Uk Eyes Alpha

Author : Mark Urban
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 057126669X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book UK Eyes Alpha written by Mark Urban and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of British intelligence since Gorbachev came to power in 1985. The author presents a list of what he claims are failures by every British intelligence organization, and raises questions about the value of the traditional structures and organizations that are a legacy of the Cold War.

Author : Mark Urban
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571176892
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book UK Eyes Alpha written by Mark Urban and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip H.J. Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intelligence and Government in Britain and the United States written by Philip H.J. Davies and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing a dose of reality to the stuff of literary thrillers, this masterful study is the first closely detailed, comparative analysis of the evolution of the modern British and American intelligence communities. Intelligence and Government in Britain and the United States: A Comparative Perspective is an intensive, comparative exploration of the role of organizational and political culture in the development of the intelligence communities of America and her long-time ally. Each national system is examined as a detailed case study set in a common conceptual and theoretical framework. The first volume lays out that framework and examines the U.S. intelligence community. The second volume offers the U.K. case study as well as overall conclusions. Particular attention is paid here to the fundamentally different concepts of what "intelligence" entails in the United States and United Kingdom, as well as to the nations' different approaches to managing change- and information-intensive activities. The impact of these differences is demonstrated by examining the evolution of the two intelligence communities from their inceptions prior to World War II through their development during the Cold War and the transformations that have taken place since, especially in the wake of the September 2001 terrorist attacks and 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Author : Philip Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135760004
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MI6 and the Machinery of Spying written by Philip Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the structural development of the Secret Intelligence Service from its inception to the end of the Cold War.

Author : Paul Todd
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842771136
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Intelligence written by Paul Todd and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating exploration of secret service and intelligence agencies throughout the world details the new roles they have found for themselves as they target rogue states, terrorism, and the drug war. It shows how ultramodern technologies have increased their power to spy abroad and eavesdrop at home. It also exposes the unsolved contradiction between the world of these secretive, unaccountable agencies and the requirements of a free, democratic society.

Author : Rory Cormac
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019108753X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disrupt and Deny written by Rory Cormac and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British leaders use spies and Special Forces to interfere in the affairs of others discreetly and deniably. Since 1945, MI6 has spread misinformation designed to divide and discredit targets from the Middle East to Eastern Europe and Northern Ireland. It has instigated whispering campaigns and planted false evidence on officials working behind the Iron Curtain, tried to foment revolution in Albania, blown up ships to prevent the passage of refugees to Israel, and secretly funnelled aid to insurgents in Afghanistan and dissidents in Poland. MI6 has launched cultural and economic warfare against Iceland and Czechoslovakia. It has tried to instigate coups in Congo, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and elsewhere. Through bribery and blackmail, Britain has rigged elections as colonies moved to independence. Britain has fought secret wars in Yemen, Indonesia, and Oman — and discreetly used Special Forces to eliminate enemies from colonial Malaya to Libya during the Arab Spring. This is covert action: a vital, though controversial, tool of statecraft and perhaps the most sensitive of all government activity. If used wisely, it can play an important role in pursuing national interests in a dangerous world. If used poorly, it can cause political scandal — or worse. In Disrupt and Deny, Rory Cormac tells the remarkable true story of Britain's secret scheming against its enemies, as well as its friends; of intrigue and manoeuvring within the darkest corridors of Whitehall, where officials fought to maintain control of this most sensitive and seductive work; and, above all, of Britain's attempt to use smoke and mirrors to mask decline. He reveals hitherto secret operations, the slush funds that paid for them, and the battles in Whitehall that shaped them.

Author : Panagiotis Dimitrakis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857714759
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military Intelligence in Cyprus written by Panagiotis Dimitrakis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since World War I, Cyprus has played a crucial role in British defence strategy. Panagiotis Dimitrakis here introduces new research which reveals the true role of British intelligence on the island throughout the twentieth century, particularly during World War II, the 1955-59 Archbishop Makarios and EOKA-led revolt and the 1974 Turkish invasion. He sheds fresh light on the stance of both Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Foreign Secretary James Callaghan towards Greece and Turkey in the turbulent 1970s, and provides important new perspectives on the 1978 Egyptian hostage crisis at Larnaca Airport and the research is based throughout on primary sources including previously unpublished declassified papers from British diplomats and intelligence officers. This is a valuable study for scholars of contemporary strategy and military history and for those interested in military intelligence and the history of Cyprus.

Author : Anthony Rimmington
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030828824
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Union’s Invisible Weapons of Mass Destruction written by Anthony Rimmington and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on Biopreparat, the Soviet agency created in 1974, which spearheaded the largest and most sophisticated biological warfare programme the world has ever seen. At its height, Biopreparat employed more than 30,000 personnel and incorporated an enormous network embracing military-focused research institutes, design centres, biowarfare pilot facilities and dual-use production plants. The secret network pursued major offensive R&D programmes, which sought to use genetic engineering techniques to create microbial strains resistant to antibiotics and with wholly new and unexpected pathogenic properties. During the mid-1980s, Biopreparat increased in size and political importance and also emerged as a major civil biopharmaceutical player in the USSR. In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, an acute struggle for control of Biopreparat’s most valuable assets took place and the network was eventually broken-up and control of its facilities transferred to a myriad of state agencies and private companies.

Author : Henry Hemming
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541703200
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Shots in the Night written by Henry Hemming and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Shots in the Night is the story of a political murder: the killing of an IRA member turned British informant. The search for justice for this one man's death—his body found in broad daylight, with tape over his eyes, an undisguised hit—would deliver more than the truth. It exposed his status as an informant and led to protests, campaigns, far-reaching changes to British law, a historic ruling from a senior judicial body, a ground-breaking police investigation, and bitter condemnation from a US Congressional commission. And there have been persistent rumors that one of the country’s most senior politicians, the Sinn Fein leader Martin McGuinness, might have been personally involved in this particular murder. Relying on archival research, interviews, and the findings of a new complete police investigation, Four Shots in the Night tells a riveting story not just of this murder but of his role in the decades-long conflict that defined him--the Troubles. And the questions it tackles are even larger: how did the Troubles really come to an end? Was it a feat of diplomatic negotiation, as we've been told--or did spies play the decisive role? And how far can, or should, a spy go, for the good of his country? Four Shots in the Night is a page-turner that will make you think.

Author : Louise Kettle
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474437974
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning from the History of British Interventions in the Middle East written by Louise Kettle and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wealth of previously unseen documents, sourced by Freedom of Information requests, together with interviews with government and intelligence agency officials, Louise Kettle questions whether the British government has learned anything from its military interventions in the Middle East, from the 1950s to the 2016 Iraq Inquiry report.