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Author
Publisher
Twenty-first Century Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the types of intelligence gathered by the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA, the technological and human resources used to gather such data, and the future of these three organizations.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Jefferson Morley reveals the Watergate scandal in a completely new light: as the culmination of a concealed, deadly power struggle between President Richard Nixon and CIA Director Richard Helms. Nixon and Helms went back decades; both were 1950s Cold Warriors, and both knew secrets about the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba as well as off-the-books American government and CIA plots to remove Fidel Castro and other leaders in Latin America....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In "Dirty Wars, " Jeremy Scahill, author of the "New York Times" best-seller "Blackwater, " takes us inside America's new covert wars. As he reveals, the foot soldiers in these battles operate daily across the globe and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture, or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies of America.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Antonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late 1970s, at one of the most dangerous moments in the Cold War. Soviets kept files on all foreigners, studied their patterns, and tapped their phones. Intelligence work was effectively impossible. The Soviet threat loomed larger than ever. [This book] tells the story of the intelligence breakthroughs that turned the odds in America's favor. As experts in...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 446 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Brennan pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of the Central Intelligence Agency. He brings the reader behind the scenes of some of the most crucial moments in recent U.S. history. He also candidly discusses the times he has failed to live up to his own high standards and the very public fallouts that have resulted. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Series
Welker and Saboy series volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Counter-intelligence agent Jacob Welker recruits a number of civilians to help foil a suspected terrorist attack by German spies in New York in 1938. March, 1938. Otto Lehman arrives in New York on the S.S. Osthafen to be immediately confronted by two men with FBI badges ... only, that isn't his real name and the men aren't with the FBI. The next day Lehman is found tied to a chair, beaten to death and naked, in an abandoned Brooklyn warehouse. The...
Author
Publisher
Time Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into foreign adventures that decisively shaped today's world as the Cold War was at its peak.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 666 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on hundreds of interviews and once-secret documents to deliver the untold story of the FBI's secret battles in the war on terror--both outside the United States and inside the U.S. government--highlighting the tensions between the FBI and CIA.
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