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Spy Books, Spy
Guides and Espionage Books
Spying is not just
something that happens in the movies. Spying, also
known as espionage, is quite common in the corporate world,
government, military, and online. The following
books provide helpful information on the subject of spies,
espionage and spying.
Following is a list of some of the best-selling spy and espionage books:
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Description - In today's business world, information
is everything - and no one gathers information more
effectively than spies. So why not bring real spying
techniques into your workplace? The same tactics
used by CIA and KGB agents can also be used at
offices and corporations of any size - and these
techniques will help you get ahead fast! The Spy's
Guide: Office Espionage features illustrated
step-by-step instructions on tapping phones, sending
anonymous e-mails, disguising your identity at a
trade show, and much more. The authors also share
real-life stories about how these tactics have been
employed by professional spies in the CIA, KGB,
tune 500 companies, and other settings. Advance
your career with espionage!
 Spy
Book Review from Amazon.com - The problem with memoirs by ex-secret
agents is that they usually make their careers sound
about as exciting as that of $6-an-hour bowling
alley security guard, unless you're of the opinion
that filing papers and making phone calls is the
epitome of thrills. Antonio Mendez, however, has
produced a tome that makes the life of a CIA agent
sound every bit the slam-bang world of intrigue and
skulking in the shadows that movies like Mission:
Impossible make it out to be.
Honored by the CIA on its 50th anniversary as being
one of the agency's 50 "Trailblazers," the
now-retired Mendez spins a fast-paced tale of
intriguing characters partaking in skullduggery in
exotic locales, made all the more appealing because
Mendez himself is the featured star of the
proceedings. In an almost offhand manner, he writes
about seeing and doing things that would wilt the
flower of courage in almost any reader. "Was I proud
to be enlisting," he rhetorically ponders at one
point, "on our side in the Cold War? You bet."
Originally drafted by the CIA as a "technical
artist" to provide cover for agents behind enemy
lines, Mendez worked his way up the ladder and
progressed to a full-fledged agent in the field,
sneaking diplomats past enemy guards and spiriting
informants into the night, eluding capture and
torture at every turn--and using his artist's eye
detail to paint vivid word pictures of his
predicaments. Mendez possesses a remarkably keen
sense of the mechanics of a good cloak-and-dagger
story, and fortunately pours it on in abundance here
in his quite hefty--and surprisingly
lively--autobiography. -- Tjames Madison
 Spy Book
Description - The death of CIA operative Theodore G.
"Ted" Shackley in December 2002 triggered an
avalanche of obituaries from all over the world,
some of them condemnatory. Pundits used such
expressions as "heroin trafficking," "training
terrorists," "attempts to assassinate Castro," and
"Mob connections." More specifically, they charged
him with having played a major role in the Chilean
military coup of 1973.
But who was the real Ted Shackley? In Spymaster, he
has told the story of his entire remarkable career
the first time. With the assistance of fellow
former CIA officer Richard A. Finney, he discusses
the consequential posts he held in Berlin, Miami,
Laos, Vietnam, and Washington, where he was
intimately involved in some of the key intelligence
operations of the Cold War. During his long career,
Shackley ran part of the inter-agency program to
overthrow Castro, was chief of station in Vientiane
during the CIA's "secret war" against North Vietnam
and the Pathet Lao, and was chief of station in
Saigon. After his retirement, he remained a
controversial figure. In the early eighties, he was
falsely charged with complicity in the Iran-Contra
scandal.
Ted Shackley's comments on CIA operations in Europe,
Cuba, Chile, and Southeast Asia and on the life of a
high-stakes spymaster will be the subject of intense
scrutiny by all concerned with the fields of
intelligence, foreign policy, and postwar U.S.
history.
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Publishers Weekly - No longer satisfied with
gentlemanly intelligence gathering, with the advent
of WWII the United States changed its espionage
policy and opted for more daring tactics like
decoding secret messages and detonating exploding
cigars. Under the guidance of decorated WWI hero
William "Wild Bill" Donovan, the Office of Special
Services, the CIA’s predecessor, assembled a motley
assortment of agents who set the stage for the
Allied armies’ most important missions, like the
invasion of North Africa and the storming of
Normandy. Through first person narratives from a
slew of OSS operatives, O’Donnell explores the
thrilling world of spying bee satellites and
computer hacking boxed agents into cubicles. The
WWII OSS hauled hardened criminals out of jail to
burgle enemy embassies and culled spies from the
Free French who fled to England and North Africa.
The sophisticated seductress "Cynthia" used her sex
appeal to gather ciphers for breaking Polish,
Italian and Vichy codes from high-ranking military
men. Elsewhere, Virginia Hall supplied the French
Resistance with arms and continually sabotaged the
Gestapo while limping with a wooden-leg. The book
also chronicles psychological operations by the
Allied "Sauerkraut agents" who demoralized German
troops by spreading rumors of defeat, disease and
desperation. The chapter on the OSS’ covert weapons,
like exploding baseballs and umbrella pistols,
vividly recalls 007’s pre-mission encounters with
"Q." This book is far more than a simple historical
survey and reads like a satisfying cloak and dagger
yarn, making it a good choice both history and
mystery buffs.
Copyright © Reed Business information, a division of
Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
 Spy Book
Description - Everyone, at some time in his or her
life, fantasizes about being a spy--James Bond, Mata
Hari, George Smiley, Maxwell Smart. At the new
International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., more
than a million visitors have stepped into the secret
history of history--and have learned what it is
really like to live undercover. This distinctive and
fascinating book at once distills and expands upon
that experience, with inside information on how
spies do their jobs, interviews with operatives, and
hundreds of photographs and descriptions of tools of
the trade.
Biographies of legendary spies and how they
completed their special operations are included,
along with timelines showing the developments of
bugs, surveillance tools, weapons, and disguises.
Letters, maps, examples of disguises, dead drops,
and rare photos make spies and their operations from
2000 BC to the present live and breathe on every
page.
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Description - Maps, as we know, help us find our way
around. But they're also powerful tools for someone
hoping to find you. Widely available in electronic
and paper mats, maps offer revealing insights
into our movements and activities, even our likes
and dislikes. In Spying with Maps, the "mapmatician"
Mark Monmonier looks at the increased use of
geographic data, satellite imagery, and location
tracking across a wide range of fields such as
military intelligence, law Enforcement, market
research, and traffic engineering. Could these
diverse ms of geographic monitoring, he asks,
lead to grave consequences for society? To assess
this very real threat, he explains how geospatial
technology works, what it can reveal, who uses it,
and to what effect.
Despite our apprehension about surveillance
technology, Spying with Maps is not a jeremiad,
crammed with dire warnings about eyes in the sky and
invasive tracking. Monmonier's approach encompasses
both skepticism and the acknowledgment that
geospatial technology brings with it unprecedented
benefits to governments, institutions, and
individuals, especially in an era of asymmetric
warfare and bioterrorism. Monmonier frames his
explanations of what this new technology is and how
it works with the question of whether locational
privacy is a fundamental right. Does the right to be
left alone include not letting Big Brother (or a
legion of Little Brothers) know where we are or
where we've been? What sacrifices must we make
homeland security and open government?
With his usual wit and clarity, Monmonier offers
readers an engaging, even-handed introduction to the
dark side of the new technology that surrounds
us—from traffic cameras and weather satellites to
personal GPS devices and wireless communications.
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Description - This comprehensive spy CD-ROM provides a
thorough overview of the controversial USA Patriot
Act which provides new tools to American law
Enforcement in the fight against terrorism. (The
full name of the act is Uniting and Strengthening
America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to
Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism.) It also covers
the military DARPA information Awareness Office,
recently highlighted by coverage in the media as
planning the creation of a database on the
activities of Americans. Here are just a few of the
topics covered by the fascinating articles in this
enormous collection:
The complete copy of the USA Patriot Act Searching
and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic
Evidence in Criminal Investigations Technology in
Internet Surveillance Homeland Security information
Sharing Financial Crimes Enforcement Network House
of Representatives Documents DARPA information
Awareness Office and related DARPA technologies
The DARPA information Awareness Office "will manage,
develop, apply, integrate, demonstrate, and
transition information technologies, components and
prototype, closed-loop information systems that will
counter asymmetric threats by achieving total
information awareness useful for preemption,
national security warning, and national security
decision making. Example technologies include:
Large, distributed repositories with dynamic schemas
that can be changed interactively by users, foreign
language machine translation and speech recognition;
biometric signatures of humans; pattern detection;
human network analysis; story telling, change
detection, and truth maintenance, human ID at a
distance."
Over 24,000 pages are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat
PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows
and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is
included. Our CD-ROMs are privately-compiled
collections of official public domain U.S.
government files and documents - they are not
produced by the federal government. They are
designed to provide a convenient user-friendly
reference work utilizing the benefits of the Adobe
Acrobat mat to uniformly present thousands of
pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by
finding specific words, or printed without untold
hours of tedious research and downloading. Vast
archives of important public domain government
information that might otherwise remain inaccessible
are available for instant review no matter where you
are. This book-on-a-disc makes a great reference
work and educational tool. There is no other
reference that is as fast, convenient,
comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and portable -
everything you need to know, from the federal
sources you trust.
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