Category Archives: Espionage

Intelligence (Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies)

Many experts on security intelligence distinguish ‘mysteries’ from ‘secrets’. Mysteries (e.g. can Pakistan survive the threat it faces from the presence of insurgents in its western provinces?) are worldly phenomena that governments may wish to understand, but which are difficult … Continue reading

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Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Intelligence (Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence)

The Historical Dictionary of Middle East Intelligence addresses intelligence issues in the region from ancient history and the Middle Ages through modern times, covering the decline of the Ottoman Empire, intelligence activity in the Middle East during and between the … Continue reading

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Spymaster: My Thirty-two Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West

Oleg Kalugin oversaw the work of American spies, matched wits with the CIA, and became one of the youngest generals in KGB history. Even so, he grew increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet system. In 1990, he went public, exposing the … Continue reading

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Strategic Intelligence: A Handbook for Practitioners, Managers, and Users (Scarecrow Professional Intelligence Education)

The revised edition of Strategic Intelligence: A Handbook for Practitioners, Managers, and Users is a primer for analysts involved in conducting strategic intelligence research. Author Don McDowell begins with an overview of what strategic intelligence and analysis is, the functions … Continue reading

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The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World

“L. Fletcher Prouty is a man whose name will go down in history.”—Oliver Stone The Secret Team, L. Fletcher Prouty’s CIA exposé, was first published in the 1970s, but virtually all copies of the book disappeared upon distribution, purchased en … Continue reading

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Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi’s Spy-Tech World

More fascinating than fiction, Seduced by Secrets takes the reader inside the real world of one of the most effective and feared spy agencies in history. The book reveals, for the first time, the secret technical methods and sources of … Continue reading

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Information and Intelligence (Including Terrorism Fusion Centers)

The value proposition for fusion centres is that by integrating various streams of information and intelligence, including that flowing from the federal government, state, local, and tribal governments, as well as the private sector, a more accurate picture of risks … Continue reading

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Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror

Blowing Up Russia contains the allegations of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko against his former spymasters in Moscow which led to his being murdered in London in November 2006. In the book he and historian Yuri Felshtinsky detail how since 1999 the … Continue reading

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Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics (Cambridge Essential Histories)

Communism was never a popular ideology in America, but the vehemence of American anticommunism varied from passive disdain in the 1920s to fervent hostility in the early years of the Cold War. Nothing so stimulated the white hot anticommunism of … Continue reading

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Dirty Dealing: The Untold Truth about Global Money Laundering, International Crime and Terrorism

Over US $1.5 trillion in “dirty” money is washed and moved around the world every year, much of it by organized crime syndicates grossing more than many developed economies. “Dirty Dealing” exposes the awesome scale and scope of global money … Continue reading

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