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American Spies
Par Granick, Jennifer Stisa. 2016
US intelligence agencies - the eponymous American spies - are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal…
and political boundaries of lawful surveillance. Written for a general audience by a surveillance law expert, this book educates readers about how the reality of modern surveillance differs from popular understanding. Weaving the history of American surveillance - from J. Edgar Hoover through the tragedy of September 11th to the fusion centers and mosque infiltrators of today - the book shows that mass surveillance and democracy are fundamentally incompatible. Granick shows how surveillance law has fallen behind while surveillance technology has given American spies vast new powers. She skillfully guides the reader through proposals for reining in massive surveillance with the ultimate goal of surveillance reform.The Virtual Weapon and International Order
Par Lucas Kello. 2017
An urgently needed examination of the current cyber revolution that draws on case studies to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding…
its effects on international order The cyber revolution is the revolution of our time. The rapid expansion of cyberspace brings both promise and peril. It promotes new modes of political interaction, but it also disrupts interstate dealings and empowers non-state actors who may instigate diplomatic and military crises. Despite significant experience with cyber phenomena, the conceptual apparatus to analyze, understand, and address their effects on international order remains primitive. Here, Lucas Kello adapts and applies international relations theory to create new ways of thinking about cyber strategy. Kello draws on a broad range of case studies, including the Estonian crisis, the Olympic Games operation against Iran, and the cyber attack against Sony Pictures. Synthesizing qualitative data from government documents, forensic reports of major incidents and interviews with senior officials from around the globe, this important work establishes new conceptual benchmarks to help security experts adapt strategy and policy to the unprecedented challenges of our times.Eclipse: The Last Days of the CIA
Par Mark Perry. 1992
Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War
Par Bob Drogin. 2008
Curveball answers the crucial question of the Iraq war: How and why was America's intelligence so catastrophically wrong? In this…
dramatic and explosive book, award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Bob Drogin delivers a narrative that takes us to Europe, the Middle East, and deep inside the CIA to find the truth-the truth about the lies and self-deception that led us into a military and political nightmare.Paesa: El espía de las mil caras
Par Manuel Cerdán. 2016
La apasionante y enigmática vida de Francisco Paesa, uno de los espías más legendarios de las últimas décadas, escrita por…
el periodista que le cazó en París. Cuando el 2 de julio de 1998 salió publicada en la prensa la esquela de Francisco Paesa, fallecido en Tailandia, muchos respiraron. Por fin desaparecía del mapa el espía que, entre otras cosas, había negociado la entrega de Luis Roldán al gobierno español en el famoso caso de los papeles de Laos. Sin embargo, aquel muerto estaba vivo. Aquella esquela no era más que la penúltima jugada del espía español más importante de las últimas décadas. No tenía licencia para matar como James Bond, pero vivió con la opulencia de 007: bebiendo champán Dom Perignon y acompañado de hermosas mujeres. No era un personaje de ficción, pero se comportaba como los héroes de las novelas de John Le Carré. Siempre con una causa judicial pendiente, siempre con la policía pisándole los talones, Paesa ha vivido al filo de la legalidad una existencia trepidante: estafador del presidente ecuatoguineano en 1968, traficante de armas internacional, vendedor de misiles a ETA -que culmina con la célebre Operación Sokoa-, mediador en el caso GAL intercediendo a una testigo protegida por Garzón, agente secreto del Ministerio del Interior en los años más oscuro del felipismo. Una historia trepidante que ha inspirado la última película de Alberto Rodríguez, director de La isla mínima.Since 9/11, Canada has been on the front lines of a New World Order that few understand. And in today’s…
world, secret intelligence is not just the first line of defence – it may be the only one. Editor Dwight Hamilton has assembled a formidable cast of former intelligence officers and journalists to take you inside the covert and dangerous world of espionage and international terrorism. This revised paperback edition provides a concise expos of every government organization in the Canadian national security sector. With first-hand accounts and informed analysis, the team behind Inside Canadian Intelligence has the esoteric expertise to accurately portray the new realities like no one else can. Forget James Bond: this is the real thing.London Cage: The Secret History of Britain's World War II Interrogation Centre
Par Helen Fry. 2017
The first complete account of the fiercely guarded secrets of London’s clandestine interrogation center, operated by the British Secret Service…
from 1940 to 1948 Behind the locked doors of three mansions in London’s exclusive Kensington Palace Gardens neighborhood, the British Secret Service established a highly secret prison in 1940: the London Cage. Here recalcitrant German prisoners of war were subjected to “special intelligence treatment.” The stakes were high: the war’s outcome could hinge on obtaining information German prisoners were determined to withhold. After the war, high-ranking Nazi war criminals were housed in the Cage, revamped as an important center for investigating German war crimes. This riveting book reveals the full details of operations at the London Cage and subsequent efforts to hide them. Helen Fry’s extraordinary original research uncovers the grim picture of prisoners’ daily lives and of systemic Soviet-style mistreatment. The author also provides sensational evidence to counter official denials concerning the use of “truth drugs” and “enhanced interrogation” techniques. Bringing dark secrets to light, this groundbreaking book at last provides an objective and complete history of the London Cage.Spies in the Vatican: Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust
Par David J. Alvarez. 2002
Spies Beneath Berlin
Par David Stafford. 2002
Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage
Par Philip Taubman. 2003
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
Par George W. Crile. 2003
Crile posits that the events of September 11 should not have surprised the U.S. because of the terrorists links to…
Afghanistan. His reasons are compelling. History buffs won't be able to put down this book!The CIA's Secret War in Tibet
Par Kenneth Conboy, James Morrison. 2002
Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
Par Bill Gertz. 2002
Into Tibet: The CIA's First Atomic Spy and his Secret Expedition to Lhasa
Par Thomas Laird. 2002
Conspiración: Cómo Rusia ayudó a Trump a ganar las elecciones
Par Luke Harding. 2017
En Conspiración, el galardonado periodista Luke Harding, relata la convulsa historia que desvela en exclusiva las estrechas relaciones de la…
administración Trump con Moscú, y el juego político puesto en marcha por Rusia desde hace décadas para desestabilizar la democracia estadounidense. Moscú. Julio de 1987. El multimillonario magnate neoyorquino visita Rusia por primera vez, invitado por el gobierno soviético. Londres. Diciembre de 2016. Luke Harding se reúne en secreto con el exagente del MI6 Christopher Steele en un pub londinense para hablar sobre las conexiones entre Rusia y el recién elegido presidente Donald J. Trump. Harding trabaja en dos líneas de investigación: el dinero y las mujeres. Washington. Enero de 2017. El explosivo dossier elaborado por Steele expone que el Kremlin ha estado «cultivando, apoyando y ayudando» a Trump durante años y que tienen información comprometedora sobre su persona. Trump responde en Twitter «¡NOTICIA FALSA!». Valiéndose de información confidencial y de su amplio conocimiento sobre los círculos de poder, el autor expone los sórdidos detalles de un enredo colosal que involucra espías rusos, gángsters, concursos de belleza, blanqueo de dinero, disidentes envenenados y hackeo de ordenadores, y arroja luz sobre poderosas figuras rusas como Aras Agalarov, Natalia Veselnitskaya, Serguéi Kisliak, Serguéi Gorkov e Ígor Sechin, cuyas motivaciones e instrucciones seguramente provienen de Vladímir Putin. El fiscal especial, Robert Mueller, ya ha presentado acusaciones contra varios de los protagonistas estadounidenses de esta supuesta conspiración, incluido el jefe de campaña de Trump, Paul Manafort, y es muy probable que sigan más conforme se va agudizando la crisis en el seno de la ejecutiva del presidente. Este libro llega al corazón de uno de los mayores escándalos políticos de la era moderna. Rusia está moldeando un nuevo orden mundial a su favor que pone de relieve la fragilidad de las democracias. Entender lo que ocurre es el primer paso para combatirlo.Homeland Security Intelligence
Par James E. Steiner. 2015
Homeland Security Intelligence is the first single-authored, comprehensive treatment of intelligence. It is geared toward the full range of homeland…
security practitioners, which includes hundreds of thousands of state and local government and private sector practitioners who are still exploring how intelligence can act as a force multiplier in helping them achieve their goals. With a focus on counterterrorism and cyber-security, author James E. Steiner provides a thorough and in-depth picture of why intelligence is so crucial to homeland security missions, who provides intelligence support to which homeland security customer, and how intelligence products differ depending on the customer’s specific needs and duties.The Billion Dollar Spy
Par David E. Hoffman. 2015
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked…
open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA's Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War While driving out of the American embassy in Moscow on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station heard a knock on his car window. A man on the curb handed him an envelope whose contents stunned U.S. intelligence: details of top-secret Soviet research and developments in military technology that were totally unknown to the United States. In the years that followed, the man, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer in a Soviet military design bureau, used his high-level access to hand over tens of thousands of pages of technical secrets. His revelations allowed America to reshape its weapons systems to defeat Soviet radar on the ground and in the air, giving the United States near total superiority in the skies over Europe. One of the most valuable spies to work for the United States in the four decades of global confrontation with the Soviet Union, Tolkachev took enormous personal risks--but so did the Americans. The CIA had long struggled to recruit and run agents in Moscow, and Tolkachev was a singular breakthrough. Using spy cameras and secret codes as well as face-to-face meetings in parks and on street corners, Tolkachev and his handlers succeeded for years in eluding the feared KGB in its own backyard, until the day came when a shocking betrayal put them all at risk. Drawing on previously secret documents obtained from the CIA and on interviews with participants, David Hoffman has created an unprecedented and poignant portrait of Tolkachev, a man motivated by the depredations of the Soviet state to master the craft of spying against his own country. Stirring, unpredictable, and at times unbearably tense, The Billion Dollar Spy is a brilliant feat of reporting that unfolds like an espionage thriller.Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes
Par R P Eddy, Richard A Clarke. 2017
Millions of lives lost to catastrophes—natural and man-made—could have been saved by the advance warnings of experts. Can we find…
those prescient people before the next catastrophe strikes? Two CEOs and White House national security veterans reveal insider views of previous disasters, chilling insights on today’s threats to mankind, and a prescription to protect us This is the story of the future of national security, threatening technologies, the US economy, and possibly the fate of civilization.In Greek mythology Cassandra foresaw calamities, but was cursed by the gods to be ignored. Modern-day Cassandras clearly predicted the disasters of Katrina, Fukushima, the Great Recession, the rise of ISIS, and many others. Like her, they were ignored. There are others right now warning of impending disasters, but how do we know which warnings are likely to be right?Through riveting explorations in a variety of fields, the authors uncover a method to separate the accurate Cassandras from the crazy doomsayers. They then investigate the experts who today are warning of future disasters—the threats from artificial intelligence, bio-hacking, mutating viruses, and more—and whose calls are not being heeded. Their penetrating insights are essential for anyone, any business, or any government that doesn’t want to be a blind victim to tomorrow’s catastrophe.The End of Intelligence: Espionage and State Power in the Information Age
Par David Tucker. 2014
Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the…
state, revolutionized warfare, and changed the balance of power between states and non-state actors—and it assesses the potential for realizing any hopes we might have for reforming intelligence and espionage. Examining espionage, counterintelligence, and covert action, the book argues that, contrary to prevailing views, the information revolution is increasing the power of states relative to non-state actors and threatening privacy more than secrecy. Arguing that intelligence organizations may be taken as the paradigmatic organizations of the information age, author David Tucker shows the limits of information gathering and analysis even in these organizations, where failures at self-knowledge point to broader limits on human knowledge—even in our supposed age of transparency. He argues that, in this complex context, both intuitive judgment and morality remain as important as ever and undervalued by those arguing for the transformative effects of information. This book will challenge what we think we know about the power of information and the state, and about the likely twenty-first century fate of secrecy and privacy.Secret Intelligence in the European States System, 1918-1989
Par Jonathan Haslam, Karina Urbach. 2014
The history of secret intelligence, like secret intelligence itself, is fraught with difficulties surrounding both the reliability and completeness of…
the sources, and the motivations behind their release#151;which can be the product of ongoing propaganda efforts as well as competition among agencies. Indeed, these difficulties lead to the Scylla and Charybdis of overestimating the importance of secret intelligence for foreign policy and statecraft and also underestimating its importance in these same areas#151;problems that generally beset the actual use of secret intelligence in modern states. But in recent decades, traditional perspectives have given ground and judgments have been revised in light of new evidence. This volume brings together a collection of essays avoiding the traditional pitfalls while carrying out the essential task of analyzing the recent evidence concerning the history of the European state system of the last century. The essays offer an array of insight across countries and across time. Together they highlight the critical importance of the prevailing domestic circumstances#151;technological, governmental, ideological, cultural, financial#151;in which intelligence operates. A keen interdisciplinary eye focused on these developments leaves us with a far more complete understanding of secret intelligence in Europe than we've had before.