Many aspects of the Tet offensive of 1968 are brought to light here. The offensive is acknowledged as the turning point of the Vietnam War. Using Communist Vietnamese documents combined with Western sources, the author provides a more accurate version of the events, their significance, and reveals the crucial role played by US intelligence. This book illustrates that in the 1960s the Communist Vietnamese were well aware of the political and diplomatic nature of a People's War.

From the 1930's to the 1950's a significant number of left-wing men and women in the United States, Britain, Europe, Australia and Canada were recruited to the Soviet intellgence services.

A neutral country tends to attract the attention of the secret service of the belligerents, and Sweden during World War II was no exception. This volume offers an account of some key activities of the Allied secret services and their German counterparts in Sweden. It also describes in some detail Swedish wartime legislation and Swedish organizations concerned with internal security and intelligence.

This is a reappraisal of the ill-fated raid named Operation Jubilee, focusing on such aspects as naval and air operations in the Channel, signals, radar intelligence, agents and deception. It draws from official archives, both German and Allied. From these voluminous but fragmented records, many of which have been destroyed, classified or lost, the book aims to thread the evidence together.

Reinhard R Doerries has written the first scholarly appraisal of SS-Brigadefuhrer Walter Schellenberg as a Nazi leader and Hitler's final head of foreign intelligence.

This volume examines the investigation by the 1975 Senate Select Committee ('Church Committee') into US intelligence abuses during the Cold War, and considers its lessons for the current 'war on terror'.

This report remains the most thorough public record of America's intelligence services, and many of the legal boundaries operating on US intelligence agencies today are the direct result of reforms proposed by the Church Committee, including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The Church Committee also drew attention to the importance of constitutional government as...

This book contains essays by an international group of scholars on the East German foreign intelligence, focusing on the key areas of: Politics, Scientific-Technical and Military Intelligence, and Counter-Intelligence.

Adam Svendsen provides an in-depth analysis of UK-US intelligence cooperation in the post-9/11 world.

This is an account of the foundation, organization and activities of the NATO Information Service (NATIS) during the Cold War. It explores the interaction between intelligence and propaganda within an international organization.

This study analyzes how the Egyptian intelligence community has adapted to shifting national security threats since its inception 100 years ago.