Espionage and secret services

During the Cold War, stories of espionage became popular on both sides of the Iron Curtain, capturing the imagination of readers and filmgoers alike as secret police quietly engaged in surveillance under the shroud of impenetrable secrecy.

A highly valuable resource for students of intelligence studies, strategy and security, and foreign policy, this volume provides readers with an accessible and comprehensive exploration of U.

The Aspin-Brown Commission of 1995-1996, led by former U.

This is an unusual book, telling a story which has hitherto remained hidden from history: the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria.

In A Necessary Engagement, the CIA's former point man on Islam makes a vigorous case for a renewal of American public diplomacy in the Muslim world.

Applicants to the Central Intelligence Agency often asked Edward Mickolus what they might expect in a career there.

The next president of the United States faces innumerable complex problems, from a possible prolonged recession to climate change.

Surprising revelations about the active role of the monarch in British intelligenceThe British Royal Family and the intelligence community are two of the most mysterious and mythologized actors of the British State.

During the Cold War a number of high-ranking Soviet citizens spied for the CIA, providing the United States with valuable information while putting themselves and their families in great danger.

This is one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century.

Mexico City was the Casablanca of the Cold War-a hotbed of spies, revolutionaries, and assassins.

A Classic in CounterintelligenceNow Back in PrintOriginally published in 1987, Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad is a unique primer that teaches the principles, strategy, and tradecraft of counterintelligence (CI).

Security intelligence continues to be of central importance to the contemporary world: individuals, organizations and states all seek timely and actionable intelligence in order to increase their sense of security.

In this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11.

This work examines the philosophical foundations of information ethics and their potential for application to contemporary problems in U.

A New York Times-bestseller from an intelligence insider reveals the "e;fascinating new research"e; revealing Hemingway's hidden life in espionage (New York Review of Books).

This book documents and explains the differences in the ways Americans and Europeans approach the issues of privacy and intelligence gathering.

This book explores contemporary civil-military relations in the United States.

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This is the first book of its kind to employ hundreds of Chinese sources to explain the history and current state of Chinese Communist intelligence operations.

In Cases in Intelligence Analysis, accomplished instructors and intelligence practitioners Sarah Miller Beebe and Randolph H.

Raul Villamia's childhood in Cuba revolved around baseball and bloodshed.

Analyzing Intelligence, now in a revised and extensively updated second edition, assesses the state of the profession of intelligence analysis from the practitioner's point of view.

When considering strategies to address violent conflict, scholars and policymakers debate the wisdom of recognizing versus avoiding reference to ethnic identities in government institutions.

We are living in an age of conspiracy theories, whether it's enduring, widely held beliefs such as government involvement in the Kennedy assassination or alien activity at Roswell, fears of a powerful infiltrating group such as the Illuminati, Jews, Catholics, or communists, or modern fringe movements of varying popularity such as birtherism and trutherism.

In September 2010 the body of Eileen Nearne was found in a flat in Torquay.

In the eighty years since Pearl Harbor, the United States has developed a professional intelligence community that is far more effective than most people acknowledge--in part because only intelligence failures see the light of day, while successful collection and analysis remain secret for decades.

The Central Intelligence Agency is essential in the fight to keep America safe from foreign attacks.

The Central Intelligence Agency is essential in the fight to keep America safe from foreign attacks.

In this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11.

In The Inconvenient Journalist, Dusko Doder, writing with his spouse and journalistic partner Louise Branson, describes how one February night crystalized the values and personal risks that shaped his life.

This book is an edition of the General Report on Tunny with commentary that clarifies the often difficult language of the GRT and fitting it into a variety of contexts arising out of several separate but intersecting story lines, some only implicit in the GRT.

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.

Through every era of American history, New York City has been a battleground for international espionage, where secrets are created, stolen, and passed through clandestine meetings and covert communications.

Explores China''s most famous women warriors and wartime spies, shedding new light on the relationship between gender and militarisation.

As experienced by the United States, competition has played out in three distinct types of threat activity: sabotage (the destruction of capabilities), espionage (the theft of specific capabilities), and defection (the carrying of knowledge out of the country).

The prewar history of the Japanese intelligence community demonstrates how having power over much, but insight into little can have devastating consequences.

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A wide-ranging rethinking of the many factors that comprise the making of American Grand Strategy.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Daniel Golden exposes how academia has become the center of foreign and domestic espionage-and why that is troubling news for our nation's security.

Build a strong foundation on the principles and procedures of modern forensic science.

This book offers a comprehensive review and reassessment of the classical sources describing the cryptographic Spartan device known as the scytale.

The world was at war, America precariously poised on the sidelines.

The universe of actors involved in international cybersecurity includes both state actors and semi- and non-state actors, including technology companies, state-sponsored hackers, and cybercriminals.

The world watched with fear in November 1979, when Iranian students infiltrated and occupied the American embassy in Tehran.

Based primarily upon information from the UK Special Branch Counterterrorism Unit, Policing Terrorism: Research Studies into Police Counterterrorism Investigations takes you through the mechanics of a counterterrorism investigation.

'Canadians are not accustomed to thinking of censorship, secret intelligence, and propaganda as a single entity.

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

THE HIDDEN HAND Since its inception in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency has played an outsized role in the political life of the United States, whether by formulating and implementing policy or by fueling popular culture and imagination.