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How Bush-hating CIA Bureaucrats Are Sabotaging the War on Terror. Since the attacks on September 11, 2001, intelligence collection has become the number-one weapon in the effort to defeat al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. A plot penetrated is an attack stopped. And to the outside observer, the CIA has performed well as a key partner in the Bush administration's War on Terror. But as Rowan Scarborough reveals in this groundbreaking new book, significant...
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Amy Zegart examines the weaknesses of US intelligence oversight and why those deficiencies have persisted, despite the unprecedented importance of intelligence in today's environment. She argues that many of the biggest oversight problems lie with Congress-the institution, not the parties or personalities-showing how Congress has collectively and persistently tied its own hands in overseeing intelligence.
3) The Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the US Government's Surveillance and Overreach
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"The Devil Inside the Beltway". This chilling and personal story that reveals, in detail, how the Federal Trade Commission repeatedly bungled a critically important cybersecurity investigation and betrayed the American public. Michael J. Daugherty, author and CEO of LabMD in Atlanta, uncovers and details an extraordinary government surveillance program that compromised national security and invaded the privacy of tens of millions of online users worldwide....
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Investigative Journalist George Webb and Creativity Expert Peter Duke team up to condense the reporter's 4,000 reports over four years of reporting on DNC corruption to a easy to understand, story form. Learn how Duke took Webb through a tried and true creativity process to synthesize years of shoe leather reporting into a crisp, visual summary. This book will be equally enjoyed by both Democrats and Republican unless you worked in the Hillary Clinton...
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Get the Summary of Liza Mundy's The Sisterhood in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Sisterhood" by Liza Mundy chronicles the experiences of women in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the CIA, highlighting their significant yet often overlooked contributions to American intelligence. The book begins with the OSS's recruitment and training of a diverse workforce during World War II, emphasizing the inclusion...
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Ocurrirá y usted vivirá para verlo. ¿No lo cree? Pues, créalo. Este libro habla sobre lo impensado, algo que muchos piensan que no pasará o que son cosas del pasado, como ver una película en blanco y negro. Este libro explora la falsa caída de la URSS, el aumento de su odio y la preparación que están llevando a cabo para una guerra contra el otro lado del mundo. El otro lado del mundo no tiene idea de lo que se viene. Yo he tenido la mala...
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Unbroken Resilience: Lessons from Disasters and Future Risks delves into the profound and lasting effects of some of the world's most significant disasters, both natural and man-made, with a comprehensive analysis of their physical, mental, and economic impacts. Drawing from decades of research, firsthand accounts, and historical data, the book explores how communities, nations, and individuals have weathered catastrophic events, from devastating...
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La historia del espionaje moderno arranca con la Primera Guerra
Mundial y la que quizá haya sido la espía más llamativa de la historia:
Mata Hari. Desde esa temprana fecha hasta nuestros días
el uso de espías y el desarrollo de los servicios de inteligencia no
ha parado de crecer, convirtiéndose en una de las grandes fuerzas
que dominan el mundo.
Top Secret. Un siglo de espías: de Mata Hari a Snowden nos muestra
la evolución de las técnicas...
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New York Times bestselling author Bill Gertz uses his unparalleled access to America's intelligence system to show how this system completely broke down in the years, months, and days leading up to the deadly terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. The story continues to unfold, with the reputations of some of America's best-loved literary figures--including Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, and Richard Wright--tarnished as their work for the intelligence agency has come to light. Finks is a tale of two CIAs, and how they blurred...
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The author reveals the dangerous weaknesses undermining domestic intelligence in the United States and tells why a new national security service should not be part of the FBI. He explains the need for a new domestic intelligence agency, modeled on the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and lodged in the Department of Homeland Security.
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"Eyes in the Sky: The Role of Technology and Surveillance in the Hunt for bin Laden" provides a riveting, in-depth account of how cutting-edge technology and sophisticated surveillance methods played a pivotal role in one of the most intense manhunts in modern history. This comprehensive book chronicles the years-long pursuit of Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks, detailing the technological innovations and strategic intelligence...
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When the Hiss-Chambers case first burst on the scene in 1948, its main characters and events seemed more appropriate to spy fiction than to American reality. The major historical authority on the case, Perjury was first published in 1978. Now, in its latest edition, Perjury links together the old and new evidence, much of it previously undiscovered or unavailable, bringing the Hiss-Chambers's amazing story up to the present.
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As the operations and training officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency's Psychic Intelligence Unit, Major Dames, with his team, used the practice of remote viewing to uncover accurate military intelligence. After retiring from the military, Dames turned his paranormal detective skills to finding missing persons, such as millionaire pilot Steve Fossett, whose plane vanished in Nevada, and a young Colorado girl named Christina White, who disappeared...
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If you thought The Manchurian Candidate was fiction or John Farris's The Fury, which featured a CIA mind-control program run amok, was the stuff of an overheated imagination, you were sorely mistaken.
From behind the cloak of U.S. military secrecy comes the story of Star Gate, the project that for nearly a quarter of a century trained soldiers and civilian spies in extra-sensory perception (ESP). Their objective: To search out the secrets of America's...
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Today the vast archipelago of Southeast Asia islands known as Indonesia is in the headlines because of political instability, religious tension, and violence in the streets. Forty years ago similar conditions led the Central Intelligence Agency to mount a top-secret covert action campaign designed to hold that nation's left-leaning President Sukarno's feet to the fire and prevent a strategic crossroad from falling into the communist camp. The Agency...
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Ce livre parle de l'impensable. Quelque chose que la plupart des gens ne croient pas arriver, ou que ce n'est qu'une menace d'il y a longtemps, comme regarder un film en noir et blanc sur les guerres d'il y a longtemps. Avec leurs promenades mécaniques à l'air maladroit et leurs vêtements et leur technologie à l'air bizarre. Ce livre explore l'effondrement à moitié simulé de l'Union soviétique. Et la montée secrète de leur haine, et les...
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Get the Summary of David Talbot's The Devils Chessboard in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Devil's Chessboard" by David Talbot explores the life and career of Allen Dulles, a Wall Street lawyer with Nazi connections, who became a key figure in American espionage. Dulles's controversial activities during and after World War II, including his resistance to severing Nazi ties and his involvement in espionage against...
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Robert Philip Hansen thought he was smarter than the system. For decades, the quirky but respected counterintelligence expert, religious family man, and father of six, sold top-secret information to agents of the Soviet Union and Russia. A self-taught computer expert, Hansen often encrypted his stolen files on wafer-thin disks. The data-some 6000 pages of highly classified documents-revealed precious nuclear secrets, outlined American espionage initiatives,...
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Now available to the public for the first time, the Senate's landmark torture report delivers a damning indictment on CIA interrogation practices.
Finally declassified and released after five years in the making, the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the CIA's torture program, which describes in excruciating detail what Obama has called "harsh methods . . . inconsistent with our values as a nation," is now available to the American public-citizens...
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