December 2024
BOOKS Secret Intelligence: A Reader Edited By Christopher Andrew, Richard J. Aldrich, Wesley K. Wark The second edition of Secret Intelligence: A Reader brings together key essays from the field of intelligence studies, blending classic works on concepts and approaches with more recent essays dealing with current issues and ongoing debates about the future of […]
November 2024
BOOKS May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases―And What We Can Do about It First Edition by Alex Edmans Our lives are minefields of misinformation. It ripples through our social media feeds, our daily headlines, and the pronouncements of politicians, executives, and authors. Stories, statistics, and studies are everywhere, allowing people […]
October 2024
BOOKS Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence by Claire Hubbard-Hall Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have worked at the very heart of British secret intelligence – yet their contributions have been all but written out of history. Now, drawing on private and previously-classified documents, leading […]
September 2024
BOOKS The CIA And The U.S. Intelligence System by Scott Breckinridg Foreign policy—including economic policy and national security policy—and the appropriate planning, decisionmaking, and execution of that policy depend upon foreign intelligence, which must be collected on a global scale, checked, compared, sifted, analyzed, and coordinated. The history of mankind is filled with examples of […]
August 2024
BOOKS Intelligence-Led Policing By Jerry H. Ratcliffe What is intelligence-led policing? Who came up with the idea? Where did it come from? How does it relate to other policing paradigms? What distinguishes an intelligence-led approach to crime reduction? How is it designed to have an impact on crime? Does it prevent crime? These are just […]
July 2024
BOOKS Intelligence and Espionage: Secrets and Spies by Daniel Lomas, Christopher John Murphy Intelligence and Espionage: Secrets and Spies provides a global introduction to the role of intelligence – a key, but sometimes controversial, aspect of ensuring national security. Separating fact from fiction, the book draws on past examples to explore the use and misuse […]
June 2024
BOOKS Spying on the Kremlin by Mike Murtagh Spying on the Kremlin details the background and unintentional turning points in what has been an eventful life. Mike Murtagh has had a gun stuck in his face, been seconds from a mid-air collision, been struck by lightning in an aircraft, made two emergency landings, had a […]
May 2024
BOOKS Capturing Eichmann By Rafi Eitan, Introduction by Anshel Pfeffer Argentina, 1960. A car speeds through the streets of Buenos Aires. Inside are four Israeli secret agents and their prisoner: one of the most notorious war criminals of Nazi Germany. The Mossad operatives need to get this man, Adolf Eichmann, back to Israel to be […]
April 2024
BOOKS Secret Operations Over Occupied Europe By Nigel S. Atkins For several months in 1943, seven young airmen, all volunteers, were moulded into an RAF crew tasked with undertaking perilous operations over Occupied Europe. Drawn together from England, Argentina, and Canada, the crew, led by their captain, Flight Lieutenant Peter Bartter, were assigned to 138 […]
March 2024
BOOKS The Ethics of National Security Intelligence Institutions by Adam Henschke, Seumas Miller, Andrew Alexandra, Patrick F. Walsh, Roger Bradbury This book explores the ethics of national security intelligence institutions operationg in contemporary democracies. Intelligence collection by agencies such as CIA, MI6, and Mossades involves practices and that are apparently inconsistent with the principles of […]