The Great Game Analysis

In The Great Game: The Myths and Reality of Espionage, Fred Hitz, a former inspector general of the Central Intelligence Agency, suggested that there is a clear overlap between real intelligence, and the fiction of Kipling and Childers. In a recent article for the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Adam Svendsen proposed that the works of many spy novelists offer a near perfect window onto intelligence processes. In a field notorious for its lack of declassified material, Svendsen continues, intelligence history would be greatly enriched if scholars invested a little more time thumbing through fictitious renderings of the sub rosa
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