A wide ranging investigation into the workings of the KGB, covering the manipulation of Egyptian President Nasser; the attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro; the campaign to intimidate journalists and silence dissent within the Soviet Union: the assistance given to IRA Provisionals; the wide scale infiltration of American Installations to steal hundreds of secret documents; the attempt to take o…
What is the CIA really up to? What does ita do, and why? No other arm of the United States government is so shrouded in mystery. or so self-willed and independently powerful. There have been other books about the CIA,a but never before has there been one which laid bare the facts so explicitly and with such authority as this. Written from first-handa knowledge by Victor Marchetti, a senior CIA …
At that time the Soviet Union still existed and the cold wat was very much alive, particularly with Ronald Reagan in the White House, and the Introduction reflects this. It is presented here because it offers a concise history of the cold war and a background to understanding the impetus behind, and the nature of, the many American interventions throughout the world. The actual case histories o…
Here for the first time is a complete and objective history of all the branches of the Israeli intelligence community: the Mossad, responsible for foreign operations; Aman, the intelli-gence-gathering arm of the military; and Shin Bet, the agency in charge of internal security, comparable to the FBI. Every Spy a Prince reveals for the first time the existence of two additional intelligence agen…
A counterterrorism spy describes his leadership of the campaign that routed al Qaeda and the Taliban in the weeks after the September 11 attacks, offering insight into the ways in which the Afghanistan campaign changed American warfare.