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- The Untold History of the National Security Agency
- Narrado por: William Dufris
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This great question of Pearl Harbor - what did we know and when did we know it? - has been argued for years. But no investigator has ever been able to prove that foreknowledge of the attack existed at the highest levels. Until now.
If you like Day of Deceit, try Trapped at Pearl Harbor and vintage audio of FDR's Day of Infamy Speech.
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Another View Of An Historic Event To Consider
- De Kindle Customer en 03-26-13
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The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
- De: Seymour M. Hersh
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 3 h y 31 m
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In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost President Obama’s first term and played a major part in his reelection victory of the following year. But much of the story of that night, as presented to the world, was incomplete, or a lie. The evidence of what actually went on remains hidden.
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Ridiculous
- De Amazon Customer en 08-22-17
De: Seymour M. Hersh
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The Way of the Knife
- The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
- De: Mark Mazzetti
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Mazzetti examines secret wars over the past decade, tracking key characters from the intelligence and military communities across the world. Among the characters we meet in The Way of the Knife are a young CIA officer dropped into the tribal areas to learn the hard way how the spy games in Pakistan are played; an Air Force test pilot who fired the first drone missile in the Nevada desert; and a chain-smoking Pentagon official who ran an off-the-books spying operation in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Excellent critique of covert operations
- De Keefer en 04-27-13
De: Mark Mazzetti
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Directorate S
- The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- De: Steve Coll
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 28 h y 30 m
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Resuming the narrative of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, best-selling author Steve Coll tells for the first time the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11.
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Slow At Times But Always Horrifying And Engaging
- De Gillian en 02-20-18
De: Steve Coll
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Twilight Warriors
- The Soldiers, Spies, and Special Agents Who Are Revolutionizing the American Way of War
- De: James Kitfield
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 15 h y 10 m
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In Twilight Warriors, award-winning foreign correspondent James Kitfield introduces us to the tight-knit brotherhood that strives to keep the United States safe from the dimly understood threats it now faces. Together these men have broken down the boundaries between their respective agencies to engineer a network-centric way of fighting using a seamless web of intelligence analysts, information networks, FBI forensics experts, and Special Forces units to take the fight to America's enemies as never before.
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South African Perspectives
- De Bernard Remacle en 03-22-17
De: James Kitfield
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The War Conspiracy
- JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War
- De: Peter Dale Scott
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 16 h y 22 m
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A remarkable analysis linking the assassination of JFK and 9/11, and how both events were used to influence war policy. Peter Dale Scott examines the many ways in which war policy has been driven by “accidents” and other events in the field, in some cases despite moves toward peace that were directed by presidents. This book explores the “deep politics” that exerts a profound but too-little-understood effect on national policy outside the control of traditional democratic processes.
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data dump on every rabbit hole
- De Shawn R. Veltheim en 12-20-18
De: Peter Dale Scott
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A Pretext for War
- 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
- De: James Bamford
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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This book says outright what many have merely hinted at: that President George W. Bush knowingly misused the findings of the erroneous and incompetent U.S. intelligence community to provide a pretext for war with Iraq. The author hones in on the systematic weaknesses of the intelligence agencies that caused them to ignore the crucial signs leading up to the attacks of 9/11.
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A must read before you vote
- De FGP en 09-30-04
De: James Bamford
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Manhunt
- The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden - from 9-11 to Abbottabad
- De: Peter L. Bergen
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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From the author of the New York Times best-selling Holy War, Inc., this is the definitive account of the decade-long manhunt for the world’s most wanted man, Osama bin Laden. Al Qaeda expert and CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen paints a multidimensional picture of the hunt for bin Laden over the past decade, including the operation that killed him.
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DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!
- De Betty en 05-04-12
De: Peter L. Bergen
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Fiasco
- The American Military Adventure in Iraq
- De: Thomas E. Ricks
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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The American military is a tightly sealed community, and few outsiders have reason to know that a great many senior officers view the Iraq war with incredulity and dismay. But many officers have shared their anger with renowned military reporter Thomas E. Ricks, and in Fiasco, Ricks combines these astonishing on-the-record military accounts with his own extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to create a spellbinding account of an epic disaster.
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History not Politics
- De Scott en 08-10-06
De: Thomas E. Ricks
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The Weapon Wizards
- How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower
- De: Yaakov Katz, Amir Bohbot
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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From drones to satellites, missile defense systems to cyber warfare, Israel is leading the world when it comes to new technology being deployed on the modern battlefield. The Weapon Wizards shows how this tiny nation of 8,000,000 learned to adapt to the changes in warfare and in the defense industry and become the new prototype of a 21st century superpower, not in size, but rather in innovation and efficiency - and as a result of its long war experience.
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Good Overview, May Overstate Level of Innovation
- De JBF en 06-15-17
De: Yaakov Katz, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Secret Sentry
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- Jonathan
- 04-02-10
Great research, fills in a lot of gaps
'The Secret Sentry' is a great piece of scholarship and reporting. NSA Directors are the main characters, and Aid does a stellar job bringing a story to life which could easily be just a dry retelling of facts. It is worth listening to -- I listened to it right after 'The Dead Hand' by David Hoffman, and they compliment each other well.
The narrator is okay. There are worse narrators, but his mispronunciations and errors demonstrate a distracting unfamiliarity with the subject (e.g. Douglas Feith's name, referring to the Korean Airlines call sign "KAL" as "cal" lots of little things like that throughout).
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- James Ivan Cain
- 10-29-16
Lot of past not enough now.
Lot of good information. Not enough about local current spying. But a good book. Worth the money.
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- Rebecca
- 06-25-15
Informative
Well researched and detailed accounts, at times there were run on's. Very satisfied with the content and complete coverage of NSAs history.
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- Aarondono
- 01-30-13
Great facts and info
Where does The Secret Sentry rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
It was a good listen, but not the most engaging.
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Great history and facts regarding not only the NSA, but also American security and sentry. Starts to feel redundant after a little while although its not. If you want facts and history, this is for you.
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- Jeeper
- 08-12-10
A Favorite!
Anyone interested in intelligence, spying, and history, will enjoy this book, especially if they come from a technical background (radio electronics, computers, etc). Good narration and well written!
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- Eric
- 05-14-10
Very disappointing
I found the early history of the intelligence agencies interesting, but was disappointed by what seemed to me a very deliberately negative slant on just about everything NSA did after 1960. The rare positive comments were of the "damning with faint praise" category, while the negatives were scathing.
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