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The secret state : a history of intelligence and espionage / Colonel John Hughes-Wilson.

by Hughes-Wilson, John, author.

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New York : Pegasus Books, 2017.

Espionage -- History.

Intelligence service -- History.

9781681773025 (hardcover) :

1681773023 (hardcover)

xvii, 510 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.

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 interpretations: 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 Son 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 get any better?

A history of intelligence from its classical origins to the onset of the surveillance state in the digital age.

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