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by James Rusbridger (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd; New edition edition (31 Dec 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1850433380
  • ISBN-13: 978-1850433385
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 2.6 cm
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For many, espionage is surrounded with an aura of glamour supplied by images from the media. This book aims to correct this impression by revealing the welter of corruption and ineptitude that surrounds most intelligence operations. Among the episodes examined are the escape of George Blake, the 15-year spying career of Geoffrey Prime, and the mysterious murder of Hilda Murrell, an anti-nuclear protestor. The author argues that most espionage is entirely useless and the organizations' record cannot justify their abuse of civil liberties.
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Reading "The Intelligence Game" is like becoming trapped in a fascinating looking-glass time warp. The teams are MI5/SIS, CIA, and KGB; their respectuve captains are Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan (replaced late in the game by George The First Bush--actually George II, if one counts Washington), and Mikhail Gorbichev. The constantly changing rules of the game seem to have been written by Lewis Carroll for one of his Alice books, and, if one of the minor players cries "foul"--or in the words of Alice, "You're nothing but a pack of cards!"--governmental referees rush out onto the playing field waving rule books of "official secrets." As the recalcitrant player is promptly escorted to the penalty box, a frantic, but usually unsuccessful, attempt is made to bind, gag, and keep him there until the game finishes. What the spectators in the stands do not know, however, is that the game will never finish.

Like Phillip Knightley in his 1986 book, "The Second Oldest Profession," Mr. Rusbridger, writing in 1998-99, argues that the intelligence community (on all sides) is an expensive, often-delusional, not to say corrupt, self-perpetuating oligarchy, whose survival depends both on the cloak of governmental secrecy and on the conjuring up of new enemies, both real and imaginary, to be forever feared by the unsuspecting public. Food for thought in the post-KGB twenty-first century, as the game goes on.

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