Top secret
Subtitle: a complete history of espionage and the technology behind it
By: David Owen ; adapted by Victoria Sherrow
Contributors: Sherrow, Victoria
Publisher: New Burlington Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781861553287
Subjects: Ciphers; Cryptography; Espionage; History; Spies; Electronic intelligence; Intelligence and national security; Intelligence officers; Intelligence service
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The beginnings of espionage; title: Ch. 1: Spying on the enemy; title: Ch. 2: Code breaking; title: Ch. 3: Electronic secrets; title: Ch. 4: Fakes and frauds: deliberate deceptions; title: Ch. 5: Airborne intelligence; title: Ch. 6: Satellites and space intelligence; title: Ch. 7: Espionage in the twenty-first century; title: Ch. 8: Spying on the terrorists.