Lessons from a Guerrilla: Marine Raider Frank Sturgis, the Fight for Freedom and Mastering Logistics Awesome write up by NC Scout on former USMC Raider and CIA agent Frank Sturgis. Being both a military history buff and a student of guerilla warfare the book Warrior: Frank Sturgis—The CIA’s #1 Assassin-Spy, Who Nearly Killed Castro…
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Espionage Books Worth A Damn: The New Spymasters
The New Spymasters: inside espionage from the Cold War to global terror, by Stephen Grey Despite the continuing value of intelligence methods like telecommunication interception and satellite imagery, when operating against a shadowy terrorist group—especially one hiding within a civilian population—one of the best sources an intelligence organisation can have is a trusted insider who’s…
Spy Books Worth A Damn: “Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran”
MISSING MAN: THE AMERICAN SPY WHO VANISHED IN IRAN By Barry Meier Farrar Straus Giroux, $27.00, 273 pp. The American public — especially the media — tends to demand, “Who’s to blame?” when a person vanishes in a foreign land with no explanation as to why, or whether, he is being held. Such is the…