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The recruiter : spying and the lost art of American intelligence / Douglas London.
Van Pelt Library JK468.I6 L66 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- London, Douglas (Operations officer), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency--History.
- United States.
- London, Douglas (Operations officer).
- London, Douglas.
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
- Intelligence officers--United States--Biography.
- Intelligence officers.
- History.
- Intelligence service--United States.
- Intelligence service.
- Secret service--United States.
- Secret service.
- National security--United States.
- National security.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 418 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Hachette Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- "A revealing CIA memoir from a 34-year veteran of the agency who worked as a case officer and recruiter of foreign agents before and after 9/11 -- full of rich details and sharp assessments -- providing an invaluable perspective on the state of modern spycraft, how the CIA has developed, and how it must continue to evolve"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Where Have You Gone, George Smiley?
- Just Another Night...
- The United States Intelligence Community, and Where CIA Fits
- Where Does Our Intelligence Come From?
- Hours and Hours of Routine, and a Few Moments of Adrenaline
- Welcome to the Directorate of Operations
- In the Beginning
- "Typical" Case Officers
- Intelligence Wars
- Finding and Making Case Officers
- Case Officers Who Go Bump in the Night, and the Not-So-Good Doctor
- Of Mice and Men, and Race and Religion
- The CIA on Its Downward Journey
- Working and Playing Well with Other US Agencies
- The Agent's Wife
- Loving and Loathing Within CIA and Finding Common Ground with Your Agents
- They Don't Have to Like Us ... but They Do Have to Trust Us
- Sexual Dynamics
- My Gay Best Friend
- The Crisis of Conscience
- Families Abroad and Raising Kids in the Clandestine World
- When Good Agents Do Bad Things and Calculating Risk Versus Gain
- A Lifestyle Not for the Squeamish or Faint of Heart
- Lost Friends and Comrades
- Hard Targets: "Render unto Caesar the Things That Are Caesar's and unto God the Things That Are God's"
- Humanity in All
- When Case Officers Grow Up
- When the Party Ends
- Alex and the Targeters
- Modernization's Continuing Costs
- Strategy, Tactics, Tools, and Bloodlust
- Transitioning into the Future.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780306847301
- 0306847302
- OCLC:
- 1243907774
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