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The first complete account of the fiercely guarded secrets of
London's clandestine interrogation center, operated by the British
Secret Service from 1940 to 1948 Behind the locked doors of three
mansions in London's exclusive Kensington Palace Gardens
neighborhood, the British Secret Service established a highly
secret prison in 1940: the London Cage. Here recalcitrant German
prisoners of war were subjected to "special intelligence
treatment." The stakes were high: the war's outcome could hinge on
obtaining information German prisoners were determined to withhold.
After the war, high-ranking Nazi war criminals were housed in the
Cage, revamped as an important center for investigating German war
crimes. This riveting book reveals the full details of operations
at the London Cage and subsequent efforts to hide them. Helen Fry's
extraordinary original research uncovers the grim picture of
prisoners' daily lives and of systemic Soviet-style mistreatment.
The author also provides sensational evidence to counter official
denials concerning the use of "truth drugs" and "enhanced
interrogation" techniques. Bringing dark secrets to light, this
groundbreaking book at last provides an objective and complete
history of the London Cage.
Internationally, the profession of intelligence continues to
develop and expand. So too does the academic field of intelligence,
both in terms of intelligence as a focus for academic research and
in terms of the delivery of university courses in intelligence and
related areas. To a significant extent both the profession of
intelligence and those delivering intelligence education share a
common aim of developing intelligence as a discipline. However,
this shared interest must also navigate the existence of an
academic-practitioner divide. Such a divide is far from unique to
intelligence - it exists in various forms across most professions -
but it is distinctive in the field of intelligence because of the
centrality of secrecy to the profession of intelligence and the way
in which this constitutes a barrier to understanding and openly
teaching about aspects of intelligence. How can co-operation in
developing the profession and academic study be maximized when
faced with this divide? How can and should this divide be
navigated? The Academic-Practitioner Divide in Intelligence
provides a range of international approaches to, and perspectives
on, these crucial questions.
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 appearances still
continuing--there has never been a more urgent need for a book like
this.
In Burn Before Reading, Admiral Stansfield Turner, the CIA director
under President Jimmy Carter, takes the reader inside the Beltway
to examine the complicated, often strained relationships between
presidents and their CIA chiefs. From FDR and "Wild Bill" Donovan
to George W. Bush and George Tenet, twelve pairings are studied in
these pages, and the results are eye-opening and provocative.
Throughout, Turner offers a fascinating look into the machinery of
intelligence gathering, revealing how personal and political issues
often interfere with government business--and the nation's safety.
Tradecraft: as intriguing as it is forbidden . . . Tradecraft is
the term applied to techniques used by intelligence personnel to
assist them in conducting their operations and, like many other
professions, the espionage business has developed its own rich
lexicon. In the real, sub rosa world of intelligence-gathering,
each bit of jargon acts as a veil of secrecy over particular types
of activity, and in this book acclaimed author Nigel West explains
and give examples of the lingo in action. He draws on the
first-hand experience of defectors to and from the Soviet Union;
surveillance operators who kept terrorist suspects under
observation in Northern Ireland; case officers who have put their
lives at risk by pitching a target in a denied territory; the NOCs
who lived under alias to spy abroad; and much more. Turn these
pages and be immersed in the real world of James Bond: assets,
black operations, double agents, triple agents ... it's all here.
The global history of oil politics, from World War I to the
present, can teach us much about world politics, climate change,
and international order in the twenty-first century. When and why
does international order change? The largest peaceful transfer of
wealth across borders in all of human history began with the oil
crisis of 1973. OPEC countries turned the tables on the most
powerful businesses on the planet, quadrupling the price of oil and
shifting the global distribution of profits. It represented a huge
shift in international order. Yet, the textbook explanation for how
world politics works-that the most powerful country sets up and
sustains the rules of international order after winning a major
war-doesn't fit these events, or plenty of others. Instead of
thinking of "the" international order as a single thing, Jeff
Colgan explains how it operates in parts, and often changes in
peacetime. Partial Hegemony offers lessons for leaders and analysts
seeking to design new international governing arrangements to
manage an array of pressing concerns ranging from US-China rivalry
to climate change, and from nuclear proliferation to peacekeeping.
A major contribution to international relations theory, this book
promises to reshape our understanding of the forces driving change
in world politics.
Barbara Tuchman's The Zimmerman Telegram is one of the greatest spy
stories of all time. Nothing can stop an enemy from picking
wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did. In
England, Room 40 was born . . . In January 1917, with the First
World War locked in terrible stalemate and America still neutral,
German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman gambled the future of the
conflict on a single telegram. But this message was intercepted and
decoded in Whitehall's legendary Room 40 - and Zimmerman's
audacious scheme for world domination was exposed, bringing America
into the war and changing the course of history. The story of how
this happened and the incalculable consequences are thrillingly
told in Barbara Tuchman's brilliant exploration.
Nearly forty female agents were sent out by the French section of
Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second
World War. The youngest was 19 and the oldest 53. Most were trained
in paramilitary warfare, fieldcraft, the use of weapons and
explosives, sabotage, silent killing, parachuting, codes and
cyphers, wireless transmission and receiving, and general spycraft.
These women - as well as others from clandestine Allied
organisations - were flown out and parachuted or landed into France
on vital and highly dangerous missions: their task, to work with
resistance movements both before and after D-Day. Bernard O'Connor
uses recently declassified government documents, personnel files,
mission reports and memoirs to assess the successes and failures of
the 38 women including Odette Sansom, Denise Colin, and Cecile
Pichard. Of the twelve who were captured, only two survived; the
others were executed, some after being tortured by the sadistic
officers of the Gestapo. This is their story.
The complete and authoritative guide to the use of hidden cameras
to expose abuse or wrongdoing. Secret filming is no longer the
preserve of specialists, professional journalists and private
investigators. Drawing on the author's own experience producing
undercover documentaries and wearing secret cameras, this book
explains covert recording for the general public, including
specific advice on the practicalities of using a phone or covert
camera to record evidence. It considers the legal and ethical
issues and provides vital information for anyone who may use or
encounter secret filming, including the people or organisations
that might be filmed, regulators, social workers, local government
officials and anyone who may encounter it in court. It also looks
to the future of covert filming and the implications of
technological advances, such as drone cameras.
The secret history of MI6 - from the Cold War to the present day.
The British Secret Service has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded
in myth since it was created a hundred years ago. Our understanding
of what it is to be a spy has been largely defined by the fictional
worlds of James Bond and John le Carre. THE ART OF BETRAYAL
provides a unique and unprecedented insight into this secret world
and the reality that lies behind the fiction. It tells the story of
how the secret service has changed since the end of World War II
and by focusing on the people and the relationships that lie at the
heart of espionage, revealing the danger, the drama, the intrigue,
the moral ambiguities and the occasional comedy that comes with
working for British intelligence. From the defining period of the
early Cold War through to the modern day, MI6 has undergone a
dramatic transformation from a gung-ho, amateurish organisation to
its modern, no less controversial, incarnation. Gordon Corera
reveals the triumphs and disasters along the way. The grand dramas
of the Cold War and after - the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall,
the Cuban Missile Crisis, the 11 September 2001 attacks and the
Iraq war - are the backdrop for the human stories of the individual
spies whose stories form the centrepiece of the narrative. But some
of the individuals featured here, in turn, helped shape the course
of those events. Corera draws on the first-hand accounts of those
who have spied, lied and in some cases nearly died in service of
the state. They range from the spymasters to the agents they ran to
their sworn enemies. Many of these accounts are based on exclusive
interviews and access. From Afghanistan to the Congo, from Moscow
to the back streets of London, these are the voices of those who
have worked on the front line of Britain's secret wars. And the
truth is often more remarkable than the fiction.
Disrupt and Deny is the untold story behind Britain's secret
scheming against both enemies and friends from 1945 to the present
day. British leaders use spies and Special Forces to interfere in
the affairs of others discreetly and deniably. Since 1945, MI6 has
spread misinformation designed to divide and discredit targets from
the Middle East to Eastern Europe and Northern Ireland. It has
instigated whispering campaigns and planted false evidence on
officials working behind the Iron Curtain, tried to foment
revolution in Albania, blown up ships to prevent the passage of
refugees to Israel, and secretly funnelled aid to insurgents in
Afghanistan and dissidents in Poland. MI6 has launched cultural and
economic warfare against Iceland and Czechoslovakia. It has tried
to instigate coups in Congo, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and
elsewhere. Through bribery and blackmail, Britain has rigged
elections as colonies moved to independence. Britain has fought
secret wars in Yemen, Indonesia, and Oman - and discreetly used
Special Forces to eliminate enemies from colonial Malaya to Libya
during the Arab Spring. This is covert action: a vital, though
controversial, tool of statecraft and perhaps the most sensitive of
all government activity. If used wisely, it can play an important
role in pursuing national interests in a dangerous world. If used
poorly, it can cause political scandal - or worse. In Disrupt and
Deny, Rory Cormac tells the remarkable true story of Britain's
secret scheming against its enemies, as well as its friends; of
intrigue and manoeuvring within the darkest corridors of Whitehall,
where officials fought to maintain control of this most sensitive
and seductive work; and, above all, of Britain's attempt to use
smoke and mirrors to mask decline. He reveals hitherto secret
operations, the slush funds that paid for them, and the battles in
Whitehall that shaped them.
In addition to being a major area of research within International
Relations, peacebuilding and statebuilding is a major policy area
within the UN and other international and regional organizations.
It is also a concern of international financial institutions,
including the World Bank, and a significant factor in the foreign
and security policies of many established and emerging democracies.
Peacebuilding and statebuilding are among the main approaches for
preventing, managing, and mitigating global insecurities; dealing
with the humanitarian consequences of civil wars; and expanding
democracy and neoliberal economic regimes. Peace formation is a
relatively new concept, addressing how local actors work in
parallel to international and national projects, and helps shape
the legitimacy of peace processes and state reform. The Oxford
Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation
serves as an essential guide to this vast intellectual and policy
landscape. It offers a systematic overview of conceptual
foundations, political implications, and tensions at the global,
regional, and local levels, as well as key policies, practices,
examples, and discourses underlining all segments of peacebuilding
and statebuilding praxis. Approaching peacebuilding from
disciplinary perspectives across the social sciences, the Handbook
is organized around four major thematic sections. Section one
explores how peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation is
conceived by different disciplines and IR approaches, thus offering
an overview of the conceptual bedrock of major theories and
approaches. Section two situates these approaches among other major
global issues, including globalization, civil society, terrorism,
and technology to illustrate their global, regional, and local
resonance. Section three looks at key themes in the field,
including peace agreements, democratization, security reform, human
rights, environment, and culture. Finally, section four looks at
key features of everyday and civil society peace formation
processes, both in theory and in practice.
In essays that illuminate not only the recent past but
shortcomings in today's intelligence assessments, sixteen experts
show how prospective antagonists appraised each other prior to the
World Wars. This cautionary tale, warns that intelligence agencies
can do certain things very well--but other things poorly, if at
all.
Originally published in 1986.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
The study of Marxism in Britain throws light on what many
historians have referred to as `the enemy within'. In this book,
David Burke looks at the activities of Russian political emigres in
Britain, and in particular the role of one family: the Rothsteins.
He looks at the contributions of Theodore and Andrew Rothstein to
British Marxism and the response of the intelligence services to
what they regarded as a serious threat to security. With access to
recently released documents, this book analyses the activities of
early-twentieth century British Marxists and brings to life the
story of a remarkable family.
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