
John D. Woodward Jr., Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, published a book review of Charles Gallagher’s The Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front, (Harvard Univ. Press 2021) in the March 2022 edition of the CIA’s Studies in Intelligence journal.
In his review, Woodward credits Gallagher, an associate professor of history at Boston College, with doing groundbreaking work for the field of intelligence studies with this effort. He explains that Gallagher “is the first scholar to document thoroughly the leading role Nazi intelligence and, specifically, SS officer Dr. Herbert Scholz, played in organizing and supporting covert action in Boston.” Woodward goes on to note that Gallagher casts a welcome light on British intelligence operations to counter Nazi efforts in the United States. In his view, Gallagher “has vividly brought to life a little known, largely shameful, and eminently intriguing episode of American history in his latest book.”
The full review can be read on the Studies in Intelligence‘s website.
John D. Woodward, Jr. is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. During his twenty-year CIA career, John served as an operations officer in the Clandestine Service and as a technical intelligence officer in the Directorate of Science and Technology, with assignments in Washington D.C., East Asia, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. His publications include Biometrics: Identity Assurance in the Information Age (McGraw-Hill, 2003) and Army Biometric Applications: Identifying and Addressing Sociocultural Concerns (RAND, 2001). Read more about Professor Woodward on his faculty profile.