Ultimate Spy

E-Book Overview

Ultimate Spy Enhanced provides a unique opportunity to enter the secret world of espionage, revealing the stories of famous spies, recounting tales of famous spy operations, and showing an amazing range of spy paraphernalia. Throughout history, espionage has been used as a means of trying to gain advantage over the enemy. Ultimate Spy Enhanced outlines the early history of espionage. It then goes to examine key spying operations during the American Civil War, through both World Wars and the Cold War, up to the present day. This expanded edition includes a new section that looks in detail at post-Cold War spying activities, bringing the reader up to date with the rapidly evolving high-technology world of spying.

E-Book Information

  • Year: 2,009

  • Edition: 3

  • Pages: 235

  • Pages In File: 235

  • Language: English

  • Topic: 289

  • Issue: 2011 12 30

  • Identifier: 0756655765,9780756655761

  • Paginated: 1

  • Org File Size: 89,174,236

  • Extension: pdf

  • Tags: Военные дисциплины Диверсионно-разведывательная подготовка

  • Toc: CONTENTS......Page 6 FOREWORDS......Page 8 WHO SPIES?......Page 10 WHAT DO SPIES DO?......Page 12 FAMOUS SPYING OPERATIONS......Page 17 EARLY ESPIONAGE......Page 18 Court intrigues......Page 20 American Civil War......Page 22 World War I......Page 24 Revolutionary Russia......Page 26 Assassination of Trotsky......Page 28 WORLD WAR II......Page 30 Special Operations Executive......Page 32 Office of Strategic Services......Page 34 German secret services......Page 36 Code-breaking......Page 38 Soviet spy networks......Page 40 Japanese intelligence......Page 42 COLD WAR......Page 44 Berlin: spy city......Page 46 US security agencies......Page 48 Codename Anna......Page 50 House of spies......Page 52 U-2 spy aircraft......Page 54 Walker spy ring......Page 56 East German foreign intelligence......Page 58 Spying from space......Page 60 Moscow: spy city......Page 62 POST-COLD WAR SPYING......Page 64 Russian foreign intelligence......Page 66 Hanssen spy case......Page 68 Ana Belen Montes......Page 70 Counterterrorism......Page 72 Pan Am 103......Page 74 Digital espionage......Page 76 EQUIPMENT AND TECHNIQUES......Page 79 CAMERAS......Page 80 Concealed cameras......Page 82 Robot camera......Page 88 F21 concealed camera......Page 90 Subminiature cameras......Page 92 Minox camera......Page 96 T-100 camera......Page 98 Copy cameras......Page 100 SECRET OPERATIONS......Page 106 Visual surveillance......Page 108 Listening devices......Page 112 Receivers......Page 118 Surreptitious entry......Page 122 Lockpicks......Page 124 Escape and evasion......Page 126 Sabotage......Page 128 Amphibious sabotage......Page 132 Animals in espionage......Page 134 COUNTERINTELLIGENCE......Page 136 Detectors......Page 138 Anti-bugging devices......Page 140 Countersurveillance......Page

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