The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
by Shaun Walker · 15 Apr 2025 · 465pp · 155,902 words
without being subject to the surveillance that was now a way of life for spies working under diplomatic cover. Second, they could work using a “false flag,” duping targets who were not leftists into thinking they were working for a different country or cause altogether. Finally, if the Cold War ever intensified
…
his reports about Ovadia Yosef, the chief Sephardic rabbi, suggesting the Center play on these feelings of resentment and try to recruit him under a false flag. At the end of the five-month course, Yuri finished top of his class. He bade farewell to his friends and took a boat from
…
partner help him find information. But for those women who would never agree to work for the Communist East, Romeos used a whole array of false flags. Cover identities included a right-wing West German, a physicist working for an international research company committed to world peace, and an intellectually minded Danish
…
with a tiny camera hidden in a tube of lipstick, then handed over the film to her lover.[7] * * * — It quickly became clear that the false flag of an “organization of former Nazis” could be a fruitful one for recruiting in the offices of West German officialdom. Many Nazis rebranded themselves as
…
the Soviet Union out of ideological conviction. One work-around for this was to use financial incentives or blackmail, but another was to use a false flag, tricking recruits into believing they were spying for another country or organization altogether. Americans with immigrant backgrounds often had warm feelings toward their country of
…
years of marriage she had no idea he was really a Russian spy. An archival document from 1983 suggests that Vasenkov recruited Peláez “using a false flag,” although it did not specify what country or organization he claimed to represent.[17] Peláez certainly knew he was up to something, but it seems
…
message or package to/from a Line N officer without having to have a personal meeting. Directorate S—the KGB, and later SVR, illegals division. False flag recruitment—a technique spies use with targets to disguise their affiliation; for example, a KGB spy might pitch a known right-wing source by claiming
…
–90 See also Britain Enniskillen (Northern Ireland), 188 Erfurt (Germany), 181 Eusébio (soccer player), 189 F Facebook: fake Russian pages on, 342 Facio, Antonio, 123 false flags, 112, 229, 240, 359 false identities: creation of, 182, 267 FBI (U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation): 9/11 attacks and, 318–20 in 1930s
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
by Bandy X. Lee · 2 Oct 2017 · 369pp · 105,819 words
the Possibility’ of a ‘Staged or Alleged Terrorist Attack.’” Alternet, March 27. www.alternet.org/right-wing/noam-chomsky-it-fair-worry-about-trump-staging-false-flag-terrorist-attack. Goodman, Amy, and Juan González. 2017. “Full Interview: Noam Chomsky on Trump’s First 75 Days & Much More.” Democracy Now, April 4. www
My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir
by Barrett Brown · 8 Jul 2024 · 332pp · 110,397 words
the firm had interfered in a U.S. Senate election by—well, let’s not let good copy go to waste: “We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Roy Moore Senate campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet.” The Times report prompted an
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
by Paul Mason · 29 Jul 2015 · 378pp · 110,518 words
war and intolerable repression. On the rare occasions when they achieved power, they couldn’t stop it from being usurped by elites operating under a false flag. The Paris Commune of 1871, Barcelona in 1937, the Russian, Chinese and Cuban revolutions all demonstrate this. The literature of the left is littered with
Global Catastrophic Risks
by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic · 2 Jul 2008
and Christensen (1995). Table 19.1 Most Extreme Overall Scenario: Terrorists Precipitate a Full-scale Interstate Nuclear War (Either by Spoofing, Hacking, or Conducting a False Flag Operation) Time Period Likelihood of Motivational Threshold Being Met Likelihood of Capability Requirements Being Met Probability of Successful Attack (Taking into Account Motivations and Capabilities
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations With Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
by Lee McIntyre · 14 Sep 2021 · 407pp · 108,030 words
that “chemtrails” left by planes are part of a secret government mind-control spraying program, that the school shootings at Sandy Hook and Parkland were “false flag” operations, that the government is covering up the truth about UFOs, and of course the more “science-related” ones that the Earth is flat, that
Political Ponerology (A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes)
by Andrew M. Lobaczewski · 1 Jan 2006 · 396pp · 116,332 words
.] * * * [13]: This is being very effectively used at the present time under the guise of “The War on Terror”, a completely manufactured device that utilizes “false flag operations” to herd people into “support camps” for the U.S. imperialist agenda. [Editor’s note.] * * * [14]: This is currently being done, and quite well
Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken in and What We Can Do About It
by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris · 10 Jul 2023 · 338pp · 104,815 words
Trump split a fixed total number of votes.36 Even for data to which Benford’s law does apply, sometimes a red flag is a false flag. For example, company revenue and expenses generally follow Benford’s law. But if a company frequently purchases a product that costs $49.95, its expense
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
by Jon Ronson · 12 May 2011 · 274pp · 70,481 words
countered that not only was it not nuts, but in terms of holograms this was just the beginning. Plans were afoot to “create the ultimate false flag operation, which is to use holograms to make it look like an alien invasion is under way.” “Why would they want to do that?” I
Spooked: The Trump Dossier, Black Cube, and the Rise of Private Spies
by Barry Meier · 17 May 2021 · 319pp · 89,192 words
conspiracy theories, weren’t ready to take Shvets at his word. Instead, they wrote that his disparaging comments about the dossier might have been a “false flag” to steer attention away from him. “Shvets’ overall analysis of the Steele dossier was uncannily accurate—far more accurate and far more prescient than any
The Defence of the Realm
by Christopher Andrew · 2 Aug 2010 · 1,744pp · 458,385 words
City of Exiles
by Alec Nevala-Lee · 1 Dec 2012 · 341pp · 104,493 words
Messing With the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News
by Clint Watts · 28 May 2018 · 324pp · 96,491 words
The Disappearing Act
by Florence de Changy · 24 Dec 2020
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
by Jesselyn Cook · 22 Jul 2024 · 321pp · 95,778 words
Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World
by James Ball · 19 Jul 2023 · 317pp · 87,048 words
Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
by Matt Taibbi · 7 Oct 2019 · 357pp · 99,456 words
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
by Thomas Rid
The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives
by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen · 22 Apr 2013 · 525pp · 116,295 words
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
by Brené Brown · 15 Mar 2017 · 149pp · 41,934 words
Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media
by Peter Warren Singer and Emerson T. Brooking · 15 Mar 2018
Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
by John P. Carlin and Garrett M. Graff · 15 Oct 2018 · 568pp · 164,014 words
Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
by Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal · 1 Jan 2010 · 427pp · 127,496 words
Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy
by Rory Cormac · 14 Jun 2018 · 407pp
Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
by Elizabeth Williamson · 8 Mar 2022 · 574pp · 148,233 words
The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow's Technology Still Isn't Here
by Nicole Kobie · 3 Jul 2024 · 348pp · 119,358 words
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
by Scott J. Shapiro · 523pp · 154,042 words
The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire
by Jeff Berwick and Charlie Robinson · 14 Apr 2020 · 491pp · 141,690 words
Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves
by Matthew Sweet · 13 Feb 2018 · 493pp · 136,235 words
Professional Node.js: Building Javascript Based Scalable Software
by Pedro Teixeira · 30 Sep 2012 · 325pp · 85,599 words
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
by Glenn Greenwald · 12 May 2014 · 253pp · 75,772 words
Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence
by Jonathan Haslam · 21 Sep 2015 · 525pp · 131,496 words
Engineering Security
by Peter Gutmann
Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
by Kelly Weill · 22 Feb 2022
Docker: Up & Running: Shipping Reliable Containers in Production
by Sean Kane and Karl Matthias · 14 May 2023 · 433pp · 130,334 words
The Twittering Machine
by Richard Seymour · 20 Aug 2019 · 297pp · 83,651 words
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
by Roger McNamee · 1 Jan 2019 · 382pp · 105,819 words
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
by Jeremy Scahill · 22 Apr 2013 · 1,117pp · 305,620 words
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
by Clive Thompson · 26 Mar 2019 · 499pp · 144,278 words
Gnomon
by Nick Harkaway · 18 Oct 2017 · 778pp · 239,744 words
Red Rabbit
by Tom Clancy and Scott Brick · 2 Jan 2002
The Teeth of the Tiger
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1998 · 553pp · 151,139 words
We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
by Eliot Higgins · 2 Mar 2021 · 277pp · 70,506 words
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
by Rick Perlstein · 1 Jan 2008 · 1,351pp · 404,177 words
The Docker Book
by James Turnbull · 13 Jul 2014 · 265pp · 60,880 words
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
by Owen Matthews · 21 Mar 2019 · 589pp · 162,849 words
How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
by Fredrik Deboer · 4 Sep 2023 · 211pp · 78,547 words
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
by Jeffrey Toobin · 1 May 2023 · 357pp · 130,117 words
Revolution Business
by Stross, Charles · 9 Apr 2009 · 358pp · 103,103 words
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
by Nicole Perlroth · 9 Feb 2021 · 651pp · 186,130 words
Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All
by Costas Lapavitsas · 14 Aug 2013 · 554pp · 158,687 words
Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy
by Eric O'Neill · 1 Mar 2019 · 299pp · 88,375 words
Rainbow Six
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1998
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Story of Anonymous
by Gabriella Coleman · 4 Nov 2014 · 457pp · 126,996 words
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
by Andy Greenberg · 5 Nov 2019 · 363pp · 105,039 words
Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias
by Kevin Cook · 30 Jan 2023 · 277pp · 86,352 words
Docker: Up & Running: Shipping Reliable Containers in Production
by Sean P. Kane and Karl Matthias · 15 Mar 2018 · 350pp · 114,454 words
The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War
by Jeff Sharlet · 21 Mar 2023 · 308pp · 97,480 words
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
by Naomi Klein · 11 Sep 2023
Health and Safety: A Breakdown
by Emily Witt · 16 Sep 2024 · 242pp · 85,783 words
The Skripal Files
by Mark Urban · 291pp · 85,908 words
Dead or Alive
by Tom Clancy and Grant (CON) Blackwood · 7 Dec 2010 · 795pp · 212,447 words
Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell
by Neal Stephenson · 3 Jun 2019 · 993pp · 318,161 words
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1988
The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
by Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake · 15 Jul 2019 · 409pp · 112,055 words
Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy
by Jennifer Carlson · 2 May 2023 · 279pp · 100,877 words
Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet
by Edward Luce · 13 May 2025 · 612pp · 235,188 words
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
by Michael Bhaskar · 2 Nov 2021
The Trade of Queens
by Charles Stross · 16 Mar 2010 · 348pp · 98,757 words
The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
by Sean McFate · 22 Jan 2019 · 330pp · 83,319 words
Inside British Intelligence
by Gordon Thomas
Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV
by Peter Biskind · 6 Nov 2023 · 543pp · 143,084 words
Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination
by Mark Bergen · 5 Sep 2022 · 642pp · 141,888 words
Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
by Antonio J. Mendez and Matt Baglio · 14 Jun 2012 · 273pp · 86,821 words
1939: A People's History
by Frederick Taylor · 26 Jun 2019 · 535pp · 144,827 words
Saturn's Children
by Charles Stross · 30 Jun 2008 · 360pp · 110,929 words
The Sum of All Fears
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1989
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
by Kim Zetter · 11 Nov 2014 · 492pp · 153,565 words
The Hostage's Daughter
by Sulome Anderson · 24 Aug 2016 · 269pp · 83,959 words
Digging Up Mother: A Love Story
by Doug Stanhope · 9 May 2016 · 323pp · 111,561 words
Humble Pie and Cold Turkey: English Expressions and Their Origins
by Caroline Taggart · 29 Sep 2021 · 143pp · 42,555 words
Destined for War: America, China, and Thucydides's Trap
by Graham Allison · 29 May 2017 · 518pp · 128,324 words
The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine
by Christopher Miller · 17 Jul 2023 · 469pp · 149,526 words
Humble Pie and Cold Turkey
by Caroline Taggart · 143pp · 42,546 words
The Economic Weapon
by Nicholas Mulder · 15 Mar 2021
Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict
by Max Brooks, John Amble, M. L. Cavanaugh and Jaym Gates · 14 May 2018 · 278pp · 84,002 words
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
by Sara Wachter-Boettcher · 9 Oct 2017 · 223pp · 60,909 words
Pity the Billionaire: The Unexpected Resurgence of the American Right
by Thomas Frank · 16 Aug 2011 · 261pp · 64,977 words
The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro · 11 Sep 2017 · 850pp · 224,533 words
Politics on the Edge: The Instant #1 Sunday Times Bestseller From the Host of Hit Podcast the Rest Is Politics
by Rory Stewart · 13 Sep 2023 · 534pp · 157,700 words
Bleeding Edge: A Novel
by Thomas Pynchon · 16 Sep 2013 · 532pp · 141,574 words
Fuller Memorandum
by Stross, Charles · 14 Jan 2010 · 366pp · 107,145 words
Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
by Julia Ebner · 20 Feb 2020 · 309pp · 79,414 words
Start It Up: Why Running Your Own Business Is Easier Than You Think
by Luke Johnson · 31 Aug 2011 · 166pp · 49,639 words
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
by Michael Wolff · 5 Jan 2018 · 394pp · 112,770 words
The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling
by Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross · 30 Jun 2013
Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back
by Guy Shrubsole · 1 May 2019 · 505pp · 133,661 words
The Power
by Naomi Alderman · 9 Oct 2017 · 363pp · 105,689 words
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
by Bhaskar Sunkara · 1 Feb 2019 · 324pp · 86,056 words
Lords of the Desert: The Battle Between the US and Great Britain for Supremacy in the Modern Middle East
by James Barr · 8 Aug 2018 · 539pp · 151,425 words
Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine (But Also My Mom's, Which I Know Sounds Weird)
by Michael Ian Black · 5 Jan 2016 · 171pp · 57,379 words