Spy Agencies, Intelligence Operations, And The People Behind Them (In

Brief Description: Examines the methods 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. Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-95) and index. Table of 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 -- Cyberspionage -- 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 Potecorvo -- Theodore Hall -- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg -- Chapter 4. The Cambridge Spy Ring -- Kim Philby -- Guy Burges -- 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.

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