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Now in paperback, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J Edgar Hoover deemed "Masterful…an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work”by The Washington Post (and everywhere else)"Revelatory...an acknowledgment of the complexities that made Hoover who he was, while charging the turbulent currents that eventually swept him aside."—The New York TimesG-Man is the groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today’s conservative political landscape. Hoover transformed a scandal-riddled law-enforcement backwater, into a modern machine—one just as oppressive as it was promising. He rose to power and then stayed there, decade after decade, using the tools of the state to create a personal fiefdom unrivaled in U.S. history. Beverly Gage’s monumental work explores the full sweep of Hoover’s life and career, from his birth in 1895 to a modest Washington civil-service family to a strongarm for white supremacists and the politicized Christian right, serving eight presidents. G-Man places Hoover back where he once stood in American political history--not at the fringes, but at the center--and uses his story to explain the trajectories of governance, policing, race, ideology, political culture, and federal power as they evolved over the course of the 20th century. “[A] crisply written, prodigiously researched, and frequently astonishing new biography”—The New Yorker“Gage’s penetrating account of Hoover’s career, especially his many long-eclipsed triumphs, offers a well-timed and sobering perspective as yet another institution in our fractured country struggles to maintain trust.” -The Atlantic“Gage’s triumph is her deft navigation through Hoover’s 'deep state,' while reminding us of the abuse of power that remains his enduring legacy.”—The Boston Globe

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. -Sun Tzu, author, The Art of WarThe challenge is this: how can America's fractured democracy and diverse society respond to a centrally orchestrated strategy from China that ultimately may challenge our interests and our values? Some Chinese-Americans and Chinese residents-perhaps only a relative handful-have cooperated in obtaining technology for China. And many Chinese nationals who obtained years of experience working at American companies have returned to China to help competitors there. The Chinese have a nickname for these individuals, haigui, or returning sea turtles who come ashore once a year to lay their eggs. This book outlines the contemporary issues and offers solutions.

"Shadows of Deception: Exploring the Realm of Military Espionage" is a captivating journey into the hidden realm of spies, subterfuge, and covert operations. Explore the craft and complexity of the espionage trade, from ancient empires to the digital age. Discover the impact of technology, the moral dilemmas faced by spies, and the delicate balance between national security and individual privacy. Prepare to uncover extraordinary stories that have shaped history and contemplate the future of espionage in a world of perpetual conflict.

From the Bestselling Author and Television Producer of Masters of Sex, a True Story of Espionage and Mobsters, Based on the Never-Before-Released JFK Files, and Optioned by Warner Bros.

America's marketplace of ideas is threatened by social media platforms and a government security apparatus that have joined together to suppress the free exchange of ideas. In Free Speech and Turbulent Freedom, Michael J. Glennon offers an incisive defense of free speech in the digital public square. Drawing on the intellectual journey of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who shaped the modern First Amendment, Glennon argues that a lively and robust marketplace of ideas is the surest guarantor of social stability. Crisply written and lucidly argued, this timely book calls on the courts to protect the speech interests not merely of the government and Big Tech, but of all participants in the marketplace of ideas.

Discover the shadowy world of Japan's legendary ninja in this fascinating book. From their origins as covert agents in feudal Japan to their role in modern pop culture, this book explores the history and legacy of these skilled warriors.Using recorded evidence and historical accounts, delve into the methods and tactics employed by the ninja. Learn about their weapons and tools, from throwing stars and smoke bombs to grappling hooks and swords.Explore the cultural impact of the ninja, from their influence on martial arts to their portrayal in popular culture.Whether you're a history buff or just fascinated by the lore of the ninja, this book is an essential guide to understanding one of Japan's most enduring and enigmatic traditions.

Examines the perspectives of actors other than the U.S. government-states and nonstate actors-on the wars in which the United States participated, and assesses the extent to which these actors learned lessons that have implications for their long-term foreign, security, and other important policies, and for their major future actions. Eventually and perhaps indirectly, many of these lessons may affect U.S. policymaking and national interests. Some of these implications already are evident and seem significant, meaning it is important for U.S. decisionmakers and for scholars-preferably sooner than later-to understand, take account of, and in some cases prepare for manifestations of these lessons. Other ramifications of these learning processes undoubtedly will not be apparent for some time to come.

The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today. Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his wife Moon, The Book of Secrets weaves recently found material into a narrative that not only illuminates the shadowy world of intelligence in China, but also the emotional tragedies that political extremism inflicted on those working within. Drawing on Jie's own vivid biography of his youth, Xinran pieces together his trajectory as he joins the great hope of the Chinese young - the Communist Party - and becomes a loyal cadre until the late 1970s when, as a chief in the security forces, he makes a decision that will poison his family against him. This is a totally unique behind-the-scenes account of a family torn apart by the Tiananmen Square massacre and the attempts of Jie to finally open up the Chinese system to the people, pieced together from an extraordinary archive of personal diaries and letters.

"The true story of a filmmaker whose investigation of her film's subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy"--

"This book's examination of the surviving records of the Asia Foundation-an international development organization and one-time funding front-provides a unique view of the bureaucratic functioning of a poorly understood CIA Cold War covert operation"--

A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; A Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On December 7, 1941, their hidden stories are exposed by a morning of bloodshed that will change the world forever.

When an English pilot and a German baron appear in a down-at-heel town in neutral southern Ireland at the start of WW2, ex-convent-girl Mary Collins's hopes of making it to Hollywood get caught up in a comic battle for survival.

"Secrecy came naturally to John le Carrâe, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait of this fascinating man; yet some aspects of his subject remained hidden. Nowhere was this more so than in his private life. Apparently content in his marriage, the novelist conducted a string of love affairs over five decades. To these relationships he brought much of the tradecraft that he had learned as a spy: cover stories, cut-outs, and dead letter boxes. ... In trying to manage his [original 2015 biography], the novelist engaged in a succession of skirmishes with his biographer. While he could control what Sisman wrote about him in his lifetime, he accepted that the truth would eventually become known. Following his death in 2020, what had been withheld can now be revealed"--

Da den unge sprogofficer, Alex Søndergaard, i slutningen af 1970’erne ansættes i Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste – Tjenesten, mødes han af et spind af intriger, magtkampe, løgne og misundelse. Ved et tilfælde involveres han i en sag, der bringer ham tæt på beslutninger og magtkampe i Kreml. Han oplever sin karrieres største triumfer og største skuffelser og ender med at søge tilbage til universitetsverdenen. Mere end 25 år senere bliver han kaldt tilbage til Tjene- sten. Her bliver han en central brik i spillet om at afdække fortidens svigt og forræderi. Det viser sig at være en historie, der trækker lange spor – nogle mere end 100 år tilbage – i en labyrint af idealisme, bedrag og gamle venskaber. Da chefen for FE hjemsendes, er det op til Alex at tage de sidste skridt, der måske kan sætte en definitiv stopper for mange års landsforræderi.

Seven questionable and long forgotten deaths in historical San Bernardino, California, offer clues to a shocking possibility that occult serial murder went undetected for nearly a century. Through an esoteric based analysis of odd facts and unanswered questions, suspecting a pattern in the mind of a killer, there is revealed an unexpected yet specific connection between all the known attacks by the legendary Zodiac Killer a half century later-- presented for the first time here. With figures like Aleister Crowley and Harry Houdini moving about the periphery of the mystery, nothing may have been what it seems, and someone appears to have wanted it that way...

Mwakenya: Real or Phantom?, is Jimmy Achira's persecution experience Daniel Arap Moi's Kenya in 1980s. The Daily Nation captured best the nebulous phenomenon called Mwakenya. "Mwakenya remained a chimera to the Kenyan media. Reporters knew no "Mwakenya" officials and received no calls, manifestos or press releases from them. "There was no known office location, or telephone or fax numbers. Everything that came to the media house, and appeared as trial evidence, was from the Moi-KANU government. "The seditious documents produced in court were always photo-copies, never originals. It was not only university lecturers, students who were victims of the security dragnet-civil servants and journalists too, were picked up". -Daily Nation, Sept. 20th 1987.In the 1980s, in Moi's regime, it was anathema to be termed "Mwakenya" for that would pronounce arrest, torture and jail. It was one of the saddest chapters in the nation's history; people talked in hushed voices, looking over their shoulders to see who was listening; when people worried what they were seen reading for it could be "seditious". Jimmy Achira, a journalist who found himself in the Mwakenya dragnet, chronicles his experiences in Mwakenya: Real or Phantom? The book is not a history of Mwakenya but a personal account of encounter with oppression in Moi's Kenya. The real story of Mwakenya would be told by historians. It is unfortunate that instruments like the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission have yet to unearth the atrocities against Kenyan people; atrocities perpetuated in the name of state security; and law and order. What others say: "It is important that the experiences such as Achira's be told for the sake of history and posterity. The history of those dark days should be taught in schools, alongside tales of heroic struggles such as that of Mau Mau"Many Kenyans who enjoy the fruits of "freedom" under multi-party democracy know little about the suffering many faced and sacrifices made to achieve the current freedom." - Gershom Otachi Bw'Omanwa "The Nyaro era of the 1980s was a time of horror in the history of human rights in Kenya. In early 1986 the crackdown on those Kenyans perceived to have dissenting views about the government had been put in motion. Under the guise of rooting out subversives, particularly referred to as "Mwakenya" ( Muungano wa Wakenya) the police unleashed such a reign of terror that a wide cross-section of people's lives were destroyed. " - Dr Carey Francis Onyango, Lecturer and HUman Rights Activist. "Political imprisonment was common in the Nyayo era in which Moi held Kenya in a vice-like grip. Now, the untold can be told. Stories, as Jimmy Achira's, help us understand those days and the price many Kenyans paid for freedoms enjoyed today. " - Dr Matunda Nyanchama, ICT Professional and Publisher. About the AuthorAchira was born at Bosiango, West Mugirango, Nyamira and went to Bosiango Primary School, Taranganya and Nyansabakwa High Schools. He taught at Mborogo Secondary School before entering journalism.He has worked for Target/ Lengo, East African Standard, Nation and Kenya Times. Others are The Weekend Mail and The Weekly Revie . In April 1995, he incorporated Rural Media Services Limited under which he published regional rural monthly newspaper, The Western Monitor. He co-edited, with Tom Amoro, A Guide to Gusii Politics 1997, published What Next after 1997 General Elections in Gusii?Presently, he is media consultant/publisher and working on The Memoirs of a Veteran Journalist 1979 - 1999.

Terrorgruppen Skyggen har i sinde at dræbe USA’s præsident, når han kommer til Rebild den 4. juli for at annoncere, hvad USA vil gøre ved iranernes hemmelige atombombeprogram. Det er imidlertid usikkert, om besøget på nationaldagen overhovedet bliver til noget, for inden da må USA skaffe beviser for, at iranerne rent faktisk har brudt atomaftalen.Da den danske bombeinspektør Adam opdager et brudt segl på sit overvågningskamera og senere finder sin kollega myrdet i Iran, tyder det unægteligt på, at landet ikke har rent mel i posen, men snart er Adam spundet ind i et net af bedrag og løgne, der rækker langt ud over Irans landegrænser. Han har fået at vide, at han skal holde sine kort tæt på kroppen, for hvem kan han egentlig stole på som brik i et storpolitisk spil? Forfatteren Steffen Groth er tidligere leder af IAEA og professor i nuklearmedicin. Han bruger sin indgående viden til at skrive intense spændingsromaner med komplekse politiske plots og hans bøger er tidligere blevet sammenlignet med Dan Browns.

Lieutenant General K.J.S. 'Tiny' Dhillon, an Infantry veteran from the Rajputana Rifles with about four decades of military service, has served multiple tenures in Kashmir. In this book, 'Tiny' Dhillon opens a hitherto-closed window, not only to his life but also to Kashmir. He recounts fascinating tales about the toughest challenges he encountered, from age three right up to those from his multiple tenures in Kashmir from 1988 to 2020, where it was his responsibility to maintain a balance between counter-terrorism operations on the one hand and to use military soft power on the other. Dhillon retraces his entire journey, from being a young boy to becoming the Commander of the Chinar Corps, with Kashmir as an inseparable part of this story.

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 Arthä¿stra. The basic theories of espionage as prescribed by Kau¿ilya have changed very little in course of the last two millennia and three hundred years notwithstanding the widespread use of technological devices developed in course of industrial advance, especially, the cyber technology developed in course of the last few decades. As regards effectiveness of espionage methods, the modern espionage agencies are yet to learn a lot from the theories and practices of espionage as embodied in Arthä¿stra.

"She burst across the revolutionary sky like a blazing meteor, dazzling all in her path," Trotsky wrote. For the poet Boris Pasternak, she was Lara, the heroine of his novel Doctor Zhivago.Commissar, revolutionary fighter, espionage agent, journalist, Larisa Reisner (1895-1926) was a model for the 'new woman' of the Russian Revolution, and one of its most popular and brilliant writers, whose works were published in mass editions and read by millions. In this sweeping biography, Cathy Porter sets her life against the backdrop of the world-shaking events of 1917. Drawing on material recently released from the Soviet archives, Porter tells Reisner's story through the memories of those close to her, her own voluminous writings, and her six books-published for the first time together with this biography.

"The New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls reveals the untold story of how women at the CIA ushered in the modern intelligence age, a sweeping story of a 'sisterhood' of women spies spanning three generations who broke the glass ceiling, helped transform spycraft, and tracked down Osama Bin Laden. Upon its creation in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency instantly became one of the most important spy services in the world. Like every male-dominated workplace in Eisenhower America, the growing intelligence agency needed women to type memos, send messages, manipulate expense accounts, and keep secrets. Despite discrimination-even because of it-these clerks and secretaries rose to become some of the shrewdest, toughest operatives the agency employed. Because women were seen as unimportant, they moved unnoticed on the streets of Bonn, Geneva, and Moscow, stealing secrets under the noses of the KGB. Back at headquarters, they built the CIA's critical archives-first by hand, then by computer. These women also battled institutional stereotyping and beat it. Men argued they alone could run spy rings. But the women proved they could be spymasters, too. During the Cold War, women made critical contributions to U.S. intelligence, sometimes as officers, sometimes as unpaid spouses, working together as their numbers grew. The women also made unique sacrifices, giving up marriage, children, even their own lives. They noticed things that the men at the top didn't see. In the final years of the twentieth century, it was a close-knit network of female CIA analysts who warned about the rising threat of Al Qaeda. After the 9/11 attacks, women rushed to join the fight as a new job, 'targeter, ' came to prominence. They showed that painstaking data analysis would be crucial to the post-9/11 national security landscape-an effort that culminated spectacularly in the CIA's successful efforts to track down Osama Bin Laden and, later, Ayman al-Zawahiri. With the same meticulous reporting and storytelling verve that she brought to her New York Times bestseller Code Girls, Liza Mundy has written an indispensable and sweeping history that reveals how women at the CIA ushered in the modern intelligence age"--

A Comprehensive Guide to HUMINT Operations is a book about the world of human intelligence. Written for both intelligence community professionals and general readers interested in the subject, this book covers a wide variety of topics related to the history, definition, and importance of HUMINT in today's world.From recruiting personnel to the different types of intelligence that can be obtained through HUMINT, this book provides a detailed overview of the inner workings of this critical field. It also delves into the process of evaluating information and using case studies and real-world examples to illustrate key concepts. Each chapter is concluded with questions to get an even better grip on this extremely interesting subject.The book also explores the trends shaping HUMINT's future, including technological advancements, changing political landscapes, and the ongoing challenges of counter-terrorism. With its detailed analysis and clear explanations, this book is an essential tool for anyone who wants to better understand the world of HUMINT.