"Full of useful information not only for scholars and practitioners
of intelligence, but for any serious newspaper reader."
-- Patrick Radden Keefe, author of "Chatter," in the "New York
Review of Books"
"William Arkin's "Code Names" will rock the National Security
Community. We do not agree on any issue, my problem when we argue
is that unlike most of his ilk, he researches the facts thoroughly
and has impeccable integrity. "Code Names" scares the hell out of
me because Arkin dredged up so many secrets and turned them into a
comprehensive tour of our national security efforts around the
globe. This book lays out for the reader what China, Israel, France
and Russia probably spent billions trying to find out. It will
become the basic reference book for those who study our foreign
affairs, unfortunately that includes every spy agency around the
world. This book shows the dysfunctional aspects of our all too
frequent over-classification process that blocks our agencies froma
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