A Short Course in the Secret War

By: Christopher Felix

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Paperback | 19 November 2001 | Edition Number 4

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304 Pages

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Based in part on author Felix''s personal experiences as a political agent in Hungary in the decades after World War II, this work explains what the rules are for secret operations, why the U. S. needs them, and how good a job our government and others are doing in practice. Chapters cover the political and social systems that a spy must rely on, the personal dilemmas an agent faces, and the tricks to keeping one''s cover. A new afterword features revelations on Raoul Wallenberg''s fate, British turncoat Kim Philby, and more.

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Aims at-and intelligently succeeds in explaining the theory and purpose of cloak-and-dagger work. * Time *
The thinking man's spy book. * The New York Times *
A superb thriller. * The New Yorker *

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government International Relations Espionage & Secret Services History General & World History Biographies & True Stories Biographies Historical, Political and Military Biographies Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Post War 20th Century History after 1945

Warfare & Defence True Stories True Crime

Foreword to the Fourth Edition
You Can't Go Home Again
Introduction to the Second Edition	p. 1
Introduction to the First Edition	p. 11
Fundamentals and Forms of Action
Vienna 1956	p. 17
The Secret War	p. 19
The Power of Secret Knowing	p. 32
The Spy and His Master	p. 46
The Art of Cover - I	p. 65
The Art of Cover - II	p. 74
The Open-faced American	p. 86
Intelligence	p. 99
CE versus Security, and Other Devilry	p. 120
Political Operations	p. 131
Fundamentals and Forms in Action: The Seventy-Fifth Passenger
Budapest 1946	p. 156
The Network	p. 170
Conspiracy	p. 185
The Opposition	p. 202
Defeat, But Diluted	p. 220
The President's Decision	p. 235
Escape	p. 244
New York 1962	p. 263
Afterword	p. 267
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