The United States is losing the counterintelligence war.
Foreign intelligence services, particularly those of China, Russia,
and Cuba, are recruiting spies in our midst and stealing our secrets and cutting-edge technologies.
In To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence, James M. Olson, former chief of CIA counterintelligence, offers a wake-up call for the American public and also a guide for how our country can do a better job of protecting its national security and trade secrets.
Olson takes the reader into the arcane world of counterintelligence as he lived it during his thirty-year career in the CIA.
After an overview of what the Chinese, Russian, and Cuban spy services are doing to the United States, Olson explains the nitty-gritty of the principles and methods of counterintelligence.
Readers will learn about specific aspects of counterintelligence such as running double-agent operations and surveillance.
The book also analyzes twelve real-world case studies to illustrate why people spy against their country, the tradecraft of counterintelligence, and where counterintelligence breaks down or succeeds.
A "lessons learned" section follows each case study.
256 pages.