Espionage's Most WantedTM : The Top 10 Book of Malicious Moles, Blown Covers, and Intelligence Oddities

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mahl, Tom E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Espionage--Miscellanea.

Intelligence--Miscellanea.

Spies--Miscellanea.

Espionage.

Intelligence service--Miscellanea.

Intelligence service.

Spies.

Local Subjects:

Espionage--Miscellanea.

Intelligence--Miscellanea.

Spies--Miscellanea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Dulles, : Potomac Books Inc., 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Delivers little-known facts and astounding stories about cloak-and-dagger operations, dirty tricks, and the games that nations play

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Photographs; Acknowledgments; Introduction; By Their Names You Will Not Know Them: Code Names; By Their Names You Are Not Supposed to Know Them: The Jargon of Espionage; Ten Tools of the Trade: The Gadgets and Toys of Espionage; The Elite: The Top Ten Intelligence Agencies; From Russia with Secret Police: Russian Intelligence Agencies in the Twentieth Century; American Revolution, American Spies: American Spies of the American Revolution; American Revolution, English Spies: English Spies in the American Revolution

Major Martin and Friends-Those Who Never Were: Phony People and Groups Created by Intelligence AgenciesA Spy's Walk through London: A Tour of London for the Espionage A.cionado; A Spy's Washington, D.C.: A Tour of Georgetown and Vicinity for the Espionage A.cionado; Still Classified After All These Years: Selected Secrets Withheld from the Public; Companies of the Company: Companies Run as Fronts by the CIA; James and the Giant Peach to Goldfinger: The Spy as Writer; Noms De Plume and d'Espionage: Spies and the Pen Names They Wrote Under

The Monster Rally, Dirty Tricks, and Black Propaganda: The Dirty Tricks and Black Propaganda that Make Covert Operations FunSobriquets: The Nicknames of Espionage; Swallows and Honeytraps: Women Agents Used against Men; Ravens or Swans, the Male Swallows: Male Agents Used against Women; Cover Jobs: The Jobs Spies Appear to Do in Their Public Lives; The Rich and Famous Worked Here, Too: Prominent People Who Worked in Intelligence; Favorite Watering Holes-A Tour of Western Europe and the United States: Places Where Spies Have a Drink and Relax

Bosses (Spymasters): The Memorable Ones Who Ran the SpiesThe Price Is Right: Payoffs and Bribes; Freedom of the Press for All Those Who Own a Press: Newspapers Owned or Under the In.uence of Intelligence Agencies; Patron of Letters: Books Planted by Intelligence Agencies; ""The Company'' and ''The Friends'' Take to the Air: Radio Stations Run or Controlled by Intelligence Agencies; From ''A Better World,'' ''A World Full of Bliss'' to ''A Wet Job'' and ''The Measles'': Assassinations; They Shoot Spies, Don't They?: The East and West Swap Spies

Great Quips from the Great Game: Great Quotations from the Spy BusinessCreativity at the Bureau: The FBI Uses Its Creative Writing Skills to Disrupt the Left and Right; The Magnificent Five, Plus Five: Soviet Agents Who Penetrated the British Government; Loyalty, Loyalty, Wherefore Art Thou Loyalty?: Enemy Of.cials and Agents Who Helped Britain and the United States; Ten for the Intelligence Cognoscenti: Ten Little Known Items of Espionage; Ten for Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project: Soviet Spies Steal the Secrets of the Atom Bomb; The Company Goes to the Movies: Movies about Espionage

The Company as Culture Vulture: The CIA Fights the Soviets in Music, Painting, and Literature

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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ISBN:

9781612340388

1612340385

OCLC:

755609702