Room 3603: The Story of the British Intelligence Center in New York During World War II
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963. Third Printing. 257, illus., sources, index, DJ soiled and worn along edges, foreword by Ian Fleming. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963. Third Printing. 257, illus., sources, index, DJ soiled and worn along edges, foreword by Ian Fleming. More
New York, N.Y. Ballantine Books, 1972. First Printing [Stated]. Mass market paperback. [10], 403, [1] pages. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Includes Preface, Prologue, Epilogue, Glossary, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, and Index, as well as 23 chapters. The Complete Story of America's First Wartime Espionage Service, the Forerunner of the CIA. This book details the formation of the OSS--forerunner of the CIA--from its beginnings, when it was described by Radio Berlin as "fifty professors, twenty monkeys, ten goats, twelve guinea pigs and a staff of Jewish scribblers," through its development into an organization which made decisive contributions to the Allied victory. Mr. Hymoff began his career as a reporter at The World-Telegram and Sun in New York City. He covered the Korean War for 15 New England newspapers and for the International News Service, and later worked for CBS. During World War II, Mr. Hymoff served in the Office of Strategic Services, which he made the subject of one of his several books. As an NBC news manager, he helped create "Monitor," the Peabody Award-winning radio program. He was also a consultant to the United States Information Agency, the Voice of America, the Department of Defense and the League of Women Voters, for which he helped produce the 1980 Presidential debates. Earlier, as the communications and public affairs director for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, he developed the satellite broadcasting system used by 500 radio and television stations. At the time of his death Mr. Hymoff was the vice president of communications and marketing for the National Security Institute, a defense industry security firm. More
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1943. First Edition. 287, slight discoloration inside boards, DJ worn, soiled, and small tears, small pieces missing from DJ. More
New York: Random House, c1997. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 333 pages. Signed by the author. More
New York: Random House, c1997. First Edition. Second Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 333 pages. Slight wear and soiling to DJ. Signed by the author. The author worked as journalist/editor for The Washington Post. This book is a searingly realistic account of what happens when a spy is suspected of working in the newsroom of a great American newspaper. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1969. Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 31 cm. 95,(1) pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (many in color). Front DJ flap price clipped, red dot at top edge. DJ has some wear, tears, soiling, and chips. Pencil erasure residue on half-title page. Minor cover wear and soiling. Red dot at top edge. Brian Innes trained as a scientist and worked as a biochemical researcher before turning to writing. He published a large number of articles and books on forensic science. He died in 2014. Born in London on 6 June 1938, Michael Whittlesea was educated at Harrow School of art. Whittlesea was a regular book cover artist in the 1960s and 1970s working for Heinemann, Newnes, Young World, Macdonald and Oxford University Press amongst others. He was a regular contributor to World of Wonder and Speed and Power in the 1970s, for the latter producing a series of stunning paintings based on the science fiction stories of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov in 1974-75. More
[The Hague]: Intern'l Comm of Jurists, 1955. 24 cm, 535, wraps, covers somewhat soiled and worn, pages somewhat discolored. More
New York: M. S. Mill Company, 1963. 22 cm, 227, footnotes, some pencil marks and underlining to text, DJ worn, soiled, and small edge tears, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1998. First edition. First edition stated. First printing stated. Hardcover. x, 438 p. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. Select Bibliography. Picture Credits. Television Acknowledgements. Index. More
Washington, DC: Universal Books, 1997. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Wraps. 209 pages. Wraps, front cover creased. Signed by the author. More
New York: Scribner, 2015. First Scribner Hardcover Edition [Stated]. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, [2], 290, [4] pages. Naveed Alexis Jamali (born February 20, 1976) is an American commentator on national security and former FBI asset. He worked for the U.S. Department of Defense as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve. He is the author of the non-fiction book How to Catch a Russian Spy. He also co-chairs the Swatting Mitigation Advisory Committee for the Seattle Police Department. After 9/11, he contacted the FBI to offer his services as his parents were nearing retirement. He later became a double agent when a Russian GRU member named Oleg Kulikov attempted to recruit him. The ruse lasted from 2005 to 2009. During this time, Kulikov paid Jamali for what he thought were classified documents. The operation ended with Jamali being "arrested" by the FBI in front of Kulikov, blowing Kulikov's cover as a diplomat in the United States. Following the operation, Jamali was sworn in to the United States Navy Reserve as an Intelligence Officer. Since then, he has become a contributor to MSNBC and a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, an American think tank. In 2019, Jamali joined Newsweek; first as a columnist, then as an editor-at-large. He has reported extensively on matters of National Security and Intelligence and was part of the team that broke the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raid. Ellis Henican (born October 9, 1958) is an American columnist at Newsday and AM New York as well as a political analyst on the Fox News Channel. He hosts a nationally syndicated weekend show on Talk Radio Network. More
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1974. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 256 pages. 31 Illustrations. Maps. 10 Tables. Three Appendices. Bibliography. Subjective Analysis Summary (SAS) Index. Index. DJ has slight soiling and wear. The author was a space systems analyst with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. He was also their Program Manager of Foreign (Soviet) Technology from 1968 to 1971. His intelligence assessments were used by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the United States Air Force Foreign Technology Division. More
New York: Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2010. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 306 pages. Occasional Footnotes. Notes. Index. Publisher's ephemera. Javers is a TV host on CNBC . Eamon Javers joined CNBC in June 2010 as a Washington reporter based at the bureau in the nation's capital. He appears on CNBC's business day programming. Prior to that, Javers was a White House reporter for Politico where he covered the intersection of Wall Street and Washington . He conducted investigations of the Administration’s financial bailouts and economic stimulus efforts, broke news about the presidency of Barack Obama and authored stories on Washington. Previously, Javers was a Washington Correspondent for Businessweek magazine where he wrote extensively about Washington Lobbying and the Jack Abramoff scandal and unearthed previously unknown incidents of corporate espionage. Earlier, he was a Correspondent for CNBC. Javers’ articles have appeared in Fortune, Money, Congressional Quarterly and Slate , among others. He began his career at The Hill , a weekly newspaper covering Congress . Javers has appeared as an analyst on each of the major broadcast networks, all of the major cable television news networks, and PBS ' News Hour with Jim Lehrer , the BBC and National Public Radio . In 2006, Javers received an Award of Distinction in investigative journalism from the Medill School of Journalism. Eamon Javers is author of the book "Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage" (2010), which revealed a never-before-reported CIA policy allowing active-duty officers to moonlight in the private sector. More
New York: Harper & Row, [c1972]. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 340, illus. More
New York: Harper & Row, [c1972]. First U.S. Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 340, illus., index, front DJ flap price clipped, gift inscription on front flyleaf, damp damage at bottom of book. More
New York: Villard Books, 1986. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 319, DJ edges worn, some soiling to DJ. Inscribed by the author (Johnson). More
New York: Villard Books, 1986. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 319, slight wear to DJ edges, publisher's ephemera and black and white photograph of the authors laid in. More
New York: Viking, 1986. First American Edition. 335, illus., maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, slight wear along top and bottom edges of DJ. More
London: The Time Publishing Company, Limited, 1917. Reprint. Reprinted from The Times of Tuesday, February 20, 1917. 4 p. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. First Printing. 376, chronology, notes, bibliography, some foxing to fore-edge, bottom DJ edge worn and creased, small chips at DJ spine. More
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, [1956]. 23 cm, 308, illus., glossary, index, usual library markings. More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1953. 279, illus., appendices, index, discoloration inside flyleaves, DJ discolored, DJ edges worn & small tears. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. First Edition. 380, illus., appendices, index, boards soiled, small tears to top & bottom spine edges, slight darkening to text. More
Boston: Da Capo Press, 2000. First De Capo Press Edition [stated]. Fourth printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xiii, [1], 671, [3] pages. Map. Illustrations. Citations, Translations, Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Mark on bottom edge. David Kahn (b. February 7, 1930) is an American historian, journalist, and writer. He has written extensively on the history of cryptography and military intelligence. Kahn's first published book, The Codebreakers - The Story of Secret Writing (1967), has been widely considered to be a definitive account of the history of cryptography. Kahn has said he traces his interest in cryptography to reading Fletcher Pratt's Secret and Urgent as a boy. Kahn is a founding editor of the Cryptologia journal. He attended Bucknell University. After graduation, he worked as a reporter at Newsday for several years. He also served as an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris for two years in the 1960s. It was during this period that he wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine about two defectors from the National Security Agency. This article was the origin of his monumental book, The Codebreakers. Kahn was awarded a doctorate (D.Phil.) from Oxford University in 1974, in modern German history under the supervision of Regius professor of modern history, Hugh Trevor-Roper. Kahn continued his work as a reporter and editor for Newsday until 1998, and served as a journalism professor at New York University. Kahn was selected in 1995 to become NSA's scholar-in-residence. On October 26, 2010, Kahn attended am event at NSA's National Cryptologic Museum (NCM) to commemorate his donation of his collection of cryptologic books, memorabilia, and artifacts to the museum. More