Secret Agencies
ISBN: 9780300076547 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How has the end of the Cold War affected America's intelligence agencies? When are aggressive clandestine operations justifiable, and who should be responsible for deciding to proceed with them? Should the United States engage in more aggressive economic espionage? These are just a few of the issues Loch Johnson examines in this thoughtful assessment of strategic intelligence and its vital role in modern governments.
Johnson draws on historical data, more than five hundred interviews, and his own experience working for Congressional committees on intelligence. He begins by defining the... How has the end of the Cold War affected America's intelligence agencies? When are aggressive clandestine operations justifiable, and who should be re...
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137,87 zł |
KGB File of Andrei Sakharov
ISBN: 9780300106817 / Angielski / Twarda / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), a brilliant physicist and the principal designer of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, later became a human rights activist and--as a result--a source of profound irritation to the Kremlin. This book publishes for the first time ever KGB files on Sakharov that became available during Boris Yeltsin's presidency. The documents reveal the untold story of KGB surveillance of Sakharov from 1968 until his death in 1989 and of the regime's efforts to intimidate and silence him. The disturbing archival materials show the KGB to have had a profound lack of understanding of the...
Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), a brilliant physicist and the principal designer of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, later became a human rights activist and--a...
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506,54 zł |
The French Secret Services: A History of French Intelligence from the Drefus Affair to the Gulf War
ISBN: 9780374529451 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A groundbreaking work of research, The French Secret Service tells the dramatic, untold story of the transition of France's spy networks and "black chambers" of the ancien regime and Napolean into modern intelligence services. Ranging from diplomatic and military intelligence to covert operations and industrial espionage, Porch's book explains the sometimes bizzare operations of French intelligence in the context of France's divided political culture and of her self-image as a world power. "An authoritative analysis of the complex role of intelligence services in modern... A groundbreaking work of research, The French Secret Service tells the dramatic, untold story of the transition of France's spy networks an... |
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154,98 zł |
The Great Game: The Myths and Reality of Espionage
ISBN: 9780375726385 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this riveting insider s account, a former inspector general of the CIA compares actual espionage cases and practices with classic and popular spy fiction, showing that the real world of espionage is nearly always stranger and more complicated than even the best spy fiction.Exploring everything from tradecraft and recruitment to bureaucracy and betrayal, The Great Game contrasts fictional spies created by such authors as John Le Carr?, Tom Clancy and Joseph Conrad with their real-life counterparts from Kim Philby to Aldrich Ames. Drawing on his thirty year career with the CIA,...
In this riveting insider s account, a former inspector general of the CIA compares actual espionage cases and practices with classic and popular spy f...
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73,19 zł |
My Spy: Memoir of a CIA Wife
ISBN: 9780380794973 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. So begins the love story of Joe Kiyonaga, the striking Japanese-American war hero from Hawaii, and Bina Cady, the irreverent Irish-Catholic redhead from Baltimore. Similar in their convictions, different in most every other respect, the two leaped into a marriage in 1947 that defied the anti-Japanese sentiments of the day. And their unlikely union would come to include a powerful, top-secret cohort: the CIA. For while Bina, Joe, and their children played the part of a normal family, all of their activities were geared toward Joe's clandestine mission as a spy for the CIA: to gather... So begins the love story of Joe Kiyonaga, the striking Japanese-American war hero from Hawaii, and Bina Cady, the irreverent Irish-Catholic redhead... |
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The Man from Pakistan: The True Story of the World's Most Dangerous Nuclear Smuggler
ISBN: 9780446199582 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise. Should such an assault occur, there is a strong likelihood that the trail of devastation will lead back to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani father of the Islamic bomb and the mastermind behind a vast clandestine enterprise that has sold nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea, and Libya. Khan's loose-knit organization was and still may be a nuclear Wal-Mart, selling weapons blueprints, parts, and the expertise to assemble the works into a do-it-yourself...
The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise. Shoul...
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156,91 zł |
Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service
ISBN: 9780520234079 / Angielski / Twarda / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during World War II. This sweeping biography of "China's Himmler," based on recently opened intelligence archives, traces Dai's rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan and Green Gang blood-brother to commander of the paramilitary units of the Blue Shirts and of the dreaded Military Statistics Bureau: the world's largest spy and counterespionage organization of its time. In addition to exposing the inner workings of the secret police, whose death squads, kidnappings, torture, and omnipresent surveillance...
The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during World War II. This sweeping biography of "China's Himmler,"...
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376,48 zł |
Intelligence Power in Peace and War
ISBN: 9780521562317 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Intelligence services form an important but controversial part of the modern state. Drawing mainly on British and American examples, this book provides an analytic framework for understanding the "intelligence community" and assessing its value. Michael Herman, a former senior British Intelligence officer, describes the various components of intelligence; discusses what intelligence is for; considers issues of accuracy, evaluation and efficiency; and makes recommendations for the future of intelligence in the post-Cold War world.
Intelligence services form an important but controversial part of the modern state. Drawing mainly on British and American examples, this book provide...
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458,40 zł |
More Instructions from the Centre : Top Secret Files on KGB Global Operations 1975-1985
ISBN: 9780714634753 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the decade that preceded Mikhail Gorbachev's era of glasnost and perestroika, the KGB headquarters in Moscow was putting out a constant stream of instructions to its Residencies abroad. These top secret documents were principally concerned with agent recruitment, infiltration of key foreign organizations, intelligence collection and interpretation, and influence operations, while endeavouring at all times to promote and protect the interests of the Soviet Union against countries seen as enemies.
During the decade that preceded Mikhail Gorbachev's era of glasnost and perestroika, the KGB headquarters in Moscow was putting out a constant stream ...
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780,79 zł |
The Australian Security Intelligence Organization : An Unofficial History
ISBN: 9780714634777 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This history of Australia's highly secret Security Intelligence Organization starts with its establishment in the early days of the Cold War. Like most intelligence organizations working in covert conditions, it exceeded the vague powers entrusted to it. It has been the subject of two Royal Commissions in Australia and several act of Parliament have aimed to make it more accountable to the Australian Government and its citizens.
This history of Australia's highly secret Security Intelligence Organization starts with its establishment in the early days of the Cold War. Like mos...
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705,23 zł |
Policing Politics: Security Intelligence and the Liberal Democratic State
ISBN: 9780714640976 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Numerous allegations of abuse of power have been made against the domestic security intelligence agencies in the UK - police special branches and MI5. These include the improper surveillance of trades unionists and peace activists, campaigns of disinformation against elected politicians and the summary shooting of people believed to be engaged in political violence. Although far-reaching enquiries have been conducted into similar agencies in other liberal democracies, and the end of the Cold War has brought dramatic change to security agencies in Eastern Europe, the UK agencies have remained...
Numerous allegations of abuse of power have been made against the domestic security intelligence agencies in the UK - police special branches and MI5....
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261,89 zł |
Espionage: Past, Present and Future?
ISBN: 9780714640990 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Highlights of this volume include essays on the methodology of intelligence studies by Michael Fry and Miles Hochstein and the future perils of the surveillance state by James Der Derian. Two authorities on the history of Soviet/Russian intelligence, Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, contribute essays on the final days of the KGB.
Highlights of this volume include essays on the methodology of intelligence studies by Michael Fry and Miles Hochstein and the future perils of the su...
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216,55 zł |
Intelligence and Imperial Defence: British Intelligence and the Defence of the Indian Empire 1904-1924
ISBN: 9780714642277 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an account of the British intelligence operations based in both India and London, which defended the Indian Empire against subversion during the first two decades of the 20th century. It is concerned with the threat to the British Raj posed by the Indian revolutionary movement, the resulting development of the imperial intelligence service and the role it played in World War I.
This is an account of the British intelligence operations based in both India and London, which defended the Indian Empire against subversion during t...
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277,00 zł |
Eternal Vigilance?: 50 Years of the CIA
ISBN: 9780714643601 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this volume offer reinterpretations of some of the major established themes in CIA history - such as its origins, its foundations, its treatment of the Soviet threat, the Iranian revolution and the accountability of the agency. They also open areas of research such as foreign liaison, relations with the scientific community, use of scientific and technical research and economic intelligence.
The essays in this volume offer reinterpretations of some of the major established themes in CIA history - such as its origins, its foundations, its t...
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236,70 zł |
The Norwegian Intelligence Service, 1945-1970
ISBN: 9780714644554 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a history of the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) during the Cold War, based on its secret archives. The author presents detailed descriptions of the build-up of a network of Norwegian signals intelligence stations in the north; border crossings by clandestine agents; the reporting of Norwegian merchant mariners from ports behind the Iron Curtain; the intimate co-operation between the NIS and the secret services of the United States and other countries; as well as the establishment of a stay behind network.
This is a history of the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) during the Cold War, based on its secret archives. The author presents detailed descript...
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297,15 zł |
Espionage: Past, Present and Future?
ISBN: 9780714645155 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Highlights of the volume include pioneering essays on the methodology of intelligence studies by Michael Fry and Miles Hochstein, and the future perils of the surveillance state by James Der Derian.
Highlights of the volume include pioneering essays on the methodology of intelligence studies by Michael Fry and Miles Hochstein, and the future peril...
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705,23 zł |
Intelligence Analysis and Assessment
ISBN: 9780714647098 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Of the many functions carried out by intelligence agencies, analysis and assessment has received comparatively little scholarly attention. In October 1994, the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS) and the Intelligence Section of the International Studies Association (ISA) attended to this deficit by holding an international conference on the subject in Ottawa.
Of the many functions carried out by intelligence agencies, analysis and assessment has received comparatively little scholarly attention. In October ...
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705,23 zł |
The Norwegian Intelligence Service, 1945-1970
ISBN: 9780714649009 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a history of the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) during the Cold War, based on its secret archives. The author presents detailed descriptions of the build-up of a network of Norwegian signals intelligence stations in the north; border crossings by clandestine agents; the reporting of Norwegian merchant mariners from ports behind the Iron Curtain; the intimate co-operation between the NIS and the secret services of the United States and other countries; as well as the establishment of a stay behind network.
This is a history of the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) during the Cold War, based on its secret archives. The author presents detailed descript...
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881,54 zł |
Intelligence for Peace: The Role of Intelligence in Times of Peace
ISBN: 9780714649504 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The disintegration of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, attempts to solve military confrontation by peaceful means and the Middle East peace process have all given rise to the discussion about the role of intelligence in times of peace.
The disintegration of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, attempts to solve military confrontation by peaceful means and the Middle East pe...
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654,86 zł |
American-British-Canadian Intelligence Relations, 1939-2000
ISBN: 9780714651033 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the second half of the 20th century, intelligence co-operation between the three North Atlantic powers of America, Britain and Canada played a vital role in Western struggles against Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, Soviet Russia and their lesser allies.
During the second half of the 20th century, intelligence co-operation between the three North Atlantic powers of America, Britain and Canada played a ...
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730,42 zł |