By Michael J. Sulick

Can you retain a secret?

Maybe you could, however the usa executive can't. because the start of the rustic, countries huge and small, from Russia and China to Ghana and Ecuador, have stolen the main important secrets and techniques of the U.S..

Written via Michael Sulick, former director of CIA's clandestine provider, Spying in the USA presents a background of greater than thirty espionage situations contained in the usa. those circumstances contain american citizens who spied opposed to their kingdom, spies from either the Union and Confederacy through the Civil struggle, and international brokers who ran operations on American soil. the various tales are ordinary, corresponding to these of Benedict Arnold and Julius Rosenberg, whereas others, notwithstanding much less popular, are both attention-grabbing.

From the yankee Revolution, during the Civil battle and international Wars, to the atomic age of the long island undertaking, Sulick info the lives of these who've betrayed America's secrets and techniques. In each one case he makes a speciality of the motivations that drove those members to secret agent, their entry and the secrets and techniques they betrayed, their tradecraft or recommendations for concealing their espionage, their publicity and punishment, and the wear and tear they eventually inflicted on America's nationwide safety.

Spying in America serves because the excellent creation to the early historical past of espionage in the US. Sulick's detailed event as a senior intelligence officer is obvious as he skillfully publications the reader via those situations of intrigue, deftly illustrating the evolution of yankee wisdom approximately espionage and the fitful improvement of yank counterespionage prime as much as the chilly War.

By Bernard Brodie

Approach within the Missile Age was once written through the sunrise of the nuclear age, while the arrival of intercontinental ballistic missiles necessitated an incredible rethinking of army procedure and gear. initially released in 1959, it keeps abundant relevance this present day for its dialogue of the origins of air energy, its cornerstone place within the evolution of chilly War-era nuclear method, and its remedy of preventive and preemptive assaults, deterrence, and the economics of process. Brodie, who believed nuclear warfare used to be 3unthinkable,2 suggestion a lot concerning the unthinkable and helped offer an highbrow framework for warding off a nuclear disaster. this can be a reprint of an variation initially released in 1959.

By Elliot D. Cohen (auth.)

By William Roscoe Thayer

By Lawrence Freedman

The writer examines intimately the association of the U.S. intelligence group, its makes an attempt to watch and expect the improvement of Soviet forces from the early days of the chilly battle, and the way those makes an attempt affected American coverage and guns production.

Originally released in 1987.

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By Jan Goldman

Intelligence pros are staff of the govt. operating in a enterprise that a few might think about unethical—the enterprise of spying. This booklet seems on the dilemmas that exist whilst one is requested to accomplish a civil carrier that's in clash with what that particular believes to be "ethical." this can be the 1st publication to provide the simplest essays, articles, and speeches on ethics and intelligence that display the complicated ethical dilemmas in intelligence assortment, research, and operations that confront govt staff. a few are lately declassified and not prior to released, and all are written by way of authors whose backgrounds are as different as their insights, together with Robert M. Gates, former Director of the imperative Intelligence company; John P. Langan, the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Professor of Catholic Social inspiration on the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown collage; and Loch ok. Johnson, Regents Professor of Political technological know-how on the collage of Georgia and recipient of the Owens Award for contributions to the certainty of U.S. intelligence actions. To the intelligence specialist, this can be a necessary selection of literature for development a moral code that isn't depending on any particular corporation, division, or state. Managers, supervisors, and staff of all degrees should still learn this e-book. growing the basis for the research of ethics and intelligence by way of filling within the hole among battle and philosophy, Ethics of Spying makes the assertion that the intelligence specialist has ethics.

By John H. Richardson

As his father nears loss of life in his retirement domestic in Mexico, John H. Richardson starts off to solve a existence choked with drama and secrecy. John Sr. was once a Cia "chief of station" on many of the preferred assignments of the chilly warfare, from the again alleys of occupied Vienna to the jungles of the Philippines—and specially Saigon, the place he turned a pivotal participant within the turning element of the Vietnam conflict: the overthrow of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem. As John Jr. and his sister got here of age in unique postings the world over, they struggled to deal with themselves to their pushed, far away father, and their clash opens a window at the tumult of the sixties and Vietnam.

during the day-by-day happenings at domestic and his father's activities, reconstructed from declassified files in addition to vast interviews with former spies and executive officers, Richardson unearths the innermost workings of a relations enmeshed within the chilly War—and the deeper battle that turns the area of the fathers into the area of the sons.

By Nigel West

In the years instantly following international battle II, details used to be disclosed approximately what has been termed the shadow struggle of the lifestyles of hitherto mystery organizations. In Germany it used to be the Abwehr and the Sicherheitsdienst; in Britain it used to be MI5, the key Intelligence carrier (MI6) and designated Operations government (SOE); within the usa it was once the workplace of Strategic companies (OSS) and the certain Intelligence provider (SIS) of the Federal Bureau of research (FBI); in Japan it was once the Kempet'ai; and in Italy the Servicio di Informazione Militare (SIM). Sixty years after global conflict II secrets and techniques are nonetheless being published concerning the covert actions that happened. many nations had mystery businesses preserving covert operations, yet even ostensibly impartial nations additionally carried out mystery operations. adjustments in American, British, or even Soviet legitimate attitudes to declassification within the Nineteen Eighties allowed hundreds of thousands of mystery files to be made to be had for public exam, and the end result was once large revisionism of the normal histories of the clash, which formerly had excluded references to mystery intelligence sources.

The Historical Dictionary of worldwide conflict II Intelligence tells the rising heritage of the intelligence international in the course of international struggle II. this is often performed via a chronology, an advent, a bibliography, and enormous quantities of cross-referenced dictionary entries at the mystery corporations, operations, and occasions. the area of double brokers, spies, and moles in the course of WWII is defined within the such a lot entire reference presently available.

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At a time while intelligence successes and screw ups are on the middle of public dialogue, this ebook presents an exceptional inside of examine how intelligence organizations functionality in the course of struggle and peacetime. because the direct results of the 1998 Nazi struggle Crimes Disclosure Act, the quantity attracts upon many files declassified below this legislation to bare what U.S. intelligence companies discovered approximately Nazi crimes in the course of global conflict II and in regards to the nature of Nazi intelligence enterprises' position within the Holocaust. It examines how a few U.S. enterprises came across how you can benefit from Nazi Germany's expropriation of the valuables of German Jews. The paintings additionally unearths startling new information at the chilly conflict connections among the U.S. executive and Hitler's former officials.

By David Tucker

Utilizing espionage as a attempt case, The finish of Intelligence criticizes claims that the hot details revolution has weakened the nation, revolutionized struggle, and altered the stability of strength among states and non-state actors―and it assesses the possibility of knowing any hopes we'd have for reforming intelligence and espionage. reading espionage, counterintelligence, and covert motion, the booklet argues that, opposite to winning perspectives, the knowledge revolution is expanding the facility of states relative to non-state actors and perilous privateness greater than secrecy. Arguing that intelligence corporations might be taken because the paradigmatic companies of the data age, writer David Tucker exhibits the boundaries of data accumulating and research even in those firms, the place disasters at self-knowledge aspect to broader limits on human knowledge―even in our intended age of transparency. He argues that, during this complicated context, either intuitive judgment and morality stay as very important as ever and undervalued via these arguing for the transformative results of knowledge. This e-book will problem what we predict we all know in regards to the strength of knowledge and the kingdom, and concerning the most probably twenty-first century destiny of secrecy and privateness.