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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Espionage & secret services
This text presents the secrets of how British intelligence officers
working undercover as liaison officers in East Germany stole
advanced Soviet equipment and penetrated top-secret training areas.
For 40 years the men from all three armed services, the SAS and the
Foreign Office conducted an intelligence war against the massive
Soviet military strength.
This lavishly illustrated and authoritative book presents the
secret history of Stasi and Warsaw Pact subminiature spy cameras
used during the Cold War. It is a history that could have been
written only through the collaboration of veteran Stasi technical
intelligence officers and the world's foremost historians on Cold
War spy cameras and tradecraft. With more than 450 photographs, the
book reveals the history, development, and operational use of more
than 70 secret cameras as used by one of the worlds most formidable
intelligence servicesEast German Stasi, or MfSfor secretly copying
documents, and for surveillance and compromise. Every major camera
system used by the Stasi is covered. A bonus at the end of the book
is an exhaustive glossary of Stasi and Warsaw Pact photographic
systems and optical devices. This book is a must-have for camera
collectors, military enthusiasts, historians, and
counterintelligence officers.
An Intelligence Studies Anthology: Foundational Concepts and Case
Studies for the 21st Century is designed to provide undergraduate
students with an introduction to the U.S. government's collection
and use of intelligence. Through a carefully curated selection of
readings, students gain an understanding of the history of the
intelligence process and the agencies involved in it. They also
learn about the intelligence cycle, types of intelligence products,
best practices for writing and briefing intelligence, covert
operations, counterintelligence, technical tools and legal
concepts, and the ways in which law enforcement collects and uses
intelligence. The anthology provides students with a novel
collection of information discussing the ways the intelligence
process can be used to stop health crises, including pandemics, and
includes the editor's original article discussing the creation of a
new department in the U.S. government devoted to fighting future
pandemics. Illuminating and insightful, An Intelligence Studies
Anthology is an exemplary resource for introductory courses in
intelligence, criminal justice, criminology, government, and
health/public health.
During the Second World War, three prominent members of the
Frankfurt School--Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto
Kirchheimer--worked as intelligence analysts for the Office of
Strategic Services, the wartime forerunner of the CIA. This book
brings together their most important intelligence reports on Nazi
Germany, most of them published here for the first time.
These reports provide a fresh perspective on Hitler's regime and
the Second World War, and a fascinating window on Frankfurt School
critical theory. They develop a detailed analysis of Nazism as a
social and economic system and the role of anti-Semitism in Nazism,
as well as a coherent plan for the reconstruction of postwar
Germany as a democratic political system with a socialist economy.
These reports played a significant role in the development of
postwar Allied policy, including denazification and the preparation
of the Nuremberg Trials. They also reveal how wartime intelligence
analysis shaped the intellectual agendas of these three important
German-Jewish scholars who fled Nazi persecution prior to the
war.
"Secret Reports on Nazi Germany" features a foreword by Raymond
Geuss as well as a comprehensive general introduction by Raffaele
Laudani that puts these writings in historical and intellectual
context.
Vienna, located at the heart of Europe was the city of choice for
American, British, German and Russian spymasters in their merciless
trade, to plot against one another and steal secrets. For the first
time a book is dedicated to the secret stories of spymasters, their
tradecraft and secret sources from the end of the World War I, the
Interwar with the rise of Nazis to the Second World War and the
Cold War. The rich of culture and music Vienna hid a labyrinth of
spies and dissidents in the interwar period, and a powerful Gestapo
presence during the war meant that the Office of Strategic Services
and British intelligence could not deploy operatives in Austria in
general. In post war, a few young American and British intelligence
officers pitted their wits against hundreds of seasoned Russian
operatives of the NKVD and their thousands of informers. and the
secret truth was that both Russian and Allied intelligence services
employed members of the Nazi intelligence services just upon the
defeat of Germany in 1945 and the occupation of Austria.
Polly Corrigan Book Prize shortlist Professional
intelligence became a permanent feature of the French state as a
result of the army’s June 8, 1871, reorganization following
France’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. Intelligence
practices developed at the end of the nineteenth century without
direction or oversight from elected officials, and yet the
information gathered had a profound influence on the French
population and on pre–World War I Europe more broadly. In
Marianne Is Watching Deborah Bauer examines the history of French
espionage and counterespionage services in the era of their
professionalization, arguing that the expansion of surveillance
practices reflects a change in understandings of how best to
protect the nation. By leading readers through the processes and
outcomes of professionalizing intelligence in three
parts—covering the creation of permanent intelligence
organizations within the state; the practice of intelligence; and
the place of intelligence in the public sphere—Bauer fuses
traditional state-focused history with social and cultural analysis
to provide a modern understanding of intelligence and its role in
both state formation and cultural change. With this first
English-language book-length treatment of the history of French
intelligence services in the era of their inception, Bauer provides
a penetrating study not just of the security establishment in
pre–World War I France but of the diverse social climate it
nurtured and on which it fed.
Between 1940 and 1945, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE)
carried out sabotage and organised resistance across occupied
Europe. Over 5 years, SOE sent over 500 agents into Norway to carry
out a range of operations from sabotage and assassination to
attempts to organise an underground guerrilla army. This book is
the first multi-archival, international academic analysis of SOE's
policy and operations in Norway and the influences that shaped
them, challenging previous interpretations of the relationship
between this organisation and both the Norwegian authorities and
the Milorg resistance movement.
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
Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book, you MUST show off your James Bond
credentials with Secret Service Brainteasers ... Whether you have
linguistic flair, an instinct for technology or good old common
sense, pit your wits against some of the greatest minds of our time
with ingenious brainteasers including secret languages, sabotage
themed brain bogglers, deadly countdowns and hidden codes. Weaving
astonishing stories of the men and women who operate from the
shadows, the secret heroes and heroines of MI5 and MI6 who have
faced extraordinary and terrifying challenges and a wide range of
mind twisting puzzles, Secret Service Brainteasers will test your
mental agility to discover: Do YOU have what it takes to be a spy?
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