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While espionage between states is a practice dating back centuries, the emergence of the internet revolutionised the types and scale of intelligence activities, creating drastic new challenges for the traditional legal frameworks governing them. This book argues that cyber-espionage has come to have an uneasy status in law: it is not prohibited, because spying does not result in an internationally wrongful act, but neither is it authorised or permitted, because states are free to resist foreign cyber-espionage activities. Rather than seeking further regulation, however, governments have remained purposefully silent, leaving them free to pursue cyber-espionage themselves at the same time as they adopt measures to prevent falling victim to it. Drawing on detailed analysis of state practice and examples from sovereignty, diplomacy, human rights and economic law, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the current legal status of cyber-espionage, as well as future directions for research and policy. It is an essential resource for scholars and practitioners in international law, as well as anyone interested in the future of cyber-security.
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Drawing on recently released documents and private papers, this is the first book-length study to examine the intimate relationship between the Attlee government and Britain's intelligence and security services at the start of the Cold War. Often praised for the formation of the modern-day 'welfare state', Attlee's government also played a significant, if little understood, role in combating communism at home and overseas, often in the face of vocal, sustained opposition from its own backbenches. This book tells the story of Attlee's Cold War. From Whitehall vetting to secret operations in Eastern Europe and the fallout of Soviet atomic espionage on both sides of the Atlantic, it provides a fresh interpretation of the Attlee government, making it essential reading for anyone interested in the Labour Party, intelligence, security and Britain's foreign and defence policy at the start of the Cold War.
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There is a prison operating in present-day Ukraine, where horrific torture techniques are being utilized. This prison is, in reality, a concentration camp, beyond whose fencing no laws reach. Life there is lived in humiliation, fear, and uncertainty. Wounds and burn marks cover bodies that are filled with pain from broken bones and, often too, broken wills. The principal tasks here are surviving after the desire to live has forsaken you and nothing in the world depends on you any longer, preserving your sanity as you teeter on the brink of madness, and remaining a human being in conditions so inhuman that faith, forgiveness, hate, and even a torturer locking eyes with his victim become laden with manifold meanings. The journalist Stanislav Aseyev, imprisoned in this torture camp on trumped-up charges of “espionage,” wrote this frank, emotional, and probing memoir in an attempt to both survive and recover from the hell he was cast into. He offers more questions than answers in this book, as testament to the fact that the lives of those released from the prison at 3 Paradise Street will forever remain divided into “pre-” and “post-.”
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The Siege of Qikou has mainly narrated that Cheng Jinyuan, president of Northwestern Shanxi Chamber of Commerce, had been led to the cusp of historical changes to fight bravely together with local people during 1936 to 1949. Cheng Qianzhi, the oldest son of Cheng Jinyuan, was sent by Yan Xishan there to serve as a battalion commander of the Shanxi and Suiyuan Army, while Cheng Chongzhi, his second son, was assigned by The Communist Party of China to build the primary-level organizations of the Party in his hometown. Qikou had been under the siege of Japanese invaders for three times which had made Qikou the scene of fierce fighting. After suffering tremendous sacrifice, Cheng Jinyuan, who had been mistrustful of CPC before, had gradually realized that CPC had and would always unite closely with the masses and march forward with no fear of sacrifice which might be the reason that CPC was far stronger than Yan Xishan or Chiang Kai-shek. Together with his fellow citizens, he had firmly supported CPC and devoted all himself to the cause of national liberation through arduous struggle and sacrifice, displaying an epic of heroism to a large extent. The novel is full of twists and turns and quite readable by successively demonstrating the front-line battlefield and the espionage war. Set in the anti-Japanese war period, the novel has vividly discussed the three effective weapons of CPC to fight against the enemies: the united front, the armed struggle and the building of the Party, and stressed the formation and historical importance of the united front.
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Bobo, a frightened young basketball player, witnesses a murder and is soon caught and held hostage by Essono, a notorious psychopathic terrorist who promises to take him to the States to play for the Chicago Bulls. Special Agent Jacky Wabo of the Yaoundé Anti-Terrorist Unit is tasked with apprehending Essono and eventually rescuing Bobo, if he is still alive...
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Mata Hari is still an example of many women who have chosen to live a life full of danger and mystery. The 100th death anniversary of the probably most famous spy of all times in October 2017 and the opening of the files around her espionage activity, were the occasion for this exciting book project. Author Hagen Kunze not only introduces Margaretha Geertruida cell alias Mata Hari, but also eleven other spies and their gripping life portraits. Twelve women, whose life stories could not be more different, some of whom put themselves into the service of the fatherland out of conviction, others simply for money or love, including Belle Boyd, Josephine Baker, Elisabeth Schragmuller, Benita von Falkenhayn, Hilde Kruger, Helene Barczatis, Ethel Rosenberg or Ursula Kuczynski alias Ruth Werner.This gripping book is entirely dedicated to the female side of espionage and searches for the motives of these women for their play with fire. Some have paid dearly with their lives, others remained undisturbed until old age. In any case, these women are worth having their stories told and not forgotten.
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"Rubin Langmo, the War Hero Who Disappeared" by Svein Linge tells the gripping true story of Rubin Langmo, a Norwegian who became one of the most daring members of the SOE during World War II. From his beginnings as a young volunteer fighting against the German invasion to his secretive missions across Europe, Langmo’s life was filled with danger, espionage, and heroism. This captivating narrative not only highlights his wartime exploits but also raises intriguing questions about the mysterious circumstances surrounding his later life and disappearance.
On Hamburg Station is a work of historical fiction based on real intelligence operations that took place and were conducted by the Army’s 513th INTC Group from 1956 to 1966. Forget what you’ve seen in the movies, this is the true world of espionage in the early 1960’s. The 513th was headquartered at Camp King, Oberursel, West Germany, with three operating stations featured in this work, Berlin, Bremerhaven, and Hamburg. The Hamburg Station was a sub-station reporting to Bremerhaven, and contained a group of agent handlers targeted against the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. This novel traces the lives of several people who defended America during the height of the Cold War.
Gwenllian was one of Owain Glyndwr's daughters. Her beauty, poise, intelligence and loyalty were renowned. But she was also drawn deeply into the murky world of espionage in order to help her father's cause and she was forced to lead a double life. She so
The years is 1927 and the murder of a soldier in a military hospital in Morocco begins a chance for an extremely valuable artefact, disappeared for more than a thousand years: the Table of Salomon, King of Kings, that would give its owner the wisdom of a thousand wise men. And when the Bureau’s investigation gets to the weapon used in La Dame Chevalier’s parents’ murder, the agent decides to travel to north Africa looking for the artefact and answers. Along with the young Justine Carbonneau, both women go to the desert among a war between the empire and the Berbers, fighting for their independence. But Chevalier will have company. Mercenaries led by the mysterious organization Ostia Mithrae also
SUPERSPIES VS. SUPERCRIMINALS When a threat emerges that's too big for the CIA, too dangerous for MI6 and too frightening to contemplate, there's only one secret agent who can prevail against it. When he joins forces with a talented group of covert action operators, this impossible mission becomes just another day in the spy business. SUPERSPIES VS. SUPERCRIMINALS A global superthriller that pits masters of espionage and mandarins of supercrime against each other in a winner-take-all fight to the finish. SUPERSPIES VS. SUPERCRIMINALS A deadly terrorist organization threatens global security and a deep black espionage agency tasks its most capable operative with a do-or-die assignment. An international criminal cartel bent on getting its hands on a multibillion dollar payoff and will stop at nothing to suit its ends, opposes him with the hand-picked elite of the world's foremost assassins. SUPERSPIES VS. SUPERCRIMINALS "This thriller has more action, more adventure, more plain everything you want to read in a thriller, than any ten similar reads I could name. Read this exceptional thriller by David Alexander today." SUPERSPIES VS. SUPERCRIMINALSUrbane yet action-packed, stylish yet hard-hitting, I Kinda Spy is a spy story that plays for keeps.
Nisim Kobarsky, a high ranking Mossad agent named "Cobra", finishes a long and nerve-racking period of service in Syria. He is sent on an apparently low-key,low risk mission: he assumes the identity of Pedro Tariki, an Argentinean of Syrian origin and studies biology at the Sorbonne in Paris. His mission is to follow the roots of the revolutionary Muslim movements, which have flourished under the intellectual liberalism that France has always cherished. Cobra exceeds all expectations thanks to a friendship he develops with Sergey Ismailov, a Muslim, Tajikistan-born, Soviet officer, who proves to be an excellent source of intelligence. Even Cobra's French sweetheart, Denise is unaware of his true identity. Then the predator becomes the prey as the tables turn. A hostage of the Islamic revolution in Iran, Ismailov concocts a diabolical scheme in which the unsuspecting Cobra is involved. Should he succeed, Israel would face a national disaster. Mossad agent Cobra is the story of a head-on collision between two lone wolves, both captives of their principles and both highly trained professionals. The plot takes the reader across the globe, from the crumbling Soviet Republic, through Tehran, to Paris, Syria, Buenos Aires and Israel. Global Jihad serves as the inspiration for this fictional scenario that is chillingly probable.
The Mordred Saga: Book OneMordred Pendragon, the Bastard Prince, has done a Bad Thing—again. Exiled to Canada for seven years, he has to find a job to pay his bills. For reasons he refuses to reveal, Mordred decides “Software Engineer” has a nice ring to it. And though experience with “killing the Once and Future King, my father” and “that time in feudal Japan” makes for a poor résumé, he is hired by a small tech startup in Toronto.In the midst of dealing with a crippling caffeine addiction and learning C++, Mordred thinks he has finally found someone to anchor him to the world of the living: Alan, the company’s offsite lead developer. Except that Alan might not be a "living" entity at all—he may, in fact, be the world's first strong AI. Or a demon that mistook a Windows install for the highway to Hell. Or, just maybe, the ghost of Alan Turing, currently inhabiting a laptop.Mordred's attempts to figure out his love life are hampered by constant interference from the Inquisitors of the Securitates Arcanarum, corporate espionage, real espionage, a sysadmin bent on enslaving the world, and Marketing's demands that Mordred ship software to the Russian Federation. Then Alan gets himself kidnapped. To save him, Mordred must ally himself with the company’s CEO, who will stop at nothing to rescue her lead developer so he can get back to work. But the Prince doesn’t just want to rescue Alan, he wants a Happily Ever After—and he will travel beyond Death itself to get one.Too bad Alan is perfectly happy as a computer. ;
Casanova Quinn, a decadent thief and black sheep to the most famous family in global super-espionage, gets kidnapped across parallel dimensions where survival means betraying his law-and-order family who enforces world peace with an iron fist. Part James Bond, a little bit Doctor Who and a dash of Buckaroo Banzai, Casanova remains the persist rebel, but transdimensional hijinks and his father's nemesis pull him into an adventure involving alternate versions of himself and deranged sci-fi plans.
During the Second World War, the Soviet Intelligence recruits Jewish Czech children - hidden by their parents in monasteries in fear of the Nazis - and trains them as Russian spies. When Zionist orientations help survivors immigrate to the Jewish state, a young sister and her brother become Jewish spies in Israel. She is a beautiful woman, with the ability to extract government secrets from powerful men. He is a sausage handler. When the intestine handler is found hanged from the ceiling of a sausage factory, the Israeli General Security Service is called into action. The beautiful woman spy is called to play double agent in an international web of secrets and lies, with her life and the life of her father at stake. A plot entrenched with passion and blood that grabs you by the collar and doesn't let go until the very last line.
Shortlisted for the Bookmark Book Festival's Book of the Year Award 2020Escaping failure as an undergraduate and a daughter, not to mention bleak 1970s England, Martha marries Kit - who is gay. Having a wife could keep him safe in Moscow in his diplomatic post. As Martha tries to understand her new life and makes the wrong friends, she walks straight into an underground world of counter-espionage.Out of her depth, Martha no longer knows who can be trusted.
