The Enemy Within: A History of Espionage

by Terry Crowdy

Book Overview

To gain the upper hand in conflict the ability to know what your enemy is planning is vital. Massive amounts of money have been spent and many lives have been lost in pursuit of this objective. From... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841769339
• ISBN13: 9781841769332
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.8" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Tales of Spies and Spying

This history of espionage is primarily a generalized discussion of spies rather than the more technical side of the business that became the major emphasis of American intelligence during the Cold War with the U.S.S.R. When the problem was to count the number of ICBMs they had, the technical aspects of first the U2 and SR-71 missions and then the satellites were the ideal tools. Unfortunately these National Technical Means (NTM), the term used for such intelligence by the politicoes in the various treaties, proved to be pretty useless in view of what happened on 9/11. The United States had deliberately cut back on it's actual spies in the field. As this book points out, spies and spying tend to not be nice people doing plesant things. The CIA has a reputation for recruiting at Ivy Leage universities. This is not where you will find dark skinned, un-shaven muslims that would be willing to infiltrate Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and the other places where we need to have coverage. I imagine, I hope, that the people running the CIA already know the things found in this book. I also hope that they are working hard to establish a better spying network in the Middle East.