Download or read book The Secret World written by Christopher Andrew and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 1019 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A comprehensive exploration of spying in its myriad forms from the Bible to the present day . . . Easy to dip into, and surprisingly funny.” —Ben Macintyre in The New York Times Book Review The history of espionage is far older than any of today’s intelligence agencies, yet largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful WWII intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars and those of Spain before the Spanish Armada. Those who do not understand past mistakes are likely to repeat them. Intelligence is a prime example. At the outbreak of WWI, the grasp of intelligence shown by US President Woodrow Wilson and British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith was not in the same class as that of George Washington during the Revolutionary War and eighteenth-century British statesmen. In the first global history of espionage ever written, distinguished historian and New York Times–bestselling author Christopher Andrew recovers much of the lost intelligence history of the past three millennia—and shows us its continuing relevance. “Accurate, comprehensive, digestible and startling . . . a stellar achievement.” —Edward Lucas, The Times “For anyone with a taste for wide-ranging and shrewdly gossipy history—or, for that matter, for anyone with a taste for spy stories—Andrew’s is one of the most entertaining books of the past few years.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker “Remarkable for its scope and delightful for its unpredictable comparisons . . . there are important lessons for spymasters everywhere in this breathtaking and brilliant book.” —Richard J. Aldrich, Times Literary Supplement “Fans of Fleming and Furst will delight in this skillfully related true-fact side of the story.” —Kirkus Reviews “A crowning triumph of one of the most adventurous scholars of the security world.” —Financial Times Includes illustrations

Download or read book Global Secret and Intelligence Services II written by Heinz Duthel and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Secret and Intelligence Services II Hidden Systems that deliver Unforgettable Customer Service Global Secret and Intelligence Services II Hidden Systems that deliver Unforgettable Customer Service First Edition 2006 Second Edition 2009 Third Edition 2014 Updated: UUTYG/TT5443 Note: Because of some special contents of this publication, some pages are in French, German and Italien The DEA in popular culture * The DEA.org (The Drug Enjoying Americans), a drug information site. * Gary Oldman played a corrupt DEA Agent in The Professional. * Luis Guzman and Don Cheadle play two DEA agents in the movie Traffic. * Vin Diesel plays a DEA agent in the movie A Man Apart. * Max Payne is a DEA agent in the video game series Max Payne. In the game, Max battles addicts of a fictional designer drug called Valkyr. * David Duchovny played a transvestite DEA agent, Denise/Dennis Bryson on the series, Twin Peaks. * Mary-Louise Parker finds out that her boyfriend is a DEA agent on the Showtime series "Weeds"

Download or read book Secret Agencies written by Loch K. Johnson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of American intelligence activities discusses the philosophy and purpose of covert operations and the successes and failures of current U.S. agencies

Download or read book Global Intelligence written by Paul Todd and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating exploration of secret service and intelligence agencies throughout the world details the new roles they have found for themselves as they target rogue states, terrorism, and the drug war. It shows how ultramodern technologies have increased their power to spy abroad and eavesdrop at home. It also exposes the unsolved contradiction between the world of these secretive, unaccountable agencies and the requirements of a free, democratic society.

Download or read book Secret Intelligence written by Christopher Andrew and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Secret Intelligence: A Reader brings together key essays from the field of intelligence studies, blending classic works on concepts and approaches with more recent essays dealing with current issues and ongoing debates about the future of intelligence. Secret intelligence has never enjoyed a higher profile. The events of 9/11, the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the missing WMD controversy, public debates over prisoner interrogation, together with the revelations of figures such as Edward Snowden, recent cyber attacks and the rise of 'hybrid warfare' have all contributed to make this a ‘hot’ subject over the past two decades. Aiming to be more comprehensive than existing books, and to achieve truly international coverage of the field, this book provides key readings and supporting material for students and course convenors. It is divided into four main sections, each of which includes full summaries of each article, further reading suggestions and student questions: • The intelligence cycle • Intelligence, counter-terrorism and security • Ethics, accountability and secrecy • Intelligence and the new warfare This new edition contains essays by leading scholars in the field and will be essential reading for students of intelligence studies, strategic studies, international security and political science in general, and of interest to anyone wishing to understand the current relationship between intelligence and policy-making.

Download or read book Global Secret and Intelligence Service II written by Heinz Duthel and published by . This book was released on 2008-07-23 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden Systems that deliver Unforgettable Customer Service o 1.25 Germany o 1.26 Greece o 1.27 Hungary o 1.28 India o 1.29 Indonesia o 1.30 Iran o 1.31 Iraq o 1.32 Ireland, Republic of o 1.33 Israel o 1.34 Italy o 1.35 Japan o 1.36 Jordan o 1.37 South Korea o 1.38 Libya o 1.39 Luxembourg o 1.40 Republic of Macedonia o 1.41 Malaysia o 1.42 Maldives o 1.43 Man, Isle of o 1.44 Mexico o 1.45 Moldova o 1.46 Morocco o 1.47 Netherlands o 1.48 New Zealand

Download or read book Global Secret and Intelligence Services I written by Heinz Duthel and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Secret and Intelligence Services I Hidden Systems that deliver Unforgettable Customer Service First Edition 2006 Second Edition 2009 Third Edition 2014 Updated: UUTYG/TT5443 An intelligence agency is a governmental agency that is devoted to the information gathering (known in the context as "intelligence") for purposes of national security and defense. Means of information gathering may include espionage, communication interception, cryptanalysis, cooperation with other institutions, and evaluation of public sources. The assembly and propagation of this information is known as intelligence analysis. Note: Because of some special contents of this publication, some pages are in French and Italien

Download or read book The Secret World written by Christopher M. Andrew and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever detailed, comprehensive history of intelligence, from Moses and Sun Tzu to the present day The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars and those of Spain before the Spanish Armada. Those who do not understand past mistakes are likely to repeat them. Intelligence is a prime example. At the outbreak of World War I, the grasp of intelligence shown by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith was not in the same class as that of George Washington during the Revolutionary War and leading eighteenth-century British statesmen. In this book, the first global history of espionage ever written, distinguished historian Christopher Andrew recovers much of the lost intelligence history of the past three millennia--and shows us its relevance.

Download or read book Global Secret and Intelligence Services III written by Heinz Duthel and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ECHELON ECHELON is a term associated with a global network of computers that automatically search through millions of intercepted messages for pre-programmed keywords or fax, telex and e-mail addresses. Every word of every message in the frequencies and channels selected at a station is automatically searched. The processors in the network are known as the ECHELON Dictionaries. ECHELON connects all these computers and allows the individual stations to function as distributed elements an integrated system. An ECHELON station's Dictionary contains not only its parent agency's chosen keywords, but also lists for each of the other four agencies in the UKUSA system [NSA, GCHQ, DSD, GCSB and CSE] Somebody's listening . . . and they don't give a damn about personal privacy or commercial confidence.

Download or read book Spies for Hire written by Tim Shorrock and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the formidable organization of intelligence outsourcing that has developed between the U.S. government and private companies since 9/11, in a report that reveals how approximately seventy percent of the nation's funding for top-secret tasks is now being funneled to higher-cost third-party contractors. 35,000 first printing.

Download or read book Global Intelligence written by Paul Todd and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Download or read book Roosevelt s Secret War written by Joseph E. Persico and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-10-22 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite all that has already been written on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Persico has uncovered a hitherto overlooked dimension of FDR's wartime leadership: his involvement in intelligence and espionage operations. Roosevelt's Secret War is crowded with remarkable revelations: -FDR wanted to bomb Tokyo before Pearl Harbor -A defector from Hitler's inner circle reported directly to the Oval Office -Roosevelt knew before any other world leader of Hitler's plan to invade Russia -Roosevelt and Churchill concealed a disaster costing hundreds of British soldiers' lives in order to protect Ultra, the British codebreaking secret -An unwitting Japanese diplomat provided the President with a direct pipeline into Hitler's councils Roosevelt's Secret War also describes how much FDR had been told--before the Holocaust--about the coming fate of Europe's Jews. And Persico also provides a definitive answer to the perennial question Did FDR know in advance about the attack on Pearl Harbor? By temperament and character, no American president was better suited for secret warfare than FDR. He manipulated, compartmentalized, dissembled, and misled, demonstrating a spymaster's talent for intrigue. He once remarked, "I never let my right hand know what my left hand does." Not only did Roosevelt create America's first central intelligence agency, the OSS, under "Wild Bill" Donovan, but he ran spy rings directly from the Oval Office, enlisting well-placed socialite friends. FDR was also spied against. Roosevelt's Secret War presents evidence that the Soviet Union had a source inside the Roosevelt White House; that British agents fed FDR total fabrications to draw the United States into war; and that Roosevelt, by yielding to Churchill's demand that British scientists be allowed to work on the Manhattan Project, enabled the secrets of the bomb to be stolen. And these are only a few of the scores of revelations in this constantly surprising story of Roosevelt's hidden role in World War II.

Download or read book Secret Agencies written by Loch K. Johnson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the future role of America's intelligence agencies in the aftermath of the Cold War, including such issues as when aggressive clandestine operations are justified, whether the U.S. should engage in economic espionage, and intelligence accountability. UP.

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of World War II Intelligence written by Nigel West and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007-11-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years immediately following World War II, information was disclosed about what has been termed the shadow war of the existence of hitherto secret agencies. In Germany it was the Abwehr and the Sicherheitsdienst; in Britain it was MI5, the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and Special Operations Executive (SOE); in the United States it was the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the Special Intelligence Service (SIS) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); in Japan it was the Kempet'ai; and in Italy the Servicio di Informazione Militare (SIM). Sixty years after World War II secrets are still being revealed about the covert activities that took place. Many countries had secret agencies maintaining covert operations, but even ostensibly neutral countries also conducted secret operations. Changes in American, British, and even Soviet official attitudes to declassification in the 1980s allowed thousands of secret documents to be made available for public examination, and the result was extensive revisionism of the conventional histories of the conflict, which previously had excluded references to secret intelligence sources. The Historical Dictionary of World War II Intelligence tells the emerging history of the intelligence world during World War II. This is done through a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the secret agencies, operations, and events. The world of double agents, spies, and moles during WWII is explained in the most comprehensive reference currently available.

Download or read book Global National Security and Intelligence Agencies Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Important Contacts written by IBP USA and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Global National Intelligence and Security Agencies Handbook

Download or read book Global Secret Service and Intelligence Service III written by Heinz Duthel and published by . This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intelligence agency is a governmental agency that is devoted to the information gathering (known in the context as "intelligence") for purposes of national security and defense. Means of information gathering may include espionage, communication interception, cryptanalysis, cooperation with other institutions, and evaluation of public sources. The assembly and propagation of this information is known as intelligence analysis.Intelligence agencies can provide the following services for their national governments. * provide analysis in areas relevant to national security; * give early warning of impending crises; * serve national and international crisis management by helping to discern the intentions of current or potential opponents; * inform national defense planning and military operations; * protect secrets, both of their own sources and activities, and those of other state agencies; and * may act covertly to influence the outcome of events in favor of national interestsIntelligence agencies are also involved in defensive activities such as counter-espionage or counter-terrorism.Some agencies are accused of being involved in assassination, arms sales, coups d'état, and the placement of misinformation (propaganda) as well as other covert operations, in order to support their own or their governments' interests.Intelligence agenciesThe following is a partial list of current intelligence agencies. * 1 Agencies by country o 1.1 Albania o 1.2 Argentina o 1.3 Australia o 1.4 Austria o 1.5 Azerbaijan o 1.6 Belarus o 1.7 Belgium o 1.8 Bermuda o 1.9 Bosnia and Herzegovina o 1.10 Brazil o 1.11 Bulgaria o 1.12 Canada o 1.13 China, People's Republic of o 1.14 China, Republic of o 1.15 Colombia o 1.16 Croatia o 1.17 Cuba o 1.18 Czech Republic o 1.19 Denmark o 1.20 Dominican Republic o 1.21 Egypt o 1.22 Estonia o 1.23 Finland o 1.24 France o 1.25 Germany o 1.26 Greece o 1.27 Hungary o 1.28 India o 1.29 Indonesia o 1.30 Iran o 1.31 Iraq o 1.32 Ireland, Republic of o 1.33 Israel o 1.34 Italy o 1.35 Japan o 1.36 Jordan o 1.37 South Korea o 1.38 Libya o 1.39 Luxembourg o 1.40 Republic of Macedonia o 1.41 Malaysia o 1.42 Maldives o 1.43 Man, Isle of o 1.44 Mexico o 1.45 Moldova o 1.46 Morocco o 1.47 Netherlands o 1.48 New Zealand o 1.49 Nigeria o 1.50 Norway o 1.51 Pakistan o 1.52 Philippines o 1.53 Poland o 1.54 Portugal o 1.55 Romania o 1.56 Russian Federation o 1.57 Saudi Arabia o 1.58 Serbia o 1.59 Singapore o 1.60 Slovakia o 1.61 Slovenia o 1.62 South Africa o 1.63 Spain o 1.64 Sweden o 1.65 Switzerland o 1.66 Syria o 1.67 Taiwan o 1.68 Thailand o 1.69 Turkey o 1.70 Turkmenistan o 1.71 Ukraine o 1.72 United Kingdom o 1.73 United States o 1.74 Venezuela o 1.75 Vietnam o 1.76 Zimbabwe

Download or read book Global Trends 2040 written by National Intelligence Council and published by Cosimo Reports. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.