Spyfail

Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence

By: James Bamford

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

James Bamford, the bestselling author of The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets, unveils a hidden cabal of foreign powers that have spied against America to reveal the incredible spygames, secrets, and cyberweapons they’ve hatched, unlocked, and stolen—and how U.S. intelligence has utterly failed to stop them.

Spyfail is about the highly dangerous and growing capability of foreign countries to conduct large-scale espionage within the United States and how the FBI and other agencies have failed to prevent it. These covert operations involve a variety of foreign countries—North Korea, Russia, Israel, China, and others—and include cyberattacks, espionage, psychological warfare, the infiltration of presidential campaigns, the smuggling of nuclear weapons components, and other incredibly nefarious actions.

With his trademark deep investigative style, James Bamford digs as deep as one can go into these clandestine invasions and attacks, uncovering who’s involved, how these spygames were carried out, and why none of this was stopped. Full of revelations, Spyfail includes access to previously secret and withheld documents, such as never-before-seen parts of the Mueller Report, and interviews with confidential sources.

Throughout this stunning, eye-opening account, Spyfail demonstrates again and again how large a role politics, special interests, and corruption play in allowing these shocking foreign intrusions to continue—leaving America and its secrets vulnerable and undefended.

©2023 James Bamford (P)2023 Twelve

Tip of the iceberg

Author is well connected to write about the community and has pieced together a story that only scratches the surface when it comes to the reality of American politics.

Amazing

and sad but sounds plausibly true. Wonder how Bamford got access to all this information.

Brilliant Read

This is a very well documented book worth reading from page to page while making note of how he reveals some fundamental truths embarrasaing many people of political power. In fact, the DOJ should take note and act upon what is shared in this book...

As an undereducated layman, Bamford is excellent

I used to work in the Scientology cult, and worked in their 11 million dollar "Computer Operations" room in LA in the early 1990s, and "Puzzle Palace" even was recommended reading and it spell bound me.

We thought in Scientology land that we were clever and "off line" with our system, but the opposite, anyways, I wrote up a report after reading "Puzzle Palace" of how screwed we were, and crickets. As a cult, who cares really, our "secrets" were not interesting, so what.

Over the years I've heard Bamford speak, and always still way above what I will ever really understand, but I so appreciate, as a 70 year old, semi retired wacky lived adult, his intelligence community (IC) details, and his journalistic principles.

Excellent book, if one's interested and appreciative of all of Bamford's excellent history of journalism.

As a Luddite "normal" pro Israel American, I thought he was a little hard on Israel, for their look the other way allowed spywork in the US,

Education is the answer, more adult education worldwide, just make people everywhere smarter, keep the population reading as adults somehow.

Wish life were longer so I could read more books.

Worth the Listen

Worth the listen, but think critically, think critically, think critically, and think critically again and again

The absolute best National Security Author

Mr James Bamford is absolutely by far the best and most informative national security researcher and author . No one does a better job in this very complicated genre . Whether it is The Shadow Factory , The Puzzle Palace or SpyFail this is a learning opportunity for me the reader . A + attention to detail .

Just Amazing!

I think it's fair to say that most reviews attack this books just because of it detail how Israel (America's best ally in the world) meddled in American affairs with no American reaction, but complete cover up! of course if one read the Israeli news papers this claim is not only not controversial, but it's one of the frequent news that appears in the papers. so what Americans are trying to deny in order to protect their ally, most Israelis already know it and admit it proudly!

Sunlight is a great disinfectant

While I am sure that there are books dedicated to the triumphs of our clandestine services, it is always healthy to acknowledge their failures. Spyfail is a humbling account of the hypocrisy and epic misses of our “intelligence” community.

lot of good history

apart from all the righteousness and moralizing, it's okay... the butina stuff is hard to believe

What you won't hear on the Main Scream Media

I have read all of Bamford's books. He holds accountable every spy agency, American president, foreign nation, friend or foe and agrees with the many other authors on the subjects that I have read. He connects foreign "friends" with Hollywood disinformation to make some another nation look good in the eyes of Americans. Having personal experience with intelligence and govt. propaganda many years ago, have to agree with his opinions.