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Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the state, revolutionized warfare, and changed the balance of power between states and non-state actors-and it assesses the potential for realizing any hopes we might have for reforming intelligence and espionage. Examining espionage, counterintelligence, and covert action, the book argues that, contrary to prevailing views,...
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Foreign policy in peacetime and command decision in war have always been driven by intelligence, and yet this subject has often been overlooked in standard histories. Honorable Treachery fills in these details, dramatically recounting every important intelligence operation since our nation's birth. These include how in 1795 President Washington mounted a covert operation to ransom American hostages in the Middle East; how in 1897, Kaiser Wilhelm II's...
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[2006]
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In these two spy movie spoofs, James Coburn plays ultracool superspy Derek Flint, top agent for the Zonal Organization of World Intelligence Espionage (Z.O.W.I.E.). In Our man Flint, he must track down the nefarious criminal organization known as Galaxy to thwart their evil scheme to manipulate the earth's weather systems and achieve world domination. In In like Flint, the president of the United States is kidnapped and replaced with an evil impostor....
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Intelligence, espionage, and even war as we know it have been transformed by the War on Terror. With the CIA on the ropes, the armed forces stretched thin, and the need for inside information and action at an all-time high, the United States government and its allies have turned to private organizations to carry the load, companies like the one founded by Camille Black, former CIA counterterrorism specialist. Camille is approached by the CIA for an...
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