[…] Carlton, 2007, h/b, £20 This is a lavishly and creatively illustrated, large format, (i.e. slightly bigger than A4) glossy paper, coffee-table book on the history of espionage. A former journalist with Newsday, and author of many previous books on spying, Volkman knows the subject and his text is well written. Since the author […]
[…] Anglophile, who became SIS’s agent in Iraq, and later in London. Using her firsthand knowledge supplemented by her father’s papers, Souza has created a classic of the espionage genre: I know of no better account of the experience, the mechanics and the feel of being a spy, of a life led under cover. To […]
[…] and does work. In his very entertaining and intriguing book, Plots and Paranoia, Professor Bernard Porter recognises part of this fact. He introduces his book thus: ‘Domestic espionage is the hidden underside of politcal history. It may be immensely important. It is possible that without it we would be a very different country from […]
DEEP BLACK: the secrets of space espionage William E. Burrows, Bantam Press, 1988 P. N. Rogers The National Reconnaissance Office is the only ‘black’ US intelligence agency remaining. Formed in 1960, the US only conceded officially that they had reconnaissance satellites twelve years later, and to this day maintain that these are the responsibility […]
[…] that that implies, rather than electoral law. The Americans are repositioning and forgot to tell them. Consultancies The most detailed reference to links between some consultancies and espionage was made by a former founding CIA officer, Miles Copeland, in his book The Game of Nations written over twenty years ago. In this, he wrote: […]
[…] to acquire a recorded, snapshot of London suburbia – mums with asthmatic children, office-workers with sports injuries, those with libido problems – i.e. low level authentic voice espionage. (A by-product of the wicked sanctions and travel restrictions imposed on Iraqis for over a decade, was that the US/UK were denied such information.) 3 I […]
[…] (p and p included) from BM Box 4769, London WC1N 3XX; cheques payable to Larry O’Hara. Since 1945 MI5 has had three main domestic targets: Soviet bloc espionage, the British Left and the IRA. With the Soviet target gone, and the British Left of no consequence for the foreseeable future, all that remains of […]
The Spycatcher’s Encyclopedia of Espionage Peter Wright Heinemann, Australia, 1991 The cover-blurb says this is ‘the rest of the story’. It feels more like the out-takes from Spycatcher spiced with a few more fragments of interesting gossip. And I do mean fragments: the interesting bits of 260 pages — largish print and much white […]
[…] For example, some had been recruited into the so-called ‘Main Rouge’, a counter-terrorist organization created by the French secret service (Service de Documentation Exterieure et de Contre- Espionage (SDECE), to eliminate the FLN’s support network in Europe and prevent supplies from reaching rebel forces in Algeria.(80) Others had provided services for the army’s 2nd […]
[…] convenience – and therefore the employers’ – rather than the needs of a child. A ‘parent friendly’ environment is not the same as a ‘family friendly’ one. Espionage can certainly be the latter. It can also offer many advantages to the family as a whole, and a child in particular, although the latter can […]
