The secret state : a history of intelligence and espionage / Colonel John Hughes-Wilson.
A history of intelligence from its classical origins to the onset of the surveillance state in the digital age.
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| Other title: | History of intelligence and espionage. |
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
2017.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. |
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Table of 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 interpretation : 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 Sơn Tây 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 ever get any better?