Peering from space via satellite, tapping telephone lines, computer networks, and cell phone frequencies around the globe, the National Security Agency monitors enemy states, terror suspects, and friendly nations alike. Some 60 percent of the presidents daily intelligence briefi…
"This book explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian cult of state security that has emerged from it"--
With contributions by leading intelligence experts for each country, the chapters give the reader important insights into intelligence culture, current practice, and security sector reform. As the world morphs into an increasingly multi-polar system, it is more important than ev…
The story of the covert wars that were waged in a secretive atmosphere and became the centerpieces and eventual time bombs of American foreign policy in the 1980s.
The story of the covert wars that were waged in a secretive atmosphere and became the centerpieces and eventual time bombs of American foreign policy in the 1980s.
A retired KGB official whose career ranged from Stalin's death in 1953 to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 provides an insider's view of the KGB's conflict with the United States and reveals details about the agency's secret inner workings. "In his four decades as a KGB off…
A retired KGB official whose career ranged from Stalin's death in 1953 to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 provides an insider's view of the KGB's conflict with the United States and reveals details about the agency's secret inner workings.
Here is the ultimate inside history of the role of modern intelligence across the globe. Unrivaled in its scope and as readable as any spy novel, A Century of Spies travels from tsarist Russia and the earliest days of the British Secret Service to the crises and uncertainties of…
Here is the ultimate inside history of the role of modern intelligence across the globe. Unrivaled in its scope and as readable as any spy novel, A Century of Spies travels from tsarist Russia and the earliest days of the British Secret Service to the crises and uncertainties of…
"In March 1933 the economic section of the Soviet secret police arrested six British engineers employed by the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, provoking a confrontation that brought Anglo-Soviet relations to the brink of disaster." "In this first full-length study of th…
In a little over a decade, two events have transformed the world: the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of militant Islam. This book is the story behind the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the new jihad. The author tells how Charlie Wilson, a maverick congr…