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Raw Secret Agents: Files of Top Secret Missions of Indian RAW Spies by Harsha Sharma reveals true stories of remarkable spies in India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). It uncovers secret missions, espionage tactics, and the courage of these agents in protecting the country’s security.

In today’s chaotic world, where the multiplication of information sources creates competing narratives, credibility is the key to winning the war of ideas. This is the reason why governments and corporations resort to astroturfing - creation of ostensibly grassroots movements set up to advance political agendas and commercial campaigns. The democratization of information and polarization of politics offer a perfect storm.

The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China’s new president Xi Jinping. The scandalous story of the corruption of the Bo Xilai family - the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood; Bo’s secret lovers; the secret maneuverings of Bo’s supporters; the hasty trial and sentencing of Gu Kailai, Bo’s wife - was just the first rumble of a seismic power struggle that continues to rock the very foundation of China’s all-powerful Communist Party.

In The Management of Savagery, Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs. Washington's secret funding of the mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States has ever since sustained the extremists, including Osama Bin Laden, who have become its enemies.

Ein unbekanntes Stück Zeitgeschichte - so packend wie ein Agententhriller. Die frühen Jahre des Kalten Krieges in Berlin: Olga Raue spioniert für die CIA - zuerst in der DDR, später in Moskau. Eine Freundin verrät sie und Olga wird inhaftiert. Sechs Jahre später kauft die Bundesrepublik sie frei. Olga schweigt über ihre Mission - mehr als 50 Jahre lang. Erst als der Politikwissenschaftler Stefan Appelius auf den "Spionagering Raue" stößt, beginnt sie zu erzählen. Olga Raues bewegtes Leben - zwischen Verführung, Verrat und der ständigen Angst, entdeckt zu werden.

On September 10, 1976, exiled Chilean leader Orlando Letelier delivered a blistering rebuke of Augusto Pinochet's brutal right-wing regime in a speech at Madison Square Garden. Eleven days later, while Letelier was on Embassy Row in Washington, DC, a bomb affixed to the bottom of his car exploded, killing him and his coworker Ronni Moffitt. The slaying, staggering in its own right, exposed an international conspiracy that reached well into US territory.

PEGASUS: der Investigativ-Bericht über den größten Spionage-Skandal seit der NSA-Affäre. Die Spionage-Software Pegasus, die von der israelischen Firma NSO entwickelt wurde, kann jedes Mobiltelefon vollständig überwachen – und zwar ohne Spuren zu hinterlassen. Genutzt wird die Späh-Software von zahlreichen Regierungen weltweit, darunter autoritäre Staaten genauso wie EU-Staaten. Unter den Ausgespähten sind Journalistinnen, Menschenrechtsanwälte, Umwelt-Aktivistinnen, Geschäftsleute und sogar Staatsoberhäupter.

Marc Thiessen knows more than almost anyone outside the CIA about what went on at CIA “black sites” and at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. As chief speechwriter for President Bush, he was given unprecedented access to some of the most sensitive intelligence our government possessed on al Qaeda terrorists. He has since spent countless hours interviewing the men and women involved in the interrogations at every level—from Vice President Dick Cheney to the interrogators themselves.

Forty years ago, a majority of Americans were highly engaged in issues of war and peace. Whether to go to war or keep out of conflicts was a vital question at the heart of the country's vibrant, if fractious, democracy. But American political consciousness has drifted. In the last decade, America has gone to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, while pursuing a new kind of warfare in Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Pakistan.

The highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is at it again. A quarter century ago, in his international bestseller Red Horizons, Pacepa exposed the massive crimes and corruption of his former boss, Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, giving the dictator a nervous breakdown and inspiring him to send assassination squads to the U.S. to find his former spy chief and kill him. They failed.