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Découvrez comment cet agent méthodique et scrupuleux a démasqué au sein de la CIA un grand nombre d'agents doubles. Il fut démis de sa fonction de chef du contre-espionnage américain en 1974 pour avoir fait preuve d'excès de zèle. Son obsession à voir des agents doubles partout lui coûta son poste, sa paranoïa instaurant à la CIA un climat délétère nocif.

Jonathan Pollard est un citoyen américain condamné à perpétuité par les Etats-Unis pour espionnage au profit d'Israël. Jonathan Pollard a été condamné en 1987 à la prison à vie pour avoir fourni à Israël des milliers de documents classés secret défense entre mai 1984 et son arrestation, en novembre 1985, après qu'il eut été refoulé de l'ambassade d'Israël à Washington. La gravité de sa peine reste un sujet polémique, source de nombreuses tensions mettant en péril les relations américano-israéliennes.

Le nom même de Mata Hari est devenu synonyme d'espionnage, d'intrigue et de sensualité. La femme qui a adopté ce nom de scène est née Margaretha Zelle. Elle a été fusillée par la France pour intelligence avec l'ennemi en temps de guerre pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Danseuse orientale à Paris, elle devient rapidement la coqueluche du Tout-Paris qui succombe totalement à ses charmes. Le succès retombé, Mata Hari rencontre de grandes difficultés financières et s'installe à La Haye.

Les cinq de Cambridge est un groupe d'espionnage composé de cinq étudiants de l'université de Cambridge recrutés par le KGB durant les années 1930. Ils travaillèrent pour le KGB durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et la Guerre froide. Découvrez l'histoire extraordinaire de Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt et John Caincross, ces 5 agents qui ont réussi à pénétrer les plus hautes sphères de l'établissement de renseignement britannique.

Some researchers have speculated that Thornley may have associated with both Lee and Marina while in New Orleans. There is even the claim that Thornley and Marina were having an affair. Whatever the truth, there is no doubt that Thornley was close to certain assassination players.

Qu'il y-a-t-il de plus fascinant que les services secrets ? Avec notre collection espionnage, levez le voile sur les grandes affaires d'espionnage et découvrez la vraie histoire et les plus sombres secrets des plus célèbres espions.

The Potus Papers is a top rated mystery thriller. A fast paced mystery featuring Nick Ryan, a former FBI's top investigators before he takes a temporary leave to track down his wife's killer.

Nick is asked to look into a suicide claim by a friend of his at an insurance company. What initially appears to be an open and shut case turns into a race against time as he find that everyone the dead man talked to before he died ... is turning up dead!

During World War II, the United States maintained two secret interrogation camps in violation of the Geneva Convention - one just south of Washington, D.C., and the other near San Francisco. German POWs who passed through these camps briefed their fellow prisoners, warning them of turncoats who were helping the enemy - the United States - pry secrets from them. One of these turncoats, Werner Drechsler, was betrayed and murdered by those he spied on.

When thinking of New Mexico, few Americans think spy-vs.-spy intrigue, but in fact, to many international intelligence operatives, the state's name is nearly synonymous with espionage, and Santa Fe is a sacred site. The KGB's single greatest intelligence and counterintelligence coups, and the planning of the organization's most infamous assassination, all took place within one mile of Bishop Lamy's statue in front of Saint Francis Cathedral in central Santa Fe.

Yasith Chhun was just a 42-year-old accountant living a comfortable life in California. Then he tried to overthrow the Cambodian government from his humble office in Long Beach. Inspired by films like Braveheart, Chhun planned "Operation Volcano," a scheme replete with espionage, jungle guerrillas, and East German rocket launchers. Could Chhun's quixotic, incredibly risky and potentially bloody coup possibly succeed?

In the whirlwind of accusations and recriminations that has attended the post 9/11 world, one man's vital testimony has been conspicuously absent. Candid and compelling, At the Center of the Storm is George Tenet's memoir of his life at the CIA - a revelatory look at the inner workings of America's top intelligence agency and its dealings with national leaders at home and abroad.

Best-selling author Jennet Conant brings us a stunning account of Julia and Paul Child's experiences as members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the Far East during World War II. She also details the tumultuous years when they were caught up in the McCarthy Red spy hunt in the 1950s and behaved with bravery and honor. It is a fascinating portrait of a group of idealistic men and women who were recruited by the citizen spy service, slapped into uniform, and dispatched to wage political warfare.

Brad loved her deeply, but she did not want to settle down. She worked as an assistant to a Senator and enjoyed the opulence that the job offered. The Senator worked with Omar. Brad found her with Omar. Brad went into a rage. Omar missed his meeting with the Senator. No one could find Omar. The local Sheriff's office searched for Omar. The FBI, and others, searched for Omar. But they could not find him. But Brad and his friends found Omar again, and again, and again, and again....

On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London's Millennium Hotel. Hours later, the Russian émigré and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian president Vladimir Putin, fell ill and within days was rushed to the hospital. Fatally poisoned by a rare radioactive isotope slipped into his drink, Litvinenko issued a dramatic deathbed statement accusing Putin himself of engineering his murder.

In The Puzzle Palace, James Bamford revealed the existence of the NSA, the largest, most secretive, and best-financed intelligence organization in the world. In Body of Secrets, he took readers inside the ultra-secret agency, charting its deeds and misdeeds. Now Bamford applies his relentless investigative drive and unparalleled access to intelligence sources to produce a headline-making book about the most pressing issues of the present day.

They were the golden boys of Huntington, Indiana: Jarrod Wall, a 17-year-old Sunday school teacher, track star, top student, and local heartthrob; and his friends Erick Esch, a high school football hero, and John Jesus Valasquez. They were well-liked, all-American teens. Until one night when Jarrod and Erick entered the house of a local car collector Eldon Anson and burglarized the bachelor’s home - and Jarrod murdered him with repeated hatchet blows to the skull…. 

Eric Brach's new book Double Lives: True Tales of the Criminals Next Door offers terrifying true stories about the criminals hidden among us and the banality of evil and crime, elevated by its frank discussion of the nation-wide criminal scourge of the moment: opioid addiction. Double Lives chronicles the very monsters who walk unnoticed among us - even serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, or John Wayne Gacy. They are neighbors and students, professionals and friends living out criminal double lives. 

This historic mission of this remarkable but little-known organization, the US National Intelligence Council (NIC), now 40 years old, is strategic intelligence assessment in service of senior American foreign policymakers. Its signature inside products, National Intelligence Estimates, are now accompanied by the NIC's every-four-years Global Trends. Unclassified, Global Trends has become a noted NIC brand, its release awaited by officials, academics, and private sector managers around the world.

In Double Crossed, historian Matthew Avery Sutton tells the extraordinary story of the entwined roles of spy-craft and faith in a world at war. Missionaries, priests, and rabbis, acutely aware of how their actions seemingly conflicted with their spiritual calling, carried out covert operations, bombings, and assassinations within the centers of global religious power, including Mecca, the Vatican, and Palestine.

In Manitoba, Winnipeg, a bronze statue of Sir William Stephenson proudly stands as a testament to this hero’s legacy. He was a dedicated soldier, a gifted inventor, an extraordinary businessman, and a spy. From his humble Canadian beginnings, William Stephenson enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps and rapidly moved through the ranks of the armed forces.