长期以来间谍活动一直与人类共存，它常被称作是 “第二种古老的职业”，它是统治集团用来维护其权力，抵御国内外现实的或想像的威胁和敌人的主要手段。尽管间谍活动从未在人类历史中起过决定性的作用，它既不能替代政策，但是它因其行动的隐蔽性，神秘性而引人注目，在国际关系上的影响也在不断提高.....

本书作者约翰·巴伦系美国《读者文摘》社高级编辑，曾于密苏里大学获得新文学史和硕士学位，当过美国海军情报军官，后在华盛顿《明星晚报》工作。

本书作者约翰·巴伦系美国《读者文摘》社高级编辑，曾于密苏里大学获得新文学史和硕士学位，当过美国海军情报军官，后在华盛顿《明星晚报》工作。

Investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein defines the seldom seen universe of intelligence and counterintelligence.Set in the era of the Cold War, it explores the ultimate art of nations: Winning without fighting, or, in a single word, deception. It concerns, as James Jesus Angleton described it to the author, " a state of mind —and the mind of the state." With a new Preface (2...(展开全部)

In 1992 the British Secret Intelligence Service exfiltrated from Russia a defector whose presence in the West has remained secret until the publication of his book. Vasili Mitrokhin worked for almost thirty years in the foreign intelligence archives of the KGB, which in 1972 he was made responsible for moving to a new HQ just outside Moscow. He was congratulated by the head of ...(展开全部)