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Atombomba månen : och andra militära projekt som lyckligtvis aldrig lämnade ritbordet

AvVince Houghton

Inbunden, Svenska, 2023

265 kr

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"Atombomba månen är både underhållande och lärorik." BTJ

Förgiftade blomsterarrangemang, cigarrer spetsade med droger, avlyssningsutrustning inplanterad i specialtränade katter. Dessutom en CIA-plan på att spränga månen med en kärnvapenladdning ... Här får vi ta del av de 21 mest osannolika och bisarra militära planerna från andra världskriget till slutet av kalla kriget. Militära operationer som i slutändan var för farliga, dyra, galna eller långt före sin tid. För varje operation så lyckad som D-dagen fanns också idéer som att bestycka fladdermöss eller bygga torpedsäkra hangarfartyg av is och sågspån.

VINCE HOUGHTON är historiker och curator vid International Spy Museum i Washington, DC. Han är också programledare för podden SpyCast, som når 2,5 miljoner lyssnare varje år. Han är veteran från US Army och tjänstgjorde på Balkan innan han doktorerade.

"En samling historier som säkerligen både underhåller och upplyser." General Michael Hayden, författare och före detta NSA- och CIA-chef

"Fascinerande [...] Houghtons historier om drastiska spionfiaskon är underhållande, överraskande, och ibland nästan helt obegripliga." Daily Mail

"Både skräckinjagande och lustig. Boken får läsaren att fundera över vilka bisarra planer som idag smids i hemlighet i maktens korridorer." Publishers Weekly

"Besynnerlig [och] härlig." BookPage

"Houghton är en begåvad berättare, och hans passion för ämnet lyser igenom på varje sida, i takt med att historierna blir alltmer bisarra." Crime Reads

"Houghtons prosa är luftig, präglad av underhållande utvikningar och historiska insikter. [...] Lika rolig som skämmande." Shelf Awareness

Notes of Deception

How a Quartet of American Musicians Outwitted the KGB

AvMerryl Goldberg,Vince Houghton

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

221 kr

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The untold story of four Jewish American musicians-turned-amateur-spies who risked everything to aid “refuseniks” in the Soviet Union.In 1985, while the United States engaged in a battle of nuclear brinkmanship, four Americans landed in Moscow on a mission to smuggle secret information in and out using music as their cipher. Under the watchful eye of the KGB, the group faced countless challenges and risks—because they weren’t trained in espionage. In fact, they were musicians with the New England-based Yiddish-music focused Klezmer Conservatory Band (KCB).Now, the quartet’s saxophonist, Merryl Goldberg, together with Vince Houghton, the Director of the National Security Agency’s National Cryptologic Museum, tell the harrowing story of how Goldberg devised an ingenious plan to encode the intelligence within the group’s sheet music.

Nuclear Spies

America's Atomic Intelligence Operation Against Hitler and Stalin

AvVince Houghton

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

310 kr

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Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, shows us, that disastrous failure came just a few years after the Manhattan Project's intelligence team had penetrated the Third Reich and knew every detail of the Nazi 's plan for an atomic bomb. What changed and what went wrong?Houghton's delightful retelling of this fascinating case of American spy ineffectiveness in the then new field of scientific intelligence provides us with a new look at the early years of the Cold War. During that time, scientific intelligence quickly grew to become a significant portion of the CIA budget as it struggled to contend with the incredible advance in weapons and other scientific discoveries immediately after World War II. As The Nuclear Spies shows, the abilities of the Soviet Union's scientists, its research facilities and laboratories, and its educational system became a key consideration for the CIA in assessing the threat level of its most potent foe. Sadly, for the CIA scientific intelligence was extremely difficult to do well. For when the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb in 1949, no one in the American intelligence services saw it coming.

Covert City

The Cold War and the Making of Miami

AvEric Driggs,Vince Houghton

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

267 kr

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Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow.The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known, part of Cold War history. With its population of Communist exiles from Cuba, its strategic value for military operations, and its lax business laws, Miami was an ideal environment for espionage.Covert City tells the history of how the entire city of Miami was constructed in the image of the US-Cuba rivalry. From the Bay of Pigs invasion to the death of Fidel Castro, the book shows how Miami is a hub for money and cocaine but also secrets and ideologies. Cuban exiles built criminal and political organizations in the city, leading Washington to set up a CIA station there, codenamed JMWAVE. It monitored gang activities, plotted secret operations against Castro, and became a base for surveilling Latin American neighbors. The money and infrastructure built for the CIA was integral to the development of Miami.Covert City is a sweeping and entertaining history, full of stunning experimental operations and colorful characters--a story of a place like no other.

Nuking the Moon

And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Best Left on the Drawing Board

AvVince Houghton

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

137 kr

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"Compulsively readable laugh out loud history." Mary RoachBomb-carrying bats. Poisoned flower arrangements. Cigars laced with mind-altering drugs. Listening devices implanted into specially-trained cats. A torpedo-proof aircraft carrier made out of ice and sawdust. And a CIA plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon ... just because. In Nuking the Moon, Vince Houghton, Historian and Curator at the International Spy Museum, collects the most inspired, implausible and downright bizarre military intelligence schemes that never quite made it off the drawing board. From the grandly ambitious to the truly devious, they illuminate a new side of warfare, revealing how a combination of desperation and innovation led not only to daring missions and brilliant technological advances, but to countless plans and experiments that failed spectacularly. Alternatively terrifying and hilarious, and combining archival research with newly-conducted interviews, these twenty-six chapters reveal not only what might have happened, but also what each one tells us about the history and people around it. If 'military intelligence' makes you think of James Bond and ingenious exploding gadgets ... get ready for the true story.

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Vince Houghton – författare

Atombomba månen : och andra militära projekt som lyckligtvis aldrig lämnade ritbordet

Notes of Deception

Nuclear Spies

Covert City

Nuking the Moon

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