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Kim Philby's life and career has inspired an entire literary genre: the spy novel of betrayal. He was one of the leaders of the British counter-intelligence efforts, first against the Nazis, then against the Soviet Union. He was also the KGB's most valuable...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2021-01-07
Format(s) : ePub
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Sinclair McKay's Bletchley Park Brainteasers was the runaway quiz book bestseller of 2017, now it's time to pit your wits against the secret heroes of MI5 and MI6 and find out if YOU have what it takes to be a spy!If you cracked the GCHQ Puzzle Book and followed the...
Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2018-09-20
Format(s) : ePub
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Every president has had a unique and complicated relationship with the intelligence community. While some have been coolly distant, even adversarial, others have found their intelligence agencies to be among the most valuable instruments of policy and power. Since John...
Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2016-03-01
Format(s) : ePub
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From the end of the Second World War to the present day, the world has changed immeasurably. The art of spying has changed too, as spies have reacted to changing threats. Here you will find the fascinating stories of real-life spies, both famous and obscure, from either...
Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2013-01-17
Collection :
Brief Histories
Format(s) : ePub
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'A lot of people know me,' wrote Alan Hillgarth in a letter, 'but I'm very much an enigma to most of them and regarded with suspicion because I don't fit into any category . . . I'm a trouble-maker. I ride the storm.'Captain Alan Hillgarth was just 15 years old when he...
Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-08-02
Format(s) : ePub
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AN IMPOSSBLE CHOICE
Jorge Salcedo was trapped. For years, he had climbed the ladder inside the Cali drug cartel, the world's most powerful crime syndicate, and risen to Head of Security. But he'd kept clean, avoided the dirty work, managed to sleep at night. Until...
Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-06-23
Format(s) : ePub
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In Treachery, noted intelligence authority Chapman Pincher makes a compelling case that Roger Hollis, head of MI5 from 1956 to 1965, was himself a double agent, acting to undermine and imperil the UK and America. Myriad intriguing case histories are portrayed,...
Editeur : Mainstream Digital
Parution : 2011-05-05
Format(s) : ePub
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See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East, with...
Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30
Format(s) : ePub
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'Spies should be glamorous - James Bond in a Savile Row suit rather than Harry Palmer in a grubby mac . . . In those terms, Otto Katz was perfect. He was a Hollywood playboy who hobnobbed with Fritz Lang, he inspired the character of Victor Laszlo in Casablanca, he was...
Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2010-07-08
Format(s) : ePub
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In this "thoughtful, entertaining, and often insightful" book, a former CIA director explores the delicate give-and-take between the Oval Office and Langley. With the disastrous intelligence failures of the last few years still fresh in Americans minds--and to all...
Editeur : Hachette Books
Parution : 2005-10-01
Format(s) : ePub
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