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Hey #OSINT, do you have any plan for weekend? If you don't, we have a curated list of great books on espionage 📔🔍🕵️

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1. The Unending Game by Vikram Sood
Former chief of India's external intelligence agency deconstructs the shadowy world of spies, from the Cold War era to the age of global jihad, from surveillance states to psy-war, from gathering info to turning it into credible intelligence.

2. True Believer by Kati Marton
Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country. Field spied for Stalin during the 1930s and '40s. Then, a pawn in Stalin’s sinister master strategy, he was kidnapped and tortured by KGB and forced to testify against his own Communist comrades.

3. Inside the Company: CIA Diary by Philip Agee
Former CIA case officer Philip Agee, was the Edward Snowden of his generation. Revealing the names of more than 250 fellow spymasters, this is a raw, blistering account of the lengths to which the US went during the cold war.

4. Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
In 2013, Edward Snowden shocked the world when he revealed that the US government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance.

5. Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner
Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize national security.

6. Mitrokhin Archive II
This book discloses the KGB's secret contacts with a series of world leaders as well as with terrorist hijackers and communist parties around the globe.

7. Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman
This book demonstrates the central – and constant – presence of targeted assassination in Israeli policy since the beginning of the twentieth century, before even the foundation of the state of Israel.

8. MI6 Spy Skills for Civilians by Red Riley
MI6 Spy Skills for Civilians shows you how to master the skills of a British agent in order to protect yourself and others, be sneakier and handle any situation - even if it involves escaping from a hostile foreign country.

9. The Spy Who Couldn't Spell by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Before Snowden’s infamous data breach, the largest theft of government secrets was committed by an ingenious traitor whose intricate espionage scheme and complex system of coded messages were made by his dyslexia.

10. The Indian Spy by Mihir Bose.

Bhagat Ram Talwar was the only quintuple spy of World War II, spying for Britain, Italy, Germany, Japan and the USSR. His exploits and the people he worked with were truly remarkable.

Honorable mention: The Spy Who Changed History by Svetlana Lokhova

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