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The literary spy : the ultimate source for quotations on espionage and intelligence / compiled and annotated by Charles E. Lathrop

Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004]
Copyright Date
©2004
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 477 pages)
Additional Creators
Lathrop, Charles E.
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Preface; Glossary; Academia; Analysis & Analysts; Assassination; Bay of Pigs; Budgets; Collection; Compartmentation; Counterintelligence; Covert Action; Critics & Defenders; Current Intelligence; Deception, Disinformation, & Propaganda; Defectors; Directors of Central Intelligence; Domestic Activities; Economic Intelligence; Espionage & Spies; Estimates; Fact versus Fiction; Failures; FBI & Law Enforcement; Feedback & Tasking; Fighting the Cold War; Fronts; Ignoring Bad News; Intelligence & American Culture; Intelligence, Definitions of; Intelligence, the Missions of, Intercepts and CryptologyJournalists, Businessmen, & Clergy; Leadership; Leaks; Legislative Oversight; Liaison; Limits of Intelligence; Military Attachés; Military & Naval Intelligence; Nut Cases & Conspiracies; Objectivity; Openness & Publicity; Open Sources; Origins of Central Intelligence; Overhead & Imagery; People; Plausible Denial; Policy Role; Politicization; Prescriptions; Presidents & Intelligence; Recruiting; Redundancy Redundancy; "Rogue Elephant"; Secrecy; Subcultures in CIA; Successes; Terrorism; Timeliness; Traitors in Their Own Words; Treason & Betrayal; United Nations, and Unsavory CharactersU. S. Intelligence "Community"; Warning, Prediction, & Surprise; Weapons of Mass Destruction; Women; Selected Bibliography; Source Index; Subject Index
Summary
A CIA veteran scours sources as diverse as The Bible, James Bond movies, and presidential speeches to examine the mysterious world of intelligence and espionage The Literary Spy provides a unique view of the intelligence world through the words of its own major figures (and those fascinated with them) from ancient times to the present. CIA speechwriter and analyst Charles E. Lathrop has compiled and annotated more than 3,000 quotations from such disparate sources as the Bible, spy novels and movies, Shakespeare's plays, declassified CIA documents, memoirs, TV talk shows, and speeches from U.S. and foreign leaders and officials. Arranged in thematic categories with opening commentary for each section, the quotations speak for themselves. Together they serve both to illuminate a world famous for its secrets and deceptions and to show the extent to which intelligence has manifested itself in literature and in life. Engaging, informative, and often irreverent, The Literary Spy is an exceedingly satisfying book - one that meets the needs of the serious researcher just as ably as those of the armchair spy in pursuit of an evening's entertainment.
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ISBN
0300103247 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300103243 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300128925 (electronic bk.)
0300128924 (electronic bk.)
1281729256
9781281729255
9786611729257
6611729259
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-430) and indexes.
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