Espionage and secret services

The world first heard of Klaus Fuchs, the head of theoretical physics at the British Research Establishment at Harwell in February 1950 when he appeared at the Old Bailey, accused of passing secrets to the Soviet Union.

The first book ever written about FBI Director J.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER"e;We Are Bellingcat is Higgins's gripping account of how he reinvented reporting for the internet age .

Richard Norton-Taylor reveals the secrets of his forty-year career as a journalist covering the world of spies and their masters in Whitehall.

It was official.

An innovative history of US intelligence officers on the ground and the first official contacts between the United States and the Chinese Communist PartyFrom 1944 to 1947, the United States planted a liaison mission in the headquarters of Chinese Communist forces behind the lines.

ONE OF THE GREATEST SPY STORIES OF ALL TIME Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.

Treason is the only crime explicitly defined in America's Constitution.

The intelligence failures exposed by the events of 9/11 and the missing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have made one thing perfectly clear: change is needed in how the U.

Spying, the worlds second oldest profession, is hardly limited to the traditional great power countries.

Provides a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of the espionage game in the post-World War II era.

John Lodwick (1916-1959) was one of the great novelists of the early twentieth century.

A groundbreaking book that gathers key wartime intelligence reportsDuring the Second World War, three prominent members of the Frankfurt School-Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer-worked as intelligence analysts for the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime forerunner of the CIA.

"e;I would recommend the book to intelligence practitioners, scholars, and other persons interested in World War II intelligence history.

Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence.

"e;[A] white-knuckle tale"e; of the targeted kill .

The mountain paths are as treacherous as they are steep the more so in the dark and in winter.

This Element unravels the hidden networks, associations and the role of the CIA underpinning African literary publishing in the 1960s.

This is the first work to examine the phenomena of citizen espionage from the point of view of trust betrayal.

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By shifting American security policy away from maximizing military power for the United States and toward maximizing human security for all, policymakers and citizens can also maximize national security for the United States and sustainable peace for the world.

On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer, sipped tea in the upmarket Millennium Mayfair hotel near the American Embassy in London - tea that had been spiked with a rare radioactive isotope called Polonium 210.

'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times'Beautifully written and elegiac .

Handbook of Warning Intelligence: Assessing the Threat to National Security was written during the cold war and was classified for 40 years.

This book is a study of cold war agenda setting in relation to the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg spy case.

This is the history of an unprecedented deception operation - the biggest KGB deception of all time.

Master of Deception is a biography of Peter Fleming, elder brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond.

“This important new book .

For over sixty years the state of Israel has proved adept at practising clandestine diplomacy--about which little is known, as one might expect.

The global history of oil politics, from World War I to the present, can teach us much about world politics, climate change, and international order in the twenty-first century.

In the popular imagination MI5, or the Security Service, is known chiefly as the branch of the British state responsible for chasing down those who endanger national security-from Nazi fifth columnists to Soviet spies and today's domestic extremists.

The purpose of The New Era in U.

This book offers a compelling and comprehensive account of what happened to the KGB when the Soviet Union collapsed and the world's most powerful and dangerous secret police organization was uncloaked.

The real history of MI5.

Based on previously classified documents and on interviews with former secret police officers and ordinary citizens, The Firm is the first comprehensive history of East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, at the grassroots level.

The shocking failure of Israel and the West to suppress Iran despite thirty-years' secret struggleWhile many now fear a looming war with Iran, few know that this war is already raging and has been doing so for the past three decades.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"e;A fast-paced debut.

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in support of a Marxist-Leninist government, and the subsequent nine-year conflict with the indigenous Afghan Mujahedeen was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Cold War.

With the rise of religiously motivated violence and terrorism, governments around the world need to develop their religious and ideological capabilities in parallel with strengthening their law enforcement, military and intelligence capabilities.

There has been a shift in the way that we understand the forces behind imperialism.

This is the first detailed study of Britain's open source intelligence (OSINT) operations during the Second World War, showing how accurate and influential OSINT could be and ultimately how those who analysed this intelligence would shape British post-war policy towards the Soviet Union.

It was the conflict that shocked America and the world, but the struggle for peace is central to the history of the Vietnam War.

Robert Service, world-leading expert in Russian history, presents a fresh portrait of the early years of the Revolution.

A behind-the-scenes account of American foreign policymaking in the late twentieth centuryTom Hughes, assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research, made an ominous prediction in 1965.

A riveting combination of war memoir and analysis providing “valuable insights” into the role of military intelligence in Vietnam (International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence).

China's emergence as a great power in the twenty-first century is strongly enabled by cyberspace.

Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) encompasses the various disciplines of wireless interception, cryptanalysis, communications intelligence, electronic intelligence, direction-finding, and traffic analysis.