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Fair play : the moral dilemmas of spying /

"Revolutionary War officer Nathan Hale, one of America's first spies, said, "Any kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary." A statue of Hale stands outside CIA headquarters, and the agency often cites his statement as one of its guiding pr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Olson, James M., 1941- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2006]
Edición:First edition
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : a career under cover
  • Philosophical and historical arguments
  • Bible
  • Aristotle
  • Cicero
  • St. Thomas Aquinas
  • Machiavelli
  • Kant
  • Realpolitik
  • Utilitarianism
  • Veritatis Splendor
  • U.S. attitudes toward spying
  • Scenarios
  • 1. Homosexual blackmail
  • 2. Trojan horse
  • 3. False flag
  • 4. Hit team
  • 5. Torture
  • 6. Kidnapping and torture by surrogates
  • 7. Truth serum
  • 8. Journalism cover
  • 9. Operational use of journalists
  • 10. Human rights violators
  • 11. Torture training
  • 12. Humanitarian aid worker cover
  • 13. Missionary cover
  • 14. Operational use of academics
  • 15. P-sources
  • 16. Prostitute for terrorist
  • 17. Child prostitute
  • 18. Terrorist act for bona fides
  • 19. Election tampering
  • 20. Seduction and compromise
  • 21. Romeo operations
  • 22. Coercive pitch
  • 23. Feeding a drug habit
  • 24. Kidnapping or killing a defector
  • 25. Fabricating evidence
  • 26. L-devices
  • 27. Insertion operations
  • 28. Fake diagnosis
  • 29. Drugging a foreign diplomat
  • 30. Press placements
  • 31. Fabricating academic credentials
  • 32. Plagiarizing a Ph. D. dissertation
  • 33. Exposing unwitting person to risk
  • 34. Kamikaze dolphins
  • 35. Spying on Americans overseas
  • 36. Spying on friends
  • 37. Spying on the United Nations
  • 38. Industrial espionage
  • 39. Bribing a foreign government
  • 40. Tampering with U.S. mail
  • 41. Protection of code breaking
  • 42. Breaking a promise to an agent
  • 43. Unauthorized cover
  • 44. Bogus Websites and chatrooms
  • 45. Back doors
  • 46. Biological attack
  • 47. Forging documents from friendly countries
  • 48. Collateral damage
  • 49. Foreign officer visitors
  • 50. Interrogation
  • Afterword
  • Notes : Spying 101
  • The essential intelligence library
  • Commentators.