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Comments/Reviews Description: From references to secret agents in The Art of War in 400 B.C.E. to the Bush administration's ongoing War on Terrorism, espionage has always been an essential part of state security.policies. This illustrated encyclopedia traces the fascinating stories of spies, intelligence, and counterintelligence throughout history, both internationally and in the United States.
Written specifically for students and general readers by scholars, former intelligence officers, and other experts, Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Counterintelligence provides a unique background perspective for viewing history and current events. In easy-to-understand, non-technical language, it explains how espionage works as a function of national policy; traces the roots of national security; profiles key intelligence leaders, agents, and double-agents; discusses intelligence concepts and techniques; and profiles the security organizations and intelligence history and policies of nations around the world. As a special feature, the set also includes forewords by former CIA Director Robert M. Gates and former KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin that help clarify the evolution of intelligence and counterintelligence and their crucial roles in world affairs today. Selected Contents: Baden-Powell, Robert; Bailey, Ann Trotter; Ball, George; Barnett, David Henry; Bay of Pigs; Bentley, Elizabeth; Berg, Moe; Beria, Lavrenti; Berlin, East & West; Bissell, Richard M; Black Dragon Society ; Black Hand; Black September Group; Black Tom Island; Blake, George; Bletchley Park; Blunt, Anthony; Bonaparte, Napoleon; Bond, James; Boyd, Belle; Buckley, William F., Jr.; Brazil; Brothman, Abraham; Browder, Earl; Bulgaria; Burgess, Guy; Burr, Aaron; Bush, George H.W.; Bush, George W. Cairncross, John; Cambodia; Canada; Canaris, Wilhelm; Carter, Jimmy; Casey, William J.; Castro, Fidel; Cavell, Edith; Central America; Central Intelligence Agency; Central Intelligence Group; Chambers, Whittaker; CHEKA; Chernenko, Constantin; Chiang Kai-shek; Chile; China; Church, Sen. Frank; Cicero; Clancy, Tom; Clandestine; Clinton, William; Cohen, Lona & Morris; COINTELPRO; Colby, William E.; Cold War; Collection; Colombia; Combat intel/counterintel; Communications; Communist Party; Congressional Oversight, U.S.; Coolidge, Calvin; Coordinator of Information; Coplon, Judith; Corporate intel/counterintel; Counterintelligence; Counterintelligence Corps; Covert Action; Cromwell, Oliver; Cryptography; Cuba; Cuban Missile Crisis; Culper Ring; Cumming, Mansfield; Czech Rep./Czechoslovakia Darragh, Lydia Barrington; De Gaulle, Charles; De Vosjoli, Philippe; Defector; Defense Intelligence Agency; Defense policy; Delta Force; Denniston, Alistair; Deutsch, Arnold; Dickstein, Samuel; Diem, Ngo Dinh; Diplomacy; Dodd, Martha; Donovan, William; Dreyfus Affair; Duggan, Lawrence; Dulles, Allen East Germany; Egypt; Eisenhower, Dwight D.; Electronic intel/counterintel; Elizabethan Era; Ellsberg, Daniel; Embassy; Enigma; Envoys Plot 40 Committee; Fed. Bureau of Investigation; Feklissov, Alexander; Finn, Ted D'Arcy; Fitin, Pavel; Fleming, Ian; Ford, Antonia; Ford, Gerald R.; Foreign Intel. Advisory Board; France; Frederick the Great; Freeh, Louis; Fuchs, Klaus; Fulton, Sarah Bradlee; FUSAG; Fyfe, Sir David Maxwell Gaunt, Guy; Gehlen, Lt. Colonel Reinhard; Geiger, Emily; Germany; Gestapo; Glomar Explorer ; Gold, Harry; Goleniewski, Michael; Golytsin, Anatoly; Goodpaster, Andrew; Gordievsky, Oleg; Gouzenko, Igor; Greece; Greene, Graham; Greenglass, David & Ruth; Greenhow, Rose O'Neal; Gulf War; Gutzeit, Peter Hall, Virginia; Hall, William; Hanssen, Robert; Harlfinger, Admiral Fritz; Hart, Nancy; Hashishin Order; Hayhanen, Reino; Helms, Richard; Herzog, Chaim; Heydrich, Reinhard; Hillenkoetter, Roscoe H.; Hiss, Alger; Hitler, Adolph; Homeland Security; Hong Kong; Hoover, Herbert; Hoover, J. Edgar; Howard, Edward Lee; Huff-duff; Human intel/counterintel; Hungary; Hunt, E.Howard India; Indonesia; Intelligence Analysis; Intelligence Research Bureau; Interagency Cooperation; Iran; Iraq; Iraq War 2003; Ireland; Irish Republican Army; Israel; Italy; Ivan the Terrible; Japan; Jedburghs; Jefferson, Thomas; Jennifer, Project; John, Dr. Otto; Johnson, Lyndon B.; Joint Intelligence; Jordan; Journalism Kalamatiano, Xenophon; Kalugin, Oleg; Kang Sheng; Kell, Sir Vernon; Kenji Doihara; KGB; Kennedy, John F.; Kenya; Khan, Noor Inayat; Korea, North; Korea, South; Korean War; Krivitsky, Walter; Khrushchev, Nikita; Kryuchkov, Vladimir A.; Kuczynski, Ruth; Kuklinski, Colonel; Kuwait; Kvasnikov, Leonid LACROSSE; Lawrence of Arabia; Le Carre, John; Lee, Duncan C.; Libya; Liddy, G. Gordon; Lincoln, Abraham; Lipka, Robert; Literature & Film; Lonsdale, Gordon; Los Alamos; Lubyanka; Lucy Ring Maclean, Donald; Madison, James; Malaysia; Mao Tse-tung; Marchetti, Victor; Markelov, Valeri; Martin, Major William; Mata Hari; Maugham, Somerset; May, Alan Nunn; McCone, John A.; Mexican American War; Mexico; MI-5; MI-6; MI-9; Middle Ages; Military intel/counterintel; Mitrokhin, Vasili; Mockingbird, Project; Montagnards; Morison, Samuel Loring; Morocco; Morros, Boris; Mussolini, Benito Nat'l Reconnaissance Office; National security; National Security Agency; National Security Council; Navajo Code Talkers; Naval intel/counterintel; Netherlands, The; Nixon, Richard; North Atlantic Treay Org.; Norwood, Melita Stedman; Nuclear intel/counterintel Office of Strategic Services; Ogorodnikov, Nikolay; Oldfield, Sir Maurice; Operation Bernhard; Operation Chaos; Operation Doublecross; Operation Gold; Operation Ivy Bells; Operation Ryan; Operation Silver; Oppenheimer, J. Robert; Ovakimyan, Gaik Pakistan; Palestinian Authority; Parker, Gilbert; Pash, Boris; Pelton, Ronald W.; Penkovsky, Oleg; Perl, William; Perlo, Victor; Peru; Petrov, Vladimir; Philby, H.A.R.; Photography; Pike, Otis; Pinkertons; Po, Tony; Poland; Political intel/counterintel; Polk, James K.; Pollard, Jonathan; Profumo Affair; Powers, Francis Gary; Psychological Warfare; Pujol, Juan; Purple Raborn, William F.; Radar; Radio; Rado, Alexander; Reagan, Ronald; Reconnaissance; Recruitment; Reilly, Sidney; Rhyolite; Richelieu, Cardinal de; Rochefort, Joseph John; Rockefeller Commission; Roessler, Rudolf; Romania; Roosevelt, Franklin D.; Roosevelt, Kermit; Roosevelt, Theodore; Rosenberg, Julius & Ethel; Rote Kapelle; Rowlett, Frank; Russia (Post-SU); Russia (Pre-SU) Safford, Lt. Laurance Frye; Satellites; Saudi Arabia; Scandinavia; Schellenberg, Walter; Schlesinger, James R.; Schragmueller, Elspeth; Scientific intel/counterintel; seawolf ; Secord, Richard; Secret Service; Shadrin, Nicolas; Signals Intelligence; Silvermaster, Nathan; Sinclair, Hugh; Singapore; Six Day War; Skorzeny, Otto; Smith, Walter Bedell; Soble, Jack; Sorge, Richard; Souers, Wiliam S.; Source; South Africa; Soviet Union; Spain; Spanish-American War; Special Air Service; Special Boat Service; Special Operations; Spy Planes; Spycatcher Affair; S.S. mayaguez Incident; SR Pointer, Project; Stephenson, Sir William; Straight, Michael; Submarine; Sudan; Sudoplatov, Pavel; Sun Tzu; Surveillance; Switzerland; Syria & Lebanon; Szabo,Violette Bushell Taiwan; Tallmadge, Major Benjamin; Technical intel/counterintel; Technology; Tenet, George; Terrorism; Thailand; Tojo, Hideki; Trepper, Leopold; Truman, Harry S; Tubman, Harriet; Turing, Alan; Turkey; Turner, Stansfield U.S.S. pueblo ; U.S.S. liberty ; Ukraine; United Kingdom; United Nations; United States of America Van Deman, Ralph; Van Lew, Elizabeth; Vandenberg, Hoyt S.; Vassall, John; Vatican City; VENONA; Vietnam; Vietnam War Walker, John; Walsingham, Sir Francis; Walters, Vernon; War of 1812; War On Terrorism; Warsaw Pact; Washington, George; Wassmuss, Wilhelm; Webster, William H.; Weisband, William; Weiskopf, Victor; Weizsacker, Baron Ernst Von; Wellington House; Wenger, Joseph N.; White, Harry Dexter; Wilson, Harold; Wilson, Woodrow; Wiretapping; Wisner, Frank; Wolf, Marcus; Women; Woolsey, James; World War I; World War II XX Committee Yagur, Joseph; Yardley, Herbert O.; Yemen; Yugoslavia; Yurchenko, Vitali Zaire; Zimmermann Telegram GLOSSARY Review(s): Sharpe's source, the latest and one of the most detailed, has more than 500 entries written by a diverse group of contributors from all perspectives and political viewpoints. ... Chronologically and geographically comprehensive, its entries cover all geographic areas, ancient times to the present. ... Highly recommended. Academic libraries, especially those supporting military and political studies. Choice ... suitable for all reference collections. Library Journal Of use in public libraries where this topic is of interest and in those academic institutions where course work on intelligence security and policy is taught. Booklist ...the Encyclopedia regales its readers with remarkable facts. ... But the more mundane, and important, aspects of intelligence account for the major part of this substantial Encyclopedia, which throws light on many of the murkier corners of international affairs, and will therefore be of use in reference libraries interested in that more general field as well as the specialized one to which it is devoted. Reference Reviews, Vol.20, No.1 ...a highly desirable addition to academic library reference collections. 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