Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad
 240 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 Paperback ISBN: 9781589012554 (1589012550) eBook ISBN: 9781589015814 E-Inspection Request E-Inspection January 2009 LC: 2008029498 Audio Excerpt:
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Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad
How to Be a Counterintelligence Officer
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. 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.
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"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 Table of Contents Publisher's Note Foreword by William Hood Introduction 1. What Is Counterintelligence? 2. Who Goes into Counterintelligence, and Why? What Is Peculiar about CI Officers CI Traits: Do You Have Them? 3. Conflicting Goals: Law Enforcement versus Manipulation Cops with a CI Job Spymasters with a CI Job Cops and Spymasters, Mingle and Merge! 4. The Support Apparatus The Roof and the Walls Surveillance Teams The Bug and Tap Shop Safe Houses The Forgery Shop Vehicles Photography Drops: Live, Dead, Phone Flaps and Seals, Microdot, Secret Ink Weapons Locks, Keys and Burglary Disguise 5. Interrogation: How It Really Works The Myth of Torture The Compleat Interrogator Pressure The Schmidt Story When the Tricks Don't Work The Breaking Point 6. How to Manage the Polygraph What the Polygraph Is How the Polygraph Works Why Do You React to the Polygraph? What Your Reactions Mean Known Lies and Surprise Questions When the Polygraph Works as a Lie Detector When the Polygraph Does Not Work Can You Beat the Polygraph? What the Polygraph Is Used For How the Polygraph Is Misused 7. How to Manage Physical Surveillance Local Conditions Cover Compartmentation Communications Vehicles Cameras and Audio Gear Weapons The Half-Life of a Surveillance Team 8. How to Manage Technical Surveillance Remember the Support Function Know Your Technicians Telephone Taps Hidden Microphones Photography through the Keyhole Mail Intercept Collating the Information 9. Double Agents: What They Are Good For Contact with the Enemy The Playback Double: The Case of Janos Szmolka Dangles—Controlled and Freelance Levels of Contact with the Enemy Allocation of Resources 10. Double Agents: How to Get and Maintain a Stable Assessing Your Opponents Collating Leads Playbacks 11. Double Agents: Feeding and Care Emotional Dependence Physical Dependence Testing Termination 12. Double Agents: Passing Information to the Enemy The Doctrine of Layers Passing the Enemy's Tests Balancing Cost against Gain The Bureaucratic Problem The Build-Up Library The Use of Collateral 13. Moles in the Enemy's Garden: Your Best Weapon Strategic Planning How to Get Penetrations Arranging the Furniture Research and Targeting Planting the Seed Motive: Is Ideology Dead? Who Is in Charge? Weaknesses Michal Goleniewski Training or Indoctrination? Evacuation 14. Defectors: Your Second-Best Weapon Inducement Echelons of Handling Be Prepared Resettlement 15. Using "Friendly" Services, Foreign and Domestic The Reasons for Liaison How Liaison Works in Practice Cooperation versus Competition Liaison and Penetration 16. How to Manage Files Chronological Files Indexing by Name Case Files Dossiers and P-Files Dossier Numbers Dossiers and Privacy 17. The Collation of Counterintelligence What is Collation? Categories for Collation Using Computers 18. The Big Game: Deception The Tools of Deception The Practical Limits The Rule of Unwitting Tools The Secret Body Needs a Bodyguard of Lies About the Author |
