Espionage & Secret Services

Over sixty female agents were sent out by Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. These women - as well as othe...

The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius t...

A story of wartime intelligence, super-power relations and spies and their handlers - seen through the experience of Melita Norwood. On September ...

Meet Morris and Lona Cohen, an ordinary-seeming couple living on a teacher''s salary in a nondescript building on the East Side of New York City. O...

During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whos...

What is the role of intelligence agencies in strategy and policy? How do policymakers use (or misuse) intelligence estimates? When do intelligence-...

By the summer of 1915, Germany was faced with two related, but somewhat dissimilar problems; how to break the British blockade and how to stop or s...

As in most countries of the former Warsaw Pact or of Eastern Europe with a socialist-communist regime, in former Yugoslavia too, the birth of organ...

The Department of Homeland Security''''s (DHS) Federal Protective Service (FPS) and the Department of Justice''''s (DOJ) United States Marshals Ser...

A wide range of problems have contributed to the unease currently pervading the Intelligence Community. A significant number of the most serious pr...

Protecting information, identifying undercover agents, and operating clandestinely-efforts known as counterintelligence-are the primary objectives ...

One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn, New York. The recipient, who didn't know the sende...

An often overlooked aspect of the Cold War was the extent of diplomatic espionage that went on in the countries behind the Iron Curtain. Every West...

The definitive and dramatic account of what became known as Operation Vengeance -- the targeted kill by U.S. fighter pilots of Japan''s larger-th...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Two sisters, one war and an extraordinary family secret1939. In the nation's hour of need, brave sisters Patricia and ...

'A thrilling account' Daily Mail'Thrilling and inspiring' Daily Mirror'Extraordinary bravery... made this woman one of WWII's most remarkable spies...

Reinterprets Chile and southern South America''s Cold War experience from a transatlantic perspective James Lockhart blends Chilean, inter-American...

Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis'' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made the decision to flee to the United St...

What makes a good missionary makes a good American spy, or so thought Office of Special Services (OSS) founder Wild Bill Donovan when he recruited ...