New PDF release: Strategic Intelligence in the Cold War and Beyond (The

By Jefferson Adams

Strategic Intelligence within the chilly warfare and Beyond seems on the many occasions, personalities, and controversies within the box of intelligence and espionage because the finish of global battle II. a very important yet frequently missed subject, strategic intelligence took on additional importance through the protracted fight of the chilly War.


In this obtainable quantity, Jefferson Adams locations those vital advancements of their historic context, taking a world method of subject matters including





      • various undertakings from each side within the chilly struggle, with emphasis on covert motion and deception operations

      • controversial episodes concerning Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Poland, and Afghanistan in addition to a number of lesser recognized occurrences.

      • three chilly struggle secret agent profiles which discover the function of human psychology in intelligence work

      • the technological dimension

      • spies in fiction, movie and television

      • developments within the intelligence organisations of either side within the decade following the autumn of the Berlin wall

Supplemented via feedback for extra interpreting, a word list of key words, and a timeline of significant occasions, this is often a vital learn for all these attracted to the trendy background of espionage.

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