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Intelligence Review-Volume 11-Narcotics War in Afghanistan (Paperback): Agha Humayun Amin Intelligence Review-Volume 11-Narcotics War in Afghanistan (Paperback)
Agha Humayun Amin
R5,219 Discovery Miles 52 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Intelligence Authorization Legislation for FY2014 and FY2015 - Provisions, Status, Intelligence Community Framework... Intelligence Authorization Legislation for FY2014 and FY2015 - Provisions, Status, Intelligence Community Framework (Paperback)
Congressional Research Service
R505 Discovery Miles 5 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Falcon and the Snowman (Paperback): Robert Lindsey The Falcon and the Snowman (Paperback)
Robert Lindsey
R557 Discovery Miles 5 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This fascinating account of how two young Americans turned traitor during the Cold War is an "absolutely smashing real-life spy story" (The New York Times Book Review). At the height of the Cold War, some of the nation's most precious secrets passed through a CIA contractor in Southern California. Only a handful of employees were cleared to handle the intelligence that came through the Black Vault. One of them was Christopher John Boyce, a hard-partying genius with a sky-high IQ, a passion for falconry, and little love for his country. Security at the Vault was so lax, Boyce couldn't help but be tempted. And when he gave in, the fate of the free world would hang in the balance. With the help of his best friend, Andrew Daulton Lee, a drug dealer with connections south of the border, Boyce began stealing classified documents and selling them to the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. It was an audacious act of treason, committed by two spoiled young men who were nearly always drunk, stoned, or both--and were about to find themselves caught in the middle of a fight between the CIA and the KGB. This Edgar Award-winning book was the inspiration for the critically acclaimed film starring Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn--a true story as thrilling as any dreamed up by Ian Fleming or John le Carre. Before Edward Snowden, there were Boyce and Lee, two of the most unlikely spies in the history of the Cold War.

Britannia and the Bear - The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1917-1929 (Hardcover): Victor Madeira Britannia and the Bear - The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1917-1929 (Hardcover)
Victor Madeira
R2,788 Discovery Miles 27 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A compelling new narrative about how two Great Powers of the early twentieth century did battle, both openly and in the shadows Decades before the Berlin Wall went up, a Cold War had already begun raging. But for Bolshevik Russia, Great Britain - not America - was the enemy. Now, for the first time, Victor Madeira tells a story that has been hidden away for nearly a century. Drawing on over sixty Russian, British and French archival collections, Britannia and the Bear offers a compelling new narrative about how two great powers of the time did battle, both openly and in theshadows. By exploring British and Russian mind-sets of the time this book traces the links between wartime social unrest, growing trade unionism in the police and the military, and Moscow's subsequent infiltration of Whitehall. As early as 1920, Cabinet ministers were told that Bolshevik intelligence wanted to recruit university students from prominent families destined for government, professional and intellectual circles. Yet despite these early warnings, men such as the Cambridge Five slipped the security net fifteen years after the alarm was first raised. Britannia and the Bear tells the story of Russian espionage in Britain in these critical interwar years and reveals how British Government identified crucial lessons but failed to learn many of them. The book underscores the importance of the first Cold War in understanding the second, as well as the need for historical perspective ininterpreting the mind-sets of rival powers. Victor Madeira has a decade's experience in international security affairs, and his work has appeared in leading publications such as Intelligence and National Securityand The Historical Journal. He completed his doctorate in Modern International History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Unidentified - The National Intelligence Problem of UFOs (Paperback): Larry Hancock Unidentified - The National Intelligence Problem of UFOs (Paperback)
Larry Hancock
R834 Discovery Miles 8 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beginners Guide to Shadow Tactics - Be the Phantom in the Crowd (Paperback): Christopher Robinson Beginners Guide to Shadow Tactics - Be the Phantom in the Crowd (Paperback)
Christopher Robinson
R168 Discovery Miles 1 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tunisia's National Intelligence - Why Rogue Elephants Fail to Reform (Paperback): Noureddine Jebnoun Tunisia's National Intelligence - Why Rogue Elephants Fail to Reform (Paperback)
Noureddine Jebnoun
R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
De-Identification of Personally Identifiable Information (Paperback): U. S. Department of Commerce De-Identification of Personally Identifiable Information (Paperback)
U. S. Department of Commerce
R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Wizard War - British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945 (Paperback, Reprint ed.): R.V. Jones The Wizard War - British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945 (Paperback, Reprint ed.)
R.V. Jones
R849 Discovery Miles 8 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fifty Years of Studies in Intelligence (Paperback): Central Intelligence Agency Fifty Years of Studies in Intelligence (Paperback)
Central Intelligence Agency
R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Air Base Defense - Different Times Call for Different Methods (Paperback): Naval Postgraduate School Air Base Defense - Different Times Call for Different Methods (Paperback)
Naval Postgraduate School
R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Under the Rose - A Clandestine Tradecraft Manual (Paperback): F McGloghlen Under the Rose - A Clandestine Tradecraft Manual (Paperback)
F McGloghlen
R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
King of Spies - The Dark Reign of America's Spymaster in Korea (Paperback): Blaine Harden King of Spies - The Dark Reign of America's Spymaster in Korea (Paperback)
Blaine Harden 1
R462 R424 Discovery Miles 4 240 Save R38 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In King of Spies, prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden, reveals one of the most astonishing -- and previously untold -- spy stories of the twentieth century. Donald Nichols was "a one man war", according to his US Air Force commanding general. He won the Distinguished Service Cross, along with a chest full of medals for valor and initiative in the Korean War. His commanders described Nichols as the bravest, most resourceful and effective spymaster of that forgotten war. But there is far more to Donald Nichols' story than first meets the eye . . . Based on long-classified government records, unsealed court records, and interviews in Korea and the U.S., King of Spies tells the story of the reign of an intelligence commander who lost touch with morality, legality, and even sanity, if military psychiatrists are to be believed. Donald Nichols was America's Kurtz. A seventh-grade dropout, he created his own black-ops empire, commanding a small army of hand-selected spies, deploying his own makeshift navy, and ruling over it as a clandestine king, with absolute power over life and death. He claimed a "legal license to murder"-and inhabited a world of mass executions and beheadings, as previously unpublished photographs in the book document. Finally, after 11 years, the U.S. military decided to end Nichols's reign. He was secretly sacked and forced to endure months of electroshock in a military hospital in Florida. Nichols told relatives the American government was trying to destroy his memory. King of Spies looks to answer the question of how an uneducated, non-trained, non-experienced man could end up as the number-one US spymaster in South Korea and why his US commanders let him get away with it for so long . . .

The American Insurgent (Paperback): Michael P Faragher The American Insurgent (Paperback)
Michael P Faragher
R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The WAKE OF JOE BLIGHT and other stories (Paperback): Richard Warren Strong The WAKE OF JOE BLIGHT and other stories (Paperback)
Richard Warren Strong
R559 Discovery Miles 5 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sensemaking A Structure for an Intelligence Revolution (Paperback): National Defense Intelligence College Sensemaking A Structure for an Intelligence Revolution (Paperback)
National Defense Intelligence College
R1,130 Discovery Miles 11 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How people notice and make sense of phenomena are core issues in assessing intelligence successes and failures. Members of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) became adept at responding to certain sets of phenomena and "analyzing" their significance (not always correctly) during the Cold War. The paradigm was one of "hard, formalized and centralized processes, involving planned searches, scrupulously sticking with a cycle of gathering, analyzing, estimating and disseminating supposed enriched information." The paradigm did not stop within the IC, either. As Pierre Baumard notes, it was also imported, unchanged, by corporations. However, the range of phenomena noticed by intelligence professionals has broadened from a focus on largely static issues to encompass highly dynamic topics over the two decades since the end of the Cold War. Intelligence professionals are challenged to stay abreast. A growing professional literature by intelligence practitioners discusses these trends and their implications for advising and warning policymakers. Th e literature by practitioners embodies a trust that national intelligence producers can overcome the "inherent" enemies of intelligence to prevent strategic intelligence failure. Th e disparity between this approach and accepting the inevitability of intelligence failure has grown sharp enough to warrant the identification of separate camps or schools of "skeptics" and "meliorists." As a leading skeptic, Richard Betts charitably plants the hopeful note that in ambiguous situations, "the intelligence officer may perform most usefully by not offering the answer sought by authorities but by forcing questions on them, acting as a Socratic agnostic." However, he completes this thought by declaring, fatalistically, that most leaders will neither appreciate nor accept this approach. Robert Jervis resurrects a colorful quote from former President Lyndon Johnson, who epitomized the skeptical policymaker: Let me tell you about these intelligence guys. When I was growing up in Texas we had a cow named Bessie. I'd go out early and milk her. I'd get her in the stanchion, seat myself and squeeze out a pail of fresh milk. One day I'd worked hard and gotten a full pail of milk, but I wasn't paying attention, and old Bessie swung her shit smeared tail through the bucket of milk. Now, you know that's what these intelligence guys do. You work hard and get a good program or policy going, and they swing a shit-smeared tail through it. Jervis asserts that policymakers and decision makers "need confidence and political support, and honest intelligence unfortunately oft en diminishes rather than increases these goods by pointing to ambiguities, uncertainties, and the costs and risks of policies." The antagonism is exacerbated when policy is revealed to be fl awed and to have ignored intelligence knowledge. For example, in the case of the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq War, intelligence challenges to policy were seen as "being disloyal and furthering its own agenda." Jervis adds that the Bush administration is only the most recent one to exhibit such behavior. He finds that the administrations of Presidents Clinton, Johnson, Kennedy, and Eisenhower also browbeat and ignored intelligence.

Identification of a Smartphone User Via Keystroke Analysis (Paperback): Naval Postgraduate School Identification of a Smartphone User Via Keystroke Analysis (Paperback)
Naval Postgraduate School
R344 Discovery Miles 3 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Attribution, Delayed Attribution and Covert Cyber-Attack - Under What Conditions Should the United States Publicly Acknowledge... Attribution, Delayed Attribution and Covert Cyber-Attack - Under What Conditions Should the United States Publicly Acknowledge Responsibility for Cyber Operations? (Paperback)
Naval Postgraduate School
R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Speech Recognition Using the Mellin Transform (Paperback): Air Force Institute of Technology Speech Recognition Using the Mellin Transform (Paperback)
Air Force Institute of Technology
R354 Discovery Miles 3 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Minority Report - The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Study of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program -- The GOP... Minority Report - The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Study of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program -- The GOP Rebuttal to the Torture Report (Paperback)
Rand Koch; Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
R441 Discovery Miles 4 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Coast Guard Intelligence Program Enters the Intelligence Community (Paperback): Kevin E Wirth The Coast Guard Intelligence Program Enters the Intelligence Community (Paperback)
Kevin E Wirth
R201 Discovery Miles 2 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Military Intelligence (Paperback): John Patrick Finnegan Military Intelligence (Paperback)
John Patrick Finnegan
R644 Discovery Miles 6 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Espionage Threats at Federal Laboratories - Balancing Scientific Cooperation while Protecting Critical Information (Paperback):... Espionage Threats at Federal Laboratories - Balancing Scientific Cooperation while Protecting Critical Information (Paperback)
Subcommittee on Oversight Committee on S
R518 Discovery Miles 5 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Unlimited Impossibilities - Intelligence Support to the Deepwater Horizon Response (Paperback): Uscg Capt Erich M Telfer Unlimited Impossibilities - Intelligence Support to the Deepwater Horizon Response (Paperback)
Uscg Capt Erich M Telfer
R290 Discovery Miles 2 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Crime Scene Intelligence - An Experiment in Forensic Entomology (Paperback): Usn Lieutenant Albert M Cruz Crime Scene Intelligence - An Experiment in Forensic Entomology (Paperback)
Usn Lieutenant Albert M Cruz
R373 Discovery Miles 3 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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