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This comprehensive history of spies, spying, and the intelligence bureaucracy profiles famous spies and intelligence organizations around the world and addresses the question of whether any spying endeavor ever actually changed the course of history
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The first modern, permanent intelligence agency was created about 1909, and within a few years all the great powers had similar agencies. Concentrating almost entirely on Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States, Knightley asserts that these services are not worth the enormous sums they cost, that they are not effective in predicting enemy actions, and that they cause more trouble than they prevent. He uses anecdotes of failed operations and jaundiced interpretations of other episodes in an attempt to prove that intelligence services corrode a democratic society's liberty and pervert international relations. Knightley lambasts even such famous operations as ULTRA, MAGIC, and the XX Committee as overrated and mythologized. His argument might have had greater credibility if it were not so shrill and one-sided.Edwin B. Burgess, U.S. Army TRALINET Ctr., Fort Monroe, Va.
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0140106553
- ISBN 13 9780140106558
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages468
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