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Hughes-Wilson, John.
Espionage -- History.
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The
secret
state
: a
history
of
intelligence
and
espionage
/ Colonel John Hughes-Wilson.
by
Hughes-Wilson, John.
Pegasus Books, c2017.
Call #:
327.12 H894ss
Subjects
Espionage
--
History
.
ISBN:
9781681773025
1681773023
Edition:
1st. Pegasus Books hardcover ed.
Description:
xvii, 510 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-488) and index.
Contents:
Part One: Setting the scene -- A little
history
-- Part Two -- On
intelligence
-- Part Three -- How
intelligence
works: the
intelligence
cycle -- On direction: "What exactly is your
intelligence
requirement, Minister?" -- On collection -- Part Four: On HUMINT and spies -- Money: the Walker family's unusual business -- Ideology. Cambridge's famous Five ; Where ideology and ego mix: Ana Montes ; The one who got away: Melita Norwood -- Compromise/coercion. John Vassall ; Clinton and Pollard ; Joe Cahill -- Ego: Robert Hanssen -- The grievance: Penkovsky -- HUMINT in action: Werther and the Battle of Kursk -- On interrogation -- How Soviet HUMINT changed the world -- Part Five: Technology takes over -- On SIGINT -- the triumph of SIGINT: Midway -- On surveillance -- On technical
intelligence
-- Photographic reconnaissance -- Photographic reconnaissance in action: the Cuban missile crisis -- On satellites -- Part Six: Information into
intelligence
-- On collation: Vietnam and Tet offensive -- On interpretations: Yom Kippur -- Telling the user: Barbarossa and Stalin -- On dissemination: Pearl Harbor -- Part Seven: On security -- One who slipped through the net: Aldrich Hazen Ames -- The Avner Smit case -- The inadequate: Bradley Manning -- WikiLeaks and the appalling Assange -- Snowden, security and the surveillance
state
-- Strategic security: insecure from top to bottom: Singapore, 1941-2 -- Part Eight: On deception. D-Day -- Part Nine: On terror -- On terrorism -- Islam and the war on terror -- The greatest atrocity: 9/11 and the attack on the World Trade Center -- Part Ten: On
intelligence
fiascos -- The Son T©Øy raid -- Operation Eagle Claw -- Blair's dodgy dossier, Iraq 2003 -- Part Eleven: New horizons, new horrors? -- On cyberwar: when is a war not a war? -- Part Twelve: A dangerous trade -- The
secret
war for ELINT -- USS Pueblo -- The attack on USS Liberty: with friends like this, who needs enemies? -- Disaster at Forward Operating Base Chapman -- Will it get any better?
Summary:
Comprehensive and authoritative, The
Secret
State
skillfully examines the potential pitfalls of the traditional
intelligence
cycle; the dangerous uncertainties of spies and human
intelligence
; how the Cold War became an electronic
intelligence
war; the technical revolution that began with the use of reconnaissance photography in World War I and during the Cuban Missile Crisis; the legacy of Stalin's deliberate ignoring of vital
intelligence
; how signals
intelligence
gave America one of its greatest victories; how Wikileaks really happened; and whether 9/11 could have been avoided if America's post-Cold War
intelligence
agencies had adapted to the new world of international terrorism. Authoritative and analytical, Hughes-Wilson searches for hard answers and scrutinizes why crucial
intelligence
is so often ignored, misunderstood, or spun by politicians and seasoned generals alike. From yesterday's spies to tomorrow's cyber world, The
Secret
State
is a fascinating and thought-provoking
history
of this ever-changing and ever-important subject.
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