(Ebook) The Secret History Of The Five Eyes (The Untold Story Of The International Spy Network) by Richard Kerbaj ISBN 9781789465563, 1789465567

(Ebook) The Secret History Of The Five Eyes (The Untold Story Of The International Spy Network) by Richard Kerbaj ISBN 9781789465563, 1789465567

The Secret History of The Five Eyes (The untold story of the international spy network), is a riveting and exclusive narrative of the most powerful and least understood intelligence alliance, which has been steeped in secrecy since its formation in 1956. Richard Kerbaj, an award-winning investigative journalist and filmmaker, bypasses the usual censorship channels to tell the definitive account of authoritative but unauthorised stories of the Western world's most powerful but least known intelligence alliance made up of the USA, UK, Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa (New Zealand). As Kerbaj shows, spy stories are never better than when they are true - and these span from 1930s Nazi spy rings to the most recent developments in The Ukraine and China. Through personal interviews with world leaders - including former Prime Ministers May and Cameron - and more than 100 intelligence officials, this book explores the complex personalities who helped shape the Five Eyes. They include a Scotland Yard detective who became a spymaster and inspired the first exchanges between MI5 and the FBI. An American home economics teacher who helped create one of the most effective programmes to counter Soviet espionage. The CIA's lone officer in Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution. GCHQ's chief during the Edward Snowden intelligence leak. And the former Australian politician turned diplomat whose tip-off to the FBI instigated the inquiry into Russia's meddling in the US presidential contest between Trump and Clinton in 2016. Richard Kerbaj is able to draw from deep inside the secret corridors of power and his unparalleled access spans all 5 of the countries and security services involved. Some of the people he has interviewed include former GCHQ director Sir Iain Lobban,CIA director Gen David Petraeus, MI5 DG Eliza Manningham-Buller, NSA director Adm Mike Rogers, Brit NS Advisor Kim Darroch, Aust ASIO chief Mike Burgess, Canadian CSIS chief Richard Fadden amongst many others.