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How Bush-hating CIA Bureaucrats Are Sabotaging the War on Terror. Since the attacks on September 11, 2001, intelligence collection has become the number-one weapon in the effort to defeat al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. A plot penetrated is an attack stopped. And to the outside observer, the CIA has performed well as a key partner in the Bush administration's War on Terror. But as Rowan Scarborough reveals in this groundbreaking new book, significant...
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Breve historia del espionaje le introducirá en el enigmático mundo del espionaje desde la Antigüedad hasta nuestros días. Trataremos su evolución desde el uso de las técnicas más básicas como el engaño y la traición, pasando por la criptografía en la Edad Media, el surgimiento de la Inquisición o la tecnología más avanzada en la actualidad.
Cuando se habla de espías enseguida pensamos en Mata-Hari, pero ya en la Biblia aparecen los...
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La historia del espionaje moderno arranca con la Primera Guerra
Mundial y la que quizá haya sido la espía más llamativa de la historia:
Mata Hari. Desde esa temprana fecha hasta nuestros días
el uso de espías y el desarrollo de los servicios de inteligencia no
ha parado de crecer, convirtiéndose en una de las grandes fuerzas
que dominan el mundo.
Top Secret. Un siglo de espías: de Mata Hari a Snowden nos muestra
la evolución de las técnicas...
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Ocurrirá y usted vivirá para verlo. ¿No lo cree? Pues, créalo. Este libro habla sobre lo impensado, algo que muchos piensan que no pasará o que son cosas del pasado, como ver una película en blanco y negro. Este libro explora la falsa caída de la URSS, el aumento de su odio y la preparación que están llevando a cabo para una guerra contra el otro lado del mundo. El otro lado del mundo no tiene idea de lo que se viene. Yo he tenido la mala...
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New York Times bestselling author Bill Gertz uses his unparalleled access to America's intelligence system to show how this system completely broke down in the years, months, and days leading up to the deadly terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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The science of espionage has a long history of evolution and probably it originated ever since the emergence of state as the supreme form of governance in clan societies. The science, in course of emergence of larger states achieved high level of development in Egypt, Syria, Persia, China, Greece and India. By the 4th century B. C. the science of espionage in India achieved a spectacular level of advancement which was incorporated in Arthaśāstra....
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"Entebbe Unveiled: The Israeli Military's Heroic Rescue Mission" is a gripping and detailed account of one of the most daring and successful hostage rescue operations in modern history. The book takes readers behind the scenes of the Israeli Defense Forces' (IDF) extraordinary mission to free over a hundred hostages from Entebbe Airport in Uganda in 1976.The narrative begins with a comprehensive background on the political and historical context leading...
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Both the Special Operations Forces (SOF) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have served as the nation's eyes, ears, and daggers, often in close cooperation but occasionally at cross-purposes throughout their histories. In this book, Thomas H. Henriksen examines the warrior-spy connection both before and after the formation of the SOF and the CIA. Henriksen shows how, by adopting an intelligence-driven, targeted counterstrike weapon against...
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What motivates someone to risk his or her life in the shadowy, often dangerous world of espionage? What are the needs and opportunities for spying amid the "war on terrorism"? And how can the United States recruit spies to inform its struggle with Islamic fundamentalists' acts of anti-Western jihad?
Drawing on over twenty-five years of experience, Frederick P. Hitz, a former inspector general of the Central Intelligence Agency, guides the reader...
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Amy Zegart examines the weaknesses of US intelligence oversight and why those deficiencies have persisted, despite the unprecedented importance of intelligence in today's environment. She argues that many of the biggest oversight problems lie with Congress-the institution, not the parties or personalities-showing how Congress has collectively and persistently tied its own hands in overseeing intelligence.
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Ce livre parle de l'impensable. Quelque chose que la plupart des gens ne croient pas arriver, ou que ce n'est qu'une menace d'il y a longtemps, comme regarder un film en noir et blanc sur les guerres d'il y a longtemps. Avec leurs promenades mécaniques à l'air maladroit et leurs vêtements et leur technologie à l'air bizarre. Ce livre explore l'effondrement à moitié simulé de l'Union soviétique. Et la montée secrète de leur haine, et les...
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When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. The story continues to unfold, with the reputations of some of America's best-loved literary figures--including Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, and Richard Wright--tarnished as their work for the intelligence agency has come to light. Finks is a tale of two CIAs, and how they blurred...
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Robert Philip Hansen thought he was smarter than the system. For decades, the quirky but respected counterintelligence expert, religious family man, and father of six, sold top-secret information to agents of the Soviet Union and Russia. A self-taught computer expert, Hansen often encrypted his stolen files on wafer-thin disks. The data-some 6000 pages of highly classified documents-revealed precious nuclear secrets, outlined American espionage initiatives,...
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Now available to the public for the first time, the Senate's landmark torture report delivers a damning indictment on CIA interrogation practices.
Finally declassified and released after five years in the making, the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the CIA's torture program, which describes in excruciating detail what Obama has called "harsh methods . . . inconsistent with our values as a nation," is now available to the American public-citizens...
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The AI Apocalypse is Coming! Discover the ultimate guide to surviving and thriving in a world transformed by digitalization, artificial intelligence, and the ever-evolving landscape of technology.'The Prepper's Guide to the Digital Age' is your essential guide for navigating both the potential risks and rewards that come with living in an increasingly interconnected world. Get it now. In this comprehensive guide, you'll uncover:The AI catastrophic...
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The author reveals the dangerous weaknesses undermining domestic intelligence in the United States and tells why a new national security service should not be part of the FBI. He explains the need for a new domestic intelligence agency, modeled on the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and lodged in the Department of Homeland Security.
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"Eyes in the Sky: The Role of Technology and Surveillance in the Hunt for bin Laden" provides a riveting, in-depth account of how cutting-edge technology and sophisticated surveillance methods played a pivotal role in one of the most intense manhunts in modern history. This comprehensive book chronicles the years-long pursuit of Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks, detailing the technological innovations and strategic intelligence...
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Get the Summary of David Talbot's The Devils Chessboard in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Devil's Chessboard" by David Talbot explores the life and career of Allen Dulles, a Wall Street lawyer with Nazi connections, who became a key figure in American espionage. Dulles's controversial activities during and after World War II, including his resistance to severing Nazi ties and his involvement in espionage against...
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As the operations and training officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency's Psychic Intelligence Unit, Major Dames, with his team, used the practice of remote viewing to uncover accurate military intelligence. After retiring from the military, Dames turned his paranormal detective skills to finding missing persons, such as millionaire pilot Steve Fossett, whose plane vanished in Nevada, and a young Colorado girl named Christina White, who disappeared...
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If you thought The Manchurian Candidate was fiction or John Farris's The Fury, which featured a CIA mind-control program run amok, was the stuff of an overheated imagination, you were sorely mistaken.
From behind the cloak of U.S. military secrecy comes the story of Star Gate, the project that for nearly a quarter of a century trained soldiers and civilian spies in extra-sensory perception (ESP). Their objective: To search out the secrets of America's...
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