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Howard Blum illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America's history as he chronicles the…
true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence mission and two remarkable agents whose story has been called "the greatest secret of the Cold War." 2018.CIA spymaster: Kisevalter, The Agency's Top Case Officer Who Handled Penkovsky And Popov
Par Clarence Ashley. 2004
George Kisevalter, born in Tsarist Russia, was a top case officer for the CIA, best known for working with two…
highly placed Soviet moles, Popov and Penkovsky. Popov provided the first serious look at the inner workings of Soviet Military Intelligence, while Penkovsky delivered reams of documents - information that was later used in America's response to the Cuban Missile Crisis. 2004.Healing the eye the natural way: alternative medicine and macular degeneration
Par Edward Kondrot. 2000
A look at how to heal and care for your eyes with nutrition, vitamin therapy, mineral therapy, homeopathy, microcurrent stimulation,…
and chelation therapy. Includes exercises and tips for everyday living. 2001.Glaucoma: a patient's guide to the disease, fourth edition
Par Graham E Trope. 2011
Escape into espionage: the true story of a French patriot in World War Two
Par Roland Rieul. 1987
Beginning in 1940, a French sergeant attempted to escape from stalags and work camps. When he finally succeeded in escaping…
the Germans, he volunteered to spy for the British. 1987. Uniform title: Soldier into spyCurveball: spies, lies, and the con man who caused a war
Par Bob Drogin. 2007
Investigates CIA reliance on unverified information from Ahmed Hassan Mohammed, "Curveball," an Iraqi chemical engineer who sought political asylum in…
Germany in 1999. Examines the discovery, during interrogations that occurred after the invasion of Iraq, that the defector's pre-war tales of Saddam's mobile weapons of mass destruction were fabricated. c2007.Covert entry: spies, lies and crimes inside Canada's secret service
Par Andrew Mitrovica. 2002
John Farrell, once a dedicated CSIS operative, believed in the service's "Ways and Means Act": If you have a way…
to get things done, the means - legal or not - are justified. Breaking the silence surrounding CSIS, he describes its leadership, day-to-day operations, and major cases, to provide Canadians with a clearer understanding of what often takes place in the name of national security. He reveals a portrait of incompetence, venality, and law breaking, and shatters the myth that CSIS respects the rights and liberties it is charged with protecting. 2002.Coping with glaucoma: A Guide To Living With Glaucoma For You And Your Family
Par Edith Marks, Rita Montauredes. 1997
By way of deception
Par Victor Ostrovsky, Claire Hoy. 1990
As a junior officer with the Mossad, Israel's security organization, Ostrovsky had extraordinary access to its files. At first elated…
at the privilege of joining the Mossad, Ostrovsky's experiences convinced him that it had betrayed the trust of Israel. Bestseller 1990. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 1991, c1990.Blind vision: the neuroscience of visual impairment
Par Zaira Cattaneo, Tomaso Vecchi. 2011
Italian researchers examine the effects of blindness on the development and functioning of the human cognitive system. They demonstrate the…
ways other senses evolve to help compensate for the absence of sight. 2011.America's Great Game: the CIA's secret Arabists and the shaping of the modern Middle East
Par Hugh Wilford. 2013
Wilford reveals the surprising history of the CIA's pro-Arab operations in the 1940s and 50s by tracing the work of…
the agency's three most influential officers in the Middle East. Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt was the grandson of Theodore Roosevelt and the first head of CIA covert action in the region; his cousin, Archie Roosevelt, was a Middle East scholar and chief of the Beirut station ; Miles Copeland was a maverick covert operations specialist who had joined the American intelligence establishment during World War II. These "Arabists" propped up authoritarian regimes, attempted secretly to sway public opinion in America against support for the new state of Israel, and staged coups that irrevocably destabilized the nations with which they empathized. 2013.Aliments pour les yeux: un programme alimentaire pour des yeux en santé
Par Laurie Capogna, Barbara Pelletier. 2011
Dr. Laurie Capogna et Dr. Barbara Pelletier ont élaboré un guide pour améliorer la santé oculaire et prévenir, ralentir ou…
supprimer les maladies oculaires les plus communes. Muni des derniers résultats scientifiques, de conseils pratiques, d’idées de repas et de recettes… c’est un guide complet, facile à suivre sur la science et la sante. c2011.Les années Condor: comment Pinochet et ses alliés ont propagé le terrorisme sur trois continents ((La découverte poche ; 280. Essais))
Par John Dinges, Isabelle Taudière. 2008
"Les années Condor raconte l'histoire secrète des "sales guerres" conduites par les dictatures latino-américaines alliées des États-Unis, au cours des…
années 1970 et 1980. Pendant plus de dix ans, six gouvernements ont mené de concert des actions clandestines contre leurs opposants, enlevant et assassinant plus de 30 000 personnes. À l'initiative du président chilien Augusto Pinochet, et avec le soutien de la CIA, ils ont mis sur pied une organisation terroriste internationale, l'opération Condor, pour liquider les opposants qui s'étaient réfugiés dans d'autres pays latino-américains, en Europe ou aux États-Unis. Le journaliste américain John Dinges fait ici le récit de cette histoire effroyable, fruit d'une enquête de plusieurs années, nourrie de nombreux témoignages, de documents secrets américains déclassifiés et des archives des dictatures elles-mêmes. Il révèle l'ampleur de la complicité de Washington dans les crimes de dictateurs pour lesquels les États-Unis étaient le "leader" [...]". -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: The Condor years.Eyes (Your personal health series)
Par Marvin L Kwitko, Marvin Ross. 1994
Vengeance: the true story of an Israeli counter-terrorist mission
Par George Jonas. 2005
The mission of five ordinary Israelis: to hunt down and kill the PLO terrorists responsible for the massacre of eleven…
Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972. Details the mechanics, the horror, and the day-by-day suspense, as they changed identities constantly, moved from country to country, and were themselves tracked in turn (and some killed) by PLO assassins. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 2005.What lies across the water: the real story of the Cuban Five
Par Stephen Kimber. 2013
“What lies across the water” recounts the events leading up to the 1998 arrest of the Cuban Five, five Cuban…
intelligence agents convicted of conspiring to commit espionage agents the United States. The five agents had been sent to Florida to infiltrate and report on the activities of Miami-based, anti-Cuban terrorist groups, which were carrying out deadly terrorist attacks against Cuba. Cuba passed on information their agents learned about illegal activities to the FBI. But, instead of arresting the terrorists, the FBI arrested the Cuban Five. c2013.Veil: the secret wars of the CIA, 1981-1987
Par Bob Woodward. 2005
Based upon interviews with over 250 unidentified sources, various documents, and more than four dozen discussions with then Central Intelligence…
Agency (CIA) Director William J. Casey, the book presents a controversial history of the CIA and its influence on the foreign policy of the Reagan Administration. Also explores CIA-inspired covert wars, clandestine relationships, bribery, and assassinations during this period. Some descriptions of violence, strong language. Bestseller. 2005, c1987.Twilight: losing sight, gaining insight
Par Henry A Grunwald. 1999
The author chronicles his experience of macular degeneration, and the daily struggle to overcome its physical and psychological implications, and…
the discovery of what medicine can and cannot do. This is a story not merely about seeing but about living; not merely about losing sight but about gaining insight. 1999.The silent game
Par David Stafford. 1988
Stafford compares spy novels to the real world of espionage. With the idea for the CIA's proposed assassination of Fidel…
Castro coming from a novel by William Le Queux, he shows that life imitates art; and, with authors like Graham Greene and John le Carre using their first-hand experiences to write about gentleman spies, shows that art imitates life. 1988.Herbert Yardley had established America's first codebreaking agency in 1917. His unit was closed in 1929 by Henry Stimson, who…
intoned, "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail." Yardley then wrote a best-selling memoir, "The American Black Chamber", which detailed the exploits of the State Department's Cipher Bureau, and disclosed codemaking and breaking to the public. Some descriptions of sex. 2004.