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• Operation Chiffon

  the Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland

  Taylor, Peter, 1942-

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  For the first time, the inside story of the intelligence operation behind the IRA cease fire of 1994 and the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 is revealed. It took author Peter Taylor 20 years to secure an interview with the operative known as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Code Name Blue Wren

  the True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy and the Sister She Betrayed

  Popkin, Jim

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  Award winning journalist Jim Popkin pieces together the life and motives of Anna Montes, analyst for the US Defence Intelligence Agency, as she betrayed her colleagues, friends, and family as a Cuban spy. An enthralling tale of real-world…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Secret Agent

  My Untold Story of Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Enemy Lines

  Latour, Pippa, 1921-2023

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  As a special agent in France during WWII, Phillis Latour was always on the move and always in danger, sending messages about German troop movements to her handlers in Britain. Her family knew nothing about her remarkable past until her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sisterhood

  the Secret History of Women at the CIA

  Mundy, Liza, 1960-

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  From analysts to field agents, discover the crucial work carried out by women at the CIA despite their struggles to be taken seriously. Author of Code Girls Liza Mundy delivers this well researched and beautifully written narrative of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Book and Dagger

  How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

  Graham, Elyse, 1985-

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  Historian Elyse Graham weaves together the stories of some unexpectedly bookish spies in this true story that reads like a spy novel. Learn about academics who put their research skills and unassuming backgrounds to use gathering…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Deep Deception

  the Story of the Spycops Network by the Women Who Uncovered the Shocking Truth

  Steel, Helen, 1965-

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  A gripping account by five British women who were manipulated into intimate, long-term relationships with undercover policemen . For 25 years from the late 1960s, the Special Demonstration Squad then the National Public Order Intelligence…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Operation Mincemeat

  the True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II

  Macintyre, Ben, 1963-

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  The thrilling story of one of the greatest deception operations ever executed, featuring a rather unconventional spy - a corpse. When Allied forces planned their invasion of Sicily during World War II, they strategised how they might…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days

  the True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

  Donner, Rebecca

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  This stunning biography of Mildred Harnack, who began what became the largest underground resistance group in Berlin during the Second World War, as written by her niece.

• Shadow State

  Murder, Mayhem, and Russia's Remaking of the West

  Harding, Luke, 1968-

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  In recent years the activities of Russian intelligence services have included poisoning dissenters and interfering in foreign elections. Luke Harding’s book looks at the last twenty years, and how technology has changed spycraft.

• Atomic Spy

  the Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs

  Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike

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  A fascinating Cold War character study of a German nuclear engineer who worked for the Americans in the race to build an atom bomb.

• The Spy and the Traitor

  the Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

  Macintyre, Ben, 1963-

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  A classic real spy story, The Spy and the Traitor plots the career of double agent Oleg Gordievsky, and relates his unprecedented escape from the Soviet Union.

• We Are Bellingcat

  An Intelligence Agency for the People

  Higgins, Eliot

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  ‘Spying is no longer the preserve of nation states,’ says the Guardian’s review of this book. ‘Anyone with an internet connection can do it.’ Higgins tracks the development of his intelligence gathering platform and gives accounts of some…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Pigeon Tunnel

  Stories From My Life

  Le Carré, John, pseud., 1931-2020

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  Le Carré (David Cornwell) was a former spy and old master of psychological spy novels. His worldview was characterized not by excitement and glamour, but by nuance and moral ambivalence. ‘Rule one of the Cold War’, he says in this book,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Service podcast by John Daniell and Guyon Espiner

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  When he was ten, John Daniell found out his mother and step-father were both agents in the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS). Forty years later, Daniell and Guyon Espiner delve into their secrets, providing insight into New…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• SPYSCAPE Podcasts | True Spies

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  In this popular podcast of true spy stories, you’ll meet special agents of all stripes. You’ll travel through time and place, from apartheid-era South Africa to the Kremlin in 2021, and you'll learn about Havana Syndrome and disinformation…Read moreRead more of this annotation