History of modern espionage

Espionage is Big Business. It is also a primary instrument of survival among nations. Ignoring these truths has contributed to the downfall of states; heeding them has immeasurably benefited others. Today the many sided aspects of clandestine operations go forward on an unprecedented scale and with a new silent, lethal fury that only occasionally breaks through the surface of daily living. Then follows shocking revelations of skilled profes sionals and their fascinating gadgetry who have riddled the security of the country, or of the sickening defection of trusted public servants. There are shivers of public unease and all are made aware of how near and how deadly the thing is. What is it all about? What is espionage? Intelligence? Are all secret service operatives spies? Who trains them, "operates" them? Whose spies are best, and whose counterspy service excels? What does Intelligence have to do with secrets protection? Can security be improved? Competent reporting alone is not enough for an understanding of this complex and highly specialised but really little known fringe zone of human activity-yet one so elemental that the germs for its accomplishment lie in all of us. Sometimes, though, the trained individual is permitted to write; rarer still, an individual both an intel ligence authority and a professional author.

In this volume, Colonel Ind, who was a co-founder of General MacArthur's famed Allied Intelligence Bureau, and for many years a Pentagon intelligence specialist, writes from his unique position of famous cases of secret service from Biblical times to Cuba, from the Trojan Horse to Philby and Profumo. The inherent drama of these episodes is heightened for the reader by his confidence in the authorship and their illumination by occasional references to personal experiences. Colonel Ind now lives in England.