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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter"--
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 430 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Drawing on extensive interviews with Ames' widow and quotes from his private letters, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer presents a brilliant narrative of the making of America's most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East.
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Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Amaryllis Fox was an undergraduate at Oxford when her mentor Daniel Pearl was beheaded. Galvanized by this brutality, Fox created an algorithm that predicted terrorist cells arising in any village around the world. At twenty-one, she was recruited by the CIA. In this memoir, Fox tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting terrorists in sixteen countries.
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Pub. Date
c2011
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"Inside the CIA, Robert Baer was known as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. But if his career was everything a spy might aspire to, his personal life was a brutal illustration of everything a spy is asked to sacrifice--he had few non-work friendships, his prolonged absences destroyed his marriage, and he felt intense guilt at spending so little time with his children. Dayna Williamson was just an ordinary California girl, but she...
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Germany's Underground, first published in 1947, is the classic inside look at German resistance movements attempting to overthrow Adolph Hitler and the Nazi regime. Author Allen Dulles, younger brother of John Foster Dulles, was the OSS chief of station in Bern Switzerland, and had extensive personal contacts with members of the German underground. Following the war's end, he was stationed in Germany, providing him with access to captured secret Nazi...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiv, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls comes the never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA--women who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage(and blazed new paths for equality in the workplace) in the treacherous post-WWII era"--
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Series
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xviii, 270 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
Lomperis writes a combination memoir, history, and political analysis of the war, providing insight into how it was waged from the Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) boardrooms of Saigon. He served as an intelligence officer at the MACV, as a rear echelon soldier, applying Washington policy to the battlefield, and ended his time in country as civilian intelligence liaison officer until 1973.
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"A high-speed, high-stakes account of [the] riveting true story of a father's deception, a son's loyalty, and the terrible costs of betraying both country and kin"--Back jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
x, 466 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"A mythic figure whose legacy is still intensely debated, 'Wild Bill' Donovan was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country's first national intelligence agency) and the father of today's CIA. Donovan introduced the nation to the dark arts of covert warfare on a scale it had never seen before."--P. [2] of cover.
12) Undaunted
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
12 CDs (14 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A powerful and revelatory memoir from former CIA director John Brennan, spanning his more than thirty years in government.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xv, 299 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Shaffer delivers an exciting, eyewitness account of fighting terrorism in Afghanistan using the military's most cutting-edge espionage tactics. Just before St. Martin's Press release of the book, The Department of Defense and the Defense Intelligence Agency, demanded the author and the publisher produce the book for review. They, and "other interested U.S. intelligence agencies" met with the author to review changes and redactions that they required...
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xiii, 304 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
Growing up, Scott C. Johnson always suspected that his father was different. Only as a teenager did he discover the truth: his father was a spy, one of the CIA's most trusted officers. At first the secret was thrilling. But over time Scott began to have doubts. How could a man so rigorously trained to deceive and manipulate simply turn off those skills at home? His father had been living a double life for so long that his lies were hard to separate...
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
768 pages cm
Description
"In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908? 1987), the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene?s The Quiet American, best-selling historian Max Boot demonstrates how Lansdale pioneered a "hearts and mind" diplomacy, first in the Philippines, then in Vietnam. It was a visionary policy that, as Boot reveals, was ultimately crushed by America?s giant military bureaucracy, steered by elitist generals and blueblood diplomats who favored...
17) Fair game
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the autobiography of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose covert identity was exposed when her husband, retired Ambassador Joe Wilson, wrote a newspaper article challenging the basis for the claim that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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"0900, Thursday, July 25, 2019: President Trump called Ukraine?s President Zelensky, supposedly to congratulate him on his recent victory. In the months that followed, the American public would only learn what happened on that call because Alexander Vindman felt duty-bound to report it up the chain of command: that the President of the United States had extorted a foreign ally to damage a political challenger at home. Vindman?s actions and subsequent...
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"In Facts and Fears, Clapper traces his career through the growing threat of cyberattacks, his relationships with presidents and Congress, and the truth about Russia's role in the presidential election. He describes, in the wake of Snowden and WikiLeaks, his efforts to make intelligence more transparent and to push back against the suspicion that Americans' private lives are subject to surveillance. Finally, it was living through Russian interference...
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"Friday, January 6, 2017: On that day, as always, John Brennan's alarm clock was set to go off at 4:15 a.m. But nothing else about that day would be routine. That day marked his first and only security briefing with President-elect Donald Trump. And it was also the day John Brennan said his final farewell to Owen Brennan, his father, the man who had taught him the lessons of goodness, integrity, and honor that had shaped the course of an unparalleled...
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