Murdoch’s Private Spies

MURDOCH’S PIRATES by Neil Chenoweth Allen & Unwin, 402pp. This book reads like a spy novel, but the combatants work for private corporations, not states. There are no innocent parties, only winners and losers, in a world where law is

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Intelligence is what we don’t know

INTEL WARS The secret history of the fight against terror. By Matthew M Aid, Bloomsbury Press, 262pp Reviewed: 31 March 2012 If intelligence is the trump card of modern warfare, the United States ought to prevail in every conflict. This

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A Secret History of MI6

MI6 The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 by Keith Jeffery Bloomsbury. 810pp. Reviewed: 12 February, 2011 Secret agents have fascinated us since story-telling began. We get excited about the moral ambiguities of Wikileaks and of political propaganda. Practices

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