Intelligence and National Security. — 2011. — Vol. 26. — p. 46-71. As many unused sources in the Service Historique de la Défense in Vincennes and the Quai d'Orsay in Paris reveal the French Deuxième Bureau, and also naval intelligence, monitored events during the home rule crisis, the Easter Rising, the First World War, the Peace Conference in Paris and the Civil War. Also...
Crux Publishing, 2017. — 491 p. A classic international spy story from true life, this riveting, completely revised and updated edition of Unholy Trinity recounts one of the darkest tales of World War II. Written by the co-authors of The Secret War Against the Jews, it details the Vatican’s espionage alliance with British, French, and American intelligence. Abandoning justice...
Ig Publishing, 2013. — 271 p. A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terror shows how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than fifteen thousand informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate phony terrorist...
The Lyons Press, 2004. — 342 p. International terrorism aimed at American cities did not begin two Septembers ago. In 1942, a team of Nazi saboteurs emerged from a submarine near Amagansett, New York, bearing fake documents and crates of explosives. Chosen for their English language ability and their knowledge of American customs, they were to destroy factories and bomb public...
US Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 289 p. It can be argued that the Middle East during the World War II has been regarded as that conflict's most overlooked theater of operations. Though the threat of direct Axis invasion never materialized beyond the Egyptian Western Desert with Rommel's Afrika Korps, this did not limit the Axis from probing the Middle East and cultivating...
Routledge, 2021. — 208 p. This book reveals how counterterrorism discourses and practices became the main tool of a systematic violation of human rights in Egypt after the Arab Uprising. It examines how the civic and democratic uprising in Egypt turned into robust authoritarianism under the pretence of counterterrorism and the ‘war on terror’. By interrogating Egypt’s...
New Press, 2013. — 304 p. In August 1953, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the next twenty-six years, the United States backed the unpopular, authoritarian shah and his secret police; in exchange, it reaped a share of Iran’s oil wealth and...
University Press of Kentucky, 2012. — 224 р. Above the politics and ideological battles of Washington, D.C., is a committee that meets behind locked doors and leaves its paper trail in classified files. The President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) is one of the most secretive and potentially influential segments of the U.S. intelligence community. Established in 1956, the...
Jist Works, 2002. — 275 p. The definitive guide to acing the FBI's rigorous selection process-for special agents as well as professional support personnel. Part. FBI Basics The History and Organization of the FBI Salary and Benefits Part. Getting into the FBI FBI Special Agent Career Opportunities The Special Agent Hiring Process Professional Support Career Opportunities The...
Routledge, 2010. — 368 p. The tools of American statecraft―defense, diplomacy, foreign and security assistance, homeland security and intelligence―are rarely examined together. Adams and Williams fill this gap by examining how these tools work, how they are planned for, and how they are budgeted. Seeing policy through the lens of the budget can help decision makers and ordinary...
Endeavour Press, 2016. — 420 p. Special forces are in the vanguard of modern warfare. The names of their battlegrounds are familiar. Vietnam. Mogadishu. Kabul. The Iranian Embassy. Banjul. The Falklands. Grenada. Surgical strike or counter-terrorist operation, training guerrillas or quashing coups, time has proven that even the smallest number of these highly-trained operatives...
Lume Books, 2017. — 305 p. The most important recruit to the KGB since Kim Philby. Aldrich Ames was a downwardly mobile CIA officer with a serious inferiority complex, and an even more serious drink problem. But his betrayal would make him a multimillionaire, cause the death of at least ten of America’s best agents, and single-handedly destroy a superpower’s Cold War...
Endeavour Media, 2017. — 433 p. The end of the Cold War threw the world’s intelligence agencies into turmoil. Post Ames, the old security of a superpower confrontation had vanished and with the new world order came a search for a new identity and purpose for the global intelligence community. At stake was a $50 billion international industry employing a million people. With...
Routledge, 2014. — 179 p. Strategic Intelligence in the Cold War and Beyond looks at the many events, personalities, and controversies in the field of intelligence and espionage since the end of World War II. A crucial but often neglected topic, strategic intelligence took on added significance during the protracted struggle of the Cold War. In this accessible volume, Jefferson...
Kent State University Press, 2013. — 382 p. An expert dissection of the crime, its witnesses, and Washington's shifting goals. Murder and Martial Justice is a good murder mystery, based on a solid examination of the various contradictions and irritating bureaucratic villains."—Arnold Krammer, author of Nazi Prisoners of War in America and Undue Process: The Untold Story of...
Steerforth Press, 2020. — 295 p. In vibrant, engaging prose, this memoir from inside the belly of US intelligence operations reveals what fundamentally went wrong for the US and its allies, and why the Vietnam War was never "winnable." A cautionary tale about the perils of politicizing and manipulating honest intelligence. For political reasons, the Johnson and Nixon...
Westview Press, 1984. — 295 p. From the Great Purges in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s to the bloody elite purges in Eastern Europe in the late 1940s and early 1950s to the mass terrorism in Cambodia in the middle 1970s, the role of terror and the secret police in Communist politics has been powerful and highly visible. This book reviews the surprisingly sparse literature...
Robert Laffont, 2017. — 304 p. Au terme de cinq années d'enquête entre Paris, Washington, Moscou et Tel-Aviv, la journaliste Chloé Aeberhardt a retrouvé la trace des espionnes des principaux services de renseignement engagés dans la guerre froide. Ces retraités de la CIA, du KGB, du MI5, de la DST ou du Mossad l'ont reçue chez elles et lui ont raconté le rôle décisif qu'elles...
Belknap Press, 2020. — 384 p. The untold story of how Russian espionage in imperial China shaped the emergence of the Russian Empire as a global power. From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire made concerted efforts to collect information about China. It bribed Chinese porcelain-makers to give up trade secrets, sent Buddhist monks to Mongolia on...
Dorset Press, 1978. — 319 p. You won't like knowing what the US government has been doing with your tax dollars in other countries. The agency appears to be a serial violator of human rights around the world including inside America itself. The books shows everyone how to identify CIA operatives in Western Europe countries embassy staff, what they do, how they do it, and why it...
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Movilidad Humana, 2014. — 108 p. Philip Burnett Franklin Agee was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer and writer of the 1975 book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, detailing his experiences in the CIA. Agee joined the CIA in 1957, and over the following decade had postings in Washington, D.C., Ecuador, Uruguay and Mexico. After...
Movimiento Segunda Independencia, 1978. — 172 p. El celebérrimo libro de Philip Agee (1935-2008) es una reconstrucción de lo que fueron los años que pasó dentro de la cuestionada Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA) (1957–1968): los períodos de reclutamiento, de riguroso entrenamiento y de asignación como oficial de operaciones en tres países latinoamericanos para...
Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1975. — 572 p. Not light entertainment but a serious history loaded with detail about CIA operations, strategies, and methods that most Americans never knew were being used in their name. It covers more about covert action in Latin American countries and their leaders than you will ever learn from history books. The book is structured like a personal...
Globe Pequot, 2012. — 182 p. As the Civil War ground on, an underground Unionist movement flourished in the heart of the Confederacy, led by an unlikely leader. Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy and well connected member of Richmond's elite, risked everything to help save the Union, skillfully directing this clandestine group and becoming General Ulysses S. Grant's spy in Richmond....
Dodd Mead, 1985. — 165 p. Easy to read and follow, Mr. Agoston guides you through what happened at the finish of World War II that cost the USA some potentially valuable secrets from Hitler's secret weapons programs. I found the story of what happened with Dr. Voss just missing alerting the US special forces in time to prevent the loss of truckloads of secrets going to the...
Routledge, 2018. — 359 p. This book is a critical exploration of the war on terror from the prism of armed drones and globalization. It is particularly focused on the United States’ use of the drones, and the systemic dysfunctions that globalization has caused to international political economy and national security, creating backlash in which the desirability of globalization...
The University Press of Kentucky, 2009. — 476 p. Vietnam Declassified is a detailed account of the CIA's effort to help South Vietnamese authorities win the loyalty of the Vietnamese peasantry and suppress the Viet Cong. Covering the CIA engagement from 1954 to mid-1972, it provides a thorough analysis of the agency and its partners. Retired CIA operative and intelligence...
Bloomsbury Press, 2012. — 272 p. The United States intelligence establishment is a colossus. With stations in 170 countries, armed with cutting-edge surveillance gear, high-tech weapons, and fleets of armed and unarmed drone aircraft, it commands the most extensive and advanced intel force in history. But America's spy establishment still struggles to keep pace with a host of...
Bloomsbury Press, 2009. — 432 p. In the first complete history of the National Security Agency, America’s most powerful and secretive intelligence organization. In February 2006, while researching this book, Matthew Aid uncovered a massive and secret document reclassification program—a revelation that made the front page of the New York Times. This was only one of the discoveries...
Intelligence and National Security. — 2002. — Vol. 17. — p. 17-86. Much has already been written about the September 1944 evacuation of the Finnish intelligence service to Sweden, which was designated Operation ‘Stella Polaris’. Newly declassified intelligence documents found at the US National Archives provide a fresh perspective on the role of the American wartime foreign...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 176 p. Drawing together hundreds of images, Hitler's Sky Warriors presents a unique examination of the German airborned soldier in World War II. Comprehensive and authoritative, it includes chapters on the corps's recruitment and training, its specialized equipment, its operation in the Low Countries in 1940, its seizure of Crete in 1941, and its...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 288 p. It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies identified and then relegated to the footnotes of history. If even the espionage carried out by Susan Hyde, sister of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, during the turbulent decades of...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 288 p. It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies identified and then relegated to the footnotes of history. If even the espionage carried out by Susan Hyde, sister of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, during the turbulent decades of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 452 p. This book is a comparative study of terrorism and counterterrorism in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. It explores the history and contemporary developments of terrorism, especially Islamist terrorism, in these two Sunni Muslim-majority countries. In doing so, it analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of governments’ policies, strategies, and models...
Northeastern University, 2015. — 291 p. This dissertation explores Western intelligence services' early Cold War employment of former Nazi officers and collaborators who planned and participated in the wartime occupation of Soviet territories. In the early Cold War, Western intelligence agencies actively recruited individuals with clear records of hate-based politics, ethnic...
Trine Day, 2011. — 856 p. Following nearly a decade of research, this account solves the mysterious death of biochemist Frank Olson, revealing the identities of his murderers in shocking detail. It offers a unique and unprecedented look into the backgrounds of many former CIA, FBI, and Federal Narcotics Bureau officials, including several who actually oversaw the CIA’s...
Trine Day, 2011. — 856 p. Following nearly a decade of research, this account solves the mysterious death of biochemist Frank Olson, revealing the identities of his murderers in shocking detail. It offers a unique and unprecedented look into the backgrounds of many former CIA, FBI, and Federal Narcotics Bureau officials, including several who actually oversaw the CIA’s...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2021. — 720 p. The CIA, Dallas, and the Hard Details of the JFK Assassination. Coup in Dallas leaves speculation and theory aside to give the hard details of who killed President John F. Kennedy and how the assassination plot was carried out. Through exhaustive research and newly translated documents, author H. P. Albarelli uncovers and explains the...
Le Seuil, 2019. — 448 p. Trois historiens, spécialistes de la Résistance, ont décidé de conjuguer leurs expertises, de croiser leurs regards, de se soumettre à une critique réciproque et exigeante. S’appuyant sur une abondante littérature, les auteurs se sont attachés à dérouler un récit qui prend parfois à rebours, comme dans le cas de la mémoire de la Résistance, les thèses...
Times Books, 1997. — 432 p. Ted Hall was a physics prodigy so gifted that he was asked to join the Manhattan Project when he was only eighteen years old. There, in wartime Los Alamos, working under Robert Oppenheimer and Bruno Rossi, Hall helped build the atomic bomb. To his friends and coworkers he was a brilliant young rebel with a boundless future in atomic science. To his...
Routledge, 1992. — 361 p. The Cold War is often considered to be the quintessential intelligence conflict. Yet secret intelligence remains the `missing dimension' of Britain's Cold War history. This volume offers an authoritative picture of Britain's clandestine role in the development of the Cold War focusing upon the key issues of intelligence and strategy.
Overlook Books, 2002. — 765 p. Paranoia with respect to Russia raged in the wake of World War II, just as Churchill had foreseen: fear of a "nuclear Pearl Harbor" and the growing challenge of political stability in Europe gripped the Western world. The advent of new and terrifying weapons of war and annihilation-atomic bombs, biological and chemical weapons, and...
Routledge, 2020. — 679 p. — Second edition. The second edition of Secret Intelligence: A Reader brings together key essays from the field of intelligence studies, blending classic works on concepts and approaches with more recent essays dealing with current issues and ongoing debates about the future of intelligence. Secret intelligence has never enjoyed a higher profile. The...
Edinburgh University Press, 2015. — 456 p. For more than half a century, the Joint Intelligence Committee or ‘JIC’ has been a central component of the British Government’s secret machinery. It represents the highest authority in the world of intelligence and acts as a broker between the spy and the policy-maker. From WWII to the War in Iraq, and from the Falklands to the IRA,...
Routledge, 2000. — 307 p. A range of clandestine Cold War activities in Asia, from Western Special Services intelligence and propaganda to special operations and security support from 1945 to 1965, is examined here. The contributions draw on newly-opened archives and a two-day conference on the subject.
William Collins, 2016. — 624 p. The Black Door’ explores the evolving relationship between successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquith’s Secret Service Bureau to Cameron’s National Security Council. At the beginning of the 20th Century the British intelligence system was underfunded and lacked influence in government. But as the new millennium...
Atlantic Books, 2021. — 288 p. For the first time, The Secret Royals uncovers the remarkable relationship between the Royal Family and the intelligence community, from the reign of Queen Victoria to the death of Princess Diana. In an enthralling narrative, Richard J. Aldrich and Rory Cormac show how the British secret services grew out of persistent attempts to assassinate...
Routledge, 1998. — 320 p. Little attention has been paid to the murky, ultra-business of gathering intelligence among and forming estimates about friendly powers, and friendly or allied military forces. How rarely have scholars troubled to discover when states entered into coalitions or alliances mainly and explicitly because their intelligence evaluation of the potential...
Hotei Publishing, 2003. — 808 p. The United Kingdom provides a useful model of the effectiveness of counter-terrorism responses in that the same measures were applied to both international and domestic terrorism with differing results. The United Kingdom’s legal responses to the challenge of terrorism constitutes a substantial and far ranging body of executive and legislative...
Praeger, 2007. — 1451 p. Including many older documents not available electronically or otherwise accessible, this three-volume set provides the first comprehensive collection of key documents, statements, and testimony on U.S. government counterterrorism policies as they have evolved in the face of the changing terrorist threats. Selected executive and congressional materials...