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Spying from the belly of the beast in the Revolutionary Guards of Iran

Note: The article below written years ago served as one of the springboards for several of Dr. Faria’s Appendices in Stalin, Mao, Communism, and their 21st-Century Aftermath in Russia and China published in 2024 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. The article was fully expanded, revised, and updated for Appendices B-E dealing with […]

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Faria: Fidel Castro, Cuban Intelligence and the Assassination of JFK

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A book published last year by Brian Latell, a professor, scholar, and retired CIA officer who had been active in foreign intelligence for 35 years, has not received the attention it deserves. The book, Castro’s Secrets: The CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine (2012) relies extensively on information provided by half a dozen Cuban defectors and

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Cloak and Dagger Dullness While Bashing the CIA! — A review of the movie The Good Shepherd (2006)

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On the DVD cover of the movie “The Good Shepherd,” former late night, talk show host Larry King wrote in the blurb, “The Best Spy movie ever.” He is completely wrong on this one! This film is, perhaps, one of the worst ever, but certainly not the best — not by a long shot! And

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Unraveling the Mystery of the Century!

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At ninety-eight pages, The JFK Assassination Diary: My Search For Answers to the Mystery of the Century by Edward Jay Epstein is a slim tome, and like most of Epstein’s books, it is worth the enthralling read and worth every bit of the price. The tome, clear and concise, is an essential narrative and puzzle-solver

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Farewell: The Greatest Spy Story of the Twentieth Century by Sergei Kostin and Eric Raynaud

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The disintegration of the USSR is inextricably entwined and intimately related to the life and times, failures and accomplishments, paradoxes and contradictions of the courageous Russian who is the subject of this book — a man with tenacious clarity of purpose and the steely determination to carry on through and accomplish his goal at any

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Spies of the Cold War

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The Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations by Richard C. S. Trahair was published by Greenwood Press, (Westport, Connecticut) in 2004. It is 473 pages. It consists of nearly 300 A to Z entries of both spies and secret operations as the main text in 350 pages. There are the usual introductions,

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Spying from the belly of the beast in the Revolutionary Guards of Iran

Faria: Fidel Castro, Cuban Intelligence and the Assassination of JFK

Cloak and Dagger Dullness While Bashing the CIA! — A review of the movie The Good Shepherd (2006)

Unraveling the Mystery of the Century!

Farewell: The Greatest Spy Story of the Twentieth Century by Sergei Kostin and Eric Raynaud

Spies of the Cold War

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