My Silent War

Two events have transformed the world: the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of militant Islam. This book explains the link between these two occurrences. Moving from the secret chambers in CIA headquarters to stand-offs in the Khyber Pass, it is one of the vivid descriptions of CIA operations.

While other books have speculated on the history and nature of the British intelligence services, this is the first to tell the story through the documents themselves. Only ten years ago, access to these original sources would have been impossible. Now, experts Stephen Twigge and Graham Macklin draw on the spies' and the spymasters' own words as contained in the National Archives' intelligence ...

The story of the woman who rose to be Director-General of Britain's Security Service, MI5, in a career that lasted from 1969 to 1996. Stella Rimington worked to Director level in all main fields of the Service's responsibilities, counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism,

The image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and novels is all-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective. This book shows that the CIA is a blundering, chaotic and dangerously incompetent organization, so ineffective that it was nicknamed 'Can't Identify Anything' by Nato forces.

The Inside Story of Israel's Legendary Secret Service. Created in 1951 to ensure an embattled Israel's future, the Mossad has been responsible for the most audacious and thrilling feats of espionage, counterterrorism and assassination every ventured. This book has been created from closed-door interviews with Mossad agents, informants and spymasters, and draws from classified documents and top-sec

Covers the previously untold story of Britain's underground headquarters and factories.

This work comprises the memoirs of Richard M. Bissell Jr, whose leadership of America's intelligence services brought about such developments as the U-2 spy plane and the Corona spy satellite, and who was also the architect of the Bay of Pigs operation that faied to overthrow Castro in 1961.

The Office of Strategic Services, precursor to the CIA, was ordered into existence by President Roosevelt in 1941. This work explores the mission of the eclectic group of specially skilled agents: to gather information and carry out sabotage and guerilla operations behind enemy lines.

Focuses on the policy and debate about the future of intelligence. This book is divided into four sections: the intelligence cycle intelligence, counter-terrorism and security ethics, accountability and control intelligence and the new warfare. It is suitable for those wishing to understand the relationship between intelligence andi policy-making.

This is an account of the origins of Robert Maxwell's business success in the intelligence community, his links thereafter with the world's foremost intelligence agencies, and the backroom diplomacy which took him to the heart of world affairs.