![]() His research is astonishing and Hastings deservedly retains his position as a master historian. As the Americans and the Soviets stare into the Abyss, contemplating the threat of nuclear war, Hastings' story unfolds through many eyes including the national leaders and American pilots. Max Hasting has come up with another bestseller examining the ‘60s missile crisis. Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings Cohn kept her story a secret until she was 80. Supposedly, Marthe was searching for her Nazi fiance but the unlikely Jewish spy was really gathering intel on German positions that ended up saving hundreds of lives. Marthe Cohn lost members of her family during WWII and felt she had nothing to live for when Marthe slipped Behind Enemy Lines disguised as a German nurse intent on spying for France and its WWII Allies. “You open that scab there’s a hell of a lot of things.” “We protected Helms from one hell of a lot of things,” Nixon growled on one of his infamous Watergate tapes. They circle each other in a Scorpions' Dance. Scorpions’ Dance Jefferson MorleyĬan there possibly be an untold story about the 1972 Watergate break-in? Yes, Morley proves there is much to reveal about the power struggle between President Richard Nixon and his CIA Director Richard Helms, two men who shared the deadly secrets that ended a presidency. Meticulously researched, Turner’s story is one of espionage, betrayal, and behind-the-scenes work to stop the Nazis. ![]() This gripping account of CASSIA describes its contributions to the Allied war effort, including reports on the V-2 missile, Nazi death camps, and advanced combat aircraft. Written by a former undercover CIA officer, The CASSIA Spy Ring explores America’s most effective spy ring in Austria, Germany's neighbor. The CASSIA Spy Ring in World War II Austria by C. Williams details the ‘stay-behind’ military units and makes the case that the units were used in South America and NATO-based countries to disrupt left-wing movements. Williams’ disturbing exposé Operation Gladio, the story of a post-WWII alliance forged by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to battle a feared Communist invasion of Europe. History jumps off the page in journalist Paul L. Walder, The Accidental Spy, eventually joined the FBI to fight the enemy on her home turf, revealing a husband-and-wife team sending military secrets to China. The many men Tracy encountered along the way often underestimated the young blonde in a pink pashmina but certainly not for long. Her job? Travel the globe post 9/11 and disrupt al-Qaeda plots. ![]() Former sorority sister Tracy Walder wanted to teach history after USC but joined the CIA instead. In The KGB’s Poison Factory, former Russian military intelligence officer Boris Volodarsky traces the history of poison assassinations dating back to 1917 and Lenin’s Cheka secret police and covers 20 ghastly deaths. Colonel certainly wasn’t the first or last victim to blame his murder on Moscow. Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died weeks after drinking tea spiked with radioactive polonium-210 in 2006. The KGB’s Poison Factory From Lenin to Litvinenko by Boris Volodarsky By 35, any operative worth their salt has gone hard enough at their job to erode their cover.” Fox’s memoir is a fast-paced thriller that reads like fiction but the description of Fox’s training at the Farm alone is worth the ride. “We’re impossibly young to have the fate of the world in our hands,” Amaryllis Fox writes in Life Undercover, noting she started as a 21-year-old CIA analyst and became an undercover officer. Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox All copies were thought to have been destroyed in 1975, but two intelligence agents managed to get their hands on the document and published it decades later. The CIA paid Mulholland $3,000 to write its guide to trickery and deception - a "James Bond meets Harry Houdini" textbook, as master magician Lance Burton described it. The CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception by John MulhollandĪmong the many tricks the CIA had at its disposal during the Cold War was a top-secret manual of deception written by magician John Mulholland, a stage performer who honed his skills trading tricks in the back of New York City's Martinka magic shop.
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