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Author
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 591 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Foreign policy in peacetime and command decision in war have always been driven by intelligence, and yet this subject has often been overlooked in standard histories. Honorable Treachery fills in these details, dramatically recounting every important intelligence operation since our nation's birth. These include how in 1795 President Washington mounted a covert operation to ransom American hostages in the Middle East; how in 1897, Kaiser Wilhelm II's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : color illustrations, color map.
Language
English
Description
Highlights the training and work of American spies. Includes a text-related activity, a glossary, resources for further information, and color photographs.
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Eduation
Pub. Date
c2013
Lexile measure
1200L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 p.) : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the history of the CIA, tracing its development and the purposes it has served since its founding in 1942. Spotlights the work of spies and the tools they have used to do their jobs and includes black-and-white photographs.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Upon its creation in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency instantly became one of the most important spy services in the world. Like every male-dominated workplace in Eisenhower America, the growing intelligence agency needed women to type memos, send messages, manipulate expense accounts, and keep secrets. Despite discrimination-even because of it-these clerks and secretaries rose to become some of the shrewdest, toughest operatives the agency...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Before Edward Snowden's infamous data breach, the largest theft of government secrets was committed by an ingenious traitor whose intricate espionage scheme and complex system of coded messages were made even more baffling by his dyslexia. His name is Brian Regan, but he came to be known as the "Spy Who Couldn't Spell." In December 2000, FBI special agent Steven Carr of the bureau's Washington, D.C, office received a package from FBI New York: a...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
638 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Reveals the covert operations that have brought the United States and Iran to the brink of open war, including Iran's proposal for peace after 9/11, which was rejected by President Bush, and Iran's secret army in post-U.S. invasion Iraq.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Time magazine called her "the Mata Hari of Minnesota"; OSS Chief general "Wild Bill" Donovan called her "the greatest unsung heroine of the war." But for decades, the extent of Betty Pack's achievements as an agent during World War II, first for Britain's MI6 and then for America's OSS, remained classified. Now, the truth about this femme fatale--her dangerous liaisons and death-defying missions, the heartaches that haunted her life, her vital contributions...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ): illustrations, maps.
Language
English
Description
"The true story of socialite spy Marguerite Harrison, who slipped behind enemy lines in Russia and Germany in the fraught period between the world wars Foreign correspondent. Author. Filmmaker. Spy. Marguerite Harrison was born into Gilded Age American privilege and launched a successful career as a culture writer for the Baltimore Sun as a young widow. But when America entered World War I, Harrison secretly applied for a position in intelligence....
Author
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"In the post-World War II era, the Soviet Union and the United States wanted to gain an advantage over one another in the international security environment. To do so, both engaged in a variety of intelligence-gathering strategies--some of which involved espionage. This single-volume work provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of the espionage game during the Cold War and in the post-Cold War security environment"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States. From 1979 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer at a military research center, cracked open the secret Soviet military research establishment,...
Author
Lexile measure
1220L
Language
English
Formats
Description
No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Now, Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the Navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. It unveils how the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion, a submarine that disappeared, all hands lost, thirty years ago. It tells...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HaperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 686 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful and secretive colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers. America's greatest untold story: the United States' rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on revelatory new materials, including newly discovered...
20) A time to betray: the astonishing double life of a CIA agent inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This true spy thriller reveals the inner workings of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, as witnessed by an Iranian man inside their ranks who spied for the American government. It is a human story, a chronicle of family and friendships torn apart by a terror-mongering regime, and how the adult choices of three childhood mates during the Islamic Republic yielded divisive and tragic fates. And it is the courageous account of one man's decades-long...
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