Книга: Stephen Grey «The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror»

The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror

Spying has changed In this era of email intercepts and drone strikes spooks are expected to uncover plots buried in mountains of data Yet this makes the need for trained field operatives who can verify facts and uncover secrets more acute than ever The human factor endures In The New Spymasters the first real account of how modern espionage works we follow riveting stories of dramatic missions and the largerthanlife characters who undertook them These were moments when success and ultimately life or death depended on whether the right person was in the right place at exactly the right time.

Издательство: "Penguin Books Ltd." (2016)

Формат: 130x195, 376 стр.

ISBN: 978-0-141-03398-3

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Stephen Grey

Stephen Grey (b. 1968 in Rotterdam, Netherlands) is a British journalist and author known for accusing the CIA of running a "gulag."

Career

Grey was educated at the British School of Brussels, St Alban's School, and Windsor Boys School, and then studied politics, philosophy, and economics at Oxford University.

In the summer of 2003, Grey began investigating reports of the CIA's secret system of extraordinary renditions (transfer of terror suspects to foreign jails, where many faced torture). On this topic, he contributed articles to the Sunday Times, several front page news articles to the New York Times about rendition and security issues, as well as to Newsweek, CBS 60 Minutes, Le Monde Diplomatique, and BBC Radio 4's 'File on Four'.

In 2005 he received the Amnesty International UK Media Award for best article in a periodical [cite web
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Book

"Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program." New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006.

References

External links

* [http://www.stephengrey.com/ Homepage]
* [http://www.ghostplane.net/bio Bio]

Источник: Stephen Grey

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