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Spy Agencies, Intelligence Operations, and the People Behind Them.
Title:
Spy Agencies, Intelligence Operations, and the People Behind Them.
Author:
Publishing, Britannica Educational.
ISBN:
9781622750382
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (116 pages)
Series:
Intelligence and Counterintelligence
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Nature of Intelligence -- Levels of Intelligence -- Types of Intelligence -- Sources of Intelligence -- Methods of Intelligence Gathering -- The U-2 Affair -- Cyberespionage -- Chapter 2: Titans of the Cold War: The CIA and the KGB -- The CIA -- The Emergence of the CIA -- The CIA in the Cold War -- The Bay of Pigs Invasion -- The KGB -- Early Soviet Security Services -- Creation and Role of the KGB -- Chapter 3: Soviet Atomic Bomb Spies -- Klaus Fuchs -- Ruth Werner -- Robert Lamphere: Counterintelligence Agent -- Alan Nunn May -- Bruno Pontecorvo -- Theodore Hall -- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg -- Chapter 4: The Cambridge Spy Ring -- Kim Philby -- Guy Burgess -- Donald Maclean -- The Profumo Affair -- Anthony Blunt -- John Cairncross -- Chapter 5: American Rogues and Double Agents -- Alger Hiss -- Whittaker Chambers -- Oleg Penkovsky: Soviet Double Agent -- John Walker -- Jonathan Jay Pollard -- Aldrich Ames -- Robert Hanssen -- Chapter 6: Intelligence Agencies Today: The U.S., Soviet/Russian, and British Models -- The United States -- Sergey Olegovich Tretyakov: A Post-Cold War Defector -- Russia -- The United Kingdom -- Chapter 7: Intelligence Agencies Today: Two Global Hot-Spots -- The Middle East and South Asia -- Israel -- Isser Harel and Adolf Eichmann -- Iran -- Pakistan -- India -- East Asia -- China -- Taiwan -- South Korea -- North Korea -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
The idea of espionage might immediately bring to mind images of danger, state secrets, and cutting-edge technologies. While these can be elements of intelligence operations, they do not provide a complete picture. There are numerous methods intelligence agencies, such as the CIA, might employ to gather information, and any number of threats that might be examined given the political climate of the day. This compelling volume examines the models intelligence agencies around the world have used both in the past and present, notable individuals, and the intelligence priorities of the Middle East and East Asia, two of the most politically volatile regions in recent history.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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