Government Spies

Russian meddling: These are two words that just about everyone has come to know very well in the last few years. Only a fool - or someone with an agenda of a sinister kind - would deny that such meddling occurred. But how many know that, for decades, the Russians secretly used the UFO phenomenon as a means to try and destabilize the West?

"Echoes of Freedom: The Last Sentinel" is a gripping action-spy novel set in a world on the brink of turmoil. Radical leftist elitist groups are rallying to overthrow democracy and establish a socialist state, weaving a dangerous web of conspiracy that spans the globe. Amidst this rising chaos stands an American Special Forces soldier, Captain John "Hawk" Maddox, who becomes the unexpected linchpin in this high-stakes game of international espionage and insurgency. Haunted by his past and driven by an unwavering sense of duty, Maddox is plunged into the shadowy depths of international ...

Created in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency relied on women even as it attempted to channel their talents and keep them down. Women sent cables, made dead drops, and maintained the agency's secrets. Despite discrimination—even because of it—women who started as clerks, secretaries, or unpaid spouses rose to become some of the CIA's shrewdest operatives. They were unlikely spies—and that's exactly what made them perfect for the role.

On the trail of Soviet infiltrator Agent Blériot, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on a thrilling journey through Stalin’s most audacious intelligence operation. On a sunny September day in 1931, a Soviet spy walked down the gangplank of the luxury transatlantic liner SS Europa and into New York. Attracting no attention, Stanislav Shumovsky had completed his journey from Moscow to enrol at a top American university. He was concealed in a group of 65 Soviet students heading to prestigious academic institutions. But he was after far more than an excellent education.

In 1945, both the U.S. State Department and U.S. Intelligence saw Czechoslovakia as the master key to the balance of power in Europe and as a chessboard for the power-game between East and West. Washington believed that the political scene in Prague was the best available indicator of whether the United States would be able to coexist with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union.

He just wants to be left alone but his enemies have other plans Jens Schacht - also known as The Scorpion - is on the run. The French Government want him for murder and deserting from the Foreign Legion. Meanwhile, the British Government also want him for wiping out one of their special forces units. Despite this, he secretly returns to Paris, hoping to settle down and live quietly with the love of his life. However, fate has decreed otherwise. A deadly encounter with the French Mafia puts Schacht and his fugitive partner, Siegfried Ritter, into the line of fire once more. In a relentless ...

In Spy Watching, Loch K. Johnson explores the United States' travails in its efforts to maintain effective accountability over its spy services.

The Black Door explores the evolving relationship between successive British Prime Ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquith's Secret Service Bureau to Cameron's National Security Council. At the beginning of the 20th Century the British intelligence system was underfunded and lacked influence in government. But as the new millennium dawned, intelligence had become so integral to policy that it was used to make the case for war.

This is the exhilarating secret history of the melding of technology and espionage. Gordon Corera's compelling narrative, rich with historical details and characters, takes us from the Second World War to the internet age, revealing the astonishing extent of cyberespionage carried out today.

Meet Agent Calder Flint, a top-secret shapeshifter working deep undercover for the C.I.A. His assignments are dangerous, bizarre, and sometimes downright gross (ever shapeshift into a sewer rat?). But nothing has prepared him for Operation Chameleon—the code name for a case involving mysterious wildfires, disappearing agents, and something ancient stirring beneath the surface of the Earth. When Calder discovers clues pointing to a hidden society of reptilian shapeshifters—ones who aren’t so friendly—he must use every skill in his arsenal to stop them from unleashing chaos on the ...

On the surface, Anna Witherall has the perfect life. Married to her university boyfriend David, she has an enviable job, beautiful home, and gorgeous three-year-old twin daughters, Stella and Rose. Their competent and capable nanny, Maria, is practically part of the family. But beneath the veneer of success and happiness, Anna is hiding a dark secret, one that threatens to unravel everything she has worked so hard to create. Only one thing is certain: to protect her children, she must betray them.

In 1971, Rod Barton applied for a junior scientist role in the Australian Department of Defence. Little did he know what it entailed: As the Cold War intensified, Barton was inducted into the murky world of espionage. This is an extraordinary behind-the-scenes account of a world marked by risk, secrecy and individual acts of courage. The Life of a Spy will introduce you to a man of principle in a time of chaos, and take you to the frontlines of politics and war.

They thought he was dead. He preferred it that way. Until the algorithm started killing. Gid Kane walked away from the shadows years ago: burned, buried, and officially deceased. When a tech CEO turns up murdered in his penthouse and the scene mirrors a classified kill pattern, he knows one thing: his long-dead algorithm is active again… and someone’s using it to kill. Teaming up with an analyst hacker and a brilliant, no-nonsense ethics professor, he is pulled into a deadly conspiracy that reaches deep into government black sites and private tech empires. Every clue points to a new ...

The most intimate secrets are always professional... In the shadowy world of espionage, Dominic Kaine knows that trust is a luxury no operative can afford. But when a high-stakes tech theft brings them face-to-face with Dr. Alexandra Hunter—a brilliant consultant with ties to their past—the line between mission and personal entanglement begins to blur. As Dominic navigates a web of encrypted whispers and calculated deceptions, they discover the stolen AI technology is merely the surface of a conspiracy that runs deeper than anyone suspects. With Victoria Cross emerging as a dangerous ...

When Imran Awan, an IT aide for Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), was arrested by the FBI as he tried to fly away to Pakistan, the media didn’t know what to make of the story. Was this just a bank fraud case or something more? Why was this team of congressional IT administrators paid chief-of-staff-level salaries? Why did they provide fraudulent data to Capitol Police? How had they evaded background checks?

They are chameleons. Beyond the law, beyond morality, they’ve survived by adapting, whatever the circumstances - and by trusting nobody but themselves. Stephanie Patrick, more comfortable under an alias than she was with herself, has traversed the world and forgotten who she is. Now, she wants to put her past behind her. Konstantin Komarov. The FBI call him the Don from the Don. Today, at the heart of a financial empire created by the Russian crime pandemic, he’s as comfortable in Manhattan as he is in Moscow or Magadan. Between them exists Koba, an old alias for a new threat.

Between 1939 and 1945, more than 70 Allied men and women were convicted - mostly in secret trials - of working to help Nazi Germany win the war. In the same period, hundreds of British Fascists were also interned without trial on specific and detailed evidence that they were spying for, or working on behalf of, Germany. Collectively, these men and women were part of a little-known Fifth Column: traitors who committed crimes including espionage, sabotage, communicating with enemy intelligence agents, and attempting to cause disaffection among Allied troops.

He was the Western convert who would plunge deep inside al-Qaeda. He named his first son Osama after 9/11 and became a Jihadist. But then - after a sudden loss of faith - Morten Storm made a life-changing decision. He became a double agent and joined the CIA, MI6 and MI5. Filled with hair-raising close calls and deception, Storm's story builds to the climactic finale when he must betray his friend and mentor al-Awlaki - al-Qaeda's biggest threat to the West.

This book tells the story, for the first time, of the United States government's response to Guevara's ill-starred insurgency in Bolivia in 1967. Henry Butterfield Ryan argues that Guevara's life must be re-evaluated in light of secret documents only recently released by the CIA, the State Department, the Pentagon, and the National Security Council.

Hilda Krüger, una atractiva y sofisticada actriz alemana, protagonizó uno de los episodios más extravagantes de mediados del siglo XX. Admirada por Joseph Goebbels, el omnipotente y siniestro ministro de Propaganda de Hitler, partió a Estados Unidos primero con la aparente intención de continuar su carrera en el glamour de Hollywood, para después dirigirse a México dejando atrás intensas relaciones con el magnate J. Paul Getty y Gert von Gontard, heredero del emporio cervecero Anheuser-Busch.