Memoirs of an Amateur Spy
Author | : Irving Isaacson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Cold War |
ISBN | : 9781882521098 |
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Author | : Irving Isaacson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Cold War |
ISBN | : 9781882521098 |
Author | : Joseph A. L. “Blue” Blais |
Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2020-02-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1645307492 |
BLUE MEMOIRS By: Blue Blais BLUE MEMOIRS: Faces, Places, and Lives of a U.S. Spy/Counterspy is the remarkable adventure of a French-American born in Maine who diligently worked, zealously played, and lived life to the fullest in numerous neighborhoods of the world. Blue Blais has had a bountiful array of diverse Faces as an Aircraft Mechanic, Flight Engineer, Pilot, Spy, Counterspy, and Diplomat while fluent in French, Spanish, and English. Among much else gained while in America’s Special Forces, Blue became an expert small arms marksman and developed skill in Karate, Garrote, and Savate. He was a Skin Diver, Sky Diver, Tennis Player, Downhill Skier, Sports Car Racer, Sailor, husband, lover, and father. Blue served his country in many thrilling and dangerous Places, including Vietnam, Honduras, Thailand, Venezuela, Zaire, Finland, Germany, Tanzania, the United States, the Azores, and New Zealand. Incredibly, he has out-distanced a feline’s pedestrian nine Lives, having already used up eleven. While in Vietnam, he was shot out of the sky twice and escaped attempted bombing two other instances. In 1978, Blue was headed toward certain death with the Georgetown Guiana Kool-Aid Drinking Suicide of the Jim Jones Cult followers. 1998 in Tanzania, Blue survived a lethal explosive for a third time, in the bombing of the American Embassy in Dar es Salaam. There was no escape even in Homestead, Florida, where Blue was shot at and lived to tell the tale. He survived two horrendous car accidents in Maine and Kinshasa, Zaire, nearly drowned skin diving in the Azores, and played with fire on a perilous DEA Operation in Medellin, Colombia.
Author | : Rod Barton |
Publisher | : Black Inc. |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2021-05-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 174382176X |
I was no James Bond with a licence to kill, but I worked with the British intelligence services and with, and for, the CIA. I had guns pointed at me, death threats issued, a price placed on my head. In 1971, Rod Barton applied for a junior scientist role in the Australian Department of Defence. Little did he know what it entailed: as the Cold War intensified, Barton was inducted into the murky world of espionage. For the next few decades, Barton lived a life straight from an adventure novel. In war-torn Mogadishu, he disarmed militia, while sleeping in rat-infested barracks. As a UN weapons inspector, he flew to Baghdad on special missions, interviewing top scientists to uncover an illegal weapons program, and raced across Europe, tracking materials sold to the Iraqis. After the disastrous 2003 invasion of Iraq, the CIA engaged him as its special adviser in the hunt for Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. But he soon clashed with the agency over what he saw – and what he didn’t find. It prompted him to step from the shadows and share the truth with the world, and to tussle with the Australian government. This is an extraordinary behind-the-scenes account of a world marked by risk, secrecy and individual acts of courage. Written with passion, humour and candour, The Life of a Spy will introduce you to a man of principle in a time of chaos, and take you to the frontlines of politics and war. ‘No Australian intelligence officer in recent times has been closer to the centre of world affairs than Barton, or better placed to observe the intense political pressures applied, from all sides, on those searching for Saddam Hussein’s elusive weapons of mass destruction.’ —Robert Manne
Author | : Malcolm McConnell |
Publisher | : Graymalkin Media |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2024-04-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1631684159 |
From the author of Argo comes an unforgettable behind-the-scenes story of espionage in action. In the first ever memoir by a top-level operative to be authorized by the CIA, Antonio J. Mendez reveals the cunning tricks and insights that helped save hundreds from deadly situations. Adept at creating new identities for anyone, anywhere, Mendez was involved in operations all over the world, from “Wild West” adventures in East Asia to Cold War intrigue in Moscow. In 1980, he orchestrated the escape of six Americans from a hostage situation in revolutionary Tehran, Iran. This extraordinary operation inspired the movie Argo, directed by and starring Ben Affleck.
Author | : John A. Walker |
Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2010-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1615922040 |
What motivated a career naval officer to become a spy during the height of the Cold War? Over the years, statements by Walker have been reported in various publications, but Walker has never told his own story . . . until now.
Author | : Le Caron Henri |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2019-03-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780530769219 |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1410771261 |
Author | : Richard Deacon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Decon har tidligere bl.a. skrevet om efterretningstjenesterne i en række lande. Nærværende bog omhandler oplevelser og opdagelser, som var baggrunden for hans bøger.
Author | : Paul Kramer |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2006-12-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781477166468 |
It is essential for the reader to remember that this is a memoir; in other words, a record of events based on the authors experiences and feelings. Because of the secrecy restrictions at the time these events occurred, and in some cases for many years thereafter, the author kept no diary, notes, or record and wrote no letters describing his work. Furthermore, almost without exception, all the people with whom and for whom he worked are now dead. Consequently, in writing this book, the author has been entirely dependent on his memory. At the age of ninety-one, this memory may have at times been defective or twisted. However, there can be no doubt the story is true. Careful research of the archives of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, the U.S. Navy, and the CIA should substantiate this. But even here, there will be difficulties due to secrecy and the deindexing of the FBIs Latin American files by its then-director rather than turn them over to the hated CIA. Moreover, the authors foolish refusal to accede to the request of his commanding officer to write the history of the naval operation Roads End immediately after its conclusion and for which he had received a commendation has erased forever the details of that historic event. Finally, the tragic suicide of the CIAs director of operations subsequent to the Kim Philby espionage scandal diminished the possibility of a proper analysis of events surrounding it in Washington . . .
Author | : John H. Richardson |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2005-08-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0060510358 |
A memoir about an idealistic spy, who was CIA station chief in Vietnam, and his hippie rebel son that tells the story of the latter half of the 20th century through a gripping family drama.