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Author
Publisher
Hurst & Company
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 507 pages) : illustrations, map
Language
English
Description
"In 1920s Shanghai, Zhou Enlai founded the first Chinese communist spy network, operating in the shadows against nationalists, Western powers and the Japanese. The story of Chinese espionage has been a global one from the start. Unearthing previously unseen papers and interviewing countless insiders, Roger Faligot's astonishing account reveals nothing less than a century of world events shaped by Chinese spies. Working as scientists, journalists,...
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Series
Language
English
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"Mrs. Pollifax is sent on a safari to smoke out an international assassin whose next target is the president of Zambia. 'Just take a lot of pictures of everyone on that safari,' the CIA man told her. 'One of them has to be our man.' It sounded simple enough. But it wasn't. Because shortly after she started taking pictures, someone stole her film. And right after that she was kidnapped by Rhodesian terrorists. And right after that--well, read for yourself..."...
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
231 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mr Wormold, vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, is, as always, short of money. His daughter, sixteen, followed everywhere by wolf whistles, is spending his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. All he has to do is run agents, file reports: spy. But his fake reports have an alarming tendency to come true, and the web of lies he weaves around him starts to get more and...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A history of Chinese espionage in America draws on interviews with key FBI and CIA insiders, focusing on two key cases--double agent Katrina Leung and the scientist known as Tiger Trap, who was suspected of stealing nuclear weapons secrets.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 1032 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Defend the Realm" reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British Army in October 1909, through two world wars, up to and including its present roles in counterespionage and counterterrorism.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xxxv, 696 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From its founding in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency has been discovered in the midst of some of the most crucial-and most embarrassing-episodes in United States relations with the world. Safe for Democracy for the first time places the story of the CIA's covert operations squarely in the context of America's global quest for democratic values and institutions. National security historian John Prados offers a comprehensive...
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