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5.0 out of 5 stars
An Accurate Insight Into The World of Counterintelligence, August 31, 2009
This review is from: Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad: How to Be a Counterintelligence Officer (Paperback)
If you are looking for an insight into counterintelligence operations... This Book Is It!
"Thwarting Enemies At Home And Abroad" will give you an inside look at how counterintelligence agents really do their jobs. You will learn how counterintelligence is different from security and different from law enforcement, and you will learn where these areas overlap.
The book explains collection, collation, and indexing, and how to develop counterintelligence databases. It explains how agents are recruited and run, and how they are safeguarded. And... it explains how to manage security of your operations.
Overall this book is very informative and yet still easy to read and understand.
Highly Recommended.
*** Contents ***
1. What Is Counterintelligence?
2. Who Goes Into Counterintelligence, and Why?
3. Conflicting Goals: Law Enforcement versus Manipulation
4. The Support Apparatus
5. Interrogation: How It Really Works
6. How To Manage The Polygraph
7. How To Manage Physical Surveillance
8. How To Manage Technical Surveillance
9. Double Agents: What They Are Good For
10. Double Agents: How To Get And Maintain A Stable
11. Double Agents: Feeding And Care
12. Double Agents: Passing Information to the Enemy
13. Moles in the Enemy's Garden: Your Best Weapon
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25 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
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Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad, October 25, 2006
I have written this for people who want to know what counterintelligence is, not what it ought to be, and for people who may be interested in it as a trade or profession.
The book is about what professional intelligence officers call "tradecraft", specifically the craft used in the trade of counterintelligence. It is not about politics or policy or communism or anticommunism or justice in the Third World or human rights or religion, although these affect the trade of counterintelligence just as they do the trade of stock-brokering or oil exploration or journalism. They will be mentioned occasionally, and my concerns about them will be evident, but only as they are elements of the enviroment in which counterintelligence functions.
My thirty-odd years working in counterintelligence have all been spent as an American official, but I have worked much of that time with the counterintelligence officers of other countries. I believe this book will be useful to readers not only in the United States but also in other countries allied with the U.S. and in some non-allied, non-hostile, where espionage and terrorism occur.
To illustrate various points I have cited many actual cases. Some of these have been written about publicly elsewhere, with varying degrees of accuracy, and some have not. Those which have not yet come to the attention of journalists, historians or writers of fictional documentaries I have altered (in counterintelligence jargon, "sanitized") by changing names, dates and places. I have done this to protect myself and to protect what American law calls "sources and methods" from hostile action. I have made some changes and deleted some material at the request of the American Central Intelligence Agency, which has reviewed the contents patiently, promptly and thoughtfullly. What I know about the spy business I learned as an official under oath to my government, and therefore what facts I know about the spy business are the government's property, not mine. The opinions are my own, and CIA neither endorses nor condemns them.
--- from book's Introduction
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The best introduction to CI, January 25, 2009
This review is from: Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad: How to Be a Counterintelligence Officer (Paperback)
People have mistaken ideas about what counterintelligence is all about. This book is the clearest, most direct write-up of the nuts and bolts of spy catching and protecting on-going operations that I have read. I fear that over the last few years many of our intelligence professionals have lost some of the skills described in this book and I urge both current and would-be future intelligence officers to read this text.
Yes, the book is a bit dated. The author was an "Angleton" (not a totally good thing) but he definitely knows how to explain a complex issue in terms anyone can understand. I will be using this book with my undergraduate and graduate intelligence classes.
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