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On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a 30 month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners. Doing Time Like a Spy is Kiriakou's memoir of his 23 months in prison. Using 20 life skills he learned in CIA operational training, he was able to keep himself safe and at the top of the prison social heap. It is at once a searing journal of daily prison life and an alternately funny and heartbreaking commentary on the federal prison system.

Based on extensive research and hundreds of interviews, including two with active directors of Central Intelligence, William H. Webster and Robert M. Gates, and with three former D.C.I.s, Inside the C.I.A. is the first in-depth, unbiased account of the Agency's core operations, its abject failures, and its resounding successes.

In Spy Watching, Loch K. Johnson explores the United States' travails in its efforts to maintain effective accountability over its spy services.

Spies and Lies a groundbreaking expose of elite influence operations by China's little-known Ministry of State Security. Revealing for the first time how the Chinese Communist Party has tasked its spies to deceive the world, it challenges the conventional account of China's past, present, and future.

In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism. On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former...

In 1965, following his mother's death, Infante returns to Cuba from Brussels, where he is employed as a cultural attaché at the Cuban embassy. When a few days later his permission to return to Europe is revoked, Infante begins a period of suspicion, uncertainty, and disillusion. Unable to leave the country, denied access to party officials, yet still receiving checks for his work in Belgium, Infante discovers the reality of Cuba under Fidel Castro.

In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism. On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former...

"The Spy Who Loved Me: The Slippery Slope of Digital Surveillance" is from the November 09, 2016 Lifestyle section of The New York Times. It was written by Nick Wingfield and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"The Spy Who Never Came Back" is from the May 14, 2016 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Barry Meier and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

A provocative, comprehensive analysis of Vladimir Putin and Russia's master plan to destroy democracy in the age of Donald Trump. In the greatest intelligence operation in the history of the world, Donald Trump was made President of the United States with the assistance of a foreign power. For...

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.

***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** An Explosive, Revelatory Assessment of the Greatest Betrayal in American History, Newly Revised and Updated William Barr · Paul Manafort · Michael Cohen · Steve Bannon · Rudy Giuliani · Mitch McConnell · Roger Stone · George Papadopoulos · Jeff Sessions ·...

"Family Sees a TV Talent Scout Where the Israeli Authorities See a Jihadi Spy" is from the March 24, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Isabel Kershner and Majd Al Waheidi and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"China Invites Citizens to Call In Any Sightings of Spies to New Hotline" is from the November 04, 2015 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Austin Ramzy and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Where Cellphones Are Lifelines, Startups Spy Opportunities" is from the November 12, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Steve Lohr and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"China's 'Dangerous Love' Campaign, Warning of Spies, Is Met with Shrugs" is from the April 21, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Didi Kirsten Tatlow and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Soviet Document Suggests Abbas Was a KGB Spy in the 1980s" is from the September 7, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"New Spies Went for a Joyride in Moscow. Russia Isn't Happy" is from the July 14, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Ivan Nechepurenko and narrated by Sam Scholl.

"Scapegoat or Spy? Vatican Consultant Commands Attention at Leaks Trial" is from the June 04, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Elisabetta Povoledo and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Canadian Held 2 Years on Spy Charges in China Returns Home" is from the September 15, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Ian Austen and narrated by Kristi Burns.