REVIEW OF A LEGACY OF SPIES BY JOHN LE CARRE PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN VIKING £20 I don’t think it’s overstated to say that when his third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, was published at the height of the Cold War in 1963 (the year after the ...
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REVIEW OF ‘ON INTELLIGENCE: THE HISTORY OF ESPIONAGE AND THE SECRET WORLD’ BY JOHN HUGHES-WILSON PUBLISHED BY CONSTABLE £10.99 paperback For anyone who has read my three-part series on The Paradoxes of Spying and would like a more in-depth overview of the intelligence world, you can do no better than pick up ...
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The recent terrorist attacks in Barcelona, Cambills and Turku in Finland provide a constant reminder of how vulnerable we all are to becoming victims of terrorism. Driving van or cars into people or stabbing them at random on busy city streets is the ‘softest’ of all ‘soft targets.” Although all ...
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Most people worldwide who have at least a cursory interest in spying and espionage, are familiar with the names MI5 and MI6. And those who have more than a casual interest in the intelligence world are aware that MI5 is the UK’s internal counter-espionage and counter-intelligence service while MI6 is ...
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Imagine the following scenario: A police drugs unit is about to embark on a raid in a major city. They have in their sights a top-level dealer distributing considerable quantities of heroin and other drugs into a deprived community. The case against the dealer has been prepared for months and ...
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