Spying 101
Title | Spying 101 PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Hewitt |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2002-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780802041494 |
Since the end of the First World War, members of the RCMP have infiltrated the campuses of Canada's universities and colleges to spy, meet informants, gather information, and on occasion, to attend classes.
Fair Play
Title | Fair Play PDF eBook |
Author | James M. Olson |
Publisher | Potomac Books, Inc. |
Pages | 538 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1597973122 |
In the high-stakes world of spying, do the ends justify the means?
Snitch!
Title | Snitch! PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Hewitt |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2010-02-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1441190252 |
Snitch! offers a vivid account of how some citizens actively assist state surveillance by "informing" on others.
Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea
Title | Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Richelson |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 732 |
Release | 2007-09-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0393329828 |
'Spying on the Bomb' focuses on the past & present nuclear activities of various countries, intermingling what the US believed was happening with accounts of what actually occurred in each country's laboratories, test sites and decision-making councils.
Just Watch Us
Title | Just Watch Us PDF eBook |
Author | Christabelle Sethna |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | |
Release | 2018-03-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0773553657 |
From the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, in the midst of the Cold War and second-wave feminism, the RCMP security service – prompted by fears of left-wing and communist subversion – monitored and infiltrated the women’s liberation movement in Canada and Quebec. Just Watch Us investigates why and how this movement was targeted, weighing carefully the presumed threat its left-wing ties presented to the Canadian government against the defiant challenge its campaign for gender equality posed to Canadian society. Based on a close reading of thousands of pages of RCMP documents declassified under Canada’s Access to Information Act and the corresponding Privacy Act, Just Watch Us demonstrates that the security service’s longstanding anti-Communist focus distorted its threat assessment of feminist organizing. Combining gender analysis and critical approaches to state surveillance, Christabelle Sethna and Steve Hewitt consider the machinations of the RCMP, including its bureaucratic evolution, intelligence-gathering operations, and impact, as well as the evolution of the women’s liberation movement from its broad transnational influences to its elusive quest for unity among women across lines of ideology and identity. Significantly, the authors also grapple with the historiographical, methodological, and ethical difficulties of working with declassified security documents and sensitive information. A sharp-eyed inquiry into spy policies and tactics in Cold War Canada, Just Watch Us speaks to the serious political implications of state surveillance for social justice activism in liberal democracies.
Satan's Spy
Title | Satan's Spy PDF eBook |
Author | Andre Le Gallo |
Publisher | D Street Books |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2018-07-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0990808971 |
When Islamic terrorists attempt to take over the hotel where Steve Church is staying in Bahrain, he uses his CIA training to blunt the attack. That same day, the Director of the National Clandestine Service calls Steve to tell him he is needed at agency headquarters–urgently. Soon thereafter, Steve and his live-in girlfriend Kella, a former French intelligence officer, are off on a dangerous mission to collect intelligence on Iran's nuclear program. In the process, they learn the Islamic state is also preparing a massive cyber attack against the United States. Like The Caliphate, its predecessor, Satan's Spy is a whirlwind adventure bristling with exotic locales, dangerous and desperate characters, and international intrigue, all crafted by former master spy Le Gallo, who experienced many of the same dangers and challenges firsthand.
Secret Service
Title | Secret Service PDF eBook |
Author | Reg Whitaker |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 721 |
Release | 2012-07-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1442662387 |
Secret Service provides the first comprehensive history of political policing in Canada – from its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century, through two world wars and the Cold War to the more recent 'war on terror.' This book reveals the extent, focus, and politics of government-sponsored surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations. Drawing on previously classified government records, the authors reveal that for over 150 years, Canada has run spy operations largely hidden from public or parliamentary scrutiny – complete with undercover agents, secret sources, agent provocateurs, coded communications, elaborate files, and all the usual apparatus of deception and betrayal so familiar to fans of spy fiction. As they argue, what makes Canada unique among Western countries is its insistent focus of its surveillance inwards, and usually against Canadian citizens. Secret Service highlights the many tensions that arise when undercover police and their covert methods are deployed too freely in a liberal democratic society. It will prove invaluable to readers attuned to contemporary debates about policing, national security, and civil rights in a post-9/11 world.