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A study of how the literature of espionage compares with its actual practice, written by a former CIA officer. Hitz…
concludes that in most instances truth is more surprising and peculiar than fiction. For espionage fans interested in an insider's assessment of the reality behind the entertainment. Some strong language. 2004.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist investigates the life and crimes of spy Robert Hanssen, who was arrested in February 2001. Examines Hanssen's…
psychological and sexual profile and his motivations in betraying his country. Discusses the FBI's uneven performance under director Louis Freeh. Explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2002.
" Les taupes sont la hantise des services de renseignement et des corps policiers. Certaines sont parachutées pour infiltrer un…
pays, dérober des secrets et recruter d'autres taupes. D'autres trahissent l'organisation qui les emploie et offrent leurs services à l'ennemi par vengeance, pour flatter leur ego ou par appât du gain. Leurs aventures rocambolesques fascinent ou choquent et les ravages qu'elles causent avant d'être détectées leur valent ce surnom bien mérité! De Montréal à Moscou, ces enquêtes captivantes apportent un éclairage nouveau sur des cas marquants de l'actualité canadienne, entre autres ceux de Benoît Roberge, enquêteur-vedette sur le crime organisé, Jeffrey Delisle, officier reconnu coupable d'espionnage, et Donald Heathfield et Tracey Ann Foley, le célèbre couple d' illégaux du KGB. " -- 4e de couv.
Drawing on long-classified documents, this is the official history of the war waged by Britain's Special Operations Executive on Benito…
Mussolini's Fascist Italy. It provides an account of SOE's clandestine efforts to strike at Italy and sever its alliance with Nazi Germany, uncovering missions as remarkable as a plot to assassinate Mussolini and plans to arm the Mafia. It also recounts SOE's attempts at causing trouble inside an enemy country as opposed to an enemy-occupied one. This is a tale of desperate daring and sacrifice, climaxing in one of the most extraordinary episodes of the war: the delicate and dramatic dealings between the Allies and the Italians that led to Italy's surrender in 1943. 2014.
During World War II, the author, a war reporter, was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)--later the CIA--to…
work in the propaganda division. She describes other female operatives, some of whom were spies with hair-raising duties behind enemy lines. Concludes with the role women play in intelligence, including uncovering the Soviet mole Aldrich Ames. 1998.
New York Times reporter recounts anecdotes, often from anonymous sources, concerning CIA efforts to thwart terrorists since September 11, 2001.…
Discusses the National Security Agency's domestic wiretapping program, the search for weapons of mass destruction, and the return of Afghanistan's opium trade. Posits that the CIA mission failed. Bestseller. 2006.
Biography of the woman who was known as the Mata Hari of the Middle East. A Jerusalem-bred Beirut housewife and…
mother of seven, Shula became an important Israeli agent with access to the highest circles of power in Lebanon during the post-World War II period. c1980. Uniform title: Shem tsofen, ha-Peninah.
The legendary exploits of the daring, enigmatic Russian-Polish Jew born Sigmund Rosenblum, who called himself Sidney Reilly. The author shows…
that Reilly failed in his major mission for the British Secret Service of overturning the Bolshevik government and that his disclosures upon capture by the Russians facilitated Soviet infiltration of the British Secret Service. 1983.
Documents the true story of a Soviet naval captain who defected to the United States, served as a double agent…
for the C.I.A., and disappeared under mysterious circumstances while on assignment in Vienna. The author believes that Shadrin may have been sacrificed as a pawn in a game for higher stakes. 1981.
On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed "First Lightning", exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. This surprising…
international event marked the beginning of an arms race that would ultimately lead to nuclear proliferation beyond the Soviet Union and the United States. Using newly opened archives, Gordin follows a trail of espionage, secrecy, deception, political brinksmanship, and technical innovation to provide a fresh understanding of the nuclear arms race. 2009.
1942 : Winston Churchill autorise le recrutement de femmes, plus adaptées à certaines missions délicates que lance le Special Operations…
Executive (SOE), une organisation secrète destinée à soutenir la résistance européenne à l'ennemi nazi. On les veut vives, intelligentes, courageuses, audacieuses, et séduisantes si possible ! C'est ainsi que les trente-neuf candidates de la section F viennent d'horizons multiples à l'image même de leurs motivations. Leur histoire pleine de rebondissements et, pour treize d'entre elles, terriblement dramatique est étrangement méconnue en France. 2008.
Une romancière et un journaliste ont repris, pour leur compte, l'enquête sur le comportement de Pierre Sévigny dans l'affaire Munsinger.…
Sévigny, ex-ministre associé à la Défense, a été accusé d'avoir trahi son pays en livrant des secrets militaires à une supposée espionne venue d'Allemagne, Gerda Munsinger. 1993.
Cette enquête menée sur plusieurs années sur les services de renseignements chinois et les coulisses de la politique internationale de…
Pékin est issue des archives américaines, françaises, russes et chinoises. L'auteur a interviewé des spécialistes de la diplomatie, des responsables de la défense, et met à jour les performances du renseignement chinois fondées sur l'art de la guerre secrète. 2008.
This book is an examination of the role and significance of intelligence in the modern world. Essential reading for anyone…
interested in the history of espionage, the two world wars, modern British government and the conduct of international relations in the first half of the twentieth century. 2010.
L'auteur, lui-même ex-agent secret, nous révèle les dessous des services secrets français. Quelques individus prononcent secrètement, sans appel, des sentences…
de mort dont l'exécution est scientifiquement préparée par un comité compose d'experts en assassinat. Le tout est fait au nom de la République française et aux frais des contribuables. On croit rêver et pourtant les faits sont là. Descriptions régulières de violence. 1975.
A tale of two CIAs, and how they blurred the line between propaganda and literature. One CIA created literary magazines…
that promoted American and European writers and cultural freedom, while the other toppled governments, using assassination and censorship as political tools. Defenders of the “cultural” CIA argue that it should have been lauded for boosting interest in the arts and freedom of thought, but the two CIAs had the same undercover goals, and shared many of the same methods: deception, subterfuge and intimidation. Demonstrates how the good-versus-bad CIA is a false divide, and that the cultural Cold Warriors used anti-Communism as a lever to spy relentlessly on leftists, and indeed writers of all political inclinations, and thereby pushed U.S. democracy a little closer to the Soviet model of the surveillance state. 2016.