Trading secrets : spies and intelligence in an age of terror / Mark Huband.

By: Huband, Mark [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2013Description: xi, 260 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781848858435; 1848858434Subject(s): Espionage -- History | Spies -- History | Politics and Government | Espionage | SpiesGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 327.12 LOC classification: JF1525.I6 | H84 2013
Contents:
1. "The craft of cheat and imposter" -- 2. The first intelligence war -- 3. Talking to terrorists -- 4. Making spies -- 5. Games without frontiers -- 6. The Osama method -- 7. The road to 9/11 -- 8. Guantanamo days -- 9. Prisoners -- 10. Know your enemy -- 11. "Hail the Chief" -- 12. Shadow wars -- Epilogue.
Summary: Drawing on previously unseen material, unpublished letters and exclusive interviews, this title explores how the role and purpose of 'intelligence' has evolved from its origins in nineteenth-century Ireland to today's fight against terrorism.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-249) and index.

1. "The craft of cheat and imposter" -- 2. The first intelligence war -- 3. Talking to terrorists -- 4. Making spies -- 5. Games without frontiers -- 6. The Osama method -- 7. The road to 9/11 -- 8. Guantanamo days -- 9. Prisoners -- 10. Know your enemy -- 11. "Hail the Chief" -- 12. Shadow wars -- Epilogue.

Drawing on previously unseen material, unpublished letters and exclusive interviews, this title explores how the role and purpose of 'intelligence' has evolved from its origins in nineteenth-century Ireland to today's fight against terrorism.

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