Agencies

I found this book very informative. It focuses truly on the operations of the travel industry. Very helpful if you're considering starting your own travel agency. It's a bit dated but still very helpful & useful. It's great for begineers b/c it has study guides.

A thourough guide for anyone wishing to have a career in secret operations in America. Covers the CIA, FBI, DIA, DEA, Treasury and NSA. A good book even if you are just curious about how intellegence works in the U.S.

I authored this book! The year it was published, it won the Book-of-the Year Award by the American Journal of Nursing.

In the book I used a family systems approach for the analysis of (1) family problems and (2) organizational/management problems.

I still use the book in my teaching and I plan to author a popular book using the same concepts.

Mary Ann Eells, Ed.D., APRN, BC
5001 Clinton Rd. Apt. 5C
Whitesboro, N.Y. 13492

This 1979 book is a reprint of information on the Chinese Army and Navy compilied by the United States Defence Department in 1976. It is a short book, only 240 pages, but it contains a lot of information, on the uniforms and decorations of, the weapons used by and the organization of the Peoples Liberation Army of China, (PLA) .

The book is well supplimented by color prints of all the different uniforms and decorations, maps and organization charts of the vaious units of the PLA. The book is very current and brings the reader up to 1980, showing the latest Intercontinental Ballistic Missles (ICBM) and other shorter range missles which were being developed by China as of the late 1970s.

Just by virtue of its being published by Praeger ...this book will never become as popular as some very much less deserving sensationalist accounts published concerning events which occurred during his service.
Breckinridge was a university graduate and lawyer in Lexington, Ky, the state capitol but an economic backwater whose main industry was then the University of Kentucky. The author was a member of the educated local upper middle class not the landed gentry, and like my father and I in turn had to earn a living, not live off investment income. After service in WWII in the Navy, he came back to enter law practice with his brother. After becoming briefly involved in local county politics, a cousin mentioned he might like the CIA and he ended up signing on in 1953.
He was not one of the founding fathers of the CIA who had stayed on in intelligence just after the war, but was of their generation. Rising steadily he spent his last 15 years in the Inspector General's Office. His stories of having to cope with young whippersnapper staff personnel of the House Select Committee are amusing but serve to emphasize his recurring major point that no matter how thoroughly an outsider does his research, the final word as to what happened can only come from an insider. Once the facts are established, then one's opinion based on them can be expressed legitimately.
For there was much truth in the hoohah in the wake of the revelations of the 70s which led to reforms; the CIA is still operating today with permanent Congressional oversight committees. No matter what was said then about a "rogue elephant" the CIA was always following orders in its covert activities, but plausible deniablity had to be observed.
What is overlooked in most exposes or even friendly accounts of the CIA is many of their successes. For many reasons including not wishing to embarass allies, revealing "sources and methods" which can be used again if not compromised, and exposing individuals who were under deep cover and who might be endangered if compromised, the agency simply cannot reveal its triumphs in real time as its failures have become known.
The major triumphs of the Cold War have now been long known, the reconnaissance aircraft and satellite systems, the bugging of Soviet facilities in Berlin, the Glomar recovery (unfortunately revealed before it could be fully exploited by irresponsible journalists) and Penskovski's and the Polish Colonel's revelations of inner deliberations which averted war.
It is also little appreciated by the public that most of the so called analytic failures were really due to the policy makers' failures to believe or to act upon that analysis. Since most effort of analysts is simply keeping up with events, and maintaining data bases, the value of such basic intelligence is probably the most useful in the system.
The author goes on to comment from his perspective on the events during the eighties and the end of the Cold War. Here his non access to current intelligence is not necessary disqualifying in light of his long experience on the inside.
It is unfortunate that no trade or academic publisher took up this work; marketing it through the limited press runs of Praeger who distribute only to university and major research libraries will keep it from many who might profit by reading it.
The author's text "The CIA and the Intelligence Community", written when he was teaching at Kentucky after he retired is still useful also.

An excellent account of the beginnings of Canadian security and intelligence activities, and the RCMP role in security and intelligence work. Easy read. Supported by many formerly official documents of the 1940s-1970s.

"The Complete Idiot's Guide to the FBI" is a good (although very basic) guide to the agency and its functions. Not surprisingly, just like other books in the "Complete Idiots" series, it caters to readers who only need a simple overview of the FBI.

"The FBI: A Comprehensive Reference Guide," by Athan Theoharis, is even better. Thomas Ackerman's "FBI Careers: The Ultimate Guide to Landing a Job As One of Americas Finest" is also a great book for agency information and history, and it's the best book on the market for FBI career seekers.

Incredibly interesting and surprisingly easy to read. I'm very glad I read this book and would recommend it to anyone

This book discusses the FBI's program of targeting authors as possibly subversive to the USA-- authors such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, EB White (Charlotte's Web) and others. It also discusses how the FBI tried pressuring the American Library Assn into maintaining reading lists of its patrons but the Assn refused. Some universities do this and have been doing it. This book a frightening account of an agency with broad police powers and the capability of labelling anyone as an enemy of the state for expressing ideas.

Although this book has only 28 pages it is an interesting book for kids about dolphins. The text is in large letter which makes it easier to read for children who want to read themselfs or grandmothers/grandfathers :) who might have to read it for them. Being a wildlife photographer myself I have to admit that the photos are very good and the quality of the print is of equal level. So even if you're not a kid any more and just like dolphins it's well worth the money. Of course this is not a comprehensive book on dolphins but it was never meant to be.