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The rook : a novel
A high-ranking member of a secret organization that battles supernatural forces wakes up in a London park with no memory, no idea who she is, and with a letter that provides instructions to help her uncover a far-reaching conspiracy.
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The history of the Stasi
The East German Ministry for State Security stood for Stalinist oppression and all-encompassing surveillance. The \"shield and sword of the party,\" it secured the rule of the Communist Party for more than forty years, and by the 1980s it had become the largest secret-police apparatus in the world, per capita. Jens Gieseke tells the story of the Stasi, a feared secret-police force and a highly professional intelligence service. He inquires into the mechanisms of dictatorship and the day-to-day effects of surveillance and suspicion. Masterful and thorough at once, he takes the reader through this dark chapter of German postwar history, supplying key information on perpetrators, informers, and victims. In an assessment of post-communist memory politics, he critically discusses the consequences of opening the files and the outcomes of the Stasi debate in reunified Germany. A major guide for research on communist secret-police forces, this book is considered the standard reference work on the Stasi and has already been translated into a number of Eastern European languages.
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Kingdom hearts 358/2 days : the novel
After the Organization tells her to look after a mysterious stranger, Roxas spends many meaningful days with this new Nobody whose face and body is hidden by a hood.
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Boosting image watermarking authenticity spreading secrecy from counting‐based secret‐sharing
This study presents enhancing images authentication by securing watermarking hidden data via shares generated from counting‐based secret sharing. The trustfulness of shares utilised secret‐sharing as an applicable privacy creation tool for the authentication of real‐life complex platforms. This research adjusts embedding the watermarking data over the images by innovative redistribution of shares to be embedded spread over all the images. The anticipated watermarking technique guaranteed to scatter the share bits implanting at different least significant bits of image pixels as boosting up the trust overall authentication practicality. The paper experimentation performance analysis shows that this improved image watermarking authentication (capacity) is averagely better by 33%–67% than other related exclusive‐OR oriented and octagon approaches. Interestingly, these measurement improvements did not degrade the robustness and security of the system, inspiring our research for opening novel track of related future counting‐based secret‐sharing authentication progresses to come.
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U.S. secret service
\"This photo-illustrated book describes the life of a US Secret Service agents, including their work catching counterfeiters and protecting the president of the United States. Describes training required to be an agent and what a day in the life is like in the field\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Richard Sorge, the GRU and the Pacific War
Sorge's activities between 1930 and 1942 have tended to be lauded as those of a superlative human intelligence operator and the Soviet Union's GRU (Soviet military intelligence unit) as the optimum of spy-masters.
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I spy the Illuminati eye : what's the big secret?
\"This irreverent, illustrated guide takes a look with an all-seeing, skeptical eye at the history and mystery of the cultural phenomenon that's got middle-school kids flashing finger triangles and scrutinizing dollar bills for signs of the Illuminati\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Blacked out : government secrecy in the information age
Nearly forty years ago the US Congress passed the landmark Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) giving the public the right to government documents. This 'right to know' has been used over the past decades to challenge overreaching Presidents and secretive government agencies. The example of transparency in government has served as an example to nations around the world spawning similar statutes in fifty-nine countries. This 2006 book examines the evolution of the move toward openness in government. It looks at how technology has aided the disclosure and dissemination of information. The author tackles the question of whether the drive for transparency has stemmed the desire for government secrecy and discusses how many governments ignore or frustrate the legal requirements for the release of key documents. Blacked Out is an important contribution during a time where profound changes in the structure of government are changing access to government documents.
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Stiletto : a novel
\"When two secret organization are forced to merge after years of enmity and bloodshed, only one person has the fearsome powers -- and the bureaucratic finesse -- to get the job done. Rook Myfanwy Thomas must broker a deal between two bitter adversaries: the Checquy, a centuries-old cover organization that protects Britain from supernatural threats, and... the Grafters, a supernatural threat. But as bizarre attacks sweep London and threaten negotiations, old hatreds flare. Surrounded by spies, only Myfanwy and two women who absolutely loathe each other can seek out the culprits before they trigger a devestating otherworldly war.\" --P.4 of cover.
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Secret Intelligence in the European States System, 1918-1989
The history of secret intelligence, like secret intelligence itself, is fraught with difficulties surrounding both the reliability and completeness of the sources, and the motivations behind their release—which can be the product of ongoing propaganda efforts as well as competition among agencies. Indeed, these difficulties lead to the Scylla and Charybdis of overestimating the importance of secret intelligence for foreign policy and statecraft and also underestimating its importance in these same areas—problems that generally beset the actual use of secret intelligence in modern states. But in recent decades, traditional perspectives have given ground and judgments have been revised in light of new evidence. This volume brings together a collection of essays avoiding the traditional pitfalls while carrying out the essential task of analyzing the recent evidence concerning the history of the European state system of the last century. The essays offer an array of insight across countries and across time. Together they highlight the critical importance of the prevailing domestic circumstances—technological, governmental, ideological, cultural, financial—in which intelligence operates. A keen interdisciplinary eye focused on these developments leaves us with a far more complete understanding of secret intelligence in Europe than we've had before.
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