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Trading Secrets - Spies and Intelligence in an Age of Terror (Hardcover, New)
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Trading Secrets - Spies and Intelligence in an Age of Terror (Hardcover, New)
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Today's intelligence community faces challenges that would have
been inconceivable only a dozen years ago. Just as al-Qaeda's
destruction of the Twin Towers heralded a revolution in global
diplomacy, the events of 9/11 also threw two centuries of spy-craft
into turmoil - because this new enemy could not be bought. Gone
were the sleepers and moles whose trade in secrets had sustained
intelligence agencies in both peacetime and war. A new method of
intelligence had been born. The award-winning former Financial
Times security correspondent Mark Huband here takes us deep inside
this new unseen world of spies and intelligence. With privileged
access to intelligence officers from Rome to Kabul and from
Khartoum to Guantanamo Bay, he reveals how spies created secret
channels to the IRA, deceived Iran's terrorist allies, frequently
attempted to infiltrate al-Qaeda, and forced Libya to abandon its
nuclear weapons. Using accounts from ex-KGB officers, Huband
vividly describes the devastation caused by the West's misreading
of Soviet intentions in Africa, and explains how ill-prepared
western intelligence agencies were when the Cold War was replaced
by the perception of a new terrorist threat. Benefiting from
privileged access to intelligence sources across the world, Trading
Secrets provides a unique and controversial assessment of the
catastrophic failure of spies to grasp the realities of the
Taliban's grip on Afghanistan, and draws upon exclusive interviews
with serving officers in assessing the ability of the major
intelligence agencies to combat the threat of twenty-first century
terrorism.
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