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Investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein's classic book on the use of deception by governments to win advantages,in the seldom seen universe of intelligence and counterintelligence. The Invisible war between intelligence services is brought to life in the era of the Cold War..The ultimate art of nations is , deception. It concerns, as James Jesus Angleton described it , " a state of mind —and the mind of the state." With a new introduction in 2014.
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“Edward Jay Epstein ( Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald ) delves deep into the wheels-within-wheels of superpower intelligence and counterintelligence, showing ways in which the CIA and the KGB have been "provoked, seduced, lured into false trails, blinded, and turned into unwitting agents." Readers will find new information here on a multitude of subjects: programs involving CIA-written books published under defectors' names; the story of Yuri Nosenko, a KGB officer who defected in 1963 and was "at the heart of everything that happened at the CIA for a decade"; and the theories of James Angleton, the former CIA chief of counterintelligence, on the hidden motives of KGB super-mole Kim Philby. The book concludes with an ominously plausible argument that Gorbachev's glasnost is merely the sixth phase in a grand strategy of Soviet deception conceived soon after the Bolshevik Revolution. Highly recommended.”
---Publishers Weekly
"Epstein's account of the world of intelligence is fascinating,
instructive, and, in parts, sensational."
—Irving Kristol American Enterprise Institute

"This is an important book that reflects an epoch in United States
counterintelligence operations and philosophy."
—William R. Harris The RAND Corporation

"A brilliant investigator examines the fascinating history of glasnost
and the unseen motives and machinery of the Soviet state."
—Lou Dobbs , Fox News Network

Length: 335 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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Edward Jay Epstein is the author of fifteen books. He studied government at Cornell and Harvard and received a Ph.D from Harvard in 1973. His thesis on the search for political truth became a best-selling book, Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth. His doctoral dissertation on television news was published as News From Nowhere. He is the recipient of numerous foundation grants and awards, including the prestigious Financial Times/Booz Allen & Hamilton Global Business Book Award for both best biography and best business book for Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer. He has written for Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. He lives in New York City. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN : B0080SDJ98
Publisher : Eje Publications Ltd (4 May 2012)
Language: : English
File size : 1178 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 335 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 1499150539

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 December 2016

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Wim Peeters

not an e-book

Reviewed in France on 5 January 2013

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This might be an interesting read, but it has not been re-formatted properly into an e-book. The text does not fit the pages, no matter how big/small you set the fonts. This is simply an unformatted txt-file.

El Mattador

Fascinating history & primer on disinformation

Reviewed in the United States on 29 March 2017

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Well-researched, well-written history rife with Cold War intrigue. And a great examination of disinformation & deception as it's actually practiced. Any student of con artistry will immediately recognize the principles at play, most importantly that it's the most intelligent (or those who think themselves most intelligent) who are most easily conned. Really makes you reconsider not only events in the past, but also recent events in a different light. Read along with Ion Pacepa's work, one is astonished at just how effective Russian disinformation efforts were & continue to be today, as evidenced by some anti-Western sentiments, still cherished by our so-called intellectuals & academics, which have simply become accepted fact that turn out to be purely manufactured products of the KGB.

And, of course, the lessons still hold true today as we grapple w/ organizations other than the KGB. Any marketing/PR/advertising major or political campaign manager recognizes the massive power one has to influence people simply by telling them what they want to hear or playing to their vanity, or by discovering what they really desire and then making it seem like that's exactly what you're offering them. It makes you wonder how all those intelligence guys managed to believe anything was true.

For us, too, in an age where so much has become politicized and so many supposed "facts" and "studies" peddled by what should be reputable outfits turn out to be agenda-driven disinformation, the knowledge that even when one knows the tactics, one is just as liable to be taken in as anyone else should give us all pause.

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william sullivan

Constant suspicion.

Reviewed in the United States on 5 February 2016

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Although war is an avoidable endeavor and it truly should be deception is an unavoidable one, a constant, and being prepared for a deception can almost cause as much damage as the deception itself. Still a constant. Growing up in Detroit the threat of being a victim of violence was a constant and for me I learned to know who was around and/or coming my way and I truly did avoid major harm but the cost to me was alienating almost everyone I met with my constant suspicion.

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Cranky in Virginia

I recommend this book to anyone interested in the James Jesus ...

Reviewed in the United States on 16 April 2015

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I recommend this book to anyone interested in the James Jesus Angleton controversy, as well as the idea of deception writ large. However, though I HATE "gotcha" observations, I must point out that in Chapter Ten, "The New Maginot Line" (I read the 1989 hardback version, which may have been improved and updated for the paperback version), Mr. Epstein mentions attending an intelligence conference at the Air Force Academy in BOULDER, CO in June 1984: NEWSFLASH--the US Air Force Academy is NOT in Boulder, CO; it is about 15 miles north of downtown Colorado Springs on I-25. Now, for a book on intelligence and deception, this is disturbing, to say the very least. Otherwise, an excellent and fascinating book.

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