Search Results: Espionage and National Intelligence or Lack Thereof from Arroyo Seco Books

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1983. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 351 Pp. Black Cloth Spine, Gilt, Gray Boards. First Printing Indicated. Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket Priced $17.50.

New York: Norton, 1976. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Xxxi, 349 Pp. Light Blue Cloth Stamped In Dark Blue. Stated First Edition, Fist Printing. Near Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket Priced $10.00 With Two Short, Narrow Creases On Rear Flap. Some Prefer Assassinations To Pointless, Immoral And Un-Winnable Foreign Wars Involving Hundreds Of Thousands Of Needless Deaths, But That Consensus Has Never Emerged.

Central Intelligence Agency / Historical Staff, 1973. Soft cover. Near Fine. Iv, 162; Iii, 179 Pp. Two Volumes Of Three Of An Internal Summary Historical Overview, July 1973, Originally Classified "Secret" [With Further Limitation "Cia Internal Use Only, Access Controlled By Cia Historical Staff"], Then Declassified 26 April 1994 Under The Cia's Historical Review Program But Not Readily Available On The Internet. This Is A Cia Photocopy Of The Original Report, Made After The "Secret" Marks Were Crossed Out And A Few Critical Names Redacted, But Of Some Value As These Reproduce The Exact Original Text With Ample Footnotes And References, And Good Suppositions About Redacted Names May Be Made Using The Size Of The Blacked-Out Redactions And Some Visible Traces Of The Lettering. In Blue Wrappers With Cia Logo, Classification And Dissemination Information, Title, Individualized Identification Number "Series B Copy 3 Of 6" On Volume Ii And "Copy 2 Of… Read More

Harper & Row / Ballinger, 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Viii, 375 Pp. Blue Cloth Spine Lettered In Silver, Light Blue Boards. First Printing Indicated. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket Priced $24.95.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1947. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ix, 314 Pp.+ Catalog At End. Green Cloth, Gilt. First Edition, "First Published 1947". Very Good, Light Wear, Gilt Brilliant, Hinges Solid, Light Wear At Corners Without Fraying, No Other Marks. Harold Dwight Lasswell (1902 - 1978) Studied At The University Of Chicago In The 1920S, And Was Highly Influenced By The Pragmatism Taught There. Freudian Philosophy, Which Informed Much Of His Analysis Of Propaganda And Communication In General. He Later Taught Political Science At The University Of Chicago (1922-38), Then Served At The Washington School Of Psychiatry (1938-39) And During World War Ii, Lasswell Held The Position Of Chief Of The Experimental Division For The Study Of War Time Communications At The Library Of Congress. He Analyzed Nazi Propaganda Films To Identify Mechanisms Of Persuasion Used To Secure The Acquiescence And Support Of The German Populace. At Yale… Read More

New York: Philosophical Library, 1957. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 183 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt. Extended Anecdotes Of 20Th Century Spying, When Spying Was Done With Real Eyes, Real People And Privatel Conversations, And, Of Course, Immediate And Usually Personally Dangerous Action. Fine In A Lightly Worn Dj, Complete, With Some Minute Losses At Edges.

New York: Prentice-Hall, 1967. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good + Dust Jacket. 199 Pp. First Published In Italy In 1965. Personal Account And Observations By A Well-Known Italian Correspondent, Apparently Without American Interests. Readable And Apparently Credible, But No Index Or Footnotes.

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Xvii,372 Pp. Red Cloth. First Printing. Fine In Fine Dj.

William Morrow, 1983. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 300 Pp. Blue Cloth Lettered In Silver, White Boards. First Printing Indicated. Fine. Dust Jacket Priced $15.95, Near Fine, Slight Usage.

Yale University Press, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Xxv, 530 Pp. Black Cloth Spine, Gilt, Gray Boards. First Printing Indictaed. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket

Washington D C: U. S. Department Of State, 1973. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 426 Pp. One Of The Last Issues Of This Detailed Biographical Register And Dictionary, With Long Personal Histories Of Each Person. Discontinued After Revelations By Philip Agee And Others About How One Could Spot Cia Officers By Careful Analysis Of Their Listings Here, Despite Or Because Of The Unreliability Of Their Biographic Information.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1933. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. Xvii, 296 Pp. Green Cloth, Spine Lettered In Gilt. First Edition, Second Printing Stated. Slight Usage, Gilt Bright, No Marks. Much Better Biographies Of Him Were Published In The Late 20Th Century; He Really Was A Spy, And Nothing A Spy Says Should Ever Be Believed, Like Politicians, Journalists And Entertainers, Thus Their Great And Quite Cordial Intermingling.

New York Ny: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 354 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. First American Printing, Light Usage, Cover Gilt Bright,Spine Gilt Weak, No Marks.

New York: Hyperion, 2005. First Edition . Cloth/Boards. Fine/Fine DJ. First Printing. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Inscribed Personally With "Warm Regards" And Signed And Dated By Turner In November 2005.

New York: Henry Holt, 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Viii, 376 Pp. Salmon Cloth Stamped In Maroon. First Edition Stated. Inscribed' To Thurston From Aunt Bess 1951/ And, In A Sense, From Me Too Happy New Year Carl Coon (Try To Forget The 54 Typographical Errors)". Book Near Fine, Faint 1 1/4" Tape Ghosts, T On Front Cover And Two On Rear Cover. Dust Jacket Priced $5.00, Lightly Used, Wear At Corners With Minute Losses, Two Small Tape Ghosts On Front Flap. Carleton Stevens Coon (1904 - 1981) Was An American Physical Anthropologist. A Professor Of Anthropology At The University Of Pennsylvania, Lecturer And Professor At Harvard University, He Was President Of The American Association Of Physical Anthropologists. A North Africa Story Was An Account Of His Work In North Africa During World War Ii, Which Involved Espionage And The Smuggling Of Arms To French Resistance Groups In German-Occupied Morocco Under The Guise Of Anthropological Fieldwork. During That Time, Coon Was… Read More

London: Robert Hale Ltd, 1977. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 192 Pp. Blue Cloth. Near Fine In Near Fine, Price-Clipped Dj, Just Traces Of Use.

Prentice-Hall, 1972. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Xi, 331 Pp. Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Very Near Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket, Price Clipped; Both Book And Jacket So Some Of The Usual Even Browning To The Paper, And There Is Some Wrinkling To The Laminate On The Front Panel Of The Dust Jacket. The Author's Suspicions That Franklin Was A British Spy Have Not Been Seriously Followed Up By Other Historians, Who Are Mote Interested In Franklin's Activities As A Spy For America In Britain, But The Perpetual Secrecy Of British Intelligence Archives, And Of Franklin's Family And Descendants, Makes Resolution Of The (Unlikely) Matter Impossible.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 248 Pp. Navy Blue Cloth, Spine Gilt. First Printing (American) Stated, 1980. Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket With $13.95 Price, Slight Usage, No Particular Flaws.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1913. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Plates. Xi, 354 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. No Date But Issued With Sheets From The English First Edition (1913). Near Fine, Gilt Brilliant, Cloth Clean, Bright, Unfaded, Endpapers Clean And Bright, Pages Clean And Bright, Just A Touch Of Rubbing At Corners.

Sacramento: Senate (California), 1955. First Edition . Red Wrappers. Very Good. 622 pp.