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History Detectives | Spybook | PBS

Duration: 18:34
Program: History Detectives #804
Broadcast Date: Jul. 12, 2010

Our contributor thinks his great-grandfather was a World War I spy, he has a notebook he believes details the investigations. Inside the book are typed entries and handwritten notes. Who was John H. Brady and is this his spybook? History Detectives tracks down the secrets of this mysterious little black book.

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