Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (930 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0671415433 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 335 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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His thesis on the search for political truth became a best-selling book, Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth. Edward Jay Epstein is the author of fifteen books. . He has written for Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. He studied gover
Highly recommended. . From Publishers Weekly Epstein ( Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald ) delves deep into the wheels-within-wheels of superpower intelligence and counterintelligence, showing ways in which the CIA and the KGB have been "provoked, seduced, lured into false trails, blinded, and turned into unwitting agents." Readers will find new information here on a multitude of subjects: programs involving CIA-written books published under defectors' names; the story of Yuri Nosenko, a KGB officer who defected in 1963 and was "at the heart of everything that happened at the CIA for a decade"; and the theories of James Angleton, the former CIA chief of counter
"wilderness of mirrors" according to Flitcraft. This is a great book. Too bad it's not in print. Once you understand Soviet deception you'll wonder whether the Cold War is really over.. "Angleton's Amanuensis" according to A Customer. Too bad its out of print! It is difficult to overstate the importance of this book in intelligence scholarship. It is perhaps the only book that gives, essentially from the horse's mouth, James Jesus Angleton's approach to analytical counterintelligence. This approach was d. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the James Jesus Cranky in Virginia I recommend this book to anyone interested in the James Jesus Angleton controversy, as well as the idea of deception writ large. However, though I HATE "gotcha" observations, I must point out that in Chapter Ten, "The New Maginot Line" (I read the 1989 hardback version, whi
It concerns, as James Jesus Angleton described it to the author, " a state of mind —and the mind of the state." With a new Preface (2014) Praise For Edward Jay Epstein “Epstein delves deep into the wheels-within-wheels of superpower intelligence and counterintelligence, showing ways in which the CIA and the KGB have been "provoked, seduced, lured into false trails, blinded, and turned into unwitting agents." Readers will find new information here on a multitude of subjects: programs involving CIA-written books published under defectors' names; the story of Yuri Nosenko, a KGB officer who defected in 1963 and was "at the heart of everything that happened at the CIA for a decade"; and the theories of James Angleton, the former CIA chief of counterintelligence, on the hidden motives of KGB super-mole Kim Philby. Harris The RAND Corporation "A brilliant investigator examines the fascinating history of glasnost and the unseen motives and machinery of the Soviet state." —Lou Dobbs, CNN. Highly recommended.” ---Publishers Weekly "Epstein's account of the world of intelligence is fascinating, instructive, and, in parts, sensational." —Irving Kristol American Enterprise Institute "This is an important book that reflects