A collection of expert articles provides an informative and critical insight into homeland security and the new intelligence community in the post-9/11 environment. Few issues are as important-or as controversial. Homeland Security and Intelligence offers a series of articles written to inform readers about changes in homeland security intelligence, to explain the new structure of the intelligence community (IC), and to enable readers to question the effectiveness of the new intelligence proces...
Meeting the Espionage Challenge
by United States Senate Select Committee on
Constructing Cassandra analyzes the intelligence failures at the CIA that resulted in four key strategic surprises experienced by the US: the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the Iranian revolution of 1978, the collapse of the USSR in 1991, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks—surprises still play out today in U.S. policy. Although there has been no shortage of studies exploring how intelligence failures can happen, none of them have been able to provide a unified understanding of the phenomenon. To cor...
Each year, employee theft and narcotics abuse cost companies billions of dollars in losses, and covert operations can address these problems. This unique guide to an intriguing, lucrative line of work covers infiltrating the workplace, establishing a cover identity and maintaining personal safety. Learn how to negotiate fees with clients, prepare written reports, preserve the confidentiality of the investigation and avoid pitfalls such as entrapment and inadmissible evidence.
Espionage fact and fiction collide in this thrilling compendium of spy writing, where you'll fi nd some of the greatest spy stories ever written alongside genuine agent reports and instructions that changed the course of history - all within one definitive and unique collection. Daring wartime plans devised by Ian Fleming that could have come straight from the pages of a Bond novel are followed by the first appearance of John le Carre's George Smiley. Never-before-published reports from Camb...
Drawing on extensive interviews with Ames' widow and quotes from his private letters, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer presents a brilliant narrative of the making of America's most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East. The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and t...
The Mossad and Other Israeli Spies (Spies Around the World)
by Michael E. Goodman
As part of the infamous Double Cross operation, Jewish double agent Renato Levi proved to be one of the Allies' most devastating weapons in the Second World War. ln 1941, with the help of Ml6, Levi built an extensive spy ring in North Africa and the Middle East. But, most remarkably, it was entirely fictitious. This network of imagined informants peddled dangerously false information to Levi's unwitting German handlers. His efforts would distort any enemy estimates of Allied battle plans for th...
The Haunted Wood (Modern Library)
by Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev
Drawing upon previously secret KGB records released exclusively to Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood reveals for the first time the riveting story of Soviet espionage's "golden age" in the United States, from the 1930s through the early cold war.
Intelligence Studies in Britain and the Us: Historiography Since 1945
The Book the CIA Doesn’t Want You to Read Gary Berntsen, the CIA’s key commander coordinating the fight against the Taliban forces around Kabul, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit—and cornering—of Osama bin Laden, and the reason the terrorist leader escaped American retribution. As disturbingly eye-opening as it is adrenaline-charged, Jawbreaker races from CIA war rooms to diplomatic offices to mountaintop redoubts to paint a vivid portrait of...
Kitne Ghazi Aaye, Kitne Ghazi Gaye
by Lt Gen Kjs 'Tiny' Dhillon (Retd)
From its inception more than half a century ago and for decades afterward, the Central Intelligence Agency was deeply shrouded in secrecy, with little or no real oversight by Congress - or so many Americans believe. David M. Barrett reveals, however, that during the agency's first fifteen years, Congress often monitored the CIA's actions and plans, sometimes aggressively. Drawing on a wealth of newly declassified documents, research at some two dozen archives, and interviews with former official...
A G-Man's Journal reveals the anatomy and drama behind some of the nation's most remarkable investigations, offering an unvarnished look at the FBI's organization and operations. From methodical science to street warfare, Revell describes cases which highlight the bureau's strengths and weaknesses. He gives unabashed treatment to people like J. Edgar Hoover, George Bush, Janet Reno, and Rudolph Giuliani, all of whom he worked with extensively.
Spycraft Manual
by Barry Davies, Oleg Gordievsky, and Richard Tomlinson
The Spycraft Manual is unique. There has never been a book to reveal the secret 'tradecraft' techniques used by spies the world over - until now...The Spycraft Manual is a step-by-step instruction book on the tradecraft and skills that spies use. Each individual subject contains masses of fascinating information, all graphically illustrated with simple black and white line drawings and photographs. From the seven basic drills of agent contact to satellite surveillance, The Spycraft Manual is a p...
Intelligence: The Secret World of Spies--An Anthology, is the most up-to-date reader in intelligence studies. Editors Loch K. Johnson and James J. Wirtz present a diverse, comprehensive, and highly accessible set of thirty-three readings by leading experts in the field. This unique volume features coverage of many topics including methods of intelligence collection, intelligence analysis, the danger of intelligence politicization, relationships between intelligence officers and the policymakers...
President Vladimir Putin is a figure of both fear and fascination in the Western imagination. In the minds of media pundits and commentators, he personifies Russia itself - a country riven with contradictions, enthralling and yet always a threat to world peace. But recent propaganda images that define public debate around growing tensions with Russia are not new or arbitrary. Russia and the Media asks, what is the role of Western journalism in constructing a new kind of Cold War with Russia? Fo...