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   A riveting account of espionage for the digital age,from one of America's leading intelligence experts Spyinghas never been more ubiquitous-or less underst...

2. www.foreignaffairs.com › reviews › capsule-reviewA review of "Spies, Lies, and Algorithms" by Amy Zegart ...

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   Oct 19, 2021 · The inspiration for Zegart’s guide to the U.S. intelligence community and the challenges it faces appears to have been her discovery that Americans are poorly informed about how the community works—and what they think they know has been heavily influenced by intelligence-themed pop culture (“spytainment”). To correct the misperceptions ...

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   Jun 1, 2023 · The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China. Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia has been waging against the West for a century.

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   Jul 4, 2023 · For decades, the U.S. and Russia have been locked in a war of espionage and compelling new details about the stealth operations between the two countries are coming to light. Geoff Bennett...

5. warfarehistorynetwork.com › article › spies-duringSpies during the Spanish-American War - Warfare History Network

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   • John Wilkie Takes on The Spy Ring
   • Carranza’s Network of Assets
   • Carranza Places His Agents
   • Two Agents Captured
   • A Black Bag Job
   • A Nation Embarrassment and A Blueprint For Covert Affairs

   The man who would take on the job of investigating the Spaniards’ Montreal spy ring was John Elbert Wilkie, chief of the American Secret Service. Wilkie, born in Elgin, Illinois, in 1860, began his professional career as a police reporter and business columnist for the Chicago Tribune. After joining the Treasury Department, Wilkie’s first job was t...

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   Carranza had a large number of assets he could use inside the United States, drawing on the immigrant Spanish communities in such cities as Tampa, Key West, New Orleans, and Mobile. The Secret Service received a report that pro-Spanish activists in those cities had obtained money to purchase a gunboat for Spain, as well as to carry out reconnaissan...

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   After getting settled in the city, Carranza moved his headquarters to the Windsor Hotel, where he thought he would have a safe place to pursue his covert actions. He was unaware that a number of American Secret Service agents, as well as a few inquiring reporters, were also in residence at the Windsor and were literally tripping over each other in ...

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   The first undercover agent that Carranza sent to the United States for espionage purposes was an English immigrant named George Downing. Downing had previously served aboard the USS Brooklynas a petty officer, but his true allegiance rested with the Spanish. When Carranza was giving Downing his orders, he did not know that an American agent was in ...

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   To get the goods on Carranza, Wilkie’s men undertook a so-called black bag job targeting Carranza’s residence. The action was an illegal break-in, much like the Watergate affair 75 years later. On May 27, 1898, U.S. agents entered Carranza’s home at 42 Tupper Street while the Spaniard was out having breakfast. They took from his desk a letter suppo...

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   In 1899, a year after the end of the Spanish-American War, the final chapter to the Carranza letter was finally revealed. It proved to be a huge embarrassment to both Wilkie and the Secret Service. The Montreal Starwrote an article on the activities of one George Bell, a Canadian citizen who made an incredible allegation. Bell said that he had brok...

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6. oxfordre.com › latinamericanhistory › displaySpies and Espionage in the Iberian Atlantic | Oxford Research ...

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   Although it does not specifically deal with espionage, Tamar Herzog’s book is an exciting study about relations between the Portuguese and Spanish in various frontier areas of the Americas and Europe.

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   What is spies about?

   • The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China. Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia has been waging against the West for a century.

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   What is the history of spies?

   • Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia has been waging against the West for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and subversion were the Kremlin’s means to equalize the imbalance of resources between the East and West before, during, and after the Cold War.

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   Why should you read Spies?

   • This fresh reading of history, combined with practical takeaways for our current great power struggles, make Spies a unique and essential addition to the history of the Cold War and the unrolling conflict between the United States and China that will dominate the 21st century. What do you think?

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   How did the Spanish espionage work?

   • They were aided by agents of the Office of Naval Intelligence who supplied the Navy with important information on Spanish maneuvers. As the opposing armies and navies battled with conventional forces, Spain began a covert espionage operation in Montreal, Canada, in an effort to undermine American war efforts.

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   Are the US and Russia locked in a war of espionage?

   • Support Provided By: Learn more For decades, the U.S. and Russia have been locked in a war of espionage and compelling new details about the stealth operations between the two countries are coming to light. Geoff Bennett asked author Calder Walton about those revelations in his new book, "Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West."

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   Could the Spanish-American War have been avoided?

   • In hindsight, the Spanish-American War might have been avoided except for the jingoistic American press, which was clamoring for hostilities to start in the wake of the mysterious sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, an event that is still being debated today.

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8. www.washingtonpost.com › outlook › 2022/03/18Book review of Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and ...

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   Mar 18, 2022 · “Spies, Lies, and Algorithms” is a perfect primer for anyone trying to understand how the intelligence community is meeting the challenges of the digital age.