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Espionage - ĕsˈpēənäzhˌ, the act of obtaining information clandestinely. The term applies particularly to the act of collecting military, industrial, and political data about one nation for the benefit of another. Industrial espionage—the theft of patents and processes from business firms—is not properly espionage at all.

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    A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century » Read Now

    by Jeffrey T. Richelson. 534 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Here is the ultimate inside history of twentieth-century intelligence gathering and covert activity. Unrivalled in its scope and as readable as any spy novel, A Century of Spies travels from tsarist Russia and the earliest days of the British Secret Service to the crises and uncertainties of today's...
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    The U.S. Intelligence Community » Read Now

    by Jeffrey T. Richelson. 526 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    This book provides a detailed overview of America's vast intelligence empire -- its organizations, its operations (from spies on the ground to satellites thousands of miles in space), and its management structure. Relying on a multitude of sources, including hundreds of official documents, it...
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    Fixing the Spy Machine: Preparing American Intelligence for the Twenty-First Century » Read Now

    by Richard R. Valcourt, Arthur S. Hulnick. 223 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    With the end of the Cold War and the dawning of a new century, the U.S. intelligence system faces new challenges and threats. The system has suffered from penetration by foreign agents, cutbacks in resources, serious errors in judgment, and what appears to be bad management; nonetheless, it remains...
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    Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC » Read Now

    by Amy B. Zegart. 317 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    Zegart (policy studies, School of Public Policy and Social Research at UCLA) challenges the belief that national security agencies are well designed to serve the national interest. Using a new institutionalist approach, she asks what forces shaped the design of the CIA, the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
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    U.S. Intelligence: Evolution and Anatomy » Read Now

    by Mark M. Lowenthal, David Kahn. 178 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    No major twentieth-century power has so short a history of national intelligence agencies or activities as does the United States, and few have been as public or as tumultuous. A major debate has now opened over the future structure, size, and role of U.S. intelligence in the aftermath of the cold...
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    Spying on America: The FBI's Domestic Counterintelligence Program » Read Now

    by James Kirkpatrick Davis. 198 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    "COINTELPRO"--an acronym for "Counterintelligence Program"--is the code name the FBI gave to the secret operations aimed at five major social and political protest groups: the Communist party, the Socialist Workers party, the Ku Klux Klan, black nationalist hate groups, and the New Left movement...
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    Traitors among Us: Inside the Spy Catcher's World » Read Now

    by Stuart A. Herrington. 409 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Herrington and his agents were a powerful force pitted against the KGB and the Stasi throughout the Cold War. Their ingenious operations cracked the infamous case of Sergeant First Class Clyde Conrad, who for 16 years betrayed details of US war plans.
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    Secret Empire: The KGB in Russia Today » Read Now

    by J. Michael Waller. 390 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
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    Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley » Read Now

    by Kathryn S. Olmsted. 265 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    When Elizabeth Bentley slunk into an FBI field office in 1945, she was thinking only of saving herself from NKGB assassins who were hot on her trail. She had no idea that she was about to start the greatest Red Scare in U.S. history.

    Bentley (1908-1963) was a Connecticut Yankee and Vassar graduate...

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    The Cicero Spy Affair: German Access to British Secrets in World War II » Read Now

    by Richard Wires. 265 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    The episode of the opportunistic valet of Britain's ambassador to neutral Turkey during World War II--dubbed "Cicero" for the eloquence of the top-secret material he appropriated from his employer Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen and sold to the Nazis--is a staple of intelligence lore. Yet this...
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    Spymaster: The Real-Life Karla, His Moles, and the East German Secret Police » Read Now

    by Leslie Colitt. 295 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...SPY MASTER THE REAL-LIFE KARLA, HIS MOLES, AND THE EAST GERMAN SECRET POLICE LESLIE COLITT Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Reading, Massachusetts...
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    Citizen Espionage: Studies in Trust and Betrayal » Read Now

    by Theodore R. Sarbin, Ralph M. Carney, Carson Eoyang. 213 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    This is the first work to examine the phenomena of citizen espionage from the point of view of trust betrayal. Here is an effort to illuminate the social, political, and psychological conditions that influence trusted American citizens to spy against their country. The volume combines historical...
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    Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage » Read Now

    by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew. 352 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    NO ESPIONAGE MISSIONS have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Only presidents and a select few have known the truth about the submarines that have for decades silently roamed the depths in a dangerous battle for information and advantage. Even the families of the men on...
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    Insidious Foes: The Axis Fifth Column and the American Home Front » Read Now

    by Francis MacDonnell. 244 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Nazi Germany's efforts to weaken the United States by subversion failed miserably. Bungling spies were captured and half-hearted efforts at sabotage came to nothing. Yet anyone who lived through WWII remembers the chilling posters warning Americans that "Enemy Agents Have Big Ears" and "Loose Lips...

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