Our defence editor, shashj, selects seven books that encapsulate the past, present and future of covert work
from embassies across America and Europe. Finally, they watched as a string of precious “illegals”—spies who operate without diplomatic cover—were rolled up in the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Sweden. In December even Belgian spies hit the headlines when they exposed a Moroccan intelligence network in the European Union. We chose seven books that encapsulate the past, present and future of covert work.
Much of the story is about cryptanalysis, or reading encrypted messages, a process that can take decades. The VENONA programme, which cracked 3,000 Soviet messages sent between 1943 and 1945, went on until 1980. The messages were not declassified until 1995. By the 1960s 80% of America’s intelligence was coming not from human spies but SIGINT—and this could be dangerous work. More than 90 men died during the cold war in flights around Soviet borders to gather electronic intelligence.
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