From Book Marks John le Carre was the pen name of David Cornwell, a former MI6...
August 11, 2021August 11, 2021
A Perfectly Timed New Spy Thriller
From SpyTalk For espionage aficionados, Down Range has plenty of battlefield tradecraft and CIA intrigue. But...
February 25, 2021February 25, 2021
‘The Dissident’ Unravels the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
A top official in Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service, the General Intelligence Presidency (GIP), has been implicated...
February 8, 2021February 8, 2021
‘Special Ops’: A RAW Story in a New Format
There are almost as many cable series about intelligence agencies as there are intelligence agencies. There’s...
January 2, 2021January 2, 2021
‘Eyes in the Sky’: The Scary Realities of Wide Area Surveillance
“Someday most major developed cities in the world will live under the unblinking gaze of some...
October 12, 2020October 12, 2020
The FBI’s War on MLK and What It Means Today
The Double Exposure documentary film festival has several provocative offerings on the world of intelligence and...
October 7, 2020October 7, 2020
The Improbable But True Story of Two Female Assassins from North Korea
The spectacularly brazen murder of King Jong-nam happened in broad daylight, filmed entirely by security cameras....
September 28, 2020October 5, 2020
‘Last Narc’: How the CIA Did Business With Drug Traffickers
Former Newsweek correspondent and best-selling author Elaine Shannon tries but doesn’t quite succeed in taking down...
September 24, 2020September 25, 2020
SpyTalk Review of Books and Movies
In SpyTalk, veteran intelligence reporter Jeff Stein reviews a diverse slew of recent books in the...
September 19, 2020December 7, 2020
COUP 53 Sheds New Light on How CIA and MI6 Brought Tyranny to Iran
The coup that toppled a democratically elected government in Iran in August 1953 and replaced it...
July 31, 2020January 2, 2021
The End of the Affair: JFK and Mary Meyer
“JFK and Mary Meyer: A Love Story” is a most unusual thing: a novel with footnotes....
June 25, 2020September 19, 2020
Barton Gellman on Edward Snowden and the Threat of ‘Turnkey Authoritarianism’
I recently spoke with Barton Gellman, former Washington Post reporter and author of “Dark Mirror: Edward...
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