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Reading the Enemy’s Mind Inside Star Gate: America’s Psychic Espionage Program — Paul Smith

Reading the Enemy’s Mind Inside Star Gate: America’s Psychic Espionage Program

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

Gordon Welchman Bletchley Park’s Architect of Ultra Intelligence — Joel Greenberg

Gordon Welchman Bletchley Park’s Architect of Ultra Intelligence

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

Covert Radar and Signals Interception The Secret Career of Eric Ackermann — Peter Jackson

Covert Radar and Signals Interception The Secret Career of Eric Ackermann

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

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Benghazi Know Thy Enemy

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

Secret History of the Iraq War — Yossef Bodansky

Secret History of the Iraq War

Yossef Bodansky

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

Double Cross in Cairo The True Story of the Spy who Turned the Tide of War in the Middle East — Nigel West

Double Cross in Cairo The True Story of the Spy who Turned the Tide of War in the Middle East

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

War in the Shadows Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France — Patrick Marnham

War in the Shadows Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France

Patrick Marnham

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

100 Deadly Skills: Survival Edition The SEAL Operative’s Guide to Surviving in the Wild and Being Prepared for Any Disaster — Clint Emerson

100 Deadly Skills: Survival Edition The SEAL Operative’s Guide to Surviving in the Wild and Being Prepared for Any Disaster

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

Spies The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West — Calder Walton

Spies The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

The Black Banners Declassified — Ali Soufan

The Black Banners Declassified

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

Eyes, Ears & Daggers Special Operations Forces and the Central Intelligence Agency in America’s Evolving Struggle Against Terrorism — Thomas H. Henriksen

Eyes, Ears & Daggers Special Operations Forces and the Central Intelligence Agency in America’s Evolving Struggle Against Terrorism

Thomas H. Henriksen

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

Need to Know World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence — Nicholas Reynolds

Need to Know World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence

Nicholas Reynolds

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

US Army Small Unit Tactics Handbook Tenth Anniversary Edition — Paul Lefavor

US Army Small Unit Tactics Handbook Tenth Anniversary Edition

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

Espionage Past, Present, Future? — Wesley K. Wark

Espionage Past, Present, Future?

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

The Spy and the Traitor The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War — Ben Macintyre

The Spy and the Traitor The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

X Troop The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis — Leah Garrett

X Troop The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

Spies and Commissars The Early Years of the Russian Revolution — Robert Service

Spies and Commissars The Early Years of the Russian Revolution

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

The Cretan Runner — George Psychoundakis

The Cretan Runner

George Psychoundakis

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

Spies in the Empire Victorian Military Intelligence — Stephen Wade

Spies in the Empire Victorian Military Intelligence

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

How to Fight Artificial Intelligence (AI) — Ltg (Ret ) Michael T. Flynn

How to Fight Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Ltg (Ret ) Michael T. Flynn

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

Divert! NUMEC, Zalman Shapiro and the Diversion of US Weapons Grade Uranium Into the Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program — Grant F. Smith

Divert! NUMEC, Zalman Shapiro and the Diversion of US Weapons Grade Uranium Into the Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

Spy Book The Encyclopedia of Espionage — Norman Polmar

Spy Book The Encyclopedia of Espionage

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

History of the Military Intelligence Division, Department of the Army General Staff: 1775-1941 — Bruce W. Bidwell

History of the Military Intelligence Division, Department of the Army General Staff: 1775-1941

Bruce W. Bidwell

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

Psychological Warfare and the New World Order The Secret War Against the American People — Servando Gonzalez

Psychological Warfare and the New World Order The Secret War Against the American People

Servando Gonzalez

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • Military • Political Science

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