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Historical Dictionary of Sexspionage

By: Nigel West

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Historical Dictionary of Sexspionage

By: Nigel West

In a surprising number of espionage cases sex has played a significant role_often only in the background_possibly as a reason why a particular individual has lived beyond his means and is in desperate need of cash. FBI agent Earl Pitts sold secrets to the Soviets to ease his financial burdens, which came from his habitually heavy use of male and female prostitutes. Yuri Nosenko collaborated with the CIA after having misappropriated KGB funds to entertain expensive women while on official duties in Geneva, and Aleksandr Ogorodnik of the Soviet foreign ministry was persuaded to become a spy by his pregnant Spanish lover, an agent recruited by the CIA. In the realm of human behavior, sex can be the catalyst for risky or reckless conduct. The Historical Dictionary of Sexspionage explores this behavior through a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the secret agencies, operations, and events. From Delilah's seduction of Samson in 1161 BC to State Department official Donald Keyser's conviction of passing secrets to Isabelle Cheng, a Taiwanese intelligence officer, in 2007, Nigel West recounts the history of sexspionage.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810862875

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9780810862876

The History of Code Breaking

By: Nigel Cawthorne

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The History of Code Breaking

By: Nigel Cawthorne

This intriguing and revelatory history of cryptology ranges from the early days of code-making and code-breaking in ancient Egypt, Sparta, and Rome to the present day when it has slipped beyond the tight control of governments and now affects all our lives whenever we use our cell phones or connect to the internet. Subjects covered here include Mary Queen of Scots' cryptic messages when she was plotting against her cousin Elizabeth I; the codes used by George Washington for military and political purposes; and code-breaking during World Wars I and II, including the Enigma Machine. Those who invent codes and those who break them are fascinating characters. This is their story.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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150817704X

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9781508177043

Alan Turing

The Enigma Man

By: Nigel Cawthorne

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Alan Turing

The Enigma Man

By: Nigel Cawthorne

Spring 1940: The Battle of the Atlantic rages. Vulnerable merchant convoys are at the mercy of German U-boats controlled by a cunning system of coded messages created by a machine called Enigma. Only one man believes that these codes can be broken - mathematician and Bletchley Park cryptanalyst Alan Turing. Winston Churchill later described Turing's success in breaking the Enigma codes as the single biggest contribution to victory against Nazi Germany. Unheralded during his lifetime, Turing is now recognized as the father of modern computer science and as possessing one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. Drawing on original source material, interviews and photographs, this book explores Turing's groundbreaking work as well as revealing the private side of a complex and unlikely national hero.

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Arcturus Publishing

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1784280429

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9781784280420

Historical Dictionary of Naval Intelligence

By: Nigel West

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Historical Dictionary of Naval Intelligence

By: Nigel West

Naval intelligence is one of the most vital, and sometimes decisive, forms of intelligence. Over the centuries, and with particular velocity over recent decades, the techniques of detecting and destroying military (and commercial) shipping have improved, leapfrogging the equally frantic race to keep ahead of them and safeguard the huge investments involved. Today the new challenges range from an increasingly aggressive strategy adopted by Pyongyang's submarine fleet and the exclusion of illegal immigrants heading for Australia and southern Europe to the capture of cocaine-laded submarines in the Caribbean and the interdiction of Somali pirates off the Gulf of Aden. Any accurate assessment of the comparative threat these activities pose is just as dependent on good intelligence today as it was to Admiral Lord Nelson in the days of sail. The Historical Dictionary of Naval Intelligence relates the long and fascinating history of naval intelligence through a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the organizations, operations, and events that made Naval intelligence what it is today.

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Scarecrow Press

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081087377X

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9780810873773

The Crown Jewels

The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives

By: Nigel West,Oleg Tsarev,Oleg N. Carev

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The Crown Jewels

The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives

By: Nigel West,Oleg Tsarev,Oleg N. Carev

Based on documents newly released from KGB archives, this lively account of Soviet foreign intelligence activity in Great Britain during the Cold War provides much new information on the activities of the well-known British pro-Soviet spies as well as many lesser-known spymasters and recruiters. Illustrations.

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Yale University Press

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0300078064

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9780300078060

The A to Z of Sexspionage

By: Nigel West

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The A to Z of Sexspionage

By: Nigel West

In a surprising number of espionage cases sex has played a significant role_often only in the background_possibly as a reason why a particular individual has lived beyond his means and is in desperate need of cash. FBI agent Earl Pitts sold secrets to the Soviets to ease his financial burdens, which came from his habitually heavy use of male and female prostitutes. Yuri Nosenko collaborated with the CIA after having misappropriated KGB funds to entertain expensive women while on official duties in Geneva, and Aleksandr Ogorodnik of the Soviet foreign ministry was persuaded to become a spy by his pregnant Spanish lover, an agent recruited by the CIA. In the realm of human behavior, sex can be the catalyst for risky or reckless conduct. The A to Z of Sexspionage explores this behavior through a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the secret agencies, operations, and events. From Delilah's seduction of Samson in 1161 BC to State Department official Donald Keyser's conviction of passing secrets to Isabelle Cheng, a Taiwanese intelligence officer, in 2007, Nigel West recounts the history of sexspionage.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810870649

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9780810870642

GCHQ

The Secret Wireless War, 1900–1986

By: Nigel West

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GCHQ

The Secret Wireless War, 1900–1986

By: Nigel West

The go-to intelligence expert and author of MI6 has “provided the clearest review of GCHQ and its predecessors in a publicly available book” (Firetrench). Signal intelligence is the most secret, and most misunderstood, weapon in the modern espionage arsenal. As a reliable source of information, it is unequalled, which is why Government Communications Headquarters, almost universally known as GCHQ, is several times larger than the two smaller, but more familiar, organizations, MI5 and MI6. Because of its extreme sensitivity, and the ease with which its methods can be compromised, GCHQ’s activities remain cloaked in secrecy. In GCHQ: The Secret Wireless War 1900-1986, the renowned expert Nigel West traces GCHQ’s origins back to the early days of wireless and gives a detailed account of its development since that time. From the moment that Marconi succeeded in transmitting a radio signal across the Channel, Britain has been engaged in a secret wireless war, first against the Kaiser, then Hitler and the Soviet Union. Following painstaking research, Nigel West is able to describe all GCHQ’s disciplines, including direction-finding, interception and traffic analysis, and code-breaking. Also explained is the work of several lesser known units such as the wartime Special Wireless Groups and the top-secret Radio Security Service. Laced with some truly remarkable anecdotes, this edition of this important book will intrigue historians, intelligence professionals and general readers alike. “Nigel West is an acknowledged expert in this field of literature and his latest book is fascinating and intriguing.” —Books Monthly “Rich in the kind of detail from which all students of radio and military history can learn.” —The Spectrum Monitor

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398

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Pen and Sword

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1526755793

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9781526755797

Agricultural Research Centres

A World Directory of Organizations and Programmes

By: Nigel Harvey

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Agricultural Research Centres

A World Directory of Organizations and Programmes

By: Nigel Harvey

Volume 1: International, Albania to Libya. Volume 2: Madagascar to Zimbabwe, Indexes.

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Longman Publishing Group

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058290014X

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9780582900141

A Life Divined

The Insight and Inspiration of Hamish Miller

By: Hamish Miller,Nigel Twinn

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A Life Divined

The Insight and Inspiration of Hamish Miller

By: Hamish Miller,Nigel Twinn

Author, blacksmith, dowser, designer, engineer, healer, philosopher, sailor, sculptor, social activist and tree planter - Hamish Miller was a modern polymath. Born and brought up in Scotland, by the early 1980s he owned a highly successful furniture manufacturing company in Sussex. However, a Near Death Experience in 1982 jolted him into a complete change of worldview. This led to him achieving international acclaim as a researcher and writer on subjects at the cutting edge of modern thought and science. Hamish spent the last three decades of an astonishingly eventful cycle living in Cornwall, where he became an incandescent inspiration to a whole generation of people who were seeking to make some sense of the non-physical world around them.Using a great deal of Hamish's own words, this book paints a posthumous perspective on an uplifting, enlightening, exciting and frequently humorous life well-lived.

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0953331628

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Alan Turing

The Enigma Man

By: Nigel Cawthorne

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The Enigma Man

By: Nigel Cawthorne

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Historical Dictionary of Sexspionage

Historical Dictionary of Sexspionage

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Alan Turing

Historical Dictionary of Naval Intelligence

Historical Dictionary of Naval Intelligence

The Crown Jewels

The Crown Jewels

The A to Z of Sexspionage

The A to Z of Sexspionage

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GCHQ

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Agricultural Research Centres

A Life Divined

A Life Divined

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