![]() ![]() espionage against China is never broached at all. Since the FBI runs no foreign spies, and the National Security Agency and the CIA, who do indeed spy on China, are mentioned only in passing, U.S. My concerns about the title grew as it became clear that the book doesn’t address anything like a “spy war.” It is a recounting of selected FBI counterintelligence actions against agents of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Maybe a sales-conscious editor devised the title. international or security matters refers to the United States as “America.” That name, by itself, properly refers to two continents, not to a single nation. The title of the book raised doubts in this reviewer’s mind. Since the 1960s, when he famously roused the wrath of the CIA for The Invisible Government, he has poured out volume after volume on intelligence, covering everything from the Gary Powers U-2 incident in 1960 to the defection of Edward Lee Howard in the 1980s. ![]()
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