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"SPYFAIL is about the highly dangerous and growing capability of foreign countries to conduct large-scale espionage within the United States and how the FBI and other agencies have failed to prevent it. These covert operations involve a variety of foreign countries-North Korea, Russia, Israel, China, and others-and include cyberattacks, espionage, psychological warfare, the infiltration of presidential campaigns, the smuggling of nuclear weapons components, and other incredibly nefarious actions. With his trademark deep investigative style, James Bamford digs as deep as one can go into these clandestine invasions and attacks, uncovering who's involved, how these spygames were carried out, and why none of this was stopped. Full of revelations, SPYFAIL includes access to previously secret and withheld documents, such as never-before-seen parts of the Mueller Report, and interviews with confidential sources. Throughout this stunning, eye-opening account, SPYFAIL demonstrates again and again how large a role politics, special interests, and corruption play in allowing these shocking foreign intrusions to continue-leaving America and its secrets vulnerable and undefended"--

Within the rarified world of technical intelligence, few have matched the extraordinary instincts of Arthur Lundahl, who, in 1961, founded and headed the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center -- and who, a year later, alerted Pres John F. Kennedy to his agency's images of Soviet nuclear warheads in Cuba, leading to the missile crisis. In late November 1984, the author had lunch with Lundahl at O'Donnell's, a bustling seafood restaurant near his home in Bethesda, MD; afterward, he asked him back to his place, where people could talk more privately. Nevertheless, Lundahl told him, he and a small group of associates were determined that a White Center be built. With it, imagery useful for everything from predicting humanitarian crises to directing rescue efforts during natural disasters could be sanitized and made available to the world. Thirty years later, long after the Cold War, Lundahl's White Center is once again worth considering. Adapted from the source document.

For two years, Nicholas Teausant was a member of the National Guard and also a student at San Joaquin Delta College. Around the spring of 2013, he considered becoming a 'lone wolf' terrorist after reading a letter written by Omar Abdel Rahman in Inspire, an English-language magazine published online by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Inspire offers how-to guides for building bombs and staging terrorist attacks, and it gives space to famous voices in the global jihadi movement, including the Blind Sheikh, as Abdel Rahman is known. Teausant's case also highlights what many terrorism experts and intelligence officials fear is a new threat over which they have little control: the growing influence of Inspire. The true threat comes from Inspire's ability to deliver to Muslims the message that they are under constant assault and the only thing left to do is to fight back wherever and however they can. Adapted from the source document.