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Veil: the secret wars of the CIA, 1981-1987
By Bob Woodward. 2005
Based upon interviews with over 250 unidentified sources, various documents, and more than four dozen discussions with then Central Intelligence…
Agency (CIA) Director William J. Casey, the book presents a controversial history of the CIA and its influence on the foreign policy of the Reagan Administration. Also explores CIA-inspired covert wars, clandestine relationships, bribery, and assassinations during this period. Some descriptions of violence, strong language. Bestseller. 2005, c1987.The silent game
By David Stafford. 1988
Stafford compares spy novels to the real world of espionage. With the idea for the CIA's proposed assassination of Fidel…
Castro coming from a novel by William Le Queux, he shows that life imitates art; and, with authors like Graham Greene and John le Carre using their first-hand experiences to write about gentleman spies, shows that art imitates life. 1988.Herbert Yardley had established America's first codebreaking agency in 1917. His unit was closed in 1929 by Henry Stimson, who…
intoned, "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail." Yardley then wrote a best-selling memoir, "The American Black Chamber", which detailed the exploits of the State Department's Cipher Bureau, and disclosed codemaking and breaking to the public. Some descriptions of sex. 2004.The mystery of Olga Chekhova
By Antony Beevor. 2004
Russian Olga Chekhova was the niece of playwright Anton Chekhov and a famous Nazi-era film actress who was closely associated…
with Hitler. After fleeing Bolshevik Moscow for Berlin in 1920, she was allegedly recruited by her composer brother Lev to become a Soviet spy - a career she spent her entire postwar life denying. Nevertheless, she ingeniously played powerful figures off against each other to survive the revolution, the war, and Stalin's purges. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2004.The Meinertzhagen mystery: the life and legend of a colossal fraud
By Brian Garfield. 2007
Tall, handsome, charming Col. Richard Meinertzhagen was an acclaimed British war hero, a secret agent, and a dean of international…
ornithology. He was trusted by Winston Churchill, David Ben Gurion, T. E. Lawrence, and Elspeth Huxley, but he bamboozled them all - Meinertzhagen was a fraud. Many of the adventures recorded in his celebrated diaries were imaginary, he committed a half-century of major and costly scientific fraud, and - oddly - may have been innocent of many killings to which he confessed. Some descriptions of violence. c2007.The man from Odessa
By Greville Wynne. 1981
Master spy Greville Wynne tells the story of his career as a British secret agent up to the time of…
his trial and imprisonment in the Lubyanka over the Penkovsky affair, and following his exchange for top Russian spy Gordon Lonsdale. 1981.The lost spy: an American in Stalin's secret service
By Andrew Meier. 2008
A brilliant Columbia University graduate, Isaiah Oggins went to Berlin to establish a safe house and spy for his country…
- but he turned coat. Working for the Soviets, he was nevertheless poisoned in 1947 on Stalin's orders. 2008.Describes the exploration of the Libyan desert in the 1920s and 1930s, which is also the story behind the novel…
"The English Patient" (DC11460). In 1939 the group known as the Zerzura Club split allegiances: Englishman Ralph Bagnold formed the Long Range Desert Group of patrols that gathered intelligence and generally bedeviled Italian and German troops, while Hungarian Count Ladislaus Almasy led the German equivalent of the LRDG. Some descriptions of violence. 2002.The implosion conspiracy
By Louis Nizer. 1973
Voyage au pays des Mi'gmaq ((Voyage au pays des--).)
By Annik Chiron de La Casinière. 2010
Au bord des chutes de Grand-Sault, dans la province du Nouveau-Brunswick, se dresse une imposante statue de femme indienne. Passé…
ce seuil, le visiteur entre en pays mi'gmaq... et dans d'épaisses forêts, zone intermédiaire que peuple la faune dont sont remplies les légendes de cette civilisation des côtes orientales du Canada. Puis viennent des villages aux habitations dispersées parmi les arbres ou concentrées autour d'une église et flanquées de jardins proprets. Les lieux de peuplement mi'gmaq n'ont pas tous cette apparence enchantée. Certains sont à l'image des relations tourmentées qu'entretinrent longtemps Mi'gmaq et Blancs. Une anthropologue observe, écoute et rend compte des aléas émouvants d'une minorité d'Amérique du Nord en pleine reconquête de son identité. 2010.Lamia, l'anti-barbouze
By Philippe-L. Thyraud De Vosjoli. 1972
Le 18 octobre '63, Lamia, agent secret, envoie sa démission au General de Gaulle. Convaincu de l'infiltration soviétique au sein…
du cabinet français, désavoue par son propre gouvernement, il n'a pas d'autre choix que d'agir en solitaire. 1972.Carve her name with pride
By R. J. Rubeigh James Minney. 1956
Violette Bushell was the daughter of an English father and a French mother. An ordinary London shop assistant before the…
Second World War, she undertook the exacting training for a war-time secret agent. Married in 1940 to Etienne Szabo, she was twice sent to Occupied France: the second time she did not return. A fellow agent tells the story of her Resistance work, her capture by the Gestapo and the award of her George Cross to her daughter, Tania. 1956.Native peoples (Discovering Canada)
By Robert Livesey. 1993
Who were the original native peoples who lived in what is now Canada? Where and how did they live? What…
were their legends and myths, heroes and gods? The authors move from east to west, providing the history and folklore of seven native nations. Activities and a crossword puzzle are included. Grades 5-8. 1993. (Discovering Canada series)Manhunt
By Peter Maas. 1986
True story of Edwin Wilson, a CIA agent run amok, who used his knowledge of espionage to gain a fortune.…
Responsible for suppyling the Libyan terrorist machine with weapons, he became the focus of a federal investigation. Strong language. Bestseller. 1986.Two eggs on my plate
By Oluf Reed Olsen, F. H Lyon. 1952
In June 1986, Edward Lee Howard became the first CIA officer to defect to the Soviet Union. Howard became angry…
after being fired from his job with the CIA and decided to defect to Moscow, thus destroying the CIA's Moscow network. c1989.The general was a spy: the truth about General Gehlen and his spy ring
By Hermann Zolling, Heinz Höhne. 1972
The champagne spy: Israel's master spy tells his story
By Wolfgang Lotz. 1972
As the top Israeli agent in Egypt, the author lived the life of a German horsebreeder who mingled in high…
society until he was caught. Imprisoned in Cairo for three years, he was saved by the Six Day War of 1967. 1972.Spy wars: espionage in Canada from Gouzenko to glasnost
By David Stafford, J. L Granatstein. 1990
This history of espionage in Canada takes the reader from the days before World War II, when Canadian Intelligence mainly…
spied on leftists, to the modern-day plundering of this country's technology by the Soviets. 1990.Pleins feux sur les services secrets canadiens: révélations sur l'espionnage au pays
By Richard Cléroux, Joseph-Aimé Valcourt. 1993