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NEW SPIES EXPLORING FRONTR
The end of the Cold War threw the world's intelligence agencies into turmoil. The old security of a superpower confrontation had vanished and with the new world order came a search for a new identity and purpose for the spies. At stake was a $50 billion global industry employing a million people. With access to senior intelligence figures in America, Britain and Russia, this book reveals how the secret services conduct their business today.
320 pages, Hardcover
First published April 27, 1994
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August 17, 2017
When this book was first published in 1994, the world had recovered from the euphoria of the end of the cold war, Boris N. Yeltsin had recently used armed force against his own parliament, Yugoslavia had collapsed in to a vicious civil war and a bomb attack on the World Trade buildings seemed to be a new departure for international terrorism.
In this world, the various intelligence organisations were trying to reorganise themselves to face these new challenges. From the SVR emerging from the old KGB First Chief Directorate, with seemingly less clout both at home and abroad, to CIA, struggling with budget cuts from politicians unhappy with the vast spending continuing with the “defeat” of their primary enemy.
James Adams, a journalist with excellent connections to the intelligence world, has written a very balanced book with many insights to the thinking among the higher echelons of the security services worldwide, especially Yevgeny Primakov, head of the SVR and Robert Gates of CIA, including personal interviews.
Mr Adams’ conclusions are that intelligence services need greater unity to prevent infighting and avoid duplication, the post-KGB intelligence services in Russia are looking for ways to increase their power and influence, and terrorism seems to be taking on a bolder, more dangerous approach. From that view in 1994, the author was not wrong.
In this world, the various intelligence organisations were trying to reorganise themselves to face these new challenges. From the SVR emerging from the old KGB First Chief Directorate, with seemingly less clout both at home and abroad, to CIA, struggling with budget cuts from politicians unhappy with the vast spending continuing with the “defeat” of their primary enemy.
James Adams, a journalist with excellent connections to the intelligence world, has written a very balanced book with many insights to the thinking among the higher echelons of the security services worldwide, especially Yevgeny Primakov, head of the SVR and Robert Gates of CIA, including personal interviews.
Mr Adams’ conclusions are that intelligence services need greater unity to prevent infighting and avoid duplication, the post-KGB intelligence services in Russia are looking for ways to increase their power and influence, and terrorism seems to be taking on a bolder, more dangerous approach. From that view in 1994, the author was not wrong.
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