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hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 292 pp.

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo in dust jacket, xvi, 283 pp., b/w photos, notes, selected bibliography, index.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Edition Stated. 6 X 1.01 X 9 inches; 384 pages; maps. B&W illustrations. Minor pencil scratch on the last page of the book. Shelf wear. Light creasing to cover edges. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First printing. 6 x 9 in. Paper boards. Condition is NEAR FINE ; like near new on all points. DJ is NEAR FINE ; one tiny scrape, else like new. Bio. Stax.

Zustand: very good, very good. First Printing. 24 cm, 243, references, index. Contents include: Two ways of world making--The time is ripe--Politics teaching religion--Religion teaching politics--Redemptive suffering and the civil rights movement--After patriarchy: feminist politics and the transformation of religion--Saving the world: religion and politics in theenvironmental movement--Beyond our private sorrows: spirituality and politics as responses to breast cancer and disability--Toward hope, together.

Zustand: good, ex-lib., good. Third Printing. 386, illus., notes, sources, appendices, index, usual library markings, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ pasted to boards. This study of the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology introduces us to key personalities who helped share the directorate: Edwin Land of Polaroid, Albert Wheelon, Carl Duckett, and others who operated secretly within the directorate such as Antonio Mendez, whose "technical service" skills helped six Americans escape Iran after the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in 1979. Presents intriguing details--many never before published--of the directorate's programs and activities.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Third Printing [Stated]. xiii, [1], 386 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Sources. Appendices. Index. Slight cover wear. The dust jacket is price clipped. Jeffrey Talbot Richelson (31 December 1949 11 November 2017) was an American author and academic researcher who studied the process of intelligence gathering and national security. He authored at least thirteen books and many articles about intelligence, and directed the publication of several of the National Security Archive's collections of source documents. Richelson was notable for his relentless Freedom of Information requests in order to further scholarship in intelligence and espionage. According to Bruce D. Berkowitz, Richelson was once avoided by the intelligence community as an outsider and a security risk, but gradually became trusted to the extent that he was invited to CIA sponsored conferences. Richelson grew up in the Bronx and earned his BA from the City University of New York. He completed a Ph.D. in political science at the University of Rochester in 1975 and went on to teach at the University of Texas, Austin and American University. Richelson was a senior fellow with the National Security Archive. This study of the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology introduces us to key personalities who helped share the directorate: Edwin Land of Polaroid, Albert Wheelon, Carl Duckett, and others who operated secretly within the directorate such as Antonio Mendez, whose "technical service" skills helped six Americans escape Iran after the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in 1979. Presents intriguing details--many never before published--of the directorate's programs and activities. In 1956, the CIA dramatically breached the Iron Curtain when its U-2 began overflying Soviet territory to photograph that nation's military installations. Four years later, the Soviets would shoot down pilot Francis Gary Powers and his U-2, thereby ceasing these missions. Within months, however, the CIA had another, and better, technical program in operation - the CORONA satellite. Throughout the Cold War and beyond, the CIA's scientific wizards would continue to devise high-tech ways to collect and analyze information about potential adversaries. Their mission was of such importance that a new branch of the CIA was created - the Directorate of Science and Technology. In this first full-length study of the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology, author Jeffrey Richelson introduces us to key personalities who helped shape the directorate: Edwin Land of Polaroid, Albert Wheelon, Carl Duckett, and others who operated secretly within the directorate such as Antonio Mendez, whose technical service" skills helped six Americans escape Iran after the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in 1979.Richelson presents intriguing details - many never before published - of the directorate's programs and activities. For example, the CIA's wizards: Designed, developed, and operated a series of high-tech imagery and eavesdropping satellites and aircraft, including the KH-11 and RHYOLITE, which revolutionized U.S. intelligence capabilities Established ground stations in Iran, Norway, and China to monitor missile testing as well as manning embassy listening posts around the world Employed technical intelligence analysts and photographic interpreters to unravel the secrets of foreign missile and space programs and monitor developments, including Chernobyl and the Gulf War, across the globe Devised a vast assortment of equipment to support clandestine operations-from collecting intelligence to assisting the escape of Americans hiding in Iran to helping Delta Force apprehend an ally of Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aideed Developed a key component of heart pacemaker technology and other scientific advances, which have medical or other purposes Attempted to employ psychics to uncover foreign military secrets Employed birds (and unmanned aerial vehicles that appeared to be birds) and cats as intelligence collection platforms T.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. xiii, [1], 386 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Sources. Appendices. Index. Slight cover wear. Jeffrey Talbot Richelson (31 December 1949 11 November 2017) was an American author and academic researcher who studied the process of intelligence gathering and national security.[1] He authored at least thirteen books and many articles about intelligence, and directed the publication of several of the National Security Archive's collections of source documents. Richelson was notable for his relentless Freedom of Information requests in order to further scholarship in intelligence and espionage. According to Bruce D. Berkowitz, Richelson was once avoided by the intelligence community as an outsider and a security risk, but gradually became trusted to the extent that he was invited to CIA sponsored conferences. Richelson grew up in the Bronx and earned his BA from the City University of New York. He completed a Ph.D. in political science at the University of Rochester in 1975 and went on to teach at the University of Texas, Austin and American University. Richelson was a senior fellow with the National Security Archive. This study of the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology introduces us to key personalities who helped share the directorate: Edwin Land of Polaroid, Albert Wheelon, Carl Duckett, and others who operated secretly within the directorate such as Antonio Mendez, whose "technical service" skills helped six Americans escape Iran after the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in 1979. Presents intriguing details--many never before published--of the directorate's programs and activities. Derived from a Publishers Weekly review: In recent years, the media have presented several reports on the tragic and scandalous 1953 death of army scientist Frank Olson. Ten days before Olson died, a Central Intelligence Agency researcher had slipped a dose of LSD into the unwitting Olson's drink. The hapless army scientist quite literally went mad and leapt to his death from the window of his New York hotel room. Press accounts have couched Olson's death as the work of a sinister CIA. In Richelson's even presentation, the Olson case, horrific as it was, is less representative of a CIA run amok than it is of a paranoid Cold War mentality in which the nation's premier intelligence agency was tasked with developing extraordinary measures for extraordinary times. The directorate responsible for those measures is the focus of this fine and meticulously researched study by master Intelligence Community researcher and analyst Richelson. Richelson places into context the directorate of science and technology's operations, from sci-fistyle remote-viewing experiments to very practical scientific advances that would eventually find application in heart pacemaker technology. Espionage researchers and analysts will recognize a set of familiar project code names: JENNIFER, MKULTRA and others. Significant spy personalities are also in abundance: Ray Cline, William Colby, Richard Helms. But Richelson expands on what's already known, giving new insights into such matters as the development of U.S. aerial and space reconnaissance systems. The evolution of the aircraft that would become the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane is particularly fascinating, as is the story of the New York Times's investigative reporter Seymour Hersh's apparent agreement to a 1972 request from the CIA to withhold the true mission of the Glomar Explorer, a spy ship that had been dispatched to recover a sunken Soviet submarine.

Hardcover. First edition. First printing [stated]. xiii, 306 p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. A former Reagan White House counsel presents a comprehensive picture of Ronald Reagan, focusing on how his distinctive leadership style was the source of both his successes and his setbacks. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First Edition. First Printing. 202 pages. Notes, references, index. Signed by both co-authors. Two Washington insiders consider how, over the course of 20 years, Congress has paid greater attention than before to issues of ethics among its members. At the same time, there have been numerous Congresspersons who have become involved in headline-grabbing and very destructive cases of purported ethical lapses.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A most attractive first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. Boldly SIGNED by author Ben Corbett directly on the title page; "A colorful first-person account of living on the fringes of Castro's Cuba, and a splendid evocation of the modern Cuban character" --from the dust-jacket; 8vo; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First Printing. 386 pages, illustrations, notes, sources, appendices, index, slight wear to DJ edges. This study of the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology introduces us to key personalities who helped share the directorate: Edwin Land of Polaroid, Albert Wheelon, Carl Duckett, and others who operated secretly within the directorate such as Antonio Mendez, whose "technical service" skills helped six Americans escape Iran after the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in 1979. Presents intriguing details--many never before published--of the directorate's programs and activities.