The Intelligence and Espionage Question and Answer Book: (From Spies and Tradecraft to Intelligence Analysis, Code-Breaking and Cyberwar)

By Paul E. Love

The world of intelligence operations and analysis is often pictured as having to do with spies, covert operations, beautiful women and narrow escapes. The truth may not be as exciting but it happens to be a good deal more complex. The collection and analysis of "intelligence" involves a great many people, the vast majority of whom don't carry a weapon and have never been in a car chase. They are the backbone of the intelligence community, the individuals who turn raw data into information vital to government decision makers.Obtaining the information a government (or other organization) needs in order to make informed decisions about future actions requires a variety of methods including covert operations, aerial and satellite imagery, communications intercepts, interrogation sessions, code-breaking, and researching open-source intelligence sources (such as newspapers, radio, TV and the Internet). The members of a nation's intelligence community collect, analyze and evaluate input from all those sources, searching for the "needles in the haystack" - the small pieces of valuable information hidden inside that mass of data. The ways of collecting intelligence, the people and the skills involved have changed over the years (and changed rapidly in recent years), but the basic job remains unchanged. New technology, from aircraft to the Internet, has brought a need for new approaches but the goal is still to uncover the other side's secrets and to protect your side's secrets. This book is an attempt to cover a little bit about the history of intelligence work, famous spies, famous (and infamous) operations, tradecraft, methods of collecting intelligence, code breaking, cyberwar, the usefullness of "open source" intelligence and how to join the intelligence community (or just keep informed about current developments). If you have ever wanted to know a little about the history of intelligence gathering or how cryptanalysts go about breaking secret codes or what "cyberwar" really means then take a look inside.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1480264016
• ISBN13: 9781480264014
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"