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Fletcher Agency
Melissa Chinchillo |
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THE NEW SPYMASTERS
Inside the Modern World of Espionage
‘The first rule of intelligence? Forget everything you know…’
The old world of spying -- dead letter boxes, microfilm cameras, an enemy reporting to the Moscow Center and a hint of sexual blackmail -- is history. The spymaster's technique has changed and the enemy has, too. He or she now frequently comes from a culture far removed from Western understanding and is part of a less well-organized group. The new enemy is constantly evolving and prepared to kill the innocent.
In the face of this new enemy, the spymasters of the world shunned human intelligence as the primary way to glean clandestine information and replaced it with an obsession that focuses on the technical methods of spying, ranging from the use of high-definition satellite photography to the global interception of communications. This obsession with technology, however, has failed, most spectacularly with the devastation of the 9/11 attacks.
Stephen Grey takes us from the CIA’s Cold War legends, to the agents who betrayed the IRA, through to the spooks inside Al-Qaeda and ISIS. Techniques and technologies have evolved, but the old motivations for betrayal — patriotism, greed, revenge, compromise — endure. This is a revealing story of how spycraft and the ‘human factor’ survive, against the odds.
Stephen Grey is an award winning British investigative journalist. He is best known for revealing details of the CIA's program of "extraordinary rendition" in his bestselling book GHOST PLANE (2006).
In the face of this new enemy, the spymasters of the world shunned human intelligence as the primary way to glean clandestine information and replaced it with an obsession that focuses on the technical methods of spying, ranging from the use of high-definition satellite photography to the global interception of communications. This obsession with technology, however, has failed, most spectacularly with the devastation of the 9/11 attacks.
Stephen Grey takes us from the CIA’s Cold War legends, to the agents who betrayed the IRA, through to the spooks inside Al-Qaeda and ISIS. Techniques and technologies have evolved, but the old motivations for betrayal — patriotism, greed, revenge, compromise — endure. This is a revealing story of how spycraft and the ‘human factor’ survive, against the odds.
Stephen Grey is an award winning British investigative journalist. He is best known for revealing details of the CIA's program of "extraordinary rendition" in his bestselling book GHOST PLANE (2006).