The secret state
Subtitle: a history of intelligence and espionage
By: Colonel John Hughes-Wilson
Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9781681773025
Subjects: Intelligence service; Espionage; History
Other titles: History of intelligence and espionage
Description: A history of intelligence from its classical origins to the onset of the surveillance state in the digital age.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 476-488) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One: Setting the scene; title: A little history; title: Part Two; title: On intelligence; title: Part Three; title: How intelligence works: the intelligence cycle; title: On direction: "What exactly is your intelligence requirement, Minister?"; title: On collection; title: Part Four: On HUMINT and spies; title: Money: the Walker family's unusual business; title: Ideology. Cambridge's famous Five ; Where ideology and ego mix: Ana Montes ; The one who got away: Melita Norwood; title: Compromise/coercion. John Vassall ; Clinton and Pollard ; Joe Cahill; title: Ego: Robert Hanssen; title: The grievance: Penkovsky; title: HUMINT in action: Werther and the Battle of Kursk; title: On interrogation; title: How Soviet HUMINT changed the world; title: Part Five: Technology takes over; title: On SIGINT; title: the triumph of SIGINT: Midway; title: On surveillance; title: On technical intelligence; title: Photographic reconnaissance; title: Photographic reconnaissance in action: the Cuban missile crisis; title: On satellites; title: Part Six: Information into intelligence; title: On collation: Vietnam and Tet offensive; title: On interpretations: Yom Kippur; title: Telling the user: Barbarossa and Stalin; title: On dissemination: Pearl Harbor; title: Part Seven: On security; title: One who slipped through the net: Aldrich Hazen Ames; title: The Avner Smit case; title: The inadequate: Bradley Manning; title: WikiLeaks and the appalling Assange; title: Snowden, security and the surveillance state; title: Strategic security: insecure from top to bottom: Singapore, 1941-2; title: Part Eight: On deception. D-Day; title: Part Nine: On terror; title: On terrorism; title: Islam and the war on terror; title: The greatest atrocity: 9/11 and the attack on the World Trade Center; title: Part Ten: On intelligence fiascos; title: The Son Tây raid; title: Operation Eagle Claw; title: Blair's dodgy dossier, Iraq 2003; title: Part Eleven: New horizons, new horrors?; title: On cyberwar: when is a war not a war?; title: Part Twelve: A dangerous trade; title: The secret war for ELINT; title: USS Pueblo; title: The attack on USS Liberty: with friends like this, who needs enemies?; title: Disaster at Forward Operating Base Chapman; title: Will it get any better?