The recruiter spying and the lost art of American intelligence
London's overseas work involved spotting and identifying targets, building relationships over weeks or months, and then pitching them to work for the CIA-- all the while maintaining various identities, a day job, and a very real wife and kids at home. Here he captures the best stories from his...
| Main Author: | London, Douglas (Operations officer) (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Hachette Books,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Where have you gone, George Smiley?
- Just another night . . .
- The United States Intelligence Community, and where CIA fits
- Where does our intelligence come from?
- Hours and hours of routine, and a few moments of adrenaline
- Welcome to the Directorate of Operations
- In the beginning
- "Typical" case officers
- Intelligence wars
- Finding and making case officers
- Case officers who go bump in the night, and the not-so-good doctor
- Of mice and men, and race and religion
- The CIA on its downward journey
- Working and playing well with other US agencies
- The agent's wife
- Loving and loathing within CIA and finding common ground with your agents
- They don't have to like us . . . but they do need to trust us
- Sexual dynamics
- My gay best friend
- The crisis of conscience
- Families abroad and raising kids int he clandestine world
- When good agents do bad things and calculating risk versus gain
- A lifestyle not for the squeamish or faint of heart
- Lost friends and comrades
- Hard targets: "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's"
- Humanity in all
- When case officers grow up
- When the party ends
- Alex and the targeters
- Modernization's continuing costs
- Strategy, tactics, tools, and bloodlust
- Transitioning into the future.