Intelligence agencies provide information to national security and foreign policy decision makers, yet spying also poses dilemmas for liberty, privacy, human rights, and diplomacy. Principled Spying explores how to strike a balance between conducting necessary intelligence activities and protecting democratic values through a new ethics framework.
Intelligence Leaders in the United States and United Kingdom
This first volume of Spy Chiefs broadens and deepens our understanding of the role of intelligence leaders in foreign affairs and national security in the United States and United Kingdom from the early 1940s to the present.
Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA
America's mass surveillance programs, once secret, can no longer be ignored. While Edward Snowden began the process in 2013 with his leaks of top secret documents, the Obama administration's own reforms have also helped bring the National Security Agency and its programs of signals intelligence collection out of the shadows. The real question is: ......
The history of recruiting citizens to spy on each other in the United States. Ever since the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden, we think about surveillance as the data-tracking digital technologies used by the likes of Google, the National Security Administration, and the military. But in reality, the state and allied institutions ......
A guidebook that lifts the cloak on over two centuries of espionage in the Washington region. It tells the stories and offers coordinates for the headline-making cases and long-forgotten spy games that have changed the course of world affairs. It comes with 220 main entries as well as listings for dozens more spy sites, maps and photos.
Germany's Information and Disinformation Apparatus 1932-40
Total Espionage was first published shortly before Pearl Harbor and is fresh in its style, retaining immediacy unpolluted by the knowledge of subsequent events. It tells how the whole apparatus of the Nazi state was geared towards war by its systematic gathering of information and dissemination of disinformation. The author, a Berlin journalist, ......
Drawing on sources only available since the Cold War ended, The Image of the Enemy breaks new ground as it examines how seven countries gathered, analyzed, and used intelligence to deepen their understanding of their adversaries.
Drawing on sources only available since the Cold War ended, The Image of the Enemy breaks new ground as it examines how seven countries gathered, analyzed, and used intelligence to deepen their understanding of their adversaries.
In February 1989, the CIA's chief in Islamabad famously cabled headquarters a simple message: "We Won." This book tells the story of America's secret war in Afghanistan and the defeat of the Soviet 40th Red Army in the war that proved to be the final battle of the cold war.
