Culled from archives around the world, the 50 documents in Declassified illuminate the secret and often inaccessible stories of agents, espionage, and behind-the-scenes events that played critical roles in American history. Moving through time from Elizabethan England to the Cold War and beyond, noted author Tom Allen places each document in its historical and cultural context, sharing the quirky and little-known truths behind state secrets and clandestine operations. Each of seven chapters centers on one particular theme: secrets of war, the art of the double cross, spy vs. spy, espionage accidents, and more. Through support and access provided by the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., this lively history contains never-before-published and hard-to-find documents—printed from scans of the originals wherever possible. These include The Zimmerman Telegram, which led America into World War I; letters from Robert Hanssen to his Soviet spymaster, marking the start of his devastating career as a mole; and papers as recent as the Presidential Daily Brief that announced that Bin Laden was determined to strike the U.S.—delivered in August 2001.The public interest in state secrets and espionage has been piqued by our current international conflicts, and this engrossing book—well priced and engagingly written for the general reader—will definitely feed that fascination.

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A latest edition profiles nearly 10,000 free and fee-based Web sites while providing a wealth of searching tips and industry guidelines for the different types of records and vendors, in a reference to online research that includes coverage of background searches, legal research, and genealogy. Original.

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Provides addresses and descriptions of government web sites for agriculture, business and economics, census and other statistics, health science, legal information, science, military, and social services. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Ensuring that citizens have the government information they need is the goal of this new guide and CD ROM. In this sequel to his previous book, Finding Government Information on the Internet (1994), Maxymuk focuses on the sweeping changes brought by the shift of federal, state, local, foreign, and international government information from print to electronic format...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: In the six years since the second edition of the bestselling Oryx information guide, Using Government Information Sources, was published, a lot has changed in the searching process. Much government information is now found exclusively on the Internet and there are many more print resources available...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Whether used as a text for library and information science students, as a resource for professional librarians needing to access the information produced by or for the federal establishment, or as a guide for researchers, this acclaimed title is an essential resource and a valuable tool guiding readers through the vast and constantly changing terrain of government information in print and electronic forms...read more

Product Description: A review of information systems of international inter-governmental organizations. It covers United Nations and UN subsidiary bodies, UN specialized agencies and related organizations, and other inter-governmental organizations such as the Council of Europe and the Organization of African Unity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Discusses access to government publications, explains the operation of the Government Printing Office, and tells how to search for regulations, statistics, and information (view table of contents)

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