Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad: How to Be a Counterintelligence Officer
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Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad: How to Be a Counterintelligence Officer
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Overview
A Classic in Counterintelligence—Now Back in Print
Originally published in 1987, Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad is a unique primer that teaches the principles, strategy, and tradecraft of counterintelligence (CI). CI is often misunderstood and narrowly equated with security and catching spies, which are only part of the picture. As William R. Johnson explains, CI is the art of actively protecting secrets but also aggressively thwarting, penetrating, and deceiving hostile intelligence organizations to neutralize or even manipulate their operations.
Johnson, a career CIA intelligence officer, lucidly presents the nuts and bolts of the business of counterintelligence and the characteristics that make a good CI officer. Although written during the late Cold War, this book continues to be useful for intelligence professionals, scholars, and students because the basic principles of CI are largely timeless. General readers will enjoy the lively narrative and detailed descriptions of tradecraft that reveal the real world of intelligence and espionage. A new foreword by former CIA officer and noted author William Hood provides a contemporary perspective on this valuable book and its author.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781589015814 |
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| Publisher: | Georgetown University Press |
| Publication date: | 01/10/2009 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 240 |
| File size: | 3 MB |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
William R. Johnson worked in U.S. Army intelligence in World War II. He went on to serve in various positions around the world with the CIA, including head of the Agency’s Far East counterintelligence operations and Saigon base chief, until his retirement in 1977, when he and his wife Pat returned to Colorado. Mr. Johnson died in 2005.
Table of Contents
Publisher’s NoteForeword by William HoodIntroduction
1. What Is Counterintelligence?
2. Who Goes into Counterintelligence, and Why?What Is Peculiar about CI OfficersCI Traits: Do You Have Them?
3. Conflicting Goals: Law Enforcement versus ManipulationCops with a CI JobSpymasters with a CI JobCops and Spymasters, Mingle and Merge!
4. The Support ApparatusThe Roof and the WallsSurveillance TeamsThe Bug and Tap ShopSafe HousesThe Forgery ShopVehiclesPhotographyDrops: Live, Dead, PhoneFlaps and Seals, Microdot, Secret InkWeaponsLocks, Keys and BurglaryDisguise
5. Interrogation: How It Really WorksThe Myth of TortureThe Compleat InterrogatorPressureThe Schmidt StoryWhen the Tricks Don't WorkThe Breaking Point
6. How to Manage the PolygraphWhat the Polygraph IsHow the Polygraph WorksWhy Do You React to the Polygraph?What Your Reactions MeanKnown Lies and Surprise QuestionsWhen the Polygraph Works as a Lie DetectorWhen the Polygraph Does Not WorkCan You Beat the Polygraph?What the Polygraph Is Used ForHow the Polygraph Is Misused
7. How to Manage Physical SurveillanceLocal ConditionsCoverCompartmentationCommunicationsVehiclesCameras and Audio GearWeaponsThe Half-Life of a Surveillance Team
8. How to Manage Technical SurveillanceRemember the Support FunctionKnow Your TechniciansTelephone TapsHidden MicrophonesPhotography through the KeyholeMail InterceptCollating the Information
9. Double Agents: What They Are Good ForContact with the EnemyThe Playback Double: The Case of Janos SzmolkaDangles—Controlled and FreelanceLevels of Contact with the EnemyAllocation of Resources
10. Double Agents: How to Get and Maintain a StableAssessing Your OpponentsCollating LeadsPlaybacks
11. Double Agents: Feeding and CareEmotional DependencePhysical DependenceTestingTermination
12. Double Agents: Passing Information to the EnemyThe Doctrine of LayersPassing the Enemy's TestsBalancing Cost against GainThe Bureaucratic ProblemThe Build-Up LibraryThe Use of Collateral
13. Moles in the Enemy's Garden: Your Best WeaponStrategic PlanningHow to Get PenetrationsArranging the FurnitureResearch and TargetingPlanting the SeedMotive: Is Ideology Dead?Who Is in Charge?WeaknessesMichal GoleniewskiTraining or Indoctrination?Evacuation
14. Defectors: Your Second-Best WeaponInducementEchelons of HandlingBe PreparedResettlement
15. Using “Friendly” Services, Foreign and DomesticThe Reasons for LiaisonHow Liaison Works in PracticeCooperation versus CompetitionLiaison and Penetration
16. How to Manage FilesChronological FilesIndexing by NameCase FilesDossiers and P-FilesDossier NumbersDossiers and Privacy
17. The Collation of CounterintelligenceWhat is Collation?Categories for CollationUsing Computers
18. The Big Game: DeceptionThe Tools of DeceptionThe Practical LimitsThe Rule of Unwitting ToolsThe Secret Body Needs a Bodyguard of Lies
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What People are Saying About This
Johnson's book is easily the best introduction to the frequently misunderstood world of counterintelligence. This classic work, packed with timeless principles and highly readable, is a vital addition to the bookshelf of any intelligence professional.
"Johnson's book is easily the best introduction to the frequently misunderstood world of counterintelligence. This classic work, packed with timeless principles and highly readable, is a vital addition to the bookshelf of any intelligence professional."—David N. Edger, former CIA operations officer, and visiting professor, University of Oklahoma
"Counterintelligence, without question, is the toughest job in the world of spying. And, historically, we haven't been as good at it as we should. That needs to change. One glaring shortcoming in recent years has been the lack of a good treatise on the 'art' of counterintelligence. William Johnson's book, which has been out of print for years, fills that gap. He gets it right. Only a respected CI pro like [Johnson] could have described so clearly our arcane business of dangles, doubles, defectors, and deception. Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad will not only be a fascinating read for the general public but will also serve as a text for a whole new generation of CI trainees."—James M. Olson, former chief of CIA counterintelligence and author of Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying
Counterintelligence, without question, is the toughest job in the world of spying. And, historically, we haven’t been as good at it as we should. That needs to change. One glaring shortcoming in recent years has been the lack of a good treatise on the 'art' of counterintelligence. William Johnson’s book, which has been out of print for years, fills that gap. He gets it right. Only a respected CI pro like [Johnson] could have described so clearly our arcane business of dangles, doubles, defectors, and deception. Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad will not only be a fascinating read for the general public but will also serve as a text for a whole new generation of CI trainees.