Snitch!
Subtitle: a history of the modern intelligence informer
By: Steve Hewitt.
Publisher: London
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781441100825; 9781441190079
Subjects: Intelligence service -- Case studies; Informers -- Case studies; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Description: "Snitch! offers a vivid account of how some citizens actively assist state surveillance by "informing" on others."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: inherent in the conditions of human society: the nature of informing; title: Informing history; title: Famous informers; title: Informer states; title: Informers in the war on terror; title: Conclusion: living in the informer age.