In Washington, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI is fighting a turf war with the newly founded Central Intelligence Agency. Harry Truman is in the White House, trying to keep a lid on domestic and foreign politics, but the crises never stop. It should be a time of peace and prosperity in America, but it is anything but.FBI agent Thomas Buchanan is assigned to investigate the father of a former fiancée, Ann Garrett, who dumped Buchanan while he was away to World War Two. And suddenly Buchanan finds himself on a worldwide search for both an active Soviet spy and the only woman he ever loved. In the process, he crosses paths with Hoover, Truman, Soviet moles and assassins, an opium kingpin from China, and a brigade of lowlife from the American film community. Truman’s Spy is a classic cold war story of espionage and betrayal, love and regret, patriots and traitors. This is the revised and updated 2013 edition of Noel Hynd’s follow-up to Flowers From Berlin. The story is big, a sprawling intricate tale of espionage, from post-war Rome and Moscow to New York, Philadelphia and Hollywood, filled with the characters, mores and attitudes of the day. And at its heart: the most crucial military secret of the decade."Noel Hynd knows the ins and outs of Washington's agencies, public and private." -Publishers Weekly"A notch above the Ludums and Clancys of the world....." - Booklist"The novels of Noel Hynd stand out!" - Martin Levin, NY Times

    One of the most ambitious and popular BBC drama series ever, Edge of Darkness received six BAFTA awards after it was first broadcast in 1985, and writer Troy Kennedy Martin's achievement in creating a "green" vision of things to come makes this an important text for the 1990s.Ron Craven, a Yorkshire policeman, makes a private investigation into the circumstances of his daughter's mysterious death, and is drawn into an international nuclear network, whose deadly secret he feels compelled to expose in the interests of the human race.This book contains all six episodes, with a detailed and challenging introduction by the author on the factual background to the series.

    

    Eleven years after the defeat of Germany, Gehlen, Hitler's chief of eastern front intelligence, became head of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) for the democratic West German government of Konrad Adenauer. The core of his staff in the BND were the same officers who had served with him under Hitler. The instruments for this metamorphosis were agencies of Gehlen's former enemy: U.S. Army Intelligence and the CIA. How did this happen and why? Was there a Nazi connection? This book answers these questions in detail, combining the elements of a gripping novel of espionage with solid scholarship based on U.S. government documents and interviews with former G-2, CIC and CIA officers.Author Biography: Mary Ellen Reese is a graduate of Harvard and a former member of the editorial staff of "The New Yorker." Her most recent book, "Breaking Cover", was a national bestseller.

    It reveals the political and bureaucratic struggles that accompanied the creation of the modern U. S. intelligence community. In addition, it proposes a theory of effective intelligence organization, applied both to the movement to create the CIA and to the form it eventually took.The period covered by this study was crucially important because it was during this time that the main battles over the establishment, responsibilities, and turf of the agency were fought. Many of these disputes framed the forty years, such as the relationship of the CIA to other government agency intelligence operations, the role of covert action, and Congressional oversight of the intelligence community.The sources upon which Darling drew for this study include the files of the National Security Council, the wartime files of the OSS, and interviews and correspondence with many of the principal players.

    8 pages of photographs.

    -- Hustler"...the information is up-to-date, carefully presented... and has a broader appeal than the non-governmental B&E crowd". -- SurveillantAny alarm system can be beaten. This book shows how. Dozens of security systems are described in illustrated detail: -- Magnetic Switches-- Window Foil-- Sound and Heat Detectors-- Photoelectric Alarms-- Central Station Systems-- Closed Circuit TV-- And Much More. You'll learn how they work and how they can be defeated. A must book for anyone concerned with security.

    Handel examines the ways in which this situation has improved and argues that co-operation between the intelligence adviser and the military decision maker is vital.

    Blake said nothing. When Blake escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison five and a half years later, the British press said it was the escape of the century and that the KGB must have masterminded it. Blake was not around to comment. When some of Blake's fellow prisoners who had helped his escape later wrote books on their role, Blake himself kept silent. Whn spy writers, fascinated by his treachery, pyschoanalaysed the forces which drove him, Blake did not defend himself. Now at last, Blake has decided to speak. Blake describes how he as eventually brought down; recalling his arrest and interrogation, his life in prison, his sensational escape, assisted by Limerick man, Sean Bourke, and his new life in Moscow. George Blake emerges as a most unusual personality, one determined to face the reality of a damaged world, but still coming to terms with the fact that the side he chose was not the communist paradise he had imagined. The book, like its author, will arouse powerful emotions, whether at the end of ti you revile Blake for his calculated treachery, or admire him for being a man who stuck to his beliefs because he says he had no other choice)