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In Spies We Trust reveals the full story of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship - ranging from the deceits of World War I to the mendacities of 9/11 - for the first time.Why did we ever start trusting spies? It all started a hundred years ago. First we put our faith in them to help win wars, then we turned against the bloodshed and expense, and asked our spies instead to deliver peace and security. By the end of World War II, Britain and America were cooperatingeffectively to that end. At its peak in the 1940s and 1950s, the special intelligence relationship contributed to national and international security in what was an Anglo-American century.But from the 1960s this special relationship went into decline. Britain weakened, American attitudes changed, and the fall of the Soviet Union dissolved the fear that bound London and Washington together. A series of intelligence scandals along the way further eroded public confidence. Yet even inthese years, the US offered its old intelligence partner a vital gift: congressional attempts to oversee the CIA in the 1970s encouraged subsequent moves towards more open government in Britain and beyond.So which way do we look now? And what are the alternatives to the British-American intelligence relationship that held sway in the West for so much of the twentieth century? Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones shows that there are a number - the most promising of which, astonishingly, remain largely unknown tothe Anglophone world.

Espionage [American ] --- History --- 20th century --- 21st century --- Espionage [British ] --- United States --- Foreign relations --- Great Britain --- Comité R --- geheime dienst --- spionage --- шпионажа --- шпионаж --- szpiegostwo --- spiaireacht --- kémkedés --- espionaje --- espionnage --- controspionaggio --- espionage --- šnipinėjimas --- κατασκοπία --- vakoilu --- vohunjenje --- шпијунажа --- spionaj --- salakuulamine --- spjunaġġ --- špionáž --- Spionage --- spiegošana --- spiunazh --- espionagem --- špijunaža --- vyzvědačství --- систем за електронско прислушување --- ECHELON-System --- ešelons --- špehování --- σύστημα Echelon --- spionaaž --- Echelon (afluister- en onderscheppingssysteem) --- Echelon --- Échelon --- Ешелон --- Echelon-kémrendszer --- ECHELON --- lehallgatás --- underrättelsetjänst --- izlūkdienests --- tajne służby --- servicio secreto --- servizio segreto --- tajná služba --- Geheimdienst --- slaptoji tarnyba --- efterretningsvæsen --- seirbhís rúnda --- servizz sigriet --- tajna služba --- секретна служба --- serviciu secret --- salateenistus --- serviço secreto --- tiedustelupalvelu --- shërbim sekret --- titkosszolgálat --- тајна служба --- secret service --- service secret --- μυστική υπηρεσία --- obavještajna služba --- Агенција за разузнавање --- výzvědná služba --- serviço secreto de informação --- luureteenistus --- zpravodajská služba --- kontrarozvědka --- servicio de inteligencia --- Gegenspionage --- tiedusteluosasto --- pretizlūkošanas dienests --- luureosakond --- Управа за безбедност и контраразузнавање --- contraespionaje --- Bezpečnostní informační služba --- serviciu de informații --- тајна полиција --- υπηρεσία πληροφοριών --- hírszerző szolgálat --- servicio de información --- výzvedná služba --- service de renseignements --- armijas izlūkdienests --- department of intelligence --- servizio informazioni --- Сектор - Служба за воена безбедност и разузнавање --- departament i inteligjencës --- nemzetbiztonsági szolgálat --- rozvědka --- Spionageabwehr --- säkerhetstjänst --- intelligence service --- Nachrichtendienst --- УБК --- rozviedka --- žvalgybos skyrius --- tajná policie --- vastuluure --- sigurnosna služba --- katonai titkosszolgálat --- hírszerző osztály --- kémelhárítás --- inlichtingendienst --- Comité permanent de Contrôle des services de renseignement et de sécurité (Comité permanent R) --- Vast Comité van Toezicht op de inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten (Vast Comité I)

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There are more than fifty women in the United States Congress and nearly one-fourth of foreign service posts are held by women. Nevertheless, the United States has yet to entrust a senior foreign policy job, outside of the United Nations, to a woman. Beneath these statistics lurk central myths that Jeffreys-Jones cogently identifies and describes: the "Iron Lady"--Too masculine; the "lover of peace" - too "pink"; the weak or the promiscuous. These are to name only a few. With an eye to the feminist foreign policy leaders of the future, the author traces the successes and failures of collectivities such as Women Strike for Peace and individuals who were influential in international politics since World War I, including Alice Paul, Jane Addams, Jeannette Rankin, Dorothy Detzer, Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Chase Smith, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Bella Abzug, Margaret Thatcher, and many others. These women often found ways to employ the myths to their own and to their country's benefit, and more recently have had the freedom to defy the stereotypes altogether.

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This fast-paced history of the FBI presents the first balanced and complete portrait of the vast, powerful, and sometimes bitterly criticized American institution. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a well-known expert on U.S. intelligence agencies, tells the bureau's story in the context of American history. Along the way he challenges conventional understandings of that story and assesses the FBI's strengths and weaknesses as an institution. Common wisdom traces the origin of the bureau to 1908, but Jeffreys-Jones locates its true beginnings in the 1870s, when Congress acted in response to the Ku Klux Klan campaign of terror against black American voters. The character and significance of the FBI derive from this original mission, the author contends, and he traces the evolution of the mission into the twenty-first century. The book makes a number of surprising observations: that the role of J. Edgar Hoover has been exaggerated and the importance of attorneys general underestimated, that splitting counterintelligence between the FBI and the CIA in 1947 was a mistake, and that xenophobia impaired the bureau's preemptive anti-terrorist powers before and after 9/11. The author concludes with a fresh consideration of today's FBI and the increasingly controversial nature of its responsibilities.  

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