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Studies in Intelligence eBook Series

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  • Controlling Intelligence

    Edited by Glenn P. Hastedt ...
    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    The vital ingredient in the formulation and execution of a successful foreign policy is intelligence. For the USA, as the Bay of Pigs incident and the Iran-Contra affair have shown, controlling intelligence is a problem which policy-makers and concerned citizens have rarely examined and imperfectly understood. Of the seven contributors, five have direct experience of working with or in ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

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    Canada's Underground World Of Human Trafficking

    by Benjamin Perrin ...
    Just outside Toronto, a 14-year-old Canadian girl was auctioned on the internet for men to purchase by the hour. A young woman was taken by slave traders from an African war zone to Edmonton to earn greater profits by exploiting her in prostitution. A gang called Wolfpack recruited teenagers in Quebec and sold them for sex to high-profile men in the community.The global problem of human ... Read more

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  • Rogue

    The Inside Story of SARS's Elite Crime-busting Unit

    by Johann van Loggerenberg, Adrian Lackay ...
    The story of a 'rogue unit' operating within the South African Revenue Service (SARS) became entrenched in the public mind following a succession of sensational reports published by the Sunday Times in 2014. The unit, the reports claimed, had carried out a series of illegal spook operations: they had spied on President Jacob Zuma, run a brothel, illegally bought spyware and entered into unlawful ... Read more

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  • American Exception

    Empire and the Deep State

    by Aaron Good ...
    American Exception seeks to explain the breakdown of US democracy. In particular, how we can understand the uncanny continuity of American foreign policy, the breakdown of the rule of law, and the extreme concentration of wealth and power into an overworld of the corporate rich. To trace the evolution of the American state, the author takes a deep politics approach, shedding light on those ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • Conspiracy Theory in America

    by Lance deHaven-Smith ...
    Series series Discovering America
    Ever since the Warren Commission concluded that a lone gunman assassinated President John F. Kennedy, people who doubt that finding have been widely dismissed as conspiracy theorists, despite credible evidence that right-wing elements in the CIA, FBI, and Secret Service—and possibly even senior government officials—were also involved. Why has suspicion of criminal wrongdoing at the highest levels ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Hitmen for Hire

    Exposing South Africa's Underworld

    by Mark Shaw ...
    Hitmen for Hire takes the reader on a journey like no other, navigating a world of paid hitmen, informers, rogue policemen, criminal taxi bosses, gang leaders, and crooked politicians and businessmen. Criminologist Mark Shaw examines a society in which contract killings have become commonplace, looking at who arranges hits, where to find a hitman, and even what it is like to operate as a hitman – ... Read more

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  • Spying on Democracy

    Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance

    by Heidi Boghosian ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingly clear, the National Security Agency (NSA) has collected information on every phone call Americans have ... Read more

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  • Sex Trafficking

    A Global Perspective

    by Karin Bruckmüller, Brad Bullock, Michael A. Bush, Mirna Carranza, Yingyu Chen, Brian E. Crim, James B. Grassano, Sunita Manian, William J. Mathias, Margaret Melrose, Nhatthien Q. Nguyen, Henry Parada, David H. Richards, Stefan Schumann, Arvind Verma, T.A Ryan ...
    Global estimates of human trafficking range from 600,000 to four million victims each year with the majority being victims of sex trafficking. This strikingly large range belies the difficulty in gathering, defining, and accountability of sex-trafficking data. Victims of sex trafficking may be forced into pornography, prostitution for the military or militia, spousal prostitution, and prostitution ... Read more

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  • Executive Secrets

    Covert Action & the Presidency

    by William J. Daugherty ...
    "Clears up some common misconceptions of the CIA . . . an insider's perspective on how covert action really works, or fails" ( Savannah Morning News).Covert action has been used as an instrument of statecraft by America's leaders since its earliest days. Some presidents have used it wisely, contributing to our success and security. Others have used it poorly, not understanding its limitations and ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence

    Edited by Loch K. Johnson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence is a state-of-the-art work on intelligence and national security. Edited by Loch Johnson, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, the handbook examines the topic in full, beginning with an examination of the major theories of intelligence. It then shifts its focus to how intelligence agencies operate, how they collect information ... Read more

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  • The Trial of Julian Assange

    A Story of Persecution

    by Nils Melzer ...
    The shocking story of the legal persecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and the dangerous implications for the whistleblowers of the future.In July 2010, Wikileaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence for war crimes and torture. In the aftermath Julian Assange, the founder and spokesman of Wikileaks, found himself at the center ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • The National Security Enterprise

    Navigating the Labyrinth, Second Edition

    by Roger Z. George, Harvey Rishikof, Jon J. Rosenwasser, Michael Warner, David P. Auerswald, Gordon Adams, Rodney Bent, Kathy Peroff, Marc Grossman0, Desaix Myers1, Franklin C. Miller2, Joseph McMillan3, Michael J. Meese4, Isaiah Wilson III5, Dina Temple-Raston6, Thomas Fingar7, Brittany Albaugh8, Susan Ginsburg9, Colton C. Campbell0, Gerald Felix Warburg1, Ellen Laipson2, John Diamond3 ...
    Series series Georgetown Center for Security Studies
    This second edition of The National Security Enterprise provides practitioners’ insights into the operation, missions, and organizational cultures of the principal national security agencies and other institutions that shape the US national security decision-making process. Unlike some textbooks on American foreign policy, it offers analysis from insiders who have worked at the National Security ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD