I've heard of the 2nd Intrepid book, but have not read it. Just finished "The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington", by Jennet Conant. She straightens out Stevenson's earlier version of the map (photo shown in "A Man Called Intrepid" of a map that was "taken from a German agent"): "On this occasion, Stephenson may have outdone himself, passing the forgery on to Donovan who gave it to Roosevelt." All in the good cause of trying to get us into the war sooner, or at least more prepared for war--which I indeed believe was a good cause.
The Canadians nearly blew it with Gouzenko. The Russians almost got him before he got away. But he gave us one of the first big breaks against them in the Cold War.
The CIA was one of the few agencies in the US government that stood up to McCarthy. While there certainly was a Communist threat at that time, most of what he did was shameful.
