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Book SynopsisA two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning 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 - Times Literary Supplement"… 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." -- Financial Times"David Rohde’s In Deep demolished the theory of the “deep state”." -- 2020 in US politics books - The Guardian"Fascinating.... The idea of the deep state, Rohde writes, is inextricably linked to a particular view of presidential power.... After reading In Deep, one can’t help wondering how much Trump’s suspicion of and disdain for expertise and experience (and the so-called ‘policy elite’) has affected his response to the coronavirus. The sad policy question is: How many lives have been lost because of his belief in the deep state?" -- Dina Temple-Raston - The Washington Post"In Deep is 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 SynopsisA revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century virtuoso of espionageTrade Review“Mr. Morris’s dogged research—particularly into the shadowy intrigues that Reilly immersed himself in during the years surrounding World War I, the Russian Revolution and the founding of the Soviet Union—lends impressive rigor to this portrait of an often-cryptic figure.”—Diane Cole, Wall Street Journal“Benny Morris recounts the stranger-than-fiction biography of the famous British spy who lied his way through the turmoil of the early twentieth century and introduces a new generation of readers to a character more compelling than James Bond.”—Matti Friedman, author of Spies of No Country“Sidney Reilly adopted and shed identities as easily as he took and dropped wives, lovers, get-rich schemes, and plots. A remarkable book about a remarkable man, this will be the definitive biography of the early twentieth century’s preeminent spy.”—Gershom Gorenberg, author of War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East

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Book SynopsisIn The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Naomi Cahn, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Nahla Valji focus on the multidimensionality of gender in conflict, yet they also prioritize the experience of women given both the changing nature of war and the historical de-emphasis on women's experiences.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Editors and Contributors Biographies Forewords Introduction I. Background and Context 1. Theories of War Laura Sjoberg 2. From Women and War to Gender and Conflict? Feminist Trajectories Dubravka Zarkov 3. The Silences in the Rules that Regulate Women during Times of Armed Conflict Judith Gardam 4. How Should we Explain the Recurrence of Violent Conflict, and What Might Gender Have to do with it? Judy El-Bushra 5. The Gendered Nexus Between Conflict and Citizenship in Historical Perspective Jo Butterfield and Elizabeth Heineman 6. Violent Conflict and Changes in Gender Economic Roles: Implications for Post-Conflict Economic Recovery Patricia Justino 7. Men As Victims Chris Dolan II. The Security Council's WPS Agenda/Contemporary Survey 8. Women, Peace and Security: A Critical Analysis of the Security Council's Vision Dianne Otto 9. Participation and Protection: Security Council Dynamics, Bureaucratic Politics and the Evolution of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda Anne Marie Goetz and Rob Jenkins 10. A Critical Genealogy of the Centrality of Sexual Violence to Gender and Conflict Karen Engle 11. 1325 +15 = Reflections on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda Kimberly Theidon 12. Complemenentarity and Convergence? Women, Peace and Security and the Counterterrorism Agenda Naureen Chowdhury Fink and Alison Davidian 13. Convergence Between CEDAW and Security Council Resolution 1325: Unlocking the Potential of CEDAW as an Important Accountability Tool for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda Pramilla Patten 14. Indicators and Benchmarks Pablo Castillo-Diaz and Hanny Cueva-Beteta III. Legal and Political Elements 15. Humanitarian Intervention and Gender Dynamics Gina Heathcote 16. (Re)Considering the Gender Jurisprudence of Conflict Patricia Viseur Sellers 17. Complementarity as a Catalyst for Gender Justice in National Prosecutions Amrita Kapur 18. Forced Marriage During Conflict and Mass Atrocity Valerie Oosterveld 19. Advancing Justice and Making Amends through Reparations - Legal and Operational Considerations Kristin Kalla 20. Colonialism Amina Mama 21. Conflict, Displacement and Refugees Lucy Hovil 22. Gender and Forms of Conflict; The Moral Hazards of Dating the Security Council Vasuki Nesiah IV. Conflict and Post-Conflict Space 23. The Martial Rape of Girls and Women in Antiquity and Modernity Kathy L. Gaca 24. "Mind the Gap:" Measuring and Understanding Gendered Conflict Experiences Amelia Hoover Green 25. Intersectionality: Working in Conflict Eilish Rooney 26. Agency and Gender Norms in War Economies Patti Petesch 27. Risk and Resilience: The Physical and Mental Health of Female Civilians During War Lauren C. Ng and Theresa S. Betancourt 28. The Gender Implications of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Conflict Situations Barbara Frey 29. Unmanned Weapons: Looking for the Gender Dimension Christof Heyns and Tess Borden 30. Gender and Peacekeeping Sabrina Karim and Marsha Henry 31. Peacekeeping, Human Trafficking, and Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Martina Vandenberg 32. Women, Peace Negotiations and Peace Agreements: Opportunities and Challenges Christine Bell 33. Women's Organizations and Peace Initiatives Aili Mari Tripp 34. Gender and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration: Reviewing and Advancing the Field Dyan Mazurana, Roxanne Krystalli and Anton Baaré 35. Decolonial feminism, gender and transitional justice Pascha Bueno-Hansen 36. Gender and Governance in post-conflict and democratizing settings Lisa Kindervater and Sheila Meintjes V. Case Studies 37. Who Defines the Red Lines? The Prospects for Safeguarding Women's Rights and Securing their Future in Post-Transition Afghanistan Sari Kouvo and Corey Levine 38. "That's Not my Daughter": The Paradoxes of Documenting Jihadist Mass Rape in 1990's Algeria and Beyond Karima Bennoune 39. Consequences of Conflict Related Sexual Violence on Post-Conflict Society: Case Study of Bosnia and Herzegovina Lejla Hadzimesic 40. Colombia: Gender and Land Restitution Donny Meertens 41. Knowing Gender and/in Armed Conflict?: Reflections from Research in the DRC Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Stern 42. Northern Ireland: The Significance of A Bottom Up Women's Movement in a Politically Contested Society Monica McWilliams and Avila Kilmurray 43. Gendered Suffering and the Eviction of the Native: The Politics of Birth in Occupied East Jerusalem Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian 44. Rwanda: Women's Political Participation in Post-Conflict State-Building Doris Buss and Jerusa Ali 45. Sri Lanka: The Impact of Militarization on Women Ambika Satkunanathan

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Book SynopsisThe United States'' ignominious exit from Afghanistan in 2021 topped two decades of failure and devastation wrought by the war on terror. A long-running fight against migration has stoked chaos and rights abuses while pushing migrants onto more dangerous routes. For its part, the war on drugs has failed to dampen narcotics demand while fueling atrocities from Mexico to the Philippines. Why do such failing policies persist for so long? And why do politicians keep feeding the very crises they say they are combating?In Wreckonomics, Ruben Andersson and David Keen analyze why disastrous policies live on even when it has become apparent that they do not work. The perverse outcomes of the fights against terror, migration, and drugs are more than a blip or an anomaly. Rather, the proliferation of wars and pseudo-wars has become a dangerous political habit and an endless source of political advantage and profit. From combating crime to the war on drugs, from civil wars to global wars and even covid wars, chronic failure has been harnessed to the appearance of success. Over a wide variety of spheres, problems have persisted and worsened not so much despite the wars and fights waged against them as thanks to these floundering endeavors.Covering a range of cases around the world, Wreckonomics exposes and interrogates the incentive systems that allow destructive policies to flourish in the face of systemic failurewhile offering strategies for tackling our addiction to waging war on everything.Trade ReviewSomething's terribly wrong with our public policy. Tasked with managing migration, countering terrorism, and protecting us from pandemic disease, among other things, our institutions seem to thrive amid the wreckage. Ruben Andersson and David Keen explain why. Lively and cogent, Wreckonomics provides us with the lens and the language to make sense of how failure can be success, over and over again. * Alex de Waal, Executive Director, World Peace Foundation *To understand the perverse logic of why failing policies are nevertheless politically successful-ranging from the war on drugs to the war on terror-I cannot think of a better introduction than Wreckonomics. In this highly accessible and engaging book, Andersson and Keen provide a damning dissection of our extraordinarily costly and counterproductive addiction to militarized interventions. As we've reached the 20th anniversary of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and continue to live with its disastrous consequences-with the perpetrators not only not held accountable but highly rewarded-the book could not be a more timely and important contribution. * Peter Andreas, Brown University *Elegantly written, thought-provoking and persuasively argued. Andersson and Keen offer a powerful and incisive critique of the conventional narratives that have tended to dominate debate about the motives, dynamics, and effects of contemporary "wars and security interventions", forcing the reader to discard lazy assumptions and drawing their attention instead to mechanisms and logics that have served to perpetuate rather than meaningfully address many of the most urgent challenges facing humanity. * Mats Berdal, King's College London *Applying a sophisticated systems approach to issues spanning the globe, Wreckonomics makes major contributions to international relations and policy analysis. * Clifford Bob, author of Rights as Weapons, The Global Right Wing, and The Marketing of Rebellion *Based on outstanding original research, thought provoking in its conclusions and challenging in every chapter. * Harry Verhoeven, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and author of Why Comrades Go To War: Liberation Politics and The Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict *[A] deeply-researched and wide-ranging account of how, despite manifest failings, the wars on terror, drugs and migration are entrenched in Western policy as a kind of perma-crisis for which its principal architects are never held responsible. * Samuel Rutter, The Telegraph *Provocative and thought-provoking ... the authors make their important case made with verve and style. * Paschal Donohoe, Irish Times *A remarkable new book [that] paints a searing portrait of our era of sham politics and fake wars... couldn't be more timely as the world stumbles into 2024. * Richard Lofthouse, QUAD *Wreckonomics is not only an extensively researched argument against the war on everything; at its heart, it is a manifesto against simplicity ... it truly is a challenging read in the best sense of the word: we could all to with thinking more deeply about how to move beyond the war on everything. * Irish Independent *Table of Contents1.Crime Scene Investigation 2.Wreckonomics 101: How Failure Became the New Success 3.Cold War Games: When War Is a Self-Licking Ice-Cream Cone 4.A Life of Its Own: The "War on Terror" as Frankenstein's Monster 5.Double Games: Fear and Fraud in the Fight against Migration 6.Warriors on Drugs: How States Got Hooked on Narcotics and Crime 7.The Hall of Mirrors: The Distortion of Disastrous Interventions 8.Wreckonomics Goes Viral? The Costs of Laissez-Faire and Lockdown 9.How to End the War on Everything (In Four Complex Steps) 10.Waging Peace: How (Not) to Fight the System

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNuclear Decisions remains a valuable addition to the nuclear security literature and required reading for those that study the nature or domestic politics of nuclear weapons programs. * Christopher J. Watterson, Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament *Koch's Nuclear Decisions is an important addition to the scholarship on nuclear proliferation. * Rachel Whitlark, H-Diplo *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction to Nuclear Decisions Chapter 2: Proliferation Curves Chapter 3: A Theory of Nuclear Decision-Making Chapter 4: Changing Proliferation Environments across the Nuclear Age . Chapter 5: The Permissive Period: The Soviet Union, France, and Israel Chapter 6: The Transition Period: Sweden, South Korea, and India Chapter 7: The Nonproliferation Regime Period: Pakistan, South Africa, and Brazil Chapter 8: Changing the Course of Nuclear Weapons Programs References Appendix

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Book SynopsisAn account of the development of secrecy as a mode of regulation in American governance since World War I - how it was born, how world events shaped it, how it has adversely affected momentous political decisions and events, and how it has eluded efforts to curtail or end it.

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Book SynopsisThe real story of how Winston Churchill and the British mastered deception to defeat the Nazis - by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and using brains to outwit brawn. By June 1940, most of Europe had fallen to the Nazis and Britain stood alone. So, with Winston Churchill in charge the British bluffed their way out of trouble, drawing on the trickery which had helped them win the First World War. They broadcast outrageous British propaganda on pretend German radio stations, broke German secret codes and eavesdropped on their messages. Every German spy in Britain was captured and many were used to send back false information to their controllers. Forged documents misled their intelligence. Bogus wireless traffic from entire phantom armies, dummy airfields with model planes, disguised ships and inflatable rubber tanks created a vital illusion of strength. Culminating in the spectacular misdirection that was so essential to the success of D-Day in 1944, Churchill''s Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945 is a thrilling work of popular military history filled with almost unbelievable stories of bravery, creativity and deception. Nicholas Rankin is the author of Dead Man''s Chest, Telegram From Guernica and Ian Fleming''s Commandos. ''This is a story clamouring to be told. We could not have imagined the scope of the inventiveness, the daring of these people''s imaginations . . . I could not stop reading this book.'' Doris Lessing

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Book SynopsisAn explosive account of a secret group of mercenaries based on newly declassified documents.Trade Review'An excellent book' - Military History Matters'The pace and narrative are Le Carre-esque, but made even more compelling by the fact that the events are true' - Joe Glenton, ForcesWatch'Lifts the lid on KMS's activities and the men behind it' - Daily Mail'Very, very explosive' - Qasa Alom, BBC Asian Network'The UK's most important investigative journalist' - Mark Curtis, author of Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam'Remarkable' - Paul Rogers, Open Democracy'Miller pilots you into a twilight world, where the pioneers of a rapacious industry blaze a trail of death and destruction across the continents, with a nod and a wink from Whitehall. This is the riveting story of HMG’s dirty secret service: an investigative tour de force' - Jonathan Miller, Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Channel 4 News'Draws forensic inferences to create leads and story-trails' -- Irish Times'Compelling and accessible' -- CounterfireTable of ContentsAcronyms and Abbreviations Map of the Arabian Peninsula Map of Sri Lanka Timeline Photographs Acknowledgements Prologue Introduction: Return of the Privateers 1. White Sultan of Oman 2. Bodyguards and Business Building 3. Teenage Rebellions 4. The Upside Down Jeep 5. Oliver North’s British Mercenary 6. The Exploding Hospital 7. Mercenaries and Mujahideen 8. The English Pilot 9. Grenades in Wine Glasses 10. Bugger Off My Land! Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn uncovering of the terrifying depths of authoritarian power that hide behind the infamous story of WikiLeaksTrade Review'The vindictive hounding of Julian Assange by the US government deserves as wide an audience as possible. There is no journalist better placed to tell the story than Stefania Maurizi. This Italian journalist has been following the story of Assange and WikiLeaks closely for more than a decade and personally knows most of those involved. But what stands out is her sheer perseverance. Many journalists would have given up after her multiple requests under the Freedom of Information Act were largely rebuffed by governments in the UK, US, Sweden and Australia. But she proved dogged, engaging in what she describes as ‘trench warfare', taking them to court, the legal costs often paid for by her personally. Through this persistence, she uncovered lots of new information. As well as being the most detailed account of the persecution of Julian Assange, Maurizi weaves in the stories of whistle-blowers such as Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, making it one of the most comprehensive accounts yet of the battle between the national security apparatus and advocates of privacy and press freedom. It should be a must-read for all journalists. If Assange can be persecuted on the flimsy grounds exposed by Maurizi, then all journalists anywhere in the world who challenge the US are at risk.' -- Ewen MacAskill, Pulitzer Prize winner for Public Service 2014'A rigorous, compelling and highly readable reconstruction of the WikiLeaks case. I highly recommend this work. No one conveys better the urgency of averting the extradition and prosecution of Assange' -- Daniel Ellsberg, US whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers'Maurizi's relentless, rigorous and courageous work has produced compelling evidence for the flagrant and deliberate illegality of Julian Assange's persecution. She has decisively contributed to my official investigation into the case as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture' -- Professor Nils Melzer, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture (2016-2022)'Stefania Maurizi's book on the persecution of Julian Assange is the definitive text on this tragedy. To read it is to resist, it is a must read. Free Assange' -- Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd'Stefania Maurizi's revelation of the role of the UK Crown Prosecution Service, then run by Keir Starmer, in the persecution of Julian Assange was a journalistic landmark. Her book is a lesson to all who expose the malign secrets of state power' -- John Pilger'Heroic freedom-fighter or maverick controversialist - Assange is a polarising character. But we can all agree that the classified documents he published revealed much of the heinous barbarity of the post 9/11 US-led wars. This book is a passionate plea in Julian's defence. To extradite would send the message that no journalist or publisher is safe anywhere in the world' -- Kathy Lette, best-selling author and TV presenter'Everything you think you know about this story is not what you think. Maurizi brilliantly tells the real story of what happened with WikiLeaks and the powers that went out to destroy it' -- John Goetz, Editor of Investigations at German State Broadcaster 'NDR''The best possible tribute to Julian Assange's sacrifice on behalf of Western citizens whose governments have been committing, in their name, crimes against humanity. Stefania Maurizi has sacrificed much to write this book, making it a book to read, behold and promote to anyone who cares about the truth' -- Yanis Varoufakis, Professor of Economics at the University of Athens'An exceptional book by an exceptional journalist. Written like a political thriller, 'Secret Power' is not only one of the best accounts of the WikiLeaks revolution and the man behind it. It's also a deeply disturbing investigation into the military-intelligence complex and secret power determined to dismantle the last strongholds of democracy, namely freedom of the press' -- Srecko Horvat, philosopher and author of 'Poetry from the Future''The story of the aftermath of the biggest story in journalism in generations brilliantly laid out by Maurizi. A must read for everyone interested in finding out how democratic and free, the 'free and democratic west' indeed is.' -- Helgi Seljan, investigative journalist at 'Stundin''A gripping first-hand account of the Assange affair' -- Gavin Jones, senior Reuters correspondent in Rome‘Superb’ -- Thomas A. Drake, whistleblower and former senior executive of the National Security Agency'Masterful…Maurizi has very likely produced the definitive version of the WikiLeaks story, and it’s a page-turner to boot' -- Chip Gibbons, ‘Jacobin’Table of ContentsForeword by Ken Loach Introduction: The Man Who Stood Up to Secret Power 1. The Wikileaks Revolution 2. The Exceptional Courage of Chelsea Manning 3. Afghanistan: The Faraway War 4. The Cypherpunk 5. A Database from Hell: the Iraq War Logs 6. Rattling Power at the Highest Levels: Cablegate 7. Guantanamo: The Black Hole of Civilisation 8. "The Huffington Post gang is driving me nuts" 9. From Sweden to Ecuador 10. No Place for Protection 11. My Trench Warfare to Unearth the Truth 12. Arbitrarily Detained 13. A Russian Connection? 14. The Fury of the CIA 15. Under Siege 16. The Final Attempts 17. In the Would-be Guantanamo 18. 175 Years for the Crime of Journalism 19. Only Kafka 20. A Monstrous Injustice 21. Secret Power Acknowledgments

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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 SynopsisThis book argues that guilt, shame, and remorse, associated with a history of substance abuse, explain why a minority of Islamist extremists carried out suicide terrorism in Europe between 2001 and 2018. Since 9/11, Islamist terrorism has dominated the European security landscape, but there has been little systematic analysis of either the attacks or the men responsible. This book addresses that gap, drawing on terrorist discourse, court transcripts, elite interviews, government reports, and three years of ethnography to provide an exhaustive account of how and why Islamist terrorism has occurred in Europe. Making a detailed analysis of 48 terrorist attacks carried out by 80 suicide terrorists, the book introduces two new theories. The first argues that most of these men first engaged in Islamist extremism as an alternative to substance abuse. The second contends that, following a five-stage process of radicalisation, cognitive dissonance triggered guilt, shame, and remorse oTrade Review'This fascinating book is required reading for all with an interest in understanding extremism and martyrdom in modern Europe. Dr Herrington offers a profound insight into the theology, theory, psychology, and political aspirations of those pursuing Islamist terrorism. He provides a compelling portrait of how heresy has taken hold, and of the dangers it presents. Anger with terrorists is not enough for dealing with this contemporary and severe risk to public safety and national security: understanding the motive forces behind it is essential. That understanding is increased by this excellent book.'-- Lord Carlile of Berriew, CBE, QC, former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Defining martyrdom terrorism 2. Martyrdom terrorism in Europe 3. Who pursues martyrdom in Europe? 4. The fellowship of Islamic extremists 5. Radicalisation 6. Why men pursue martyrdom 7. Towards a theory of martyrdom terrorism in Europe Conclusions: Towards a counter-martyrdom strategy

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Book SynopsisA well-informed defector is the most dangerous counter-intelligence commodity because it takes a spy to catch a spy. Very occasionally, an agent, especially a mole or an intelligence professional, will make a mistake and incriminate themselves, but usually it is a denunciation, a tip, or a vague clue from a defector that will provide the vital information required to expose the source of a leak. Relying on recently-declassified intelligence files and interviews with defectors, their handlers, their families, and their victims, Nigel West has analysed nine examples of wartime and postwar defections to shed new light on the phenomenon. Defectors are notoriously difficult to handle, and resettle, because of the range of genuine or invented motives that led them to take such drastic action. Some will provide a noble political motive, seeking to impress their host, while others may be driven by less worthy compulsions perhaps greed, revenge, career disappointment, envy, anger, or nothi

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Book SynopsisFrom Warsaw with Love is the epic story of how Polish intelligence officers forged an alliance with the CIA in the twilight of the Cold War, told by the award-winning author John Pomfret.Spanning decades and continents, from the battlefields of the Balkans to secret nuclear research labs in Iran and embassy grounds in North Korea, this saga begins in 1990. As the United States cobbles together a coalition to undo Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, six US officers are trapped in Iraq with intelligence that could ruin Operation Desert Storm if it is obtained by the brutal Iraqi dictator. Desperate, the CIA asks Poland, a longtime Cold War foe famed for its excellent spies, for help. Just months after the Polish people voted in their first democratic election since the 1930s, the young Solidarity government in Warsaw sends a veteran ex-Communist spy who'd battled the West for decades to rescue the six Americans.John Pomfret's gripping account of the 1990

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Book SynopsisHugh Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted historians of the 20th century. His scholarly interests ranged widely - from the Puritan Revolution to the Scottish Enlightenment. Yet he was also fascinated by the events of his own lifetime and wrote widely on issues of espionage and intelligence, as well as maintaining a fascination with the workings - and personalities - of Nazi Germany. In this volume, a variety of contributors - many of whom knew Trevor-Roper personally - engage with his scholarship and analyse his finest achievements as an historian. Covering the full range of Trevor-Roper''s interests, this book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to better understand this great academic and his work.Trade ReviewThis book is full of good things. Noel Malcolm's chapter...is a model of clear exposition, sense and wit...Blair Worden's introduction is a consummate summary of Trevor-Roper's work as a historian. Moreover, it is a pleasure to read, written in limpid, even beautiful prose that would have brought a smile of satisfaction to its fastidious subject's face. This is an excellent book, with first-class contributors. -- Adam Sisman * Literary Review *Table of ContentsThe Life The Writings Introduction - Blair Worden (University of Oxford, UK) Part One: Seventeenth-Century Revolutions 1. The General Crisis of the Sevententh Century - John Elliott (University of Oxford, UK) 2. The Puritan Revolution - Blair Worden (University of Oxford, UK) 3. Three Foreigners: The Philosophers of the Puritan Revolution - Mark Greengrass (University of Sheffield, UK) Part Two: Ideas and their Contexts, c. 1500 – 1800 4. Ecumenicalism and Erasmianism: The Wiles Lectures, 1975 - Noel Malcolm (University of Oxford, UK) 5. Intellectual History: The Religious Origins of the Enlightenment - John Robertson (University of Cambridge, UK) 6. The Politics of the Scottish Enlightenment - Colin Kidd (University of St Andrews, UK) Part Three: Hitler and his World 7. Special Service in Germany and The Last Days of Hitler - E.D.R Harrison (Independent Scholar, UK) 8. ‘The Chap with the Closest Tabs’: Trevor-Roper and the Hunt for Hitler - Richard Overy (University of Exeter, UK) 9. Himmler’s Masseur - Gina Thomas (Independent Scholar, UK) Part Four: The Mind and the Style 10. Trevor-Roper and Thomas Carlyle: History and Sensibility – B.W. Young (University of Oxford, UK) 11. The Classicist – S.J.V. Malloch (University of Nottingham, UK) 12. The Historian as Public Intellectual – Rory Allan (Independent Scholar, UK) 13. The Prose Stylist - John Banville (Independent Scholar, UK) 14. A Conversation Notes

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Book SynopsisContemporary Intelligence Warning Cases presents lessons learned and recommendations for producers and users of intelligence warning in their joint venture to anticipate, prepare for, mitigate, and prevent future threats to national security.It presents and synthesizes the findings of 16 contemporary intelligence warning case studies undertaken by leading intelligence scholars and former intelligence practitioners. It is the first multi-case study of intelligence warning and adopts a uniquely broad and contemporary approach to the phenomenon, featuring both successful and failed cases. Consistent with the increasing complexity of intelligence problems and scope of intelligence services, it ranges from traditional warning problems such as invasions and wars, through terrorist attacks, to threats that lie beyond the traditional core scope of intelligence services such as pandemics, financial crises, climate change, strategic acquisitions and attacks on cultural heritage.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive interviews and archival research, this biography uncovers the motivations and ideals that informed Smiley's commitment to covert action and intelligence during the Second World War and early part of the Cold War, often among tribally based societies.

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Book SynopsisIn Cases in Intelligence Analysis, accomplished instructors and intelligence practitioners Sarah Miller Beebe and Randolph H. Pherson offer robust, class-tested cases studies of events in foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, terrorism, homeland security, law enforcement, and decision-making support. In this Second Edition, the authors added five new case studies. Designed to give analysts-in-training an opportunity to apply structured analytic techniques and tackle real-life problems, each turnkey case delivers a captivating narrative, discussion questions, recommended readings, and a series of engaging analytic exercises. The text is logically organized and richly illustrated chapters begin with discussion questions, and a table of techniques precedes each set of exercises. Two hundred photos, maps, figures, tables, boxes, key terms and key takeaways, and technique templates support analysis and instruction.Table of Contents1. Who Poisoned Karinna Moskalenko? 2. The Anthrax Killer 3. Cyber H2O 4. Is Wen Ho Lee a Spy? 5. Jousting with Cuba over Radio Marti 6. The Road to Tarin Kowt 7. Who Murdered Jonathan Luna? 8. The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto 9. Death in the Southwest 10. The Atlanta Olympics Bombing 11. The DC Sniper 12. Colombia′s FARC Attacks the US Homeland 13. Understanding Revolutionary Organization 17 November 14. Defending Mumbai from Terrorist Attack 15. Iranian Meddling in Bahrain 16. Shades of Orange in Ukraine 17. Violence Erupts in Belgrade

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Book SynopsisThis ambitious and important book is a richly detailed account of the ideas and activities in the early-modern ‘secret state’ and its agencies, spies, informers and intelligencers, under the English Republic and the Cromwellian protectorate. The book investigates the meanings this early-modern Republican state acquired to express itself, by exploring its espionage actions, the moral conundrums, and the philosophical background of secret government in the era. It considers in detail the culture and language of plots, conspiracies, and intrigues and it also exposes how the intelligence activities of the Three Kingdoms began to be situated within early-modern government from the Civil Wars to the rule of Oliver Cromwell. It introduces the reader to some of the personalities who were caught up in this world of espionage, from intelligencers like Thomas Scot and John Thurloe to the men and women who became its secret agents and spies. The book includes stories of activities not just in England, but also in Ireland and Scotland, and it especially investigates intelligence and espionage during the critical periods of the British Civil Wars and the important developments which took place under the English Republic and Oliver Cromwell in the 1650s. The book will appeal to historians, students, teachers, and readers who are fascinated by the secret affairs of intelligence and espionage.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: The background1 Themes and issues2 The secretary of state 3 The civil warsPart II: Republican espionage4 Thomas Scot and the English Republic5 John Thurloe and the Cromwellian regimeAfterwordIndex

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Book SynopsisAn often overlooked aspect of the Cold War was the extent of diplomatic espionage that went on in the countries behind the Iron Curtain. Every Western diplomat stationed in the Soviet bloc was targeted as a spy by the security apparatus in these countries. Now with the opening of archives in Eastern Europe, the extent of this diplomatic espionage is revealed for the first time. Ernest H. Latham, Jr. was a career Foreign Service Officer who served the United States in various posts in the Middle East and Central Europe. From 1983 to 1987, he was the cultural attachÉ at the American Embassy in Bucharest. During his time in Romania, Dr. Latham was targeted as a spy by the brutal Communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu and subjected to constant, intrusive surveillance by his dreaded and dreadful secret police, the Securitate. This book is a collection of surveillance reports that Dr. Latham obtained from the Romanian archives following the collapse of the Communist regime. They reveal the extent of the surveillance to which Western diplomats were subjected and, more importantly, they reveal a great deal about the system and society that conducted it.Latham’s introduction provides the context of his work and Romanian conditions at that time. This book is essential reading for students of the Cold War as well as anyone interested in the mindset and methods of totalitarian regimes.The esteemed professor of Romanian history and editor of this English edition, Dennis Deletant, has called it “a notable event” representing “a rare case of such a file – of a foreigner.... Latham’s role as the US cultural attachÉ between 1983 and 1987 marks him out in body as an outsider,” but “in spirit, an insider, sympathetic to the ambivalences and ambiguities of Romania's past.... His file reminds the reader of the intrusiveness of the Communist regime into the lives of citizens, be they Romanian or otherwise.”

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Book SynopsisThis book details the Soviet Military Liaison Mission (SMLM) in West Germany and the U.S. Military Liaison Mission (USMLM) in East Germany as microcosms of the Cold War strategic intelligence and counterintelligence landscape. Thirty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Soviet and U.S. Military Liaison Missions are all but forgotten. Their operation was established by a post-WWII Allied occupation forces' agreement, and missions had relative freedom to travel and collect intelligence throughout East and West Germany from 1947 until 1990.This book addresses Cold War intelligence and counterintelligence in a manner that provides a broad historical perspective and then brings the reader to a never-before documented artifact of Cold War history. The book details the intelligence/counterintelligence dynamic that was among the most emblematic of the Cold War. Ultimately, the book addresses a saga that remains one of the true Cold War enigmas.Trade ReviewMeticulously researched and incisively written, Magee provides an unprecedented survey of the counterintelligence war between the US and the USSR from the strategic level down to the countrysides of West and East Germany where the MLMs operated. He uses never before seen information to objectively analyse how both sides operated and tried to thwart their opponent’s effort … The Cold War Wilderness of Mirrors is Cold War history at its best. * James Stejskal, author of Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army’s Elite, 1956–1990 24/05/2021 *Table of ContentsPast is Prologue Introduction PART I: HISTORY AND EVOLUTION Chapter 1: The History of the Military Liaison Missions Chapter 2: The Evolution of the Military Liaison Mission Game PART II: THE WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS Chapter 3: The Strategic Wilderness of Mirrors Chapter 4: Opportunities Lost Prior to the Dark Era of Counterintelligence Chapter 5: The U.S. Military Liaison Mission Microcosm Chapter 6: Reflections in the Soviet Military Liaison Mission, Frankfurt Wilderness PART III: THE FINAL DECADE AND THE BATTLE THAT TIME FORGOT Chapter 7: The Rapid Maturation of Department of Defense Counterintelligence in Europe Chapter 8: The Final Reflection in the Cold War Wilderness of Mirrors Chapter 9: The Last Counterintelligence Battles of the Cold War Epilogue Appendix 1: Post-Cold War Revelations Appendix 2: The USMLM Legacy Appendix 3: The Huebner–Malinin Agreement Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms A Note on Sources Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing Intelligence, now in a revised and extensively updated second edition, assesses the state of the profession of intelligence analysis from the practitioners point of view. The contributors-most of whom have held senior positions in the US intelligence community-review the evolution of the field, the rise of new challenges, pitfalls in analysis, and the lessons from new training and techniques designed to deal with 21st century national security problems. This second edition updates this indispensable book with new chapters that highlight advances in applying more analytic rigor to analysis, along with expertise-building, training, and professional development. New chapters by practitioners broaden the original volume's discussion of the analyst-policymaker relationship by addressing analytic support to the military customer as well as by demonstrating how structured analysis can benefit military commanders on the battlefield. Analyzing Intelligence is written for national security practitioners such as producers and users of intelligence, as well as for scholars and students seeking to understand the nature and role of intelligence analysis, its strengths and weaknesses, and steps that can improve it and lead it to a more recognizable profession. The most comprehensive and up-to-date volume on professional intelligence analysis as practiced in the US Government, Analyzing Intelligence is essential reading for practitioners and users of intelligence analysis, as well as for students and scholars in security studies and related fields.Trade ReviewEssential for practitioners and users of intelligence analysis, as well as for students and scholars in security studies and related fields. The Intelligencer A 'must' for any collection interested in the latest security changes and practices Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsPreface1. Intelligence Analysis: What Is It-and What Does It Take?James B. Bruce and Roger Z. GeorgePart I: The Analytic Tradition2. The Evolution of Intelligence Analysis in the US Intelligence CommunityJohn H. Hedley3. The Track Record of CIA AnalysisRichard J. Kerr and Michael Warner4. Is Intelligence Analysis a Discipline?Rebecca Fisher, Rob Johnston, and Peter Clement Part II: The Policymaker-Analyst Relationship 5. Serving the National PolicymakerJohn McLaughlin6. The Policymaker's Perspective: Transparency and PartnershipJames B. Steinberg 7. Serving the Senior Military Consumer: A National Agency PerspectiveJohn Kringen Part III: Diagnosis and Prescription 8. Why Bad Things Happen to Good AnalystsJack Davis9. Making Intelligence Analysis More Reliable: Why Epistemology Matters to IntelligenceJames B. Bruce10. The Missing Link: The Analyst-Collector RelationshipJames B. Bruce Part IV: Enduring Challenges11. The Art of Intelligence and StrategyRoger Z. George12. Foreign Deception and Denial: Analytic ImperativesJames B. Bruce and Michael Bennett13. Warning in an Age of UncertaintyRoger Z. George and James J. Wirtz Part V: Analysis for Twenty-First-Century Issues14. Structured Analytic Techniques: A New Approach to AnalysisRandolph H. Pherson and Richards J. Heuer Jr.15. New Analytic Techniques for Tactical Military IntelligenceVincent Stewart, Drew E. Cukor, Joseph Larson III, and Matthew Pottinger16. Domestic Intelligence AnalysisMaureen Baginski Part VI: Leading Analytic Change17. Building a Community of AnalystsThomas Fingar18. The Education and Training of Intelligence AnalystsMark M. Lowenthal19. Analytic Outreach: Pathway to Expertise Building and ProfessionalizationSusan H. Nelson20. Conclusion: Professionalizing Intelligence Analysis in the Twenty-First CenturyRoger Z. George and James B. Bruce GlossaryContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisFor almost half a century, the hottest front in the Cold War was right across Berlin. From summer 1945 until 1990, the secret services of NATO and the Warsaw Pact fought an ongoing duel in the dark. Throughout the Cold War, espionage was part of everyday life in both East and West Berlin, with German spies playing a crucial part of operations on both sides: Erich Mielke's Stasi and Reinhard Gehlen's Federal Intelligence Service, for example.The construction of the wall in 1961 changed the political situation and the environment for espionage - the invisible front was now concreted and unmistakable. but the fundamentals had not changed: Berlin was and would remain the capital of spies until the fall of the Berlin Wall, a fact which makes it all the more surprising that there are hardly any books about the work of the secret services in Berlin during the Cold War. Journalist Sven Felix Kellerhoff and historian Bernd von Kostka describe the spectacular successes and failures of the various secret services based in the city.Trade ReviewA brilliant and totally authoritative account of espionage activities in the city that was at the centre of Cold War spying. Completely fascinating. * William Boyd, award-winning and best-selling author 04/08/2021 *Table of ContentsForeword SPY HUB BERLIN RESURRECTED FROM THE RUINS DIGGING FOR GOLD LICENCE TO SPY EARLY CONFRONTATION MIELKE'S MEN IN THE "ESPIONAGE JUNGLE" COLD WAR PRACTICE Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA thin, balding, and reclusive middle-aged Russian by the name of Rudolf Ivanovich Abel was one of the Soviet Union’s most renowned spies during the Cold War of the 1950s…until his cover was blown by an incompetent colleague who wanted to defect to the United States. This is the full account of Abel’s espionage work, his dramatic apprehension, his eventual conviction and its affirmation by the United States Supreme Court, and finally, his surprising release back to Russia.Rudolf Ivanovich Abel ran KGB operations in the United States for nine years during the Cold War of the 1950s, until one day his true identity was revealed by a lazy, hard-drinking, womanizing colleague who decided to defect to the United States before he was sent back to Russia—and presumably his death—for incompetence in the field. As the authorities hunted down Abel, the FBI had in hand his tools of trade—hollowed-out bolts and coins used to send tiny coded messages and photographs back and forth to the Soviet Union—but little else in the way of hard leads. After Abel was located, his modest hotel in Manhattan was staked out by the FBI for over a month before he was eventually arrested and tried for espionage. After his conviction, Abel appealed his case to the Second Court of Appeals, where he argued that the search and seizure of his hotel room was unconstitutional because they were made without a warrant. His conviction was affirmed, and the case proceeded to the Supreme Court, which was sharply divided. The cliffhanger facing Abel for the next several years was whether he would face the electric chair, remain in prison for the rest of his life, or be exchanged for an American spy held by the Russians. His fate remained in the balance.

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to Putin's formidable intelligence and security organizationSince its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russia's Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era KGB. Under Vladimir Putin, who served as FSB director just before becoming president, the agency has grown to be one of the most powerful and favored organizations in Russia. The FSB not only conducts internal security but also has primacy in intelligence operations in former Soviet states. Their activities include anti-dissident operations at home and abroad, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, criminal investigations of crimes against the state, and guarding Russia's borders. In The Russian FSB, Kevin P. Riehle provides a brief history of the FSB's origins, placed within the context of Russian history, the government's power structure, and Russia's wider culture. He describes how the FSB's mindset and priorities show continuities from the tsarist regimes and the Soviet era. The book's chapters analyze origins, organizational structure, missions, leaders, international partners, and cultural representations such as the FSB in film and television. Based on both English and Russian sources, this book is a well-researched introduction to understanding the FSB and its central role in Putin's Russia. Concise Histories of Intelligence SeriesChristopher Moran, Mark Phythian, and Mark Stout, Series Editors

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Book SynopsisA comparative international perspective challenges conventional narratives about unacknowledged interventionCovert action is generally understood as politically motivated and plausibly deniable interference by one state in the affairs of another state. It includes propaganda, political or economic subversion, paramilitary action, and assassinations. Covert action is the most consequential and controversial form of secret statecraft, and it has become a ubiquitous feature of international politics. However, it is often sensationalized or seen through a narrow, US-centric lens. Covert Action challenges this conventional narrative and redefines secret statecraft by offering a groundbreaking comparative international perspective that explores the practice of unacknowledged intervention across twenty countries and a range of eras. Bringing together leading scholars from around the world, this volume moves beyond the American, and wider, anglosphere perspectives to examine covert action practices across states, regime types, and time. This book will be important reading for historians, political scientists, and policymakers, and it provides a foundational study of the hidden mechanisms of international power. It takes a global perspective and thus transforms the understanding of how nations truly interact behind the scenes, revealing covert action as a complex form of international statecraft.

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Book SynopsisAn eye-opening book about the myriad eyes on all of us.

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Book SynopsisBradley Manning was arrested, imprisoned in solitary confinement for nine months, and court-martialed for leaking nearly half a million classified government documents, including the infamous "Collateral Murder" gunsight video. He was an intelligence analyst in the US Army's 10th Mountain Division, is twenty-four, and comes from Crescent, Oklahoma.But who is Private First Class Bradley Manning? Why did he commit the largest security breach in American history-and why was it so easy? In this book, the astonishing leaks attributed to Bradley Manning are viewed from many angles, from Tunisia to Guantánamo Bay, from Foggy Bottom to Baghdad to small-town Oklahoma. Around the world, the eloquent act of one young man obliges citizens to ask themselves if they have the right to know what their government is doing.Trade ReviewAs this fine and important study reports, Bradley Manning holds to the principle that 'it's important the public should know what its government is doing.' Release of the Wikileaks documents has been a courageous and important service to this cause. -- Noam ChomskyTime after time, patriotic whistleblowers like Bradley Manning are fired, shunned, or prosecuted, despite their heroic efforts to protect the public from a secretive government's illegal activities. It's time to do what we can to protect these brave souls, and reading Chase Madar's fine book is an excellent start. -- Former US Senator James AbourezkChase Madar has written a powerful, compelling and moving defense of Bradley Manning. Bravo! -- Peter Tatchell, human rights campaignerThe mistreatment, trial, and fate of Private Bradley Manning will undoubtedly read like an obituary on the Obama years. His case is a crucial one, and Chase Madar turned his sharp eye on it early. This is the single must-read book on the case. -- Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.comThe Passion of Bradley Manning reminds us that it was James Madison himself who wrote that a popular government without popular information is but a prelude to tragedy or farce. Author and lawyer Chase Madar tells a great story that raises critical questions about the appropriate balance of government secrecy and national security in a modern democracy. -- Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties UnionThe Passion of Bradley Manning ... tells the story of Manning both biographically and regarding Wikileaks and his imprisonment. * Z Magazine *

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Book SynopsisIn 1920s Shanghai, Zhou Enlai founded the first Chinese communist spy network, operating in the shadows against nationalists, Western powers and the Japanese. The story of Chinese spies has been a global one from the start. Unearthing previously unseen papers and interviewing countless insiders, Roger Faligot's astonishing account reveals nothing less than a century of world events shaped by Chinese spies. Working as scientists, journalists, diplomats, foreign students and businessmen, they’ve been everywhere, from Stalin’s purges to 9/11 to Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan. This murky world has swept up Ho Chi Minh, the Clintons and everyone in between, with the action moving from Cambodia to Cambridge, and from the Australian outback to the centres of Western power. This fascinating narrative exposes the sprawling tentacles of the world’s largest intelligence service, from the very birth of communist China to Xi Jinping’s absolute rule today.Trade Review'With increasing tensions in the trade war between America and China, concerns about the future of democracy in Hong Kong, and the controversy surrounding Huawei's 5G mobile networks, “Chinese Spies” is a very timely and important book.' -- The Wall Street Journal'Faligot's detailed and fascinating account of Chinese espionage over the past century argues that "today the community of Chinese security and intelligence services is the largest in the world". . . impressive in its level of detail.' * The Sunday Times *'Faligot, an intrepid French researcher, has for 40 years constructed an encyclopaedic private archive of Chinese intelligence. . . Chinese Spies, is an enjoyable treasure trove of conspiracy theories. . . . spicy enough to keep the general reader awake at night.' * The Times *'The growing competition between Washington and Beijing is not the immediate subject of Faligot's history of Chinese intelligence . . . [but] it provides a significant part of the story of how we got to this point. Faligot has an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of China's spy agencies . . . contains many fascinating stories.' * Financial Times *'Mr Faligot writes evocatively … [Chinese Spies is an] engrossing book.' -- The Economist'A landmark book.' * Paris Match *'Roger Faligot fuses an encyclopaedic knowledge of this murky world and its characters with anecdotes that are sometimes comical and often colourful.' * Le Point *‘This book could not be more timely … [it] includes fascinating spy stories …and colorful characters.’ -- Asian Review of Books'This is an intense book. [Chinese Spies] is the result of huge research but also demonstrates the author's immense knowledge of the politics, attitudes and identities of the political elite of the People's Republic of China.''The expert Roger Faligot offers an enthralling, years-long investigation into the Chinese secret services, delving behind the scenes of Beijing's global strategy.' * Le Parisien *'China is not just a country with intelligence services, but rather an intelligence state. In this wide-ranging book, Faligot traces this trajectory from pre-revolutionary Shanghai to the present and reveals a phenomenon for which the West is ill-prepared.' -- Nigel Inkster, former Director of Operations and Intelligence, MI6, and Director of Transnational Threats & Political Risk, IISS'No stone is left unturned in Faligot's astounding and exhaustive who's who of Chinese espionage. The revelations prove as scary as the revolutions. Anyone inclined to welcome China's rediscovered world stature needs to read this book.' -- John Keay, author of 'China: A History''An astounding and unmatched source book on the extraordinary reach of the PRC's intelligence network... At once fascinating and chilling, it's a book I found hard to put down.' -- Clive Hamilton

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Book SynopsisForget the adventure stories of James Bond, Kim Philby, Klaus Fuchs and co. – espionage is not just a boys’ game. As long as there has been conflict, there have been female agents behind the scenes. In Belgium and northern France in 1914–18 there were several thousand women actively working against the Kaiser’s forces occupying their homelands. In the Second World War, women of many nations opposed the Nazis, risking the firing squad or decapitation by axe or guillotine. Yet, many of those women did not have the right to vote for a government or even open a bank account. So why did they do it?Female Secret Agents explores the lives and the motivations of the women of many races and social classes who have risked their lives as secret agents, and celebrates their intelligence, strength and courage.

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Book SynopsisIn 1900, a handful of New Zealand police detectives watched out for spies, seditionists and others who might pose a threat to state and society. The Police Force remained the primary instrument of such human intelligence in New Zealand until 1956 when, a decade into the Cold War, a dedicated Security Service was created. Over the same period, New Zealand’s role within signals intelligence networks evolved from the Imperial Wireless Chain to the UKUSA intelligence alliance (now known as Five Eyes). The first of two volumes chronicling the history of state surveillance in New Zealand, Secret History opens up the ‘secret world’ of security intelligence through to 1956. It is the story of the surveillers who – in times of war and peace, turmoil and tranquillity – monitored and analysed perceived threats to national interests. It is also the story of the surveilled: those whose association with organisations and movements led to their public and private lives being documented in secret files. Secret History explores a hidden and intriguing dimension of New Zealand history, one which sits uneasily with cherished national notions of an exceptionally fair and open society.

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Book SynopsisWe cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking. Americans must never make the mistake of wholly 'trusting' our public officials.--The NSA RepoTrade Review"A remarkably thorough and well-reasoned report calling on the government to end its bulk phone-data collection program and to increase both the transparency and accountability of surveillance programs."--New York Times "[The] recommendations take aim at some of the most controversial practices of the intelligence community."--Washington Post "Within the 300-page report are 46 recommendations that would dramatically curtail the National Security Agency's surveillance powers. While the proposals are specific and varied, they all echo one theme: The government's reach can no longer be limited by technological capacity alone. It must be reined in with laws and institutional reform."--Atlantic "The report is a brilliantly readable guide to the world [Edward] Snowden revealed; its clarity of analysis, proceeding from fundamental principles, impeccable... Governments around the world would do well to reflect on the principles that underpin The NSA Report and relate them to their own intelligence-gathering activities."--Kieron O'Hara and Nigel Shadbolt, Science "The Review Board's recommendations on protecting the civil liberties of non-US persons--a relatively new aspect of the policy discussion--are incredibly welcome."--Jennifer Granick, Stanford Center for Internet and Society blog "Fascinating insight ... into how the nation's data-mining apparatus works--and how it's supposed to work."--Kirkus ReviewsTable of ContentsPreface xi Executive Summary xv Recommendations xxv Chapter 1 | Principles 1 Chapter 2 | Lessons of History 10 Chapter 3 | Reforming Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Directed at United States Persons 34 Chapter 4 | Reforming Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Directed at Non- United States Persons 81 Chapter 5 | Determining What Intelligence Should Be Collected and How 112 Chapter 6 | Organizational Reform in Light of Changing Communications Technology 125 Chapter 7 | Global Communications Technology: Promoting Prosperity, Security, and Openness in a Networked World 154 Chapter 8 | Protecting What We Do Collect 176 Conclusion 199 Appendix A | The Legal Standards for Government Access to Communications 201 Appendix B | Overview of NSA Privacy Protections Under FAA 702; Overview of NSA Privacy Protections Under EO 12333 205 Appendix C | US Intelligence: Multiple Layers of Rules and Oversight 207 Appendix D | Avenues for Whistle-blowers in the Intelligence Community 208 Appendix E | US Government Role in Current Encryption Standards 209 Appendix F | Review Group Briefings and Meetings 213 Appendix G | Glossary 216 Index 227

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Book SynopsisA compelling, action-packed account of the only officially sanctioned I.R.A attack ever conducted on American soil. In 1922, three of the Irish Republican Army’s top gunmen arrived in New York City seeking vengeance. Their target: “Cruxy” O’Connor, a young Irishman who kept switching sides as revolution swept his country in the wake of World War I. Cruxy’s last betrayal dealt a stunning blow to Ireland’s struggle for independence: Six of his IRA comrades were killed when he told police the location of their safe house outside Cork. A year later, the IRA gunned him down in a hail of bullets before a crowd of horrified New Yorkers at the corner of 84th Street and Central Park West. Based primarily on first-hand accounts, most of them never before published, Ambush at Central Park is a cinematic exploration of the enigma of “Cruxy” O’Connor: Was he really a decorated war hero who became a spy for Britain? When he defected to the IRA, did his machine gun really jam in a crucial attack? When captured, did he give up his IRA comrades only under torture? Was he a British spy all along? Or was he pursuing a decades-old blood feud between his family and that of one of his comrades? A longtime editor at The New York Times, author Mark Bulik delved through Irish government archives, newspaper accounts, census data, and unpublished material from the families of the main actors. Together they add to the sensational story of a rebel ambush, a deadly police raid, a dinner laced with poison, a daring prison break, a boatload of tommy guns on the Hoboken waterfront, an unlikely pair of spies who fall in love, and an audacious assassination plot against the British cabinet. Gravely wounded and near death, Cruxy refused to cooperate with the detectives investigating the case. And so, the spy who stopped spying and the gunman who stopped shooting became the informer who wouldn’t inform, even at death’s door. Here is a forgotten chapter of Irish and New York history: the story of the only officially authorized IRA attack on American soil.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Bloody Anniversaries | 1 1 The Ambush | 5 2 Feuds and Fights | 13 3 War and Rebellion | 20 4 The Battle for Cork | 33 5 The Doomsday Plot | 42 6 The Coolavokig Ambush | 53 7 Bloodbath at Ballycannon | 65 8 A Basketful of Poison | 73 9 The Spying Game | 79 10 A Boatload of Tommy Guns | 90 11 Passages | 102 12 The Hunt | 109 13 The Heel of the Hunt | 117 14 The Crux of the Matter | 134 Acknowledgments | 147 Notes | 149 Index | 165 Photographs follow page 86

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Book SynopsisTHE USA TODAY BESTSELLER'As fast paced as a thriller' Fred Burton, Stratfor Talks' Pen and Sword Podcast'Jacobsen here presents a tour de force exploring the CIA's paramilitary activities...this excellent work feels like uncovering the tip of the iceberg ...Highly recommended for those seeking a better understanding of American foreign policy in action' Jacob Sherman, Library Journal 'A behind-the-scenes look at the most shadowy corners of the American intelligence community...Well-sourced and well-paced, this book is full of surprises' Kirkus'Annie Jacobsen takes us inside the darkest and most morally ambiguous corner of our government, where politicians ask brave men and women to kill-up close and personal-on America's behalf' Garrett M. Graff, author of Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself - While the Rest of us Die'This is a first rate book on the CIA, its paramilitary armies, operators, and assassins' New York Journal of Books'Having already demonstrated her remarkable aptitude for unearthing government secrets in books like Area 51 (2011) and The Pentagon's Brain (2015), Jacobsen pulls back the curtain on the history of covert warfare and state sanctioned assassinations from WWII to the present...Jacobsen's work revealing a poorly understood but essential slice of warfare history belongs in every library collection' BooklistThe definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored assassinations, from the author of the Pulizter Prize finalist The Pentagon's BrainSince 1947, domestic and foreign assassinations have been executed under the C IA-led covert action operations team. Before that time, responsibility for taking out America's enemies abroad was even more shrouded in mystery. Despite Hollywood notions of last-minute rogue-operations and external secret hires, covert action is actually a cog in a colossal foreign policy machine, moving through, among others, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the House and Senate Select Committees. At the end of the day, it is the President, not the C IA, who is singularly in charge.For the first time, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen takes us deep inside this top-secret history. With unparalleled access to former operatives, ambassadors, and even past directors of the Secret Service and CIA operations, Jacobsen reveals the inner workings of these teams, and just how far a U.S. president may go, covertly but lawfully, to pursue the nation's interests.Trade ReviewPraise for Annie Jacobsen:Cauldron-stirring . . . revelatory . . . compellingly hard-hitting * New York Times *A fascinating and sometimes uneasy exploration * Washington Post *

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Book SynopsisFrom Spain to Syria, the thrilling, untold history of Nazi fugitives turned postwar agents—for America, the Soviets, the Third World, or themselves. After the Second World War, the Allies vowed to hunt Nazi war criminals “to the ends of the earth.” Yet many slipped away—or were shielded by the West, in exchange for cooperation in the unfolding confrontation with Communism. Reinhard Gehlen, founder of West German foreign intelligence, welcomed SS operatives into the fold, overestimating their supposed capabilities. This shortsighted decision nearly brought down his cherished service, as the KGB found his Nazi operatives easy to turn or expose. However, Gehlen was hardly alone in this cynical strategy; the American, Soviet, French and Israeli secret services—and nationalist organisations and independence movements—all used former Nazi operatives in the early Cold War. Nazi fugitives became freelance arms traffickers, spies, and assassins, playing crucial roles in the clandestine contest between the superpowers. From posh German restaurants, smuggler-infested Yugoslav ports, and fascist holdouts in Franco’s Spain to Damascene safehouses and Egyptian country clubs, these spies created a busy network of influence and information, a uniquely combustible ingredient in the covert struggles of the postwar decades. Unearthing newly declassified revelations from Mossad and other archives, historian Danny Orbach reveals this long-forgotten arena of the Cold War, and its colourful cast of characters. Shrouded in official secrecy, clouded by myth and propaganda, the extraordinary tale of these Nazi agents has never been properly told—until now.Trade Review‘[A] highly intriguing book … Fugitives is genuinely revelatory and Orbach’s research is impressive and scholarly. More to the point, the many fascinating narratives he relates here could easily provide the raw material for a dozen espionage novels. I have a feeling a lot of writers will be inspired.’ -- William Boyd, New Statesman'The tales Orbach tells could fit into a peculiarly cynical 1970s spy novel, and it can read like one too. [Fugitives] is a murky saga of espionage, paranoia, and betrayal.' -- The American Spectator

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