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Grounded in extensive research and reporting, Spy Schools reveals how academia has emerged as a frontline in the global spy game. In a knowledge-based economy, universities are repositories of valuable information and research, where brilliant minds of all nationalities mingle freely with few questions asked. Intelligence agencies have always recruited bright undergraduates, but now, in an era when espionage increasingly requires specialized scientific or technological expertise, they're wooing higher-level academics.

Like a scene from Where Eagles Dare, a small team of American spies parachutes into Italy behind enemy lines. Their orders: link up with local partisans and sabotage the well-guarded Brenner Pass - the Nazis' crucial supply route through the Alps - thereby bringing the German war effort in Italy to a grinding halt.

An urgent, prescient, and expert look at how future technology will change virtually every aspect of war as we know it and how we can respond to the serious national security challenges ahead. Future war is almost here: battles fought in cyberspace; biologically enhanced soldiers; autonomous...

On January 25, 1917, HMS Laurentic struck two German mines off the coast of Ireland and sank. The ship was carrying 44 tons of gold bullion to the still-neutral United States via Canada in order to finance the war effort for Britain and its allies. Britain desperately needed that sunken treasure, but any salvage had to be secret, since the British government dared not alert the Germans to the presence of the gold. Lieutenant Commander Guybon Damant was the most qualified officer to head the risky mission.

Dan Akee was part of the Navajo code talker units of the US Marine Corps that relayed radio and phone messages in their native dialect during World War II operations. The method was fast and indecipherable to enemy eavesdroppers, as Navajo is an unwritten language of extreme complexity—with its syntax, tonal qualities, and various dialects—making it unintelligible to anyone without extensive exposure and training. It has no alphabet or symbols, and is spoken only on the Navajo lands of the American Southwest. The following are two recordings from code talker Dan Akee.

Mark Lane tried the only US court case in which the jurors concluded that the CIA plotted the murder of President Kennedy, but there was always a missing piece: How did the CIA control cops and secret service agents on the ground in Dealey Plaza? How did federal authorities prevent the House Select Committee on Assassinations from discovering the truth about the complicity of the CIA? Now, Mark Lane tells all in this explosive new book.

The NSA's extensive surveillance program has riveted America as the public questions the threats to their privacy. As reported by The Washington Post, in their Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of whistleblower Edward Snowden's NSA leaks, NSA Secrets delves into the shadowy world of information gathering, exposing how data about you is being gathered every day. From his earliest encrypted exchanges with reporters, Edward Snowden knew he was a man in danger.

Spymaster, defector, double agent....Here is the remarkable true story of the man who ran Russia's post-cold-war spy program in America. The revelations are stunning. Many spies have told their stories. None has the astonishing immediacy, relevance, and cautionary warnings of Comrade J.

Bigger than Watergate! Bigger than Iran-Contra! Ten times bigger than both, said one representative. The Bengahzi scandal may have been covered up by the White House, but the truth is about to come out. The Real Benghazi Story is a groundbreaking investigative work that finally exposes some of the most significant issues related to the murderous September 11, 2012, attack - information with current national security implications.

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.

They were told that the only crime they must never commit was to be caught. Women of enormous cunning and strength of will, the Shadow Warriors' stories have remained largely untold - until now. In a dramatic tale of espionage and conspiracy in World War II, Shadow Warriors of World War II unveils the history of the courageous women who volunteered to work behind enemy lines.

Nel gennaio 2017, in uno dei suoi ultimi atti esecutivi come presidente degli Stati Uniti, Barack Obama concesse la grazia a Chelsea Manning. Imputata con 22 capi d'accusa, Manning avrebbe dovuto affrontare ancora una pena di ventotto anni di reclusione per aver svelato a WikiLeaks documenti diplomatici e militari confidenziali del governo degli Stati Uniti.

Lo spionaggio fra nazioni, diretto a conseguire informazioni di interesse militare e diplomatico, o quello fra aziende concorrenti, in cerca di informazioni di tipo commerciale, sono un fenomeno tutt'altro che nuovo. Il fatto che se ne parli molto ultimamente e che sia diventato un vero problema nei rapporti fra le nazioni è dovuto all'affacciarsi di modalità di spionaggio inedite, rese possibili dalla rete e dalle nuove tecnologie.

Gli intoccabili del fisco, di Tito Boeri e Roberto Perotti; Draghi, i paradossi del successo, di Stefano Folli; Gelo sui ricollocamenti. E Draghi prepara un dossier per convincere l'Europa, di Claudio Tito; Giustizia, maggioranza in subbuglio. I 5S tentati dal no alle riforme, di Liana Milella; Sostegni bis, doppio binario per i ristori: subito il fatturato poi gli utili, di Roberto Petrini; Belloni a capo dell'Intelligence: la fine dell'era Conte e dei Servizi segreti occupati dalla politica, di Carlo Bonini; Belloni a capo del Dis.

Cuando, en junio de 2013, Edward Snowden reveló que la Agencia de Seguridad Nacional había interceptado a millones de personas, incluyendo varios jefes de Estado y de Gobierno, se descubrió que no se había escapado de espionaje, ni siquiera Jorge Mario Bergoglio o los cardenales que habían elegido al nuevo Papa.

Durante casi un siglo de existencia, el Servicio Secreto de Inteligencia (SIS), conocido también en el mundo del espionaje como el MI6 o la "Firma", ha desarrollado una de las mayores labores en la tarea de recolección de información y operaciones de espionaje a lo largo y ancho de todo el planeta, siempre en defensa de los intereses del Imperio Británico y a las órdenes del Gobierno de Su Majestad británica.

Durante casi seis décadas, la CIA, conocida también en el mundo del espionaje como ‘La Compañía’, ha desarrollado una de las mayores labores en la recolección de información y operaciones de espionaje a lo largo de todo el planeta. Desde Chile a Vietnam, desde el Congo a Uruguay. Desde Camboya a la República Dominicana, desde Viena a la Unión Soviética, desde Irak a Afganistán. Sin duda, conocer el papel desempeñado por la CIA es una de las claves para entender la historia reciente del mundo.

En un dramático relato de violencia y espionaje, el periodista de investigación y ganador de un Premio Pulitzer Ronan Farrow expone los poderosos intereses de los depredadores sexuales, empeñados en cubrir la verdad a cualquier precio....

Por el autor del best seller "Yo confieso". 25 años después de que la aparición de "La Casa" rompiera el muro de silencio sobre los agentes, operaciones secretas y actividades de los espías españoles del entonces CESID, su autor, Fernando Rueda, ha llevado a cabo una nueva y larga investigación, en la que ha buceado por los secretos que esconde su sustituto, el actual CNI.

En 2013, Edward Snowden, responsable de la mayor filtración de inteligencia en la historia, sacudió al mundo revelando que el gobierno estadounidense tenía la capacidad de leer cada correo electrónico, escuchar cada llamada y entrometerse en los rincones de la vida privada de todos y cada uno de los ciudadanos del mundo. En Vigilancia permanente, Snowden desgrana por primera vez por qué lo hizo, cómo ayudó a construir un sistema de vigilancia masivo y la crisis de conciencia que le llevó a destaparlo todo y poner en jaque al sistema.