Intelligence & Espionage

A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history. Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people...

"[Narrator Erin] Bennett’s reading is never overdone; her directness neither shies away from [author Christine] Kuehn’s unpleasant revelations nor sensationalizes them...her light expression lets the dramatic details speak for themselves." — Booklist "[Narrator Erin] Bennett's enunciation...

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units. Surprise . . . your target. Kill . . . your enemy. Vanish . . . without a trace. When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA's Special...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the celebrated author of Operation Mincement and The Siege comes the thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. “The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉ Named a...

An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers. America’s greatest untold story: the United States’...

On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a 30 month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners. Doing Time Like a Spy is Kiriakou's memoir of his 23...

OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and the Times of...

Long before the waterboarding controversy exploded in the media, one CIA agent had already gone public. In a groundbreaking 2007 interview with ABC News, John Kiriakou called waterboarding torture - but admitted that it probably worked. This book, at once a confessional, an adventure story, and...

This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York Times Book Review). From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful...

This is the book the CIA does not want you to read. For the last 60 years, the CIA has maintained a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, never disclosing its blunders....

New York Times Bestseller * A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year * A New York Times Editors' Choice "No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has, and The Mission deserves to win Weiner a second Pulitzer." —The Guardian A masterpiece of...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE WINNER A “heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11” (The New York Times Book Review), this definitive history explains in gripping detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ “A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the world In 1965, the US...

No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Now, Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the Navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. It unveils how the...

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly...

Israel has always won. They are winning now. And they must always win in the future. In The Sword of Freedom, former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen pulls back the curtain on Israel’s success in the face of never-ending war. Cohen has played a pivotal role in shaping Israel’s modern defense...

The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan With the publication of Ghost Wars, Steve Coll became not only a Pulitzer Prize winner, but also the expert on the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of Bin Laden, and the secret efforts by CIA officers and their agents...

Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break into your devices and move around undetected....

Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Biography Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and the 43rd LA Times Book Prize in Biography | Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Named...

The next-true life NCIS story from New York Times bestselling authors Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll, Jr. Read by the author. Panama, 1989. The once warm relationship between United States and Gen. Manuel Noriega has eroded dangerously. Newly elected President George Bush has declared the...

A hands-on, practical survival guide from retired Navy SEAL Clint Emerson—adapted for civilians from actual special forces operations—to eluding pursuers, evading capture, and surviving any dangerous situation. In today’s increasingly dangerous world, threats to your personal safety are...

Authors MichaelBar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous, most crucial missions....

“For six days, it was the Iranian Embassy on Princes Gate in London that riveted the world. . . . Macintyre’s superb reconstruction restores it to vivid, complex life.”—The Washington Post A thrilling tick-tock recounting of one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue...

In 1954, a small Central American nation became the testing ground for a new kind of power. Guatemala was not invaded by armies in the traditional sense. There was no formal declaration of war, no clear front line, no obvious foreign takeover.

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War ...

Sun Tzu wrote it 2,500 years ago. Nation-states are using it today. The Art of War: A Cybersecurity Companion takes Sun Tzu's complete text — every verse of the Lionel Giles translation — and maps it to the modern reality of nation-state cyber conflict. Not as metaphor. As doctrine. Every verse is followed by an extended Cyber Parallel: a substantive analytical commentary connecting Sun Tzu's principle to how China's APT41, Russia's Sandworm, North Korea's Lazarus Group, and Iran's IRGC actually operate in the wild. Every verse is then grounded in a Field Note: a named actor, a named ...

Cyberattacks are the ultimate geopolitical weapon of the twenty-first century. They are used to damage presidential campaigns, shut down electric grids, sway public sentiment, and cost businesses and governments alike billions of dollars. Popular culture portrays cyberattacks as unstoppable and...

As Seen on Steve Bannon’s War Room The definitive tale of how a Clinton hoax became an Obama coup, revealed through newly declassified documents. The Russia hoax was the culmination of corruption, deception, and manipulation that began long before 2016. It started with the Benghazi cover-up, in which Obama and Clinton pushed a false narrative to protect themselves in an election year. Scandal after scandal, campaign after campaign, and lie after lie eventually birthed the counter-narrative that became the Trump–Russia hoax. For nearly a decade, the truth was buried in classified files. ...

Contemporary military doctrine is not fully prepared for the environment in which modern war is actually fought. Urban operations are still approached predominantly as an extension of maneuver warfare conducted on flattened representations of terrain, supported by frameworks that treat the physical combat as separable from the informational, electromagnetic, cyber, and cognitive dimensions that increasingly determine outcomes. The existing literature, shaped substantially by the counterinsurgency operations of the past two decades, has produced valuable insights but has not yet developed ...

Qué objetivos persigue la contrainteligencia y qué misiones realiza. Por qué es importante para nuestro país y cuáles son nuestros enemigos. Por qué debemos contar con unos servicios de inteligencia a la altura de nuestras necesidades de defensa y seguridad nacional. Del CESID al CNI; de la inteligencia de fuentes humanas (HUMINT) a la lucha por la supremacía tecnológica; desde la importancia crucial de la seguridad en las empresas privadas hasta la rivalidad entre España y Marruecos, las injerencias rusas o los fallos israelíes ante la estrategia de Hamás.

What if the most powerful intelligence apparatus in the world admitted there were forces it could not understand and could not control?For twenty-three years, the U.S. government funded a clandestine unit of "psychic spies" tasked with performing the impossible. Project Stargate was the final evolution of a series of secret programs—Scanate, Gondola Wish, and Grill Flame—designed to determine if human consciousness could be used to gather actionable intelligence against America's adversaries.Inside this declassified history, you will discover: The "Eight-Martini" Successes: The shocking...

The Disinformation Dictionary: Russia’s Arsenal of Lies and Propaganda in the Information War arms you with the definitive guide to decoding Moscow's shadowy playbook. In an era where truth is the ultimate battlefield, Russia wages relentless information warfare against democracies. This essential reference decodes over 40 key Russian terms, concepts, and tactics—from Maskirovka (deception) and Aktivnye meropriyatiya (active measures) to Kompromat and Troll-fabrika—revealing how Putin's regime manipulates narratives, erodes trust, and exports chaos worldwide. Why This Dictionary Is ...

In the shadows of cyberspace, nation-states wage wars that never officially begin — and the analysts who unmask them are the most important investigators you've never heard of. When FireEye discovered that its own network had been breached in December 2020, the trail led not to a single compromised company but to eighteen thousand organizations worldwide — including the US Treasury, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Nuclear Security Administration. The attackers had hidden inside a routine software update for over a year. But who were they? And how do you identify a ...

This is the second book in a series that began underwater. The first volume, Aliens in the Ocean: A History Beneath the Waves, explored the long and largely forgotten record of anomalous objects observed in and beneath the world's oceans – a phenomenon that predates the modern UAP conversation by centuries. This book looks forward. It asks the question that the first volume raises but does not answer: what happens next? If the phenomenon is real – and the weight of military testimony, sensor data, congressional legislation, and presidential directives increasingly suggests that it is ...

What if the real secret isn’t what they’re hiding—but what we refuse to see? For thousands of years, power has lived in the shadows. From the forbidden temples of Egypt to the boardrooms of billionaires, secret societies have shaped empires, written laws, and erased their own fingerprints from history. In Secret Societies: Between Power and Deception, Heinrich Wilson unravels the hidden threads connecting the ancient mystery cults, the Knights Templar, the Freemasons, the Illuminati, Skull & Bones, and today’s digital elite.