Espionage and secret services

In a surprising number of espionage cases sex has played a significant role_often only in the background_possibly as a reason why a particular individual has lived beyond his means and is in desperate need of cash.

The revised edition of Strategic Intelligence: A Handbook for Practitioners, Managers, and Users is a primer for analysts involved in conducting strategic intelligence research.

Since 9/11, the profession of intelligence has come under increased scrutiny.

From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a century.

This book provides an analytic framework for understanding the ''intelligence community'' and assessing its value.

This book emphasizes how much the analysis of terrorism has changed in the past two decades.

This book, first published in 2006, is a review of the major spy cases of the early Cold War.

Gregory Treverton, former US National Intelligence council head, demonstrates how government intelligence must change.

Cyber attacks are a real threat to our country.

This in-depth analysis shows how the high stakes contest surrounding open source information is forcing significant reform within the U.

With the end of the Cold War and the dawning of a new century, the U.

One of the hallmarks of the Soviet system was its heavy reliance on internal and foreign security and intelligence organizations.

This book offers a vast conceptual and theoretical exploration of the ways intelligence analysis must change in order to succeed against today's most dangerous combatants and most complex irregular theatres of conflict.

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

Everybody spied on everybody else during the Cold War.

How can the United States guard against a clever unknown enemy while still preserving the freedoms it holds dear?

Created in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency plays an important part in the nation's intelligence activities, and is currently playing a vital role in the war on terrorism.

This is the first major study based on Soviet documents and revelations of the Soviet state security during the period 1939-1953-a period about which relatively little is known.

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

It was official.

This book is the first account of the personal lives of the nearly 1,000 long-term political prisoners arrested under various sedition laws for their opposition to World War I, their trade union activities, or their unpopular political or religious beliefs.

When British troops first deployed to Northern Ireland in 1969, to halt the threat of a new rising force - the Provisional Irish Republican Army - they could not have known that the longest campaign in the British Army's history was beginning.

In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek - the head of China's military academy and leader of the Kuomintang (KMT) - began the `northern expeditions' to bring China's northern territories back under the control of the state.

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.

Today's intelligence community faces challenges that would have been inconceivable only a dozen years ago.

Words of Intelligence: An Intelligence Professionals Lexicon for Domestic and Foreign Threats is intended for the intelligence and national security men and women at the federal, state, and local levels.

Bruce Riedel provides new perspective and insights into Kennedy's forgotten crisis in the most dangerous days of the cold war.

COINTELPRO.

Seit Juni 2013 hat der US-Geheimdienstmitarbeiter Edward Snowden aufgedeckt, dass die US-Sicherheitsbehörde NSA die Gesamtbevölkerung des Globus geheim überwacht.