Enemies: How America's Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets-And How We Let It Happen is a 2006 book by Bill Gertz. In this book, Gertz brings to light instances where national security had been damaged by negligence and incompetence. Gertz makes the claim that more high-level attention is needed, as well as more resources, better leadership and proactive programs[1].
| Enemies: How America's Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets--and How We Let It Happen | |
|---|---|
| Author | Bill Gertz |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | United States Politics Terrorism |
| Genre(s) | non-fiction |
| Publisher | Three Rivers Press |
| Publication date | 19 September 2006 |
| Pages | 304 |
Contents |
Background
 |
This article lacks historical information. Please add it if you can. For help, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Historical information. |
Enemies (ISBN 978-0307338068) is a 2006 book by Bill Gertz. In it, Bill Gertz argues that the US has allowed itself to be penetrated by China[2], Russia and Cuba - not to mention some so-called friends[3][4] - due to negligence. Gertz reports on the intelligence gathering of America by China, Cuba and North Korea[5].
Highlights
The following topics are discussed in the book[6]:
- How FBI informant Katrina Leung and her FBI handler J.J. Smith helped China obtain vital secrets on U.S. electronic eavesdropping.
- New details on the technical intellignece-gathering spy ring of Tai Mak and Chi Mak, two brothers arrested for supplying China with vital defense technology.
- How information compromised to China allows Beijing to track U.S. Virginia-class submarines.
- How the CIA was informed in 1999 that at least three of its clandestine service officers were on the payroll of Chinese intelligence, but the agency failed to find the spies.
- How China has established a special, ultra-secret intelligence unit tasked with planting spies inside the U.S. government.
- How China ran a high-level penetration agent inside the U.S. government code-named "Mother."
- How the FBI mistakenly hounded CIA counterintelligence officer Brian Kelley and his family for nearly two years, while the real target of the mole hunt, FBI Agent Robert Hanssen, operated freely and passed secrets to Moscow.
- How Russia has dispatched scores of intelligence operatives to the United States, rivaling Cold War levels of spying.
- How weak counterintelligence has allowed terrorists to infiltrate the U.S. military gain access to U.S. secrets.
- How North Korea conducted intelligence-related abductions of Japanese nationals.
- How Cuba penetrated the Defense Intelligence Agency and other agencies with high-level mole Ana Montes, who spied to help Nicaragua's Sandinistas and then became Cuba's most important agent[7].
- How British military intelligence penetrated the terrorist Irish Republican Army with an agent code-named Stakeknife.
Publication
 |
This section requires expansion. |
Impact
|
This section requires expansion. |
Critical Reception
This book is on the national and New York Times Bestseller List [8]. The FBI General Overviews 2000s A-G gave favorable reviews to the book [9].
References
- ^ http://cicentre.com/BK/reviews/enemies_bg.html
- ^ http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/3/19/114453.shtml
- ^ https://www.efollett.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=16330&productId=13832758&catalogId=10001&productStoreId=10053
- ^ http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/9780307338068.html
- ^ http://www.taipei.org/book/no054/enemies.html
- ^ http://www.gertzfile.com/gertzfile/
- ^ http://www.aei.org/event/1521
- ^ http://www.gertzfile.com/gertzfile/bio.html
- ^ http://intellit.muskingum.edu/fbi_folder/fbi00s_folder/fbi00sgena-g.html
External links
- The Gertz File - Bill Gertz Homepage
- Amazon.com
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
