With all that is going on in today's world with the brouhaha over the terrorist interrogation in Congress, the Plame/Wilson case, the Mary O. McCarthy case and its nefarious links to the VIPS and our intense need for foreign intelligence, the new book by Bill Gertz is an eye opener.
From Bill Gertz: How America's most dangerous enemies are infiltrating our government to steal secrets and use them against us.Enemies
by Bill GertzWith America engaged in a high-stakes war against jihad, effective counterintelligence -- the process of identifying and catching foreign spies --is more important than at any time since the Cold War. Yet even after the national trauma of 9/11, argues investigative reporter Bill Gertz, American counterintelligence is getting worse, not better. In Enemies, Gertz reveals how foreign governments and terrorist organizations are actively spying within the United States and stealing our most vital secrets—on our nuclear weapons, missile defenses, efforts to defeat global terrorism, intelligence sources and methods, cryptographic codes, sensitive foreign policy dealings, and much more. And most astonishing of all, our leaders are doing nothing to stop the theft.
Enemies stunningly reveals:
- The untold story of one of the most damaging enemy spy penetrations in U.S. history -- and of the FBI’s criminal negligence and cover-up in the matter
- Why the repeated calls for intelligence reform since 9/11 have gone unheeded
- How al Qaeda and other terrorist groups use official identification, uniforms, and vehicles to infiltrate secure areas and carry out attacks
- Why Russia has as many spies in America today as it did at the height of the Cold War
- How Communist China’s intelligence and influence operations may have reached the highest levels of the U.S. government
- How some 35 different terrorist groups target the United States through espionage
- A startling account of the many enemy spies the U.S. has let get away
- How in November 2005 the U.S. government rolled up a massive spy ring that had been stealing U.S. defense technology for more than twenty years
- How a Cuban mole operated high up in the Pentagon—undetected—for sixteen years
- How the U.S. can defuse the North Korean threat through aggressive counterintelligence
- How enemy spies have infiltrated every single U.S. national security agency except the Coast Guard -- including the CIA, the FBI, the Defense Department, the State Department, the National Security Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency
- The gross ineptness that led U.S. officials to hound an innocent man while the real mole -- one of the most infamous spies in U.S. history—operated right under their noses
- How the U.S. is overwhelmed by spies even from our so-called friends, including France, India, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and many other countries
- The alarming truth about the utter disarray at the nation’s top counterintelligence office, and why it leaves America vulnerable to foreign threats
- A remarkable case study showing how the U.S. can infiltrate terrorist groups and other foreign organizations
- Why the 2005 arrest of a Filipino spy in the White House should have set off alarms -- but didn’t
- Why aggressive counterintelligence represents the only real protection against terrorists and enemy spies -- and why the U.S. bureaucracy has nearly destroyed our counterintelligence capabilities
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