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Book SynopsisFrom its inception more than half a century ago and for decades afterward, the Central Intelligence Agency was deeply shrouded in secrecy, with little or no real oversight by Congress–or so many Americans believe. David M. Barrett reveals, however, that during the agency's first fifteen years, Congress often monitored the CIA's actions and plans, sometimes aggressively.Trade ReviewA truly groundbreaking, eye-opening descent into secret budgeting, espionage, and covert actions."" - Louis Fisher, author of Military Tribunals and Presidential Power""Barrett reveals a CIA that made its own rules, wrote its own budget, classified its own secrets, and persuaded the Congress to like it. A rich and fabulous story that sheds new light on just about every significant episode in the first decades of the Cold War and confirms what many have long suspected—secrecy is the great enemy of democracy, and vice versa."" - Thomas Powers, author of Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda""A riveting story that helps to untangle one of the Cold War’s most tangled webs."" - Richard H. Immerman, author of The CIA in GuatemalaTable of Contents List of Acronyms Acknowledgments Introduction: First Hidden, Then Lost Part 1. The Truman Era, 1947-1952 No ""American Gestapo, "" But ""No More Pearl Harbors"" Initial Oversight: Budgets and Covert Action ""A South American Pearl Harbor"" The Soviet A-Bomb: ""We Apparently Don't Have the Remotest Idea"" Communists and ""Perverts"" in the CIA Korea: ""No Better Today Than on December 7, 1941"" A New DCI The ""Dirty Business"" Portraits CIA Subcommittees, Intelligence Roles, and Budgets ""We Don't Let Just Anybody Look at Our Files"" ""There Will Be No Changes"" Part 2. The Eisenhower Era, 1953-1960 Meddling? Getting ""Taberized"" Guatemala: ""Sterilizing the Red Infection"" Mr. Mansfield Goes to the Senate Joseph McCarthy: The CIA's Other Would-Be Overseer ""You, Who Championed Our Cause"" Barons Restored ""Dodging Dead Cats"" ""They Have to Have a Building"" The New Mansfield Resolution: Two Surprises ""We Have a History of Underestimation"" Hungary and the Suez: ""We Had a Very Good Idea, Senator"" Sputnik An Early ""Year of Intelligence""? ""I Cannot Always Predict When There Is Going to Be a Riot"" Iraq: ""Our Intelligence Was Just Plain Lousy"" Return to the Missile Gap From the Pforzheimer Era to the Warner Era Subordinating Intelligence? In and Out of Hearing Rooms ""Who Are Our Liquidators?"" ""I'd Like to Tell Him to His Face What I Think about Him"" U-2: ""We Have Felt These Operations Were Appropriate"" Pouring Oil on Fire ""Their Answer to That Demand"": Congressional Paternity? ""My Opinion of the CIA Went Skyrocketing"" Part 3. Cuba, the CIA, and Congress: 1960-1961 Castro: ""This Fellow Is Bad and Ought to Go"" ""What is the Rationale behind That?"" ""I Agree That You Had to Replace Dulles"" Afterword: Alarms Notes Selected Bibilography Index

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Book SynopsisEstablishes that World War I led to the realization that intelligence was indispensable in both wartime and peacetime. Mark Stout examines the breadth of American intelligence in the war, not just in France, not just at home, but around the world and across the army, navy, and State Department.Trade ReviewEntire libraries have been written about the Central Intelligence Agency and to a lesser extent the Office of Strategic Services. This has resulted in a lopsided and incomplete picture of the history of American intelligence. Transforming the intellectual landscape, Mark Stout delivers a magnificent historical narrative that charts the birth and development of modern American intelligence from the late nineteenth century through World War I. Stout provides a fascinating story packed not only with colorful characters and exciting escapades, but with careful scholarly assessments of subjects including intelligence collection, intelligence analysis, counterintelligence, and covert action. All future histories of American intelligence will need to reference this pioneering work." - Christopher R. Moran, professor of US national security at the University of Warwick, UK, and coeditor in chief of the Journal of Intelligence HistoryTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Beginnings 2. Intelligence in War: The Caribbean and the Philippines, 1898–1902 3. Departmental Organization and Military Doctrine 4. Mexican Rehearsal 5. Mobilizing Intelligence for War in Europe, 1914–1918 6. “Secret Service”: Espionage and Covert Action 7. Aerial Reconnaissance 8. Radio Intelligence 9. Modern War and Counterintelligence 10. Counterintelligence in Depths 11. Intelligence in Combat, 1918 12. Legacies Notes Sources and Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFew countries can claim to have endured such a difficult and tortuous history as that of Iraq. Its varied peoples have had to contend with externally imposed state-building at the end of the First World War, through to the rise of authoritarian military regimes, to the all-encompassing power of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship.Trade Review�Gareth Stansfield�s Iraq is a unique piece of research, meticulous, profound and, more importantly, timely and cool. Such multidimensional examination from objective scholars is a must.� Faleh A. Jabar, Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies �An essential reference, providing the most up-to-date account of the political history of Iraq from Saddam Hussein�s dictatorship to the emergence of ISIS. An outstanding analysis of contemporary Iraq and the forces leading to its fragmentation.� Eugene Rogan, Oxford University, and author of The Arabs: A History and The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle EastTable of ContentsIntroduction: Artificiality, Identity, Dictatorship, and State-Building Chapter 1: Legacies of Civilizations and Empires Chapter 2: State Formation, Monarchy, and Mandate, 1918-1932 Chapter 3: Conceptualizing Iraqi Society Chapter 4: From Authoritarian to Totalitarian State, 1933-1979 Chapter 5: Iraq at War, 1979-1989 Chapter 6: The Pariah State, 1989-2003 Chapter 7: Regime Change, 2003- Chapter 8: From the Brink, to the Brink Chapter 9: The Disintegration of Iraq Chapter 10: The Rise of the Islamic State Conclusion

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Book SynopsisA trenchant exploration of how security and counter-terrorism practices are not only eroding civil liberties, but reshaping the very nature of our political freedom.Trade Review[Bell] pursues her thinking uncompromisingly and shares her research with an eloquence rare in academic treatises ... she invites us to think anew about an important aspect of contemporary political life. Security practices are now so imbedded in our ideas of freedom that we are unable to disengage from them. We are no longer able to fully appreciate how security intrudes in our lives as we travel, play, work or participate in the political process ... by forcing us to confront these unattractive facts and to recognize just how insidious security has become, Bell does her readers a considerable service. -- Nathalie Des Rosiers * Literary Review of Canada *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Relations of Freedom, Relations of Security1 Opting In: Precautionary Engagement as National Security Strategy2 The Socio-Legal Paradox of Freedom: Security Certificates and the Politics of Exception3 Interventionary Designs: The Liberal Way of War in Afghanistan4 Sovereignty and Refusal: The Violent Limits of Liberal RightsConclusion: Freedom beyond SecurityNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisExamining how since 1947 a regime of psychological operations and covert action has made the conflation of reality and fiction a central feature of both U.S. foreign policy and American culture.Trade Review"His study impressively documents how state secrecy became a privileged topos for reflecting on power and knowledge in late twentieth century American literature and cutlure." —Alexander Dunst,Journal of American StudiesIn his exploration of the national security state and the fiction it inspires, Melley engages in a spirited and cerebral examination of certain cultural and political tropes of the Cold Warand beyond, illustrating how often they have been rearticulated in a twenty-first-centurycontext as the War on Terror gathered pace in the wake of 9/11. -- Sam Goodman * Literature & History *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Postmodern Public Sphere Cold War Redux We Now Know Public Secrets Mere Entertainment Strategic Irrationalism Representations of the Covert State1. Brainwashed! The Faisalabad Candidate Brain Warfare Little Shop of Horrors Softening Up Our Boys Renditions2. Spectacles of Secrecy Trial by Simulation Political Theater Recovered (National) Memory The State's Two Faces Fakery in Allegiance to the Truth The Fabulist Spy3. False Documents True Lies Enemies of the State Psy Ops The Epistemology of Vietnam4. The Work of Art in the Age of Plausible Deniability Narrative Dysfunction Calculated Ellipsis The Feminization of the Public Sphere The Journalist as Patsy Metafiction in Wartime5. Postmodern Amnesia Assassins of Memory The Dialectics of Spectacle and Secrecy Secret History The Magic Show6. The Geopolitical Melodrama Ground Zero Enemies, Foreign and Domestic Whatever It Takes Demonology Melodrama as PolicyNotes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisChronicles an early example of "regime change" that was based on a flawed interpretation of intelligence and proclaimed a success even as its mistakes were becoming clear. Here, the author has selected and annotated twenty documents for a documentary Appendix, culminating with President Clinton's apology to the people of Guatemala.Trade Review"Nick Cullather sheds new light on an old regime change, assissted by documents initially made public during the tenure of former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director (and current Secretary of Defense) Robert Gates. Cullather's work is concise, detailed, and eminantly readable...In summary, Cullather provides a realistic and nuanced view of an otherwise well-covered operation, see through the eyes of the agency that led PBSUCCESS...For students of Latin America and U.S. national security policymaking in the region, Cullather has done a great service." -- Mark Montesclaros, Department of Joint, Interagency and Multinational Operations * U.S. Army Command and General Staff College *Table of ContentsContents Preface to the Second Edition vii Introduction: A Culture of Destruction ix Foreword to the CIA Edition 5 Chapter 1: America's Backyard 7 Chapter 2: Reversing the Trend 38 Chapter 3: Sufficient Means 74 Chapter 4: The Sweet Smell of Success 105 Appendix A: PBSUCCESS Timeline 127 Appendix B: Bibliography 133 Appendix C: A Study of Assassination 137 Afterword: The Culture of Fear, by Piero Gleijeses xxiii Index xxxix

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A compelling account of the geopolitics of the drone as it haunts ‘policing, predation, and planet.’ Ian G. R. Shaw's book is as attentive to the historical and cultural geographies of the unmanned aerial vehicle as it is to the preemptive foreclosure of political futures."—Louise Amoore, author of The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability"Predator Empire is an impressive and very timely text. This is a book that everybody concerned with the relationship between technology and security should take the opportunity to read."—LSE Review of Books"Predator Empire is a provocative analysis of the outreach of technology, specifically drones, as new tools to entrench U.S. power globally."—Science"In this timely and historically-engaged text, Shaw offers a distinct approach to the study of the drone in which the technology is apprehended as a more-than-human geopolitical actor, both the product and productive of practices of enclosure, atmospheric security, and policing. The result is a conceptually and contextually rich interrogation of the US drone programme, one yielding insights and analytic frameworks of utility beyond this focus."—Antipode "What sets Shaw’s book apart, and one of its major contributions to the study of the drone, is its emphasis on the human condition."—Society & Space "Predator Empire is one of the most interesting books on drones and drone warfare to date. Its broader (theoretical) claims might require further elaboration, but its value as a theoretically and empirically rigorous book on drones remains evident." —AAG Review of BooksTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Understanding Empire1. The Long March to Human Enclosure2. The Rise of the Predator Empire in the Vietnam War3. Full Spectrum Global Dominance4. The Rule by Nobody 5. Policing EverythingConclusion: The War of All against All NotesIndex

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Book Synopsis"Alison Mountz traces the global chain of remote detention centers used by states of the Global North to confine migrants fleeing violence and poverty, using cruel measures that, if unchecked, will lead to the death of asylum as an ethical ideal"--Trade Review"In this clear and compelling account, Alison Mountz draws on a range of conceptual tools and original research in island detention sites around the world to map the death of asylum. While much of the news is bad, the final chapters suggest ways forward, reminding us of the possibility and impact of resistance. This is urgent and necessary reading for everyone concerned with contemporary politics and practices of migration control."—Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford"A brilliant account of the recent evolution of the asylum system at a global level, The Death of Asylum is informed by a single cohesive current of groundbreaking theoretical analysis. One of the most important and urgent books about forced migration ever written."—Michael Collyer, University of Sussex"A critical contribution to various debates on how geography can be used by state actors to protect their specific and rivalrous interests."—LSE Review of Books"In its rich blend of empirical data, historical and contemporary detail, and insightful analysis, this is an essential book which deserves to become a classic of migration studies."—Race & ClassTable of ContentsContentsAsylum: An ObituaryPreface: On DeathAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Mapping Death in the Enforcement ArchipelagoAcronymsI. State Mobilities, Physical Death1. Externalizing Asylum: A Genealogy2. The Border Becomes the IslandII. Shrinking Spaces, Ontological Death3. The Island within the Archipelago4. Remote Detention: Proliferating Patterns of Isolation and ConfinementIII. Hidden Geographies, Political Death5. Mobilizing Islands to Restrict Asylum Onshore in Canada (or the Death of Asylum, Even in Canada)6.The Struggle: Countering Death with the Life of ActivismConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis"Alison Mountz traces the global chain of remote detention centers used by states of the Global North to confine migrants fleeing violence and poverty, using cruel measures that, if unchecked, will lead to the death of asylum as an ethical ideal"--Trade Review"In this clear and compelling account, Alison Mountz draws on a range of conceptual tools and original research in island detention sites around the world to map the death of asylum. While much of the news is bad, the final chapters suggest ways forward, reminding us of the possibility and impact of resistance. This is urgent and necessary reading for everyone concerned with contemporary politics and practices of migration control."—Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford"A brilliant account of the recent evolution of the asylum system at a global level, The Death of Asylum is informed by a single cohesive current of groundbreaking theoretical analysis. One of the most important and urgent books about forced migration ever written."—Michael Collyer, University of Sussex"A critical contribution to various debates on how geography can be used by state actors to protect their specific and rivalrous interests."—LSE Review of Books"In its rich blend of empirical data, historical and contemporary detail, and insightful analysis, this is an essential book which deserves to become a classic of migration studies."—Race & ClassTable of ContentsContentsAsylum: An ObituaryPreface: On DeathAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Mapping Death in the Enforcement ArchipelagoAcronymsI. State Mobilities, Physical Death1. Externalizing Asylum: A Genealogy2. The Border Becomes the IslandII. Shrinking Spaces, Ontological Death3. The Island within the Archipelago4. Remote Detention: Proliferating Patterns of Isolation and ConfinementIII. Hidden Geographies, Political Death5. Mobilizing Islands to Restrict Asylum Onshore in Canada (or the Death of Asylum, Even in Canada)6.The Struggle: Countering Death with the Life of ActivismConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisSurveillance and Spies in the Civil War represents pathbreaking research on the rise of U.S. Army intelligence operations in the Midwest during the American Civil War and counters long-standing assumptions about Northern politics and society.Trade Review“Built on impressive research, Stephen Towne’s Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War reveals the very real danger posed by pro-Confederate Copperheads and other disloyal secret societies in the Old Northwest during the Civil War. In a fascinating and in-depth look at antiwar subversion in the Midwest, he painstakingly illustrates how the government, specifically the U.S. Army, monitored treasonous activities and prevented outbreaks of violence aimed at subverting the Union war effort and sowing political dissent against the Lincoln administration. Towne’s study convincingly argues that Copperheads and other subversive factions were not merely impotent fringe groups but truly dangerous provocateurs whose threat to Northern internal security was more real than imagined.”“Towne … has done extensive research in the National Archives, as well as in local archives, in order to shine a welcome light on a previously little-known, still imperfectly understood set of events. The book is dense with detail and evidence but generally accessibly written. The endnotes are a veritable treasure trove of citations and thoughtful reflection on the often fascinating and previously obscure sources.” * American Historical Review *“Towne has produced a well-researched monograph that provides a much-needed reexamination of military intelligence during the Civil War in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois…. Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War makes a significant contribution to home-front, political, and military historiography and is therefore a valuable source for both nineteenth-century historians and students in graduate-level courses.” * Ohio History *“Stephen E. Towne’s impressively researched study on Union army intelligence activities in the old Northwest—Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan—has one principal aim: to rescue anti-Lincoln conspiracies in the North from the historiographical grasp of Frank L. Klement, who dismissed them as ‘excursion[s] into the world of make-believe.’ … Any historian conducting research on law, civil-military relations, and the rights of citizens during wartime will want to pay careful attention to Towne’s work.” * Journal of Southern History *“Towne’s narrative is a fascinating whodunit, with its vivid portrayal of Union commanders hiring questionable detectives in an effort to stymie the Knights of the Golden Circle, a loose collection of Confederate sympathizers in the Old Northwest. A valuable addition to any library seeking to upgrade its collection with a regional slant to the US Civil War. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *“The great strength of Towne’s work is his unwavering attention to the military perspective and records. The book gives us the fullest understanding to date of the varied means by which the army gathered information on civilians away from the front.” * The Journal of the Civil War Era *“Stephen E. Towne’s Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War: Exposing Confederate Conspiracies in America’s Heartland convincingly revises one long held view of anti-war dissent in the North and contains much of interest to today’s intelligence officer. * Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 59, No. 4, December 2015 *“A welcome addition to the relatively scarce literature on subversion and espionage … Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War is a valuable book, certain to be of interest to scholars and general readers alike who seek to understand the history of government domestic surveillance in the United States.” * H-Net December 2015 *

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Book SynopsisSurveillance and Spies in the Civil War represents pathbreaking research on the rise of U.S. Army intelligence operations in the Midwest during the American Civil War and counters long-standing assumptions about Northern politics and society.Trade Review“Built on impressive research, Stephen Towne’s Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War reveals the very real danger posed by pro-Confederate Copperheads and other disloyal secret societies in the Old Northwest during the Civil War. In a fascinating and in-depth look at antiwar subversion in the Midwest, he painstakingly illustrates how the government, specifically the U.S. Army, monitored treasonous activities and prevented outbreaks of violence aimed at subverting the Union war effort and sowing political dissent against the Lincoln administration. Towne’s study convincingly argues that Copperheads and other subversive factions were not merely impotent fringe groups but truly dangerous provocateurs whose threat to Northern internal security was more real than imagined.”“Towne … has done extensive research in the National Archives, as well as in local archives, in order to shine a welcome light on a previously little-known, still imperfectly understood set of events. The book is dense with detail and evidence but generally accessibly written. The endnotes are a veritable treasure trove of citations and thoughtful reflection on the often fascinating and previously obscure sources.” * American Historical Review *“Towne has produced a well-researched monograph that provides a much-needed reexamination of military intelligence during the Civil War in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois…. Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War makes a significant contribution to home-front, political, and military historiography and is therefore a valuable source for both nineteenth-century historians and students in graduate-level courses.” * Ohio History *“Stephen E. Towne’s impressively researched study on Union army intelligence activities in the old Northwest—Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan—has one principal aim: to rescue anti-Lincoln conspiracies in the North from the historiographical grasp of Frank L. Klement, who dismissed them as ‘excursion[s] into the world of make-believe.’ … Any historian conducting research on law, civil-military relations, and the rights of citizens during wartime will want to pay careful attention to Towne’s work.” * Journal of Southern History *“Towne’s narrative is a fascinating whodunit, with its vivid portrayal of Union commanders hiring questionable detectives in an effort to stymie the Knights of the Golden Circle, a loose collection of Confederate sympathizers in the Old Northwest. A valuable addition to any library seeking to upgrade its collection with a regional slant to the US Civil War. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *“The great strength of Towne’s work is his unwavering attention to the military perspective and records. The book gives us the fullest understanding to date of the varied means by which the army gathered information on civilians away from the front.” * The Journal of the Civil War Era *“Stephen E. Towne’s Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War: Exposing Confederate Conspiracies in America’s Heartland convincingly revises one long held view of anti-war dissent in the North and contains much of interest to today’s intelligence officer. * Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 59, No. 4, December 2015 *“A welcome addition to the relatively scarce literature on subversion and espionage … Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War is a valuable book, certain to be of interest to scholars and general readers alike who seek to understand the history of government domestic surveillance in the United States.” * H-Net December 2015 *

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Book SynopsisThe largely unknown story of the FBI’s surveillance operations in Latin America during the 1940s provides new insights into leftist organizations and the nature of the U.S.’s imperial ambitions in the western hemisphere.Trade Review"Becker’s fine study fills a void in the historical record of US-Latin American relations. . . . Highly recommended." -- A. J. Dunar * Choice *"Becker has done extensive research for this book, and his close examination and analysis of the documentary record left behind by FBI, CIA and State Department surveillance of Ecuador are both apparent and appreciated. . . . This is an interesting, well-researched text." -- Courteney J. O'Connor * LSE Review of Books *"An exciting and ambitious effort. Students of Ecuador (and Latin America, more broadly) and US foreign policy, as well as policing and intelligence, will learn a great deal from this book." -- Stuart Schrader * Radical Americas *"Sourcing is excellent...this book stands as an excellent example of how historians can mine FBI files for information beyond the bureau." -- Douglas M. Charles * Journal of American History *"Highly original and well-researched account . . . An interesting and detailed history of the mid-century Ecuadorian left." -- Max Paul Friedman * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"This book stands as an excellent example of how historians can mine FBI files for information beyond the bureau." -- Douglas M. Charles * Journal of American History *"A model for the innovative use of primary sources to explore multiple perspectives in history. . . . Becker deftly balances background information with detail and analysis, making the work useful and readable for scholars from many different fields. . . . Essential reading for scholars interested in twentieth-century Ecuadorian history, the history of the Latin American left, or the history of US surveillance in Latin America." -- Erin E. O'Connor * The Americas *"Marc Becker's The FBI in Latin America adds an important dimension to our understanding of U.S. interventions in Latin America . . . .Becker’s work is an important contribution to the historiography of U.S.-Latin American relations, groundbreaking in the sense that it puts the FBI (not the CIA) at the heart of the earliest intelligence gathering by an agency of the U.S. government." -- Kenneth Kincaid * Against the Current *"The FBI in Latin America is a compelling history that will no doubt spawn similar studies on other countries in the region. Through the use of a fascinating and revealing set of sources, Becker is able to capture a particularly important moment in the emergence of the US as a post-WWII imperial power while simultaneously enriching our understanding of the Latin American left on the eve of its Cold War demise. This well-written book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of Latin America, US foreign policy, the Cold War, and the political left." -- Steve Striffler * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction. FBI 1 1. SIS 17 2. Communism 53 3. Labor 95 4. La Gloriosa 125 5. Constitution 157 6. Coup 193 7. Departures 223 Conclusion. Cold War 249 Notes 259 Bibliography 299 Index 311

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Book SynopsisThe largely unknown story of the FBI’s surveillance operations in Latin America during the 1940s provides new insights into leftist organizations and the nature of the U.S.’s imperial ambitions in the western hemisphere.Trade Review"Becker’s fine study fills a void in the historical record of US-Latin American relations. . . . Highly recommended." -- A. J. Dunar * Choice *"Becker has done extensive research for this book, and his close examination and analysis of the documentary record left behind by FBI, CIA and State Department surveillance of Ecuador are both apparent and appreciated. . . . This is an interesting, well-researched text." -- Courteney J. O'Connor * LSE Review of Books *"An exciting and ambitious effort. Students of Ecuador (and Latin America, more broadly) and US foreign policy, as well as policing and intelligence, will learn a great deal from this book." -- Stuart Schrader * Radical Americas *"Sourcing is excellent...this book stands as an excellent example of how historians can mine FBI files for information beyond the bureau." -- Douglas M. Charles * Journal of American History *"Highly original and well-researched account . . . An interesting and detailed history of the mid-century Ecuadorian left." -- Max Paul Friedman * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"This book stands as an excellent example of how historians can mine FBI files for information beyond the bureau." -- Douglas M. Charles * Journal of American History *"A model for the innovative use of primary sources to explore multiple perspectives in history. . . . Becker deftly balances background information with detail and analysis, making the work useful and readable for scholars from many different fields. . . . Essential reading for scholars interested in twentieth-century Ecuadorian history, the history of the Latin American left, or the history of US surveillance in Latin America." -- Erin E. O'Connor * The Americas *"Marc Becker's The FBI in Latin America adds an important dimension to our understanding of U.S. interventions in Latin America . . . .Becker’s work is an important contribution to the historiography of U.S.-Latin American relations, groundbreaking in the sense that it puts the FBI (not the CIA) at the heart of the earliest intelligence gathering by an agency of the U.S. government." -- Kenneth Kincaid * Against the Current *"The FBI in Latin America is a compelling history that will no doubt spawn similar studies on other countries in the region. Through the use of a fascinating and revealing set of sources, Becker is able to capture a particularly important moment in the emergence of the US as a post-WWII imperial power while simultaneously enriching our understanding of the Latin American left on the eve of its Cold War demise. This well-written book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of Latin America, US foreign policy, the Cold War, and the political left." -- Steve Striffler * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction. FBI 1 1. SIS 17 2. Communism 53 3. Labor 95 4. La Gloriosa 125 5. Constitution 157 6. Coup 193 7. Departures 223 Conclusion. Cold War 249 Notes 259 Bibliography 299 Index 311

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Book SynopsisKatherine Verdery analyzes the 2,781 page surveillance file the Romanian secret police compiled on her during her research trips to Transylvania in the 1970s and 1980s. Reading it led her to question her identity and also revealed how deeply the secret police was embedded in everyday life.Trade Review"A memoir with the exciting elements of an espionage thriller. . . . This work of anthropological intrigue shows the author’s academic coming-of-age." -- Karl Helicher * Foreword Reviews *"Fascinating, thoughtful and occasionally riveting." -- James Ryerson * New York Times Book Review *"Coming from such a distinguished academic, Verdery’s brutally honest description of herself, including as a naive and careless young scholar, is stunning. Few books reflect so frankly and so powerfully on the nature and complications of an academic career." * Foreign Affairs *"This book raises provocative points about the effect of surveillance that will appeal to most readers." -- Laurie Unger Skinner * Library Journal *"To read one’s police file is—suddenly—to have the curtain pulled open. The self you think you know becomes a mask, concealing a devious somebody else whose relationships are mere espionage fakes. . . . [An] unforgettable book." -- Neal Ascherson * London Review of Books *"This book constitutes an excellent, detailed foray into the workings of a surveillance state in the Soviet bloc. But ultimately, this book’s strength emerges from its transparency concerning anthropological methodologies, an openness that comprises a foundational read for not only anthropology students but also for any social scientist working in post-socialist states." -- Sabrina Papazian * EuropeNow *"Surely one of the finest and most thoughtful accounts of modern surveillance that we possess." -- Mark Mazower * TLS *"Joining a growing body of literature based on secret police archival documents, Verdery’s book stands out as she deploys her craft of anthropologist to examine the unexpected material. . . . By investigating one of its most elusive yet powerful apparatuses, the Securitate, Verdery creates an enthralling ethnography of the Communist state. . . . My Life as a Spy will teach anthropology, sociology, and history students much about methodology, and it is exemplary in exposing the dilemmas inherent in that methodology." -- Irina Culic * American Ethnologist *"My Life as a Spy is Verdery’s masterpiece. . . . This is a book that should be read by all anthropologists and taught across the globe – a beautifully written, deeply engaged and engaging text that shows just what a wonderful and revelatory discipline anthropology can be when in the hands of committed and resourceful scholars." -- Michael Stewart * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"This captivating memoir is like none I have read before. . . . A masterpiece." -- Kate Brown * Slavic Review *"Every anthropologist should read this book." -- Steven Sampson * PoLAR *Table of ContentsPreface xi A Note of Fonts, Pseudonyms, and Pronunciation xiii Acknowledgments xv Prologue 1 Part I. Research under Surveillance 1. The 1970s: "The Folklorist" as Military Spy 33 2. The 1980s: The Enemy's Many Masks 111 Excursus. Reflections on Reading One's File 181 Part II. Inside the Mechanisms of Surveillance 3. Revelations 195 4. Ruminations 277 Epilogue 295 Notes 299 Bibliography 309 Index 315

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘It’s no secret organizational scholars have not paid enough attention to the more hidden organizations in our world, but Personnel Management in Secret Service Organizations blows the cover (in a good way) of the people at the heart of these clandestine agencies. The authors not-so-covertly apply their tradecraft about personnel management to undercover workers like spies, intelligence officers/analysts, and secret agents. The result is a fascinating and insightful intelligence report about these unique occupations and their historical/contemporary relevance.’ -- Craig R. Scott, The University of Texas at Austin, US‘This book provides a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain into the secret world of spies, viewed through the lens of personnel management. Based mainly on the biographies or autobiographies of former intelligence workers in a wide variety of agencies, it provides a valuable addition to the intelligence studies literature whilst opening up new vistas in management and organization studies. A highly readable, innovative and informative study which will appeal to a wide audience of academics and non-academics alike.’ -- Christopher Grey, Emeritus Professor of Organization Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: List of intelligence officers and agents List of secret service organizations 1. The study 2. Getting selected 3. Recruitment processes 4. The Office 5. Training 6. Line management 7. Rewards and sanctions 8. Termination 9. Personnel management in secret service organizations (compared with standard organizations) References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘It’s no secret organizational scholars have not paid enough attention to the more hidden organizations in our world, but Personnel Management in Secret Service Organizations blows the cover (in a good way) of the people at the heart of these clandestine agencies. The authors not-so-covertly apply their tradecraft about personnel management to undercover workers like spies, intelligence officers/analysts, and secret agents. The result is a fascinating and insightful intelligence report about these unique occupations and their historical/contemporary relevance.’ -- Craig R. Scott, The University of Texas at Austin, US‘This book provides a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain into the secret world of spies, viewed through the lens of personnel management. Based mainly on the biographies or autobiographies of former intelligence workers in a wide variety of agencies, it provides a valuable addition to the intelligence studies literature whilst opening up new vistas in management and organization studies. A highly readable, innovative and informative study which will appeal to a wide audience of academics and non-academics alike.’ -- Christopher Grey, Emeritus Professor of Organization Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: List of intelligence officers and agents List of secret service organizations 1. The study 2. Getting selected 3. Recruitment processes 4. The Office 5. Training 6. Line management 7. Rewards and sanctions 8. Termination 9. Personnel management in secret service organizations (compared with standard organizations) References Index

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Book SynopsisA two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist's investigation of the deep state.Trade Review"Pulitzer-winner David Rohde dismisses the Deep State theory–but also shows government does pursue entrenched interests… Under the subtitle “The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth About America’s ‘Deep State’”, the two-time Pulitzer-winner rejects the nomenclature of conspiracy theorists." -- The Guardian"…when the author gets to Trump… the two disparate threads of his narrative come neatly together. Here Rohde skilfully makes clear that it is precisely by pedalling the myth of the Deep State that the President has been able to undermine efforts at oversight." -- Lawrence Douglas - TLS"… a tour of the decades-long effort to square that most unsquareable of democratic challenges: how to run clandestine intelligence and security agencies in a system that is ostensibly accountable to the people." -- Peter Spiegel - Financial Times"David Rohde’s In Deep demolished the theory of the “deep state”." -- 2020 in US politics books - The Guardian"In Deepis a compassionate critique of the simmering grievance that has now found its way to the White House, where it threatens to upend the tenets of American democracy: truth, justice, and, above all, the rule of law. Reported in stunning and tenacious detail, In Deep is a wholly satisfying read—and a necessary one for anyone wanting to understand the forces at play in our government today." -- Andrea Bernstein, Peabody Award–winning co-host of the WNYC/ProPublica podcast Trump, Inc. and author of American Oligarchs ."David Rohde has written a remarkable book that is both urgent reporting and sweeping history. He brings the same vitality and precision that animated his storied reporting on war zones to this portrait of the decades-long battle over the powers of the intelligence community, and the erosion—under recent administrations of both parties—of rules put in place to protect American citizens’ rights. And he brings fresh insight to the phrase ‘deep state,’ and the role it may play in the future of American politics." -- Ronan Farrow, author of Catch and Kill

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Book SynopsisIntriguing, real-life espionage stories bring to life a comparative history of the Allies' efforts to seize, control, and exploit German science and technology after the Second World War. During the Second World War, German science and technology posed a terrifying threat to the Allied nations. These advanced weapons, which included rockets, V-2 missiles, tanks, submarines, and jet airplanes, gave troubling credence to Nazi propaganda about forthcoming wonder-weapons that would turn the war decisively in favor of the Axis. After the war ended, the Allied powers raced to seize intellectual reparations from almost every field of industrial technology and academic science in occupied Germany. It was likely the largest-scale technology transfer in history. In Taking Nazi Technology, Douglas M. O'Reagan describes how the Western Allies gathered teams of experts to scour defeated Germany, seeking industrial secrets and the technical personnel who could explain them. Swarms of investigatoTrade ReviewTaking Nazi Technology details what the Americans found when they began looting Nazi Germany. At a time when the United States has become deeply insecure about its technological leadership, the story has important lessons for policymakers.—National InterestO'Reagan's masterful study of the Allies' technology transfer in all four zones and in all of its many facets, successes, and shortcomings is a most welcome contribution to Allied occupation history and to the history of technology in general.—Physics Today[Taking Nazi Technology] provides a wide-ranging view of the scientific and technological exploitation carried out by all four of the powers that occupied Germany in 1945, without losing depth, nuance, or historical context. This is a story that has not been widely told before, and where it has been, its telling has generally been uneven, speculative, sensationalized, or all three. O'Reagan explains the policies and plans that underpinned these dramatic tales and fits them into the broader historical concepts to which they relate.—ScienceO'Reagan has done an important service to move the literature beyond the narratives surrounding individual programs and toward new and bigger themes.—Historical Studies in the Natural SciencesA very interesting new book.—Lawyers, Guns & MoneyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. American Exploitation Programs: High Hopes, Narrow Gains, and Long-Term LessonsChapter 2. British Scientific Exploitation and the Allure of German Know-HowChapter 3. French Planning for German Science: Student Spies and Exploitation in PlaceChapter 4. Soviet Reparations and the Seizure of German Science and TechnologyChapter 5. Academic Science and the Reconstruction of GermanyChapter 6. Documentation and Information Technology: Dealing with Information OverloadChapter 7. Legacies of Intellectual Reparations Programs: Industrial Know-How in the Postwar WorldConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIntriguing, real-life espionage stories bring to life a comparative history of the Allies' efforts to seize, control, and exploit German science and technology after the Second World War. During the Second World War, German science and technology posed a terrifying threat to the Allied nations. These advanced weapons, which included rockets, V-2 missiles, tanks, submarines, and jet airplanes, gave troubling credence to Nazi propaganda about forthcoming wonder-weapons that would turn the war decisively in favor of the Axis. After the war ended, the Allied powers raced to seize intellectual reparations from almost every field of industrial technology and academic science in occupied Germany. It was likely the largest-scale technology transfer in history. In Taking Nazi Technology, Douglas M. O'Reagan describes how the Western Allies gathered teams of experts to scour defeated Germany, seeking industrial secrets and the technical personnel who could explain them. Swarms of investigatoTrade ReviewTaking Nazi Technology details what the Americans found when they began looting Nazi Germany. At a time when the United States has become deeply insecure about its technological leadership, the story has important lessons for policymakers.—National InterestO'Reagan's masterful study of the Allies' technology transfer in all four zones and in all of its many facets, successes, and shortcomings is a most welcome contribution to Allied occupation history and to the history of technology in general.—Physics Today[Taking Nazi Technology] provides a wide-ranging view of the scientific and technological exploitation carried out by all four of the powers that occupied Germany in 1945, without losing depth, nuance, or historical context. This is a story that has not been widely told before, and where it has been, its telling has generally been uneven, speculative, sensationalized, or all three. O'Reagan explains the policies and plans that underpinned these dramatic tales and fits them into the broader historical concepts to which they relate.—ScienceO'Reagan has done an important service to move the literature beyond the narratives surrounding individual programs and toward new and bigger themes.—Historical Studies in the Natural SciencesA very interesting new book.—Lawyers, Guns & MoneyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. American Exploitation Programs: High Hopes, Narrow Gains, and Long-Term LessonsChapter 2. British Scientific Exploitation and the Allure of German Know-HowChapter 3. French Planning for German Science: Student Spies and Exploitation in PlaceChapter 4. Soviet Reparations and the Seizure of German Science and TechnologyChapter 5. Academic Science and the Reconstruction of GermanyChapter 6. Documentation and Information Technology: Dealing with Information OverloadChapter 7. Legacies of Intellectual Reparations Programs: Industrial Know-How in the Postwar WorldConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisO''Rourke''s book offers a onestop shop for understanding foreignimposed regime change. Covert Regime Change is an impressive book and required reading for anyone interested in understanding hidden power in world politics.? Political Science QuarterlyStates seldom resort to war to overthrow their adversaries. They are more likely to attempt to covertly change the opposing regime, by assassinating a foreign leader, sponsoring a coup d''état, meddling in a democratic election, or secretly aiding foreign dissident groups.In Covert Regime Change, Lindsey A. O''Rourke shows us how states really act when trying to overthrow another state. She argues that conventional focus on overt cases misses the basic causes of regime change. O''Rourke provides substantive evidence of types of security interests that drive states to intervene. Offensive operations aim to overthrow a current military rival or break up a rival alliance. PreventTrade ReviewAny debate over the relative merits and demerits of regime change as a legitimate tool of foreign-policy needs to begin with Lindsey A. O'Rourke's fantastic book. It's a well-written, important work that should productively inform foreign-policy debates going forward. Essential reading. * The National Interest *This is a book for scholars and policy makers; the footnotes are copious and extensive. * Choice *Covert Regime Change is a valuable book that sheds light on an important issue. * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *Unlike many other books built around accounts of CIA plots, Covert Regime Change takes a scholarly and quantitative approach. It provides charts, graphs, and data sets. Meticulous analysis makes this not the quickest read of any book on the subject, but certainly one of the best informed. O'Rourke injects a dose of rigorous analysis into a debate that is often based on emotion. * Global Research *O'Rourke's work provides ample evidence that attempts at forcible regime-change are unlikely to achieve desired ends at a reasonable cost. * Christopher Preble, War on the Rocks *Well researched and argued, it places the initial debate over covert action within the national security decisionmaking process during the first years of the Cold War. * International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence *In this well-researched and clearly written book, Lindsay A. O'Rourke vigorously argues that during the Cold War U.S. officials repeatedly launched covert interventions in foreign countries, even though most of the operations failed to effect regime changes, because the officials saw them as cheap ways to enhance U.S. security and power.... A well-executed, valuable study. * Journal of American History *O'Rourke's book offers a onestop shop for understanding foreignimposed regime change. Covert Regime Change is an impressive book and required reading for anyone interested in understanding hidden power in world politics. * Political Science Quarterly *O'Rourke's contribution to the history of US foreign relations, intelligence history, and international relations theory is not just valuable but also original. O'Rourke's dataset identifies more than 60 covert efforts to bring about regime change... pursued by the United States between 1947 and 1989. Few authors have sought to chronicle and analyze them as comprehensively and systematically as O'Rourke, and no one has succeeded as she has. We owe her a great debt. * Parameters *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments 1. The False Promise of Covert Regime Change 2. Causes: Why Do States Launch Regime Changes? 3. Conduct: Why Do States Intervene Covertly versus Overtly? 4. Consequences: How Effective Are Covert Regime Changes? 5. Overview of U.S.-backed Regime Changes during the Cold War 6. Rolling Back the Iron Curtain 7. Containment, Coup d'état and the Covert War in Vietnam 8. Dictators and Democrats in the Dominican Republic 9. Covert Regime Change after the Cold War Notes Index

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Book SynopsisCanada is a key member of the world's most important international intelligence-sharing partnership, the Five Eyes, along with the US, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia. Until now, few scholars have looked beyond the US to study how effectively intelligence analysts support policy makers, who rely on timely, forward-thinking insights to shape high-level foreign, national security, and defense policy. Intelligence Analysis and Policy Making provides the first in-depth look at the relationship between intelligence and policy in Canada. Thomas Juneau and Stephanie Carvin, both former analysts in the Canadian national security sector, conducted seventy in-depth interviews with serving and retired policy and intelligence practitioners, at a time when Canada's intelligence community underwent sweeping institutional changes. Juneau and Carvin provide critical recommendations for improving intelligence performance in supporting policy—with implications for other countries that, like Canada, are not superpowers but small or mid-sized countries in need of intelligence that supports their unique interests. Trade Review"Intelligence Analysis and Policy Making is much more than a wire diagram of Canadian intelligence organizations. Carvin and Juneau reveal what analysts think about their work and how they interact with policy makers. Their answers are fascinating for students of intelligence, international relations, and Canadian national security policy."—Joshua Rovner, American University"Thomas Juneau and Stephanie Carvin offer an excellent and comprehensive assessment of the intelligence function in Canada and how it can continue to mature to guide sound policy making. A much-needed publication at a time when intelligence is at a premium to help guide the country in a challenging world."—Daniel Jean, former National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada

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Book SynopsisIn From Mandate to Blueprint, Thomas Fingar offers a guide for new federal government appointees faced with the complex task of rebuilding institutions and transitioning to a new administration. Synthesizing his own experience implementing the most comprehensive reforms to the national security establishment since 1947, Fingar provides crucial guidance to newly appointed officials. When Fingar was appointed the first Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis in 2005, he discovered the challenges of establishing a new federal agency and implementing sweeping reforms of intelligence procedure and performance. The mandate required prompt action but provided no guidance on how to achieve required and desirable changes. Fingar describes how he defined and prioritized the tasks involved in building and staffing a new organization, integrating and improving the work of sixteen agencies, and contending with pressure from powerful players. For appointees without the luxury of taking command of fully staffed and well-functioning federal agencies, From Mandate to Blueprint is an informed and practical guide for the challenges ahead.Trade Review"From Mandate to Blueprint should be required reading for all policy makers. The thought process and attention to detail that Tom Fingar provides are directly applicable to all aspects of policy making, not just intelligence reform. The tools are the same: people, mission, priorities, and end state. A must-read."—Richard Armitage, former Deputy Secretary of State"There is no better time for this thoughtful, essential book to instruct government servants on what to know and do, through Tom Fingar's trenchant examples from fixing US intelligence. From Mandate to Blueprint is a must-read for old hands and newbies in public service."—Thomas R. Pickering, former Under Secretary of State and Ambassador to the UN, Russia, India and Israel"From Mandate to Blueprint provides timely insight into the challenges facing new federal appointees. Drawing on decades of experience in bureaucratic structures, Tom Fingar shares lessons learned in the aftermath of 9/11. This book should become a valuable reference work for the intelligence community."—Charles S. Robb, co-chair of the WMD Commission"The smooth running of government has been under siege for some time. A new team gives us the opportunity to halt and change direction. With From Mandate to Blueprint, Tom Fingar takes lessons he learned from intelligence reform and broadens them for today."—General Michael V. Hayden (Ret.), former Director, CIA and NSATable of ContentsIntroduction: From Mandate to Blueprint Intelligence Reform: Unique Opportunity or Fool's Errand? Sliding Toward an Offer I Couldn't Refuse Blank White Board and Ticking Clock Building a Team and Building Support Translating Ideas into Actions Organizing Themes and Goals Think Big, Start Small, Fail Cheap, Fix Fast Taking Stock Training and Tradecraft Transforming the PDB into a Community Product Management of the Analysis Mission Transforming Analysis Roads Not Taken Reflections and Lessons Lessons for New Appointees

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Book SynopsisCanada is a key member of the world's most important international intelligence-sharing partnership, the Five Eyes, along with the US, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia. Until now, few scholars have looked beyond the US to study how effectively intelligence analysts support policy makers, who rely on timely, forward-thinking insights to shape high-level foreign, national security, and defense policy. Intelligence Analysis and Policy Making provides the first in-depth look at the relationship between intelligence and policy in Canada. Thomas Juneau and Stephanie Carvin, both former analysts in the Canadian national security sector, conducted seventy in-depth interviews with serving and retired policy and intelligence practitioners, at a time when Canada's intelligence community underwent sweeping institutional changes. Juneau and Carvin provide critical recommendations for improving intelligence performance in supporting policy—with implications for other countries that, like Canada, are not superpowers but small or mid-sized countries in need of intelligence that supports their unique interests. Trade Review"Intelligence Analysis and Policy Making is much more than a wire diagram of Canadian intelligence organizations. Carvin and Juneau reveal what analysts think about their work and how they interact with policy makers. Their answers are fascinating for students of intelligence, international relations, and Canadian national security policy."—Joshua Rovner, American University"Thomas Juneau and Stephanie Carvin offer an excellent and comprehensive assessment of the intelligence function in Canada and how it can continue to mature to guide sound policy making. A much-needed publication at a time when intelligence is at a premium to help guide the country in a challenging world."—Daniel Jean, former National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada

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Book SynopsisSecurity intelligence continues to be of central importance to the contemporary world: individuals, organizations and states all seek timely and actionable intelligence in order to increase their sense of security. But what exactly is intelligence? Who seeks to develop it and to what ends? How can we ensure that intelligence is not abused? In this third edition of their classic text, Peter Gill and Mark Phythian set out a comprehensive framework for the study of intelligence, discussing how states organize the collection and analysis of information in order to produce intelligence, how it is acted upon, why it may fail and how the process should be governed in order to uphold democratic rights. Fully revised and updated throughout, the book covers recent developments, including the impact of the Snowden leaks on the role of intelligence agencies in Internet and social media surveillance and in defensive and offensive cyber operations, and the legal and political arrangements for democratic control. The role of intelligence as part of ‘hybrid’ warfare in the case of Russia and Ukraine is also explored, and the problems facing intelligence in the realm of counterterrorism is considered in the context of the recent wave of attacks in Western Europe. Intelligence in an Insecure World is an authoritative and accessible guide to a rapidly expanding area of inquiry – one that everyone has an interest in understanding.Trade Review"This excellent survey by two leaders in the field is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand intelligence, secrecy and surveillance, together with its linkage to issues of democratic rights and civil liberties."—Richard J. Aldrich, University of Warwick "Peter Gill and Mark Phythian capture an increasingly vibrant field in way that is both sophisticated and accessible. This third edition engages with the latest theoretical and policy debates on intelligence based on contemporary and diverse cases."—Damien Van Puyvelde, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsList of Figures, Tables and Boxes Preface Abbreviations 1. What is Intelligence? 2. How Do We Understand Intelligence? 3. Who does Intelligence? 4. How do they gather information? 5. How is information turned into intelligence? 6. What do they do with intelligence? 7 Why Does Intelligence Fail? 8 How democratic can intelligence be? 9 Intelligence for a more secure world? Notes Selected Further Reading

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Book SynopsisA rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates The United States is a nation of foodies and food activists, many of them progressives, and yet their overwhelming concern for what they consume often hinders their engagement with social justice more broadly. Food Justice Now! charts a path from food activism to social justice activism that integrates the two. It calls on the food-focused to broaden and deepen their commitment to the struggle against structural inequalities both within and beyond the food system. In an engrossing, historically grounded, and ethnographically rich narrative, Joshua Sbicca argues that food justice is more than just a myopic focus on food, allowing scholars and activists alike to investigate the causes behind inequities and evaluate and implement political strategies to overcome them. Focusing on carceral, labor, and immigration crises, Sbicca tells the stories of three California-based food movement organizations, showing that when activists use food to confront neoliberal capitalism and institutional racism, they can creatively expand how to practice and achieve food justice.Sbicca sets his central argument in opposition to apolitical and individual solutions, discussing national food movement campaigns and the need for economically and racially just food policies—a matter of vital public concern with deep implications for building collective power across a diversity of interests.Trade Review"By highlighting sites where justice, rather than food, is the primary motivator of social action, Joshua Sbicca’s timely and important book takes the conversation about food justice exactly where it needs to go."—Julie Guthman, co-editor of The New Food Activism: Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action"Can a food justice dialectics with a ‘radical imagination’ and strategies for change ameliorate economic and ethnoracial inequities? Joshua Sbicca’s searching analysis broadens food politics to new terrains of social movement building and struggle essential given today’s revanchist politics."—Julian Agyeman, Tufts University"Sbicca sees food justice as a universal cause that can unite and inspire broader social change, and his book provides a blueprint for activists who agree."—Civil Eats"This is an academic book but well worth reading for anyone who cares about building a movement with power to change food systems."—Food Politics"Sbicca challenges scholars and activists to locate the true causes of inequities and develop political strategies or social actions to overcome these causes."—Food Tank"Joshua Sbicca’s Food Justice Now! Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle calls for a radical new food politics led by social justice, which focuses its attention broadly on the roots of structural inequalities in the food system and beyond."—Antipode"Sbicca’s book stands out for its challenge to us to change both the way we think about food politics and about what counts as justice. We each came away from this book with a profound feeling that this work is fresh, necessary, and a long time coming."—Agriculture and Human Values"Food Justice Now! should be on every planner’s list to read this year. The book serves as a primer on food justice and its far-reaching effects to all parts of our society in the United States."—Carolina Planning Journal"Sbicca pushes the boundaries of the food justice movement forward in arguing for reformative modes of social relationships and organization to address institutional racism and neoliberal capitalism."—Food, Culture & SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Food as Social Justice Politics1. Inequality and Resistance: The Legacy of Food and Justice Movements2. Opposing the Carceral State: Food-Based Prisoner Reentry Activism3. Taking Back the Economy: Fair Labor Relations and Food Worker Advocacy4. Immigration Food Fights: Challenging Borders and Bridging Social Boundaries5. Radicalizing Food Politics: Collective Power, Diversity, and SolidarityConclusion: Notes on the Future of Food JusticeAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Approach and DataNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisOn 9/11 the CIA changed. Once a organisation focused on information gathering, it became a militarised force. As Philip Mudd explains, at that time, came a different breed of prisoner, one who wanted to die but held information that could save thousands of lives. Out of this emerged what was referred to internally as “The Program”: a world web of secret detention centres that used “enhanced interrogation tactics”. A 2014 US Senate report exposed horrifying details from this “Program” but there were no details as to how officials came to their decisions, what happened daily at these “Black Sites” and how the officers felt about what they were doing. Mudd weaves stunning research, new interviews and his own account to illuminate the CIA at this most difficult time.

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Book SynopsisThis book breaks new ground in two important areas that have yet to be linked and explored by any JFK-assassination historian. John Koerner argues that the CIA's secret drug trade in Laos, and the president's effort to end it, provided the primary motive that the CIA needed to assassinate the president. A lot of effort has been made to examine the president's Vietnam policy, but precious little attention has been paid to the opium trade in Laos that was making the CIA wealthy and powerful beyond its wildest dreams. This book chronicles the president's secret war with the CIA over Laos, a high-stakes game that cost him his life. Koerner also links the JFK assassination and the drug trade with the other three major assassinations of the 1960s: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy. We will see that all four of the assassinations are linked together, all funded and executed by the CIA to silence the four most vocal leaders who were opposed to the agency's pro-war and pro-drug policy in Laos and Vietnam. Finally, Koerner examines the impact this has had on the course of history, and imagines a world where these men had lived.

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This Research Agenda explores the academic field of intelligence studies and how it is developing into an increasingly international and diverse area of study.As more governments release records, and as new generations of scholars engage with the topic from a range of perspectives, the book considers how the field is becoming richer, wider, and more global in scope. Featuring contributions by a diverse range of leading intelligence scholars, it surveys a variety of core areas in, and approaches to, the study of intelligence - including technological perspectives, gender, deception, and the ‘deep state’ - highlighting how intelligence will become a greater feature of government and security in the future. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book explores not only the established elements of intelligence studies, but analyses the cutting edge of intelligence research and proposes an agenda for the continued development of the field.Offering concise and accessible discussions of developing topics in intelligence studies, this Research Agenda will be a useful guide for scholars and students of public policy, international relations and security. It will also be of interest to professionals engaged in research into security and intelligence matters.Trade Review‘Intelligence studies now expands well beyond the realm of traditional espionage into international affairs, digital media, AI and big data, private sector analysis and many other areas. Dover, Dylan and Goodman, experienced scholars, have given us the essential guide we need to the state of modern intelligence studies and its future direction.’ -- Sir David Omand, King's College London and former Director GCHQ, UK‘Intelligence studies now expands well beyond the realm of traditional espionage into international affairs, digital media, AI and big data, private sector analysis and many other areas. Dover, Dylan and Goodman, experienced scholars, have given us the essential guide we need to the state of modern intelligence studies and its future direction.’ -- Sir David Omand, King's College London and former Director GCHQ, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Intelligence Studies and Government 1 Robert Dover, Huw Dylan and Michael S. Goodman PART I EMERGING RESEARCH TRENDS IN INTELLIGENCE STUDIES 2 Critical Security and Intelligence Studies 9 Claudia Aradau and Emma McCluskey 3 Culture in Intelligence Studies 21 Simon Willmetts 4 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Intelligence Studies 35 Huw Bennett and Claudia Hillebrand 5 AI and Ethics in Intelligence 49 Sarah Mainwaring 6 Intelligence Leadership 63 Patrick F. Walsh PART II THE GAPS IN OUR UNDERSTANDING 7 Intelligence and Biosecurity 79 Filippa Lentzos 8 Global Intelligence Studies 93 Daniela Richterova 9 Private Sector Intelligence 103 Damien Van Puyvelde and Sonia Sangiovanni 10 The Impact of Technology on Intelligence Analysis 113 Kathleen M. Vogel PART III REFRAMING INTELLIGENCE STUDIES 11 Why Intelligence Analysts Need to Write Long Papers 127 Tim Dickens 12 Deception and Intelligence in Peace and War 141 Gary Buck and Huw Dylan 13 The Deep State: Definitional Debates and Impacts 155 Robert Dover 14 Teaching Intelligence: Decolonisation, (Distance) Education and the Global Student 167 Helen Dexter 15 Post-Modern Archival Research 181 Berenice Burnett Bibliography 193 Index

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Book SynopsisPresenting a thorough examination of intelligence activities in international law, Sophie Duroy provides theoretical and empirical justifications to support the cutting-edge claim that states’ compliance with international law in intelligence matters serves their national security interests. This book theorises the regulation of intelligence activities under international law, identifying three layers of regulation: a clear legal framework governing intelligence activities (legality); a capacity to enforce state responsibility (accountability); and the integration of legality and accountability into responsive regulation by the international legal order (compliance). The empirical relevance of these three layers of regulation is demonstrated through in-depth case studies of state responsibility in the CIA-led war on terror and an analysis of the accountability of Djibouti, the Gambia, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States for conduct in the CIA-led war on terror. Overall, the author shows that the most reliable path to long-term national security is the effective regulation of intelligence activities under international law. Making an original contribution to existing theories of compliance and regulation, as well as the law of state responsibility and its enforcement, this book will be essential for students and scholars of public international law, human rights, intelligence and security studies, and international relations. It will also be a valuable resource for practitioners of international law with an interest in intelligence, state responsibility, and terrorism and security law.Trade Review‘This exceptionally rich book deals with important and topical issues of international law and human rights, namely the international law governing intelligence agencies and their oversight, as well as accountability for the phenomenon of secret detention and torture in the so-called war on terror. It manages to combine the treatment of these two themes into a single coherent line of research. But the study does much more than that. It is methodologically highly diverse and advanced, combining doctrinal legal analysis with behavioural approaches concerning state compliance and developing models of semi-quantification and network analysis to explain why and how accountability matters for whether states choose to comply with international law. On the basis of these different but intertwined lines of research, it then argues that compliance with international law serves the national security interests of states. The outcome is highly impressive, signalling the author’s emergence as a prominent scholar, an innovative and original thinker, and a theorist.’ -- Martin Scheinin, University of Oxford, UK‘International regulation of the second oldest profession was long characterised by hypocrisy: states denounced what they routinely (if clandestinely) did themselves. In this book, Sophie Duroy argues that the years after September 11, 2001, put enormous pressure on the nascent norms regulating intelligence activities — and, counter-intuitively, strengthened those norms as a result.’ -- Simon Chesterman, National University of Singapore‘Dr Duroy’s book provides a sophisticated analysis of the application of international law to the work of the intelligence community. But more than that, it explores how states can be held accountable for their unlawful intelligence activities. By focusing on issues of accountability and compliance, this book brings new research to the debate and should be widely read by security studies scholars, international lawyers, practitioners, and policymakers.’ -- Russell Buchan, University of Sheffield, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to The Regulation of Intelligence Activities under International Law PART I LEGALITY 2. Intelligence activities and international law 3. Mapping state responsibility in the CIA war on terror PART II ACCOUNTABILITY 4. International legal accountability for an internationally wrongful act resulting from intelligence activities 5. Effective accountability 6. International legal accountability in the CIA war on terror PART III COMPLIANCE 7. State compliance with international law in intelligence matters: a behavioural approach 8. Epilogue: comprehensive regulation in the twenty-first-century security landscape Index

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Book SynopsisShows how mid-Victorian efforts to gather information about the Fenians laid the foundation for later British domestic intelligence in both Ireland and mainland Britain.

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Book SynopsisThis book reveals the development, strategy and extraordinary success of Britains secret services in Francos Spain during the Second World War. The main claim of this study is that British pressure, exercised above all through their intelligence services, led Franco to distance himself from the Axis cause and eventually embrace that of the Allies. Starting from a virtually non-existent base, the British rapidly built up a complex intelligence network in Spain that stretched from Corunna to Barcelona and from Bilbao to Gibraltar. As Spain was a non-belligerent, spy networks including those of the Germans, Italians, Portuguese and British proliferated in the Iberian Peninsula. Double-agents abounded within these networks; each one knew what the others were up to. The British exploited this two-way traffic to let Franco know that if he did not accede to their demands, they would back a restoration of the Bourbon monarchy under Don Juan. This pressure culminated in the meeting of 1943 between Franco and the British Ambassador, Sir Samuel Hoare, at the dictators country retreat in Galicia, the British underlining their purpose by flying warplanes close by the estate. Following this meeting, Franco almost immediately began to move away from the Axis powers and towards the Allies. The British swiftly dismantled their intelligence networks given that they had achieved their aim. Francos expulsion of the German naval forces from Spanish ports and the denazification of the regime explains the benevolent attitude of the Allies towards the Spanish dictatorship after the war. Throughout this whole process, the British secret service, as this extensively researched study uncovers, played a crucial role.

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Book SynopsisThis book reveals the development, strategy and extraordinary success of Britains secret services in Francos Spain during the Second World War. The main claim of this study is that British pressure, exercised above all through their intelligence services, led Franco to distance himself from the Axis cause and eventually embrace that of the Allies. Starting from a virtually non-existent base, the British rapidly built up a complex intelligence network in Spain that stretched from Corunna to Barcelona and from Bilbao to Gibraltar. As Spain was a non-belligerent, spy networks including those of the Germans, Italians, Portuguese and British proliferated in the Iberian Peninsula. Double-agents abounded within these networks; each one knew what the others were up to. The British exploited this two-way traffic to let Franco know that if he did not accede to their demands, they would back a restoration of the Bourbon monarchy under Don Juan. This pressure culminated in the meeting of 1943 between Franco and the British Ambassador, Sir Samuel Hoare, at the dictators country retreat in Galicia, the British underlining their purpose by flying warplanes close by the estate. Following this meeting, Franco almost immediately began to move away from the Axis powers and towards the Allies. The British swiftly dismantled their intelligence networks given that they had achieved their aim. Francos expulsion of the German naval forces from Spanish ports and the denazification of the regime explains the benevolent attitude of the Allies towards the Spanish dictatorship after the war. Throughout this whole process, the British secret service, as this extensively researched study uncovers, played a crucial role.

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Book SynopsisOur fascination with spies, both real and fictional, seems endless. But when and where did the history of espionage begin, and how has the craft of spying evolved over the centuries? Spies in History is a collection of portraits featuring some of the most famous spies, as well as lesser-known and more surprising figures

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines intelligence services since 1945 in their role as knowledge producers.Intelligence agencies are producers and providers of arcane information. However, little is known about the social, cultural and material dimensions of their knowledge production, processing and distribution. This volume starts from the assumption that during the Cold War, these core activities of information services underwent decisive changes, of which scientization and computerisation are essential. With a focus on the emerging alliances between intelligence agencies, science and (computer) technology, the chapters empirically explore these transformations and are characterised by innovative combinations of intelligence history with theoretical considerations from the history of science and technology and the history of knowledge.At the same time, the book challenges the bipolarity of Cold War history in general and of intelligence history in particular in favour of comparativTable of ContentsThe Knowledge of Intelligence Agencies in the Cold War World: An Introduction Rüdiger Bergien, Debora Gerstenberger, and Constantin Goschler 1. Compromised Cooperation: Researchers on Eastern Europe in the Service of Intelligence in West Germany after 1945 Thomas Wolf 2. Dogma versus Progress: KGB’s Scientific and Technological Surveillance (In-) Capacities from the 1960s to the 1980s Evgenia Lezina 3. Mission Impossible: The Difficult Consolidation of Strategic Intelligence in the United States During the Cold War Andreas Lutsch 4. American Security Databases and the Production of Space, 1967–1974: Enhancing or Obscuring Patterns? Jens Wegener 5. Knowledge Transfer and Technopolitics: The CIA, the West German Intelligence Service, and the Digitization of Information Processing in the 1960s Rüdiger Bergien 6. Information Technology is Power: The Intelligence Service’s Grab for the Digital Computing Sector in Brazil Marcelo Vianna 7. The Computer as Document Shredder: Video Terminals and the Dawn of a New Era of Knowledge Production in Brazil’s Serviço Nacional de Informações (SNI) Debora Gerstenberger 8. Turkish Intelligence, Surveillance and the Secrets of the Cold War: Blocked Modernization? Egemen Bezci 9. Solid Modernity: Data Storage and Information Circuits in the Communist Security Police in Poland Franciszek Dabrowski 10. Perceptions of Digital Computers at the German Domestic Intelligence Service: Eliminating the Human Factor? Christopher Kirchberg 11. Global Intelligence Academies: Information Schools during the Civil-Military Dictatorship in Brazil Samantha Viz Quadrat 12. Intelligence Public Relations: The Annual Reports on the Protection of the Constitution in West Germany Marcel Schmeer Conclusion Rüdiger Bergien, Debora Gerstenberger, and Constantin Goschler

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