Camp X - OSS, "Intrepid," and the Allies' North American Training Camp for Secret Agents 1sr Ed Camp X was the first secret agent training camp ever to be built in North America. Established early in the Second World War by Britain's Special Operations Executive David Stafford is the author of several widely acclaimed books on intelligence history including Churchill and Secret Service, Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets, Secret Agent: the true story of the Special Operations Executive, Spies Beneath Berlin, and Mission Accomplished, the official history of SOE in Italy 1943-1945. For many years the Project Director at the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars at the University of Edinburgh, he now lives in Canada. Top of dust jacket has a small chip, spine is still stiff, some discoloration on the bottom of closed pages.