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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,...
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This is the first comprehensive history of American intelligence, espionage, and covert action. It dramatically recounts every important intelligence operation since the American Revolution and places them in a larger historical context. The author demonstrates that secrecy and duplicity have played a critical role at every major turning point in our national history.
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In this riveting narrative, renowned historian Neill Lochery offers a revelatory portrait of World War II's back stage as he tells the story of how Portugal, a relatively poor European country trying frantically to remain neutral amidst extraordinary pressures, survived the war not only physically intact but significantly wealthier. The country's emergence as a prosperous European Union nation would be financed in part, it turns out, by a cache of...
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A shocking exposé of the sordid world of corporate espionage and its historic cast, including Allan Pinkerton, the nation's first "private eye, " tycoons and playboys, presidents and FBI operatives, CEOs and accountants, Cold War veterans and military personnel, and Howard Hughes' private CIA.
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In these two spy movie spoofs, James Coburn plays ultracool superspy Derek Flint, top agent for the Zonal Organization of World Intelligence Espionage (Z.O.W.I.E.). In Our man Flint, he must track down the nefarious criminal organization known as Galaxy to thwart their evil scheme to manipulate the earth's weather systems and achieve world domination. In In like Flint, the president of the United States is kidnapped and replaced with an evil impostor....
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Intelligence, espionage, and even war as we know it have been transformed by the War on Terror. With the CIA on the ropes, the armed forces stretched thin, and the need for inside information and action at an all-time high, the United States government and its allies have turned to private organizations to carry the load, companies like the one founded by Camille Black, former CIA counterterrorism specialist. Camille is approached by the CIA for an...
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