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Author | : Justin T. McPhee |
Publisher | : Investigating Power |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2020-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781925523652 |
What is the purpose of an intelligence organisation? The short answer is to transform disparate and ambiguous information into a product that clarifies national security decision-making. Ideally, that process ought to be politically neutral and detached from the policy objectives of the government it serves. But what happens when intelligence ceases to be impartial and is used as a political means to support a policy preference? More significantly, what happens when intelligence is distorted, twisted or manipulated to achieve this aim? Spinning the Secrets of State addresses these questions by investigating historical case studies developed from assiduous research into previously classified archival documents, political papers, private correspondence and diaries to show how the secrets of state can be spun into a potent political weapon. In this revealing tour Justin T. McPhee considers the evolution of intelligence politicisation in Australia from before Federation in 1901 through to the modern era, providing a deep historical context in which to understand the convergence of intelligence and politics. Containing much new information, Spinning the Secrets of State offers an illuminating account of the secret inner workings of intelligence manipulation and the conditions that enable politicisation to arise. An essential read for both the general observer and scholars interested in understanding why intelligence and politics seem fated to collide.
Author | : Surazeus Astarius |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 2017-10 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 138726656X |
Gothiniad of Surazeus - Oracle of Gotha presents 150,792 lines of verse in 1,948 poems, lyrics, ballads, sonnets, dramatic monologues, eulogies, hymns, and epigrams written by Surazeus 1993 to 2000.
Author | : Clinton Fernandes |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2018-07-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 149856545X |
This book examines Australian foreign policy in multiple dimensions: diplomatic, military, economic, legal and scientific. It shows how the instruments of statecraft have defended domestic concentrations of wealth and power across the 230-year span of modern Australian history. The pursuit of security has meant much more than protection from invasion. It gives priority to economic interests, and to a political order that secures them. This view of security has deep roots in Australia’s geopolitical tradition. Australia began its existence on the winning side of a worldwide confrontation. The book shows that the ‘organizing principle’ of Australian foreign policy is to stay on the winning side of the global contest. Australia has pursued this principle in war and peace, using the full arsenal of diplomacy, law, investment, research, negotiations, military force and espionage. This book uses many decades of secret files to reveal the inner workings of high-level policy.
Author | : Nathaniel Lande |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2017-03-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1510715878 |
In this fascinating new book, bestselling author and historian Nathaniel Lande explores the Great War at the heart of the twentieth century through the prism of theater. He presents the war as a drama that evolved and developed as it progressed, a production staged and overseen by four contrasting masters: Roosevelt, Churchill, Hitler, and Stalin. Each leader used all the tools at his disposal to present his own distinctive vision of the global drama that was the Second World War. Each area of the media was fully exploited. Brilliantly conceived oratory was applied to underscore each vision. Impression management, the art of political spin, was employed to drive the message home with the careful use of black and white propaganda. Each side employed uniforms, meticulously staged events, and broadcast their messages via all media available—motion pictures, radio broadcasts, posters, leaflets, and beyond. Their ambitions were similar, but each leader had his own distinct methods, his own carefully created script for elaborately produced and often wildly successful acts and campaigns of deception to win hearts and minds on the frontlines and the home front. The result of this investigation is a wholly distinctive and often surprising work of history, a book that manages to cast a fresh light on the most obsessively studied conflict in human history.
Author | : Herbert Romerstein |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2001-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1596987324 |
The Venona Secretspresents one of the last great, untold stories of World War II and the Cold War. In 1995, secret Soviet cable traffic from the 1940s that the United States intercepted and eventually decrypted finally became available to American historians. Now, after spending more than five years researching all the available evidence, espionage experts Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel reveal the full, shocking story of the days when Soviet spies ran their fingers through America's atomic-age secrets. Included in The Venona Secrets are the details of the spying activities that reached from Harry Hopkins in Franklin Roosevelt s White House to Alger Hiss in the State Department to Harry Dexter White in the Treasury. More than that, The Venona Secrets exposes: • Information that links Albert Einstein to Soviet intelligence and conclusive evidence showing that J. Robert Oppenheimer gave Moscow our atomic secrets. • How Soviet espionage reached its height when the United States and the Soviet Union were supposedly allies in World War II. • The previously unsuspected vast network of Soviet spies in America. • How the Venona documents confirm the controversial revelations made in the 1940s by former Soviet agents Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. • The role of the American Communist Party in supporting and directing Soviet agents. • How Stalin s paranoia had him target Jews (code-named Rats ) and Trotskyites even after Trotsky’s death. • How the Soviets penetrated America’s own intelligence services. The Venona Secrets is a masterful compendium of spy versus spy that puts the Venona transcripts in context with secret FBI reports, congressional investigations, and documents recently uncovered in the former Soviet archives. Romerstein and Breindel cast a spotlight on one of the most shadowy episodes in recent American history - a past when by our very own government officials, whether wittingly or unwittingly, shielded treason infected Washington and Soviet agents.
Author | : Donald M. Ellis |
Publisher | : FriesenPress |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2013-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 146021563X |
We are at a time in history when matters of scientific importance make headlines in major newspapers every single day-new discoveries in particle physics, proof of previously unknown stars and planets in our solar system, and the ever-present theories swirling around global warming and climate change. In Secrets of the Earth and Universe, author Donald M. Ellis presents his findings on these topics and many others, expanding upon universal knowledge and offering new explanations for some of the phenomena in our world including the cyclical occurrence of ice ages and tropical ages resulting from expansion and contraction of the earth's atmosphere; forces in addition to gravity, mass, and momentum, and the impact these other forces have on the planets in our solar system; symbols left by ancient civilizations and how they suggest these civilizations' ability to harness technologies superior to those we use even today. Thought-provoking for both the armchair scientist and expert alike, Secrets of the Earth and Universe also seeks to balance a scientific approach to our earth and universe with writings from the Bible, bringing together two interpretations of our past, our present, and our future, that are most often mutually exclusive."
Author | : Loch K. Johnson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0300066112 |
An overview of American intelligence activities discusses the philosophy and purpose of covert operations and the successes and failures of current U.S. agencies
Author | : Alain Nu |
Publisher | : Cfbp Bestsellers |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2015-10-30 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780984208562 |
The author presents his perspectives and personal experiences on mentalism and how it can be used to tap into the mind's hidden powers.
Author | : Howard Kurtz |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1998-09-09 |
Genre | : Current Events |
ISBN | : 0684857154 |
In Spin Cycle, Washington Post reporter Howard Kurtz reveals the inside workings of Clinton's well-oiled propaganda machine - arguably the most successful team of White House spin doctors in history. He takes the reader into closed-door meetings where Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Mike McCurry, Lanny Davis, and other top officials plot strategy to beat back the scandals and neutralize a hostile press corps through stonewalling, stage managing, and outright intimidation. He depicts a White House obsessed with spin and pulls back the curtain on events and tactics that the administration would prefer to keep hidden.
Author | : Helen Frost |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2004-04-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780374371593 |
Engrossing tales from the fifth grade Every child is like A little world with ever-changing weather, Nights and mornings. And somehow, here we are, Spinning through the universe together. Unforgettable students in this fifth-grade classroom reveal their private feelings about birth and death, a missing bicycle and a first kiss, as well as their thoughts about recess, report cards, fitting in, and family. Using a rich array of traditional poetic forms, such as sonnets, sestinas, and acrostics, Helen Frost interweaves the stories of the kids in Room 214 and their teacher. A final section giving detailed analyses of the twenty-two forms will be of special interest.