BOOK REVIEWThe Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracyby James Risen & Thomas Risen 2023 About the AuthorsJames Risen is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. Throughout his career, Risen’s explosive investigative reporting has triggered a series of political firestorms. Among his best-selling … Continue reading The Last Honest Man
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Surveillance and Surveillance Detection
BOOK REVIEWSurveillance and Surveillance Detection: A CIA Insider's Guideby John Kiriakou 2022 About the AuthorJohn Kiriakou is a former CIA counterterrorism officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism consultant for ABC News. He was responsible for the capture in Pakistan in 2002 of Abu Zubaydah, then believed to be … Continue reading Surveillance and Surveillance Detection
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Lying and Lie Detection
BOOK REVIEWLying and Lie Detection: A CIA Insider's Guideby John Kiriakou 2022 About the AuthorJohn Kiriakou is a former CIA counterterrorism officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism consultant for ABC News. He was responsible for the capture in Pakistan in 2002 of Abu Zubaydah, then believed to be … Continue reading Lying and Lie Detection
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Black Ops
BOOK REVIEWBlack Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadowby Ric Prado 2022 About the AuthorRIC PRADO has received many awards over the course of his twenty-four year career in the Central Intelligence Agency, including the CIA’s Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal (highest award given upon retirement) and the George H. W. Bush Award for Excellence in … Continue reading Black Ops
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Code Name Blue Wren
BOOK REVIEWCode Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy―and the Sister She Betrayed by Jim Popkin 2022 About the AuthorJim Popkin is a journalist and writer whose work has appeared in Washington Post Magazine, WIRED, Newsweek, Slate, The Guardian, Washingtonian and on National Public Radio. He was a senior investigative … Continue reading Code Name Blue Wren
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The Moscow Rules
BOOK REVIEWThe Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold WarBy Antonio Mendez & Jonna Mendez 2019 About the AuthorsAntonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late 1970s, at one of the most dangerous moments in the Cold War. Soviets kept … Continue reading The Moscow Rules
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The Liar
BOOK REVIEW The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest ManBenjamin Cunningham 2022 About the AuthorBenjamin Cunningham is a Barcelona-based writer. He is a former correspondent for The Economist, editor in chief of the Prague Post, and copy boy at the Saginaw News. In addition he contributes to … Continue reading The Liar
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