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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on extensive archival research and personal interviews, this previously untold story of the OSS Research and Development Branch, a secret group of scientists who invented deadly items, forged documents and performed truth drug experiments during WWII, explores the moral dilemmas they faced and reveals their dark legacy.
43) Inside the C.I.A
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Fullscreen edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Provides an inside view into the workings of the CIA. Discover a new conspiracy theory between the CIA and the Nazis, as well as the CIA's secret airline, originating in WWII for top missions from Vietnam to China.
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The 16th Amendment to the Constitution legalized federal income tax, but what if there were problems with the 1913 ratification of that amendment? Problems that call into question decades of tax collecting, and could even bring down the US economy. There is a surprising truth to this possibility a truth wholly entertained by Steve Berry, a top-ten New York Times bestselling writer, in his new thriller, The Patriot Threat. His protagonist, Cotton...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a hurricane assembles a passenger jet out of junkyard waste, the Directorate of the Extremely Improbable is fascinated and sets into motion a chase across America that is haunted by murder, madness, and mistaken identity.
Author
Publisher
Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 online resource (ix, 129 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
Language
English
Description
"An account of the evolution of a national SIGINT effort following WWII. A discussion of the fragile trends toward unification of the military services after the war and the unsatisfactory experience under the Armed Forces Security Agency"--Resource description page.
Author
Language
English
Description
Journalist Bamford exposed the existence of the top-secret National Security Agency in The Puzzle Palace and continued to probe into its workings in his follow-up Body of Secrets. Now Bamford discloses inside, often shocking information about the transformation of the NSA in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 2001. He shows how the NSA's failure to detect the presence of two of the 9/11 hijackers inside the United States led the NSA to abandon...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the wake of World War II, four agents were critical in helping build a new organization that we now know as the CIA. Adelaide Hawkins, Mary Hutchison, Eloise Page, and Elizabeth Sudmeier, called the "wise gals" by their male colleagues because of their sharp sense of humor and even quicker intelligence, were not the stereotypical femme fatale of spy novels. They were smart, courageous, and groundbreaking agents at the top of their class, instrumental...
Author
Series
Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
At the request of her old CIA contact, Carstairs, Emily Pollifax leaves New Jersey and her geraniums for Africa, where she battles dark forces of evil to save an African leader from assassination.
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