Espionage

Download Intelligence Power in Peace and War by Michael Herman PDF

By Michael Herman

Intelligence prone shape an enormous yet debatable a part of the fashionable nation. Drawing almost always on British and American examples, this e-book presents an analytic framework for knowing the ''intelligence community'' and assessing its worth. Michael Herman, a former senior British Intelligence officer, describes many of the parts of intelligence; discusses what intelligence is for; considers problems with accuracy, evaluate and potency; and makes suggestions for the way forward for intelligence within the post-Cold warfare global.

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Download The Wizards Of Langley: Inside The Cia's Directorate Of by Jeffrey T. Richelson PDF

By Jeffrey T. Richelson

Book Details:

ISBN: 0813340594
EAN: 9780813340593
ASIN: 0813340594
Publisher: simple Books
Publication Date: 2002-12-05
Number of Pages: 416
Website: Amazon, LibraryThing, Google Books, Goodreads

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In this, the 1st full-length research of the Directorate of technology and expertise, Jeffrey T. Richelson walks us down the corridors of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and during the 4 a long time of technology, scientists, and executives that produced the CIA we now have this present day. He tells a narrative of fantastic technological innovation in carrier of intelligence amassing, of sour bureaucratic infighting, and infrequently, as in terms of its “mind-control" event, of gorgeous ethical failure. according to unique interviews and vast archival study, The Wizards of Langley turns a piercing lamp on a number of the agency's actions, many by no means prior to made public.

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Download The Warsaw Document (Quiller, Book 4) by Adam Hall PDF

By Adam Hall

The Quiller sequence specializes in a solitary, hugely able undercover agent (named after Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch) who works (generally on my own) for a central authority bureau that "doesn't exist" and narrates his personal adventures. Quiller (not his genuine identify) occupies a literary heart floor among James Bondand John le Carré. he's a talented motive force, pilot, diver, and linguist, yet doesn't hold a gun.

The sequence is particularly stylized, that includes extreme depictions of secret agent tradecraft relationships, brilliant leap cuts among chapters, and deep, occasionally self-pitying inside monologues. the 1st of the Quiller novels, The Berlin Memorandum (1965) (retitled The Quiller Memorandum within the US) received an Edgar Award, from the secret Writers of the USA, for top Novel. It was once filmed in 1966 less than its US identify with a screenplay via Harold Pinter and starred George Segal and Alec Guinness. It used to be additionally tailored right into a 1975 British tv sequence, that includes Michael Jayston.

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Download Three Tales from the Laundry Files by Charles Stross PDF

By Charles Stross

Get pleasure from brief tales and a novella from the Laundry records. initially released on Tor.com, those tales via Charles Stross proceed the adventures of the Laundry, a mystery department of the British executive devoted to monitoring down and containing breaches of truth via occult and otherworldly threats.

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Equoid
The "Laundry" is Britain's super-secret supplier dedicated to preserving the area from the supernatural horrors that risk it. Now Bob Howard, Laundry agent, needs to go back and forth to the quiet English geographical region to accommodate a deadly disease of 1 of the worst horrors conceivable. For, because it seems, unicorns are actual. They're additionally starving killers from past spacetime...

Down at the Farm
Laundry veteran Bob Howard needs to examine unusual doings at one other vague, moth-eaten govt organization — obviously a relaxation domestic for washing brokers whose minds have snapped…

Overtime
The Laundry is on a skeleton employees for Christmas—leaving one bureaucrat to be all that stands among the realm and annihilation by means of the article That Comes Down Chimneys. Written in particular for Tor.com's vacation season, Charles Stross's novelette is a finalist for the 2010 Hugo Award.

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Download The Human Factor by Graham Greene PDF

By Graham Greene

A morally complicated and mature paintings from a latest master

during this later novel via Graham Greene— that includes a brand new introduction—the writer keeps to discover ethical and theological dilemmas via psychologically astute personality reports and fascinating drama on a global degree. In The Human Factor A excessive- point operative of the British mystery carrier acts as a double agent to profit his kin.

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Download The Wolf and the Watchman: A CIA Childhood by Scott C. Johnson PDF

By Scott C. Johnson

What occurs whilst a father asks his son to lie for the higher good?

turning out to be up, Scott Johnson continually suspected that his dad was once assorted. merely as did he become aware of the reality: his father used to be a undercover agent, one of many CIA's so much relied on officials. And, as Scott got here to understand, his father have been residing a double existence for therefore lengthy that his lies have been challenging to split from the truth.

while an grownup Scott launched into a profession as a battle correspondent, he chanced on himself returning to some of the bothered international locations of his formative years. within the dusty streets of Pakistan and Afghanistan, amid the chilly urbanity of Yugoslavia, and down the mysterious alleys of Mexico urban, he got here head to head along with his father's murky prior — and his personal complicity in it.

The Wolf and the Watchman is a provocative, meditative looking on fact, deception, and manipulation, and the fidelities we owe to ourselves and to our households. it's also an intensely own tale of a bond among father and son that persisted within the shadow of 1 of the world's such a lot secretive and unforgiving associations.

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Download Second Sight (Paul Christopher, Book 5) by Charles McCarry PDF

By Charles McCarry

Considering his reemergence with the book of outdated Boys, Charles McCarry has been heralded as one of many pick out few espionage novelists who manages to wreck out of his style to polish as an excellent and precise novelist. moment Sight is 7th within the sequence that follows the mythical secret agent Paul Christopher--a guy ensnared by means of a line of labor that by no means did not exert its insidious effect outdoors expert obstacles. Now retired and dwelling the quiet existence as a loving husband in Washington, D.C., Christopher has survived battlefields of global warfare II, undercover chilly warfare killing grounds, and imprisonment in China. yet now, through the Arab global, U.S. brokers are being abducted and brain-drained via an unidentified enemy armed with a diabolical new drug. Christopher's outdated buddy and greater in "the Outfit" calls with a command he feels he needs to obey. yet what starts off for Christopher as a world manhunt quickly becomes anything some distance toward domestic. For the main to the risk he needs to defuse is a mystery buried deep in his personal perilous earlier. In a wide ranging, nerve-twisting plot that spins its approach from pre-Nazi Germany to Vietnam, via amorous affairs and murders, previous ratings must be settled, grim reckonings has to be made. And on the apex of suspense, an exquisite, surprisingly proficient Berber lady reappears like a half-forgotten reminiscence, maintaining the longer term in her mind's eye and Paul Christopher's destiny in her fingers. McCarry's mastery is unrivaled as he weaves earlier and current jointly during this world-spanning mystery, transporting the reader into the minds of these who paintings, stay and love inside of an international of secrets.

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Download Le Pacte Holcroft by Robert Ludlum PDF

By Robert Ludlum

L'enjeu du " Pacte Holcroft ", c'est l. a. coquette somme de seven-hundred thousands
de funds, déposée en 1945 dans une banque suisse par trois nazis
repentis : les généraux Clausen, von Tiebolt et Kessler.L'argent est destiné à leurs descendants, afin qu'ils l'utilisent en dédommagement des crimes de Hitler contre l'humanité. C'est
ainsi qu'un beau matin Noël Holcroft, le fils de Clausen, reçoit une
lettre écrite quarante ans après l'effondrement du IIIe Reich. S'il veut
blanchir son père, Holcroft doit retrouver les enfants de von Tiebolt
et de Kessler et, avec eux, signer le Pacte. Le rendez-vous est
fixé à Genève. Mais les institutions néonazies et les prone secrets and techniques
anglais, américains, israéliens ne l'entendent pas ainsi...

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Download Funeral in Berlin (Secret Files) by Len Deighton PDF

By Len Deighton

In Berlin, the place neither aspect of the wall is secure, Colonel Stok of crimson military defense is ready to promote a big Russian scientist to the West--for a price.
British intelligence is prepared to pay, delivering its personal most sensible undercover agent is in Berlin to behave as go-between. however it quickly turns into obvious that at the back of the facade of an complex mock funeral lies a video game of lethal maneuvers and ruthless strategies. A video game during which the bloodstained legacy of Nazi Germany is enmeshed within the complex strikes of chilly struggle espionage…

Review
“A ferociously cool fable.” --The long island Times

“A so much awesome ebook, a chronicle of 1 unhappy element of our occasions, within which the strain, extra like a prolonged discomfort than a pointy stab of ache, by no means we could go.” --Evening Standard

“Funeral in Berlin is splendid.” --Daily Telegraph
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'Brilliant, vivid and wicked' - Vogue

'A so much amazing publication in whivh the stress, extra like a prolonged soreness than a pointy stab of ache, by no means we could go' - The Standard

'A ferociously cool delusion, even larger than The undercover agent Who got here In From, the Cold' - big apple TIMES

'Funerial in Berlin... is splendid' - day-by-day TELEGRAPH

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