Intelligence Services

Few outside the security services have heard of 14 Company. As deadly as the SAS yet more secret, the operators of 14 Company are Britain's most effective weapon against international terrorism. For every bomb that goes off, 14 Company prevent 12. The selection process is the most physically, intellectually, and emotionally demanding anywhere in the world. This is the true story of one operator and of some of the most hair-raising military operations ever conducted on the streets of Britain.

Tom spent years working covertly to stop those who want to do us harm. In his best-selling memoir Soldier Spy, he told how he was recruited and described some of his top-secret operations. In I Spy, he takes us deeper undercover as he puts his life on the line once more. I Spy plunges the listener straight into the action as Tom and his team race to prevent terrorists from causing carnage on our streets and outsmart Russian agents, blocking a daring plot that threatens the security of the nation.

1939. As Europe teeters on the brink of war, Alfred Kendall is tasked with carrying out a minor mission for the British Intelligence Service. Travelling to Prague, he takes his troubled young son, Hugh, as cover. When Hitler invades Czechoslovakia, Alfred is given an ultimatum by the Czech Resistance. They will arrange for him to return to England, but only if he leaves his son Hugh behind as collateral. Hugh is soon taken under the wing of a Nazi colonel - Helmuth Scholl.

He swore to take a bullet for the President and left it all behind to take a bullet for the American people. Why would a successful, twelve-year Secret Service agent resign his position in the prime of his career to run for political office against all the odds? New York Times bestseller, Life Inside the Bubble is an intimate look at life inside the presidential "bubble," a haze of staffers, consultants, cronies, acolytes, bureaucrats and lobbyists that creates the "alternate reality" in which monumental policy decisions are made.

Secret Service agents, acting as human surveillance cameras, observe everything that goes on behind the scenes in the president's inner circle. Ronald Kessler reveals what they have seen, providing startling, previously untold stories about the presidents, from John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush and Barack Obama, as well as about their families, Cabinet officers, and White House aides.

The secret to success isn't always about technical skills. In fact they play a very small part in the grand scheme of things. I mean, if you think about it, we all know a braniac whiz who just can't get ahead in life, and when we look at them it's quite obvious. They don't know how to socialize, deal with conflicts, or even manage their own emotions. But here's the twist: Many of us are this way, just not at the extreme end of the spectrum. Sure, we may be playing the EQ game 10 times better than the braniac, but what if we played it 100 times better?

Behind the locked doors of three mansions in London's exclusive Kensington Palace Gardens neighborhood, the British Secret Service established a highly secret prison in 1940: the London Cage. Here recalcitrant German prisoners of war were subjected to "special intelligence treatment." The stakes were high: the war's outcome could hinge on obtaining information German prisoners were determined to withhold. After the war, high-ranking Nazi war criminals were housed in the Cage, revamped as an important center for investigating German war crimes.

In the months before World War II, FDR prepared the country for conflict with Germany and Japan by reshuffling various government agencies to create the Office of Strategic Services - America's first intelligence agency and the direct precursor to the CIA. When he charged William ("Wild Bill") Donovan, a successful Wall Street lawyer and Wilkie Republican, to head up the office, the die was set for some of the most fantastic and fascinating operations the US government has ever conducted.

Le Mossad, pour "Institut pour les renseignements et les affaires spéciales" en hébreu, est l'une des trois agences de renseignement d'Israël, avec le Shabak (plus connu sous le nom de "Shin Beth", qui est le service de sécurité intérieure) et l'Aman (chargé de la sécurité militaire). Contrairement au gouvernement, au parlement (Knesset), à l'Armée de défense d'Israël (Tsahal) et à l'agence de sécurité intérieure (Shin Bet), les objectifs, la structure et les pouvoirs du Mossad sont exemptés des lois constitutionnelles de l'État.

A lot of work done in academia and in the law is social in nature: the vehicle for such work is logical, but its substance is social in nature. Consequently, when it is done very intelligently, as opposed to moderately intelligently, it is very high B-plus level work, as opposed to low B-plus level work. But it never crosses that all-important line that separates B-plus from A-minus work.

Since the public release of Open AI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and other similar systems, some Members of Congress have expressed interest in the risks associated with “generative artificial intelligence (AI).” Although exact definitions vary, generative AI is a type of AI that can generate new content—such as text, images, and videos—through learning patterns from pre-existing data.

Inside the “Mickey Mouse Factory” comes from a veteran of 27 years of U.S. government service in various agencies such as the CIA, and combines an insider's life with a memoir that reveals his experiences serving as a CIA operations officer. From training courses designed to reflect operational realities to various incidents that presented special diplomatic and political challenges as operations were carried out in other countries, Sawyer's ability to reveal the nuts and bolts of intelligence goals and conundrums alike creates a fast-paced book packed with information.

With absorbing detail about the secret world of agents and double-agents, this groundbreaking work traces Churchill's connections with that world, from his days as a member of the Cabinet that established the Secret Service to the war years, when his extensive intelligence network provided him with superior information. What results is a major contribution to the study of modern and military history and a crucial missing key to understanding Churchill himself.

Imagine what would happen if you could quickly elevate the EQ score of everyone in your organization. Profitability, retention, and customer satisfaction would soar! Studies prove that emotional intelligence - knowing how to manage emotions, empathize, build relationships, and more - drives performance. But how do you get naturally resistant people to practice new ways of thinking?

Guy Burgess était un membre du Secret Intelligence Service recruté comme agent par les services soviétiques. Il appartenait au groupe d'espions connu sous le nom des Cinq de Cambridge qui trahirent leur pays pendant la guerre froide. Burgess transmit notamment des documents secrets britanniques et aida un autre agent soviétique, Kim Philby, à rejoindre à son tour le SIS. Il devient après la guerre secrétaire du ministre d'État aux Affaires étrangères, Hector McNeil, et transmet des documents secrets du Foreign Office au KGB.

Richard Sorge est un journaliste allemand et soviétique. En poste en Allemagne et au Japon, il est surtout connu pour son travail d'espion au Japon au service de l'URSS, avant et au début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Son nom de code au NKVD était "Ramsay". De 1933 à 1934, Sorge édifie au Japon un réseau pour collecter des informations au profit du NKVD. Sorge rejoignit officiellement le parti nazi, le parti national socialiste (NSDAP), et travailla comme agent de l'Abwehr à l'ambassade allemande locale.

Le Special Operations Executive (SOE, "Direction des opérations spéciales") est un service secret britannique qui opère pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le SOE a pour mission de soutenir les divers mouvements de résistance des pays d'Europe occupés par l'Allemagne et l'Italie, et, progressivement, de tous les pays en guerre. Présent dans les pays de l'Axe Rome-Berlin-Tokyo, le SOE déploie également des sections dans les pays neutres.

Forty modern masterpieces are found concealed on a neutral ship in international waters 16 months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Their provenance is sketchy and their final destination unknown. The Royal Navy suspects the works are “degenerate art” seized by the Nazis and shipped across the Atlantic to create cash for their covert operations. But how to prove it? There’s only one man for the job - Roy Hawkins. The British Secret Intelligence Service has put their half-American star agent in tough spots before, and he’s always come out on top.

Master Sergeant Jan W. “Dutch” Wierenga is a little known but highly respected Special Forces and CIA legend. He has served the USA for 60 years in total, in some of the most dangerous and difficult circumstances imaginable. Born in Indonesia in 1936, he and his family spent a total of four years imprisoned in Japanese and Indonesian internment camps under unspeakably harsh conditions. They were rescued under fire by British Gurkha troops in 1946. He was running jungle combat patrols by age 16, and emigrated to Holland by cargo ship in 1955.