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"The story of Reuven Shiloah - the man who established the Mossad, Israel's 'Institute for Intelligence and Security' and laid the foundations for the intelligence community of the State of Israel - is disclosed here for the first time. Although he was head of the Mossad for only two years, from its inception in April 1951 until his resignation in March 1953, Shiloah was a man born to such an age." "The grey world of undercover negotiations and quiet dealings was Shiloah's element, and he manoeuvred his way skilfully around this hidden realm for three momentous decades in the history of the Jewish people, from his induction at the beginning of the 1930s until his untimely death in 1959 at the age of 49." "Based on documents from private archives - many of which are published here for the first time - and interviews with people who worked closely with Shiloah both in Israel and abroad, this book is the most comprehensive portrayal of one of Israel's most esoteric characters. While this portrait will enlighten and often surprise even well-versed readers of early Israeli history, the enigma of Reuven Shiloah undoubtedly lives on."--Jacket

Richard M. Bissell, Jr., the most important CIA spymaster in history, single-handedly led America's intelligence service from the age of Mata Hari into the space age. Under his guidance the U-2 spy plane, the SR-71 "Blackbird," and the Corona spy satellite were developed, and the agency rose to the pinnacle of its power. Bissell was also, however, the architect of the infamous Bay of Pigs operation that failed to overthrow Castro in 1961 and led to the decline of the CIA. In this compelling memoir, Bissell gives us an insider's view of the personalities, policies, and historical forces surrounding these and other covert operations, and the lessons learned during those times of conflict

"This edited text draws together the insights of numerous worldwide eminent academics to evaluate the condition of predictive policing and artificial intelligence (AI) as interlocked policy areas. Predictive and AI technologies are growing in prominence and at an unprecedented rate. Powerful digital crime mapping programmes are being used to identify crime hotspots in real-time, as pattern-matching and search algorithms are sorting through huge police databases filled with growing volumes of data in an effort to identify high-risk people, intelligence and evidence. Facial and vehicle recognition cameras are locating criminals as they move, while police services develop strategies informed by machine learning programmes and other kinds of predictive analytics. Many of these innovations are features of modern policing in the U.K, the U.S and Australia, among other jurisdictions. AI, in particular, promises to reduce unnecessary labour, speed up various forms of police work, encourage police organisations to more efficiently apportion their resources, and enable police officers to prevent crime and protect people from a variety of future harms. However, the promises of predictive and AI technologies and innovations do not always match reality. They often have significant weaknesses, come at a considerable cost and require challenging trade-offs to be made. Focusing on the U.K, the U.S. and Australia, this book explores themes of choice architecture, decision making, human rights, accountability and the rule of law, as well as future uses of AI and predictive technologies in various policing contexts. The text contributes to ongoing debates on the benefits and biases of predictive algorithms, big data sets, machine learning systems and broader policing strategies. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars of policing, criminology, crime science, sociology, computer science, cognitive psychology and all those interested in the emergence of AI as a feature of contemporary policing"--

Learn how to profit from information about insider trading.The term insider trading refers to the stock transactions of the officers, directors, and large shareholders of a firm. Many investors believe that corporate insiders, informed about their firms' prospects, buy and sell their own firm's stock at favorable times, reaping significant profits. Given the extra costs and risks of an active trading strategy, the key question for stock market investors is whether the publicly available insider-trading information can help them to outperform a simple passive index fund.Basing his insights on an exhaustive data set that captures information on all reported insider trading in all publicly held firms over the past twenty-one years--over one million transactions!--H. Nejat Seyhun shows how investors can use insider information to their advantage. He documents the magnitude and duration of the stock price movements following insider trading, determinants of insiders' profits, and the risks associated with imitating insider trading. He looks at the likely performance of individual firms and of the overall stock market, and compares the value of what one can learn from insider trading with commonly used measures of value such as price-earnings ratio, book-to-market ratio, and dividend yield.

The word "intelligence" has always carred with it an aura of mystery and its own mythology. The history of the Intelligence Corps leaves not doubt that despite the inescapable need for the tightest security over most intelligence activities, these have grown in the late-19th and 20th centuries to assume an importance which must rank alongside any other military reources in a nation's armoury. This study traces the development of the Intelligence Corps, from the birth pangs during World War I, through the struggle for survival between the wars, to the triumphs of World War II and beyond. Two major points emerge in this story - the sheer scale of intelligence operations between 1939 and 1945, and the intellectual quality of the officers and men who were reponsible for them. The move to more open government has made possible the release of a welter of information for public consumption, which until recent years has been jealously guarded, making possible the writing of this work.

Considers how South African democracy is being threatened by illegal spying carried out by its own National Intelligence Agency (NIA). Such activity is attributed to (1) senior intelligence officers' belief that it is legitimate for them to "bend the rules," & (2) failure by Parliament & the executive branch to curtail these practices. As part of a Commission on Intelligence in South Africa, the author offers several recommendations for addressing this problem & calls for a complete overhaul of the laws on spying. K. Hyatt Stewart

Unlike many standard works on compliance, this book focuses not on the goals, but on the means that enable effective compliance. From the internal perspective of the compliance officer, everyday problems are addressed and solved with the help of concrete, tried-and-tested measures. Based on the tension between profit generation and compliance, ethical principles as well as the appearance of compliance, its handling of contacts and its procedure in the event of violations are also discussed. Psychological and sociological insights broaden the perspective, put people at the center and offer new starting points for designing successful compliance. The content Background and foundation of compliance Decisions, goals and planning Appearance of the compliance officer Supervisors, groups and newcomers to the profession Partners, allies, competitors Audits and training Conflicts, compliance violations and detection Development and perspectives The author Thomas Schneider holds a degree in business administration. After working for many years as an internal auditor for a Dax 40 company, he has been responsible for the compliance management of a medium-sized steel trader in Essen for several years. He regularly publishes articles and books on the subject of compliance and speaks at conferences. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

The long-awaited memoirs of a legendary figure in the history of American intelligence.

Johnson examines the role of communications and intelligence in policing. Based on an evaluation of a unit within the Office of the Washington Attorney General, Johnson demonstrates that information flow in the criminal justice system is often hindered by self-interest and a lack of trust between members of the criminal justice community. Johnson studied people at various responsibility levels, including community corrections officers, crime investigators, supervisors, and police chiefs and Sheriffs. The existence of trust-based relationships is not the only key to effective intelligence-led p.

On Tuesday 7 July 1936, a few weeks before the spectacular opening by Adolf Hitler of the Berlin Olympics, seven men sat around a large ornate table in a four-story building just opposite the entrance to Downing Street to discuss what was known of the growing military challenge that Germany posed for the British Empire. Six of the men were officers representing the intelligence staffs of the Royal Navy, Army, and Royal Air Force (RAF). The seventh was a shadowy civilian whose background was in an organization that had then no official existence, the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). The building in which the meeting was taking place, No. 2 Whitehall Gardens, had previously made history when an earlier occupant, Benjamin Disraeli, had held meetings of his Cabinet there.1 William F. Moneypenny The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (London: John Murray, 1920), p. 285. Now the large ornate rooms, modeled in the French style, similar to the interior of the Palace at Versailles, housed the Committee of Imperial Defence (CID) and the Chiefs of Staff (COS) Committee. At their direction the key figures in British intelligence were meeting formally in committee for the first time. Outside the storm clouds gathered, and as the clock chimed 11 o'clock in the Secretary's Room on the first floor, the chairman, a Brigadier in the East Yorkshire Regiment, opened proceedings.2 The weather forecast is courtesy of the Meteorological Office archive. I am grateful to Glyn Hughes for this information. The Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) had come into being.