Books & Movies on the Deep State

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022

In recounting his exploits as a field officer and later in second tier management positions, Prado delights in the prose...

October 18, 2021October 18, 2021

From Book Marks John le Carre was the pen name of David Cornwell, a former MI6 intelligence officer, who became...

August 11, 2021August 11, 2021

From SpyTalk For espionage aficionados, Down Range has plenty of battlefield tradecraft and CIA intrigue. But Moore’s story is bigger:...

February 25, 2021February 25, 2021

A top official in Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service, the General Intelligence Presidency (GIP), has been implicated in the assassination of...

February 8, 2021February 8, 2021

There are almost as many cable series about intelligence agencies as there are intelligence agencies. There’s “Pine Gap,” which takes...

January 2, 2021January 2, 2021

“Someday most major developed cities in the world will live under the unblinking gaze of some form of wide-area surveillance,”...

October 12, 2020October 12, 2020

The Double Exposure documentary film festival has several provocative offerings on the world of intelligence and spying. Coming on October...

October 7, 2020October 7, 2020

The spectacularly brazen murder of King Jong-nam happened in broad daylight, filmed entirely by security cameras. Footage showed two young...

September 28, 2020October 5, 2020

Former Newsweek correspondent and best-selling author Elaine Shannon tries but doesn’t quite succeed in taking down Amazon’s series “The Last...

September 24, 2020September 25, 2020

In SpyTalk, veteran intelligence reporter Jeff Stein reviews a diverse slew of recent books in the realm of espionage and...

September 19, 2020December 7, 2020

The coup that toppled a democratically elected government in Iran in August 1953 and replaced it with a tyrannical monarchy...

July 31, 2020January 2, 2021

“JFK and Mary Meyer: A Love Story” is a most unusual thing: a novel with footnotes. In the 1960s, the...

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