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On June 26, 2014, Dr. J. Phillip London, Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of CACI International Inc., discussed his new book entitled "Character: The Ultimate Success Factor" at The Institute of World Politics.

On June 26, 2014, Dr. J. Phillip London, Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of CACI International Inc., discussed his new book entitled "Character: The Ultimate Success Factor" at The Institute of World Politics.

On June 26, 2014, Dr. J. Phillip London, Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of CACI International Inc., discussed his new book entitled "Character: The Ultimate Success Factor" at The Institute of World Politics.

Raymond J. Batvinis, Former Supervisory Special Agent at the FBI and professor at The Institute of World Politics, discussed his new book entitled "Hoover's Secret War against Axis Spies: FBI Counterespionage during World War II" on June 17 at IWP.

Please click here to purchase the book: http://www.amazon.com/Hoovers-Secret-against-Axis-Spies/dp/0700619526

About the book

The world was at war, America precariously poised on the sidelines. But already a second secret war was well underway. While he fought on the home front to consolidate the FBI's intelligence gathering power, J. Edgar Hoover was conducting an all-out campaign to make his agency America's first foreign espionage service-a campaign that would lead to an uneasy alliance with British intelligence in a brilliantly successful operation to undermine Germany.

Taking up the tale begun in his acclaimed "Origins of FBI Counterintelligence," FBI historian and former agent Raymond Batvinis mines a wealth of heretofore untapped resources to expose Hoover's remarkable connivances and accomplishments in concert-and occasionally contention-with the Allies in outsmarting German intelligence. Hoover's Secret War opens up a world of spy rings, secret and double agents, surveillance, codes and ciphers, wire taps, microdots, mail drops, invisible ink, radio transmissions, and deception and disinformation as it tracks the warring nations spreading their intelligence tentacles throughout Europe and North and South America. As it documents the rocky evolution of the FBI's relationship with Britain's vaunted MI5 and MI6, the book brings to light the feud between Hoover and Williams Stephenson, director of the British Secret Intelligence Service's U.S. operation.

Batvinis reveals how the agency gained access to ULTRA intelligence. He uncovers eye-opening details of the FBI's participation in the famed "Double-Cross System, which effectively "turned" German agents against the Fatherland, among them a flamboyant, larger-than-life playboy, a world famous French flyer, and a lecherous Dutchman. Batvinis tells for the first time how the Bureau manipulated these agents, and how it transmitted deceptive information critical to the Normandy landings, the Allied invasion of the Marshall Islands, and the atomic bomb program, among other matters. Rich with secrets and surprises worthy of the finest spy fiction, this true story of espionage and counterintelligence gives us our first clear look at the secret second world war, and a significant moment in history.

About the author

Raymond J. Batvinis, former Supervisory Special Agent for the FBI and Executive Director of the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation, is the author of The "Origins of FBI Counterintelligence." He teaches at The George Washington University, Mercyhurst University, and The Institute of World Politics.

Raymond J. Batvinis, Former Supervisory Special Agent at the FBI and professor at The Institute of World Politics, discussed his new book entitled "Hoover's Secret War against Axis Spies: FBI Counterespionage during World War II" on June 17 at IWP.

Please click here to purchase the book: http://www.amazon.com/Hoovers-Secret-against-Axis-Spies/dp/0700619526

About the book

The world was at war, America precariously poised on the sidelines. But already a second secret war was well underway. While he fought on the home front to consolidate the FBI's intelligence gathering power, J. Edgar Hoover was conducting an all-out campaign to make his agency America's first foreign espionage service-a campaign that would lead to an uneasy alliance with British intelligence in a brilliantly successful operation to undermine Germany.

Taking up the tale begun in his acclaimed "Origins of FBI Counterintelligence," FBI historian and former agent Raymond Batvinis mines a wealth of heretofore untapped resources to expose Hoover's remarkable connivances and accomplishments in concert-and occasionally contention-with the Allies in outsmarting German intelligence. Hoover's Secret War opens up a world of spy rings, secret and double agents, surveillance, codes and ciphers, wire taps, microdots, mail drops, invisible ink, radio transmissions, and deception and disinformation as it tracks the warring nations spreading their intelligence tentacles throughout Europe and North and South America. As it documents the rocky evolution of the FBI's relationship with Britain's vaunted MI5 and MI6, the book brings to light the feud between Hoover and Williams Stephenson, director of the British Secret Intelligence Service's U.S. operation.

Batvinis reveals how the agency gained access to ULTRA intelligence. He uncovers eye-opening details of the FBI's participation in the famed "Double-Cross System, which effectively "turned" German agents against the Fatherland, among them a flamboyant, larger-than-life playboy, a world famous French flyer, and a lecherous Dutchman. Batvinis tells for the first time how the Bureau manipulated these agents, and how it transmitted deceptive information critical to the Normandy landings, the Allied invasion of the Marshall Islands, and the atomic bomb program, among other matters. Rich with secrets and surprises worthy of the finest spy fiction, this true story of espionage and counterintelligence gives us our first clear look at the secret second world war, and a significant moment in history.

About the author

Raymond J. Batvinis, former Supervisory Special Agent for the FBI and Executive Director of the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation, is the author of The "Origins of FBI Counterintelligence." He teaches at The George Washington University, Mercyhurst University, and The Institute of World Politics.

Raymond J. Batvinis, Former Supervisory Special Agent at the FBI and professor at The Institute of World Politics, discussed his new book entitled "Hoover's Secret War against Axis Spies: FBI Counterespionage during World War II" on June 17 at IWP.

Please click here to purchase the book: http://www.amazon.com/Hoovers-Secret-against-Axis-Spies/dp/0700619526

About the book

The world was at war, America precariously poised on the sidelines. But already a second secret war was well underway. While he fought on the home front to consolidate the FBI's intelligence gathering power, J. Edgar Hoover was conducting an all-out campaign to make his agency America's first foreign espionage service-a campaign that would lead to an uneasy alliance with British intelligence in a brilliantly successful operation to undermine Germany.

Taking up the tale begun in his acclaimed "Origins of FBI Counterintelligence," FBI historian and former agent Raymond Batvinis mines a wealth of heretofore untapped resources to expose Hoover's remarkable connivances and accomplishments in concert-and occasionally contention-with the Allies in outsmarting German intelligence. Hoover's Secret War opens up a world of spy rings, secret and double agents, surveillance, codes and ciphers, wire taps, microdots, mail drops, invisible ink, radio transmissions, and deception and disinformation as it tracks the warring nations spreading their intelligence tentacles throughout Europe and North and South America. As it documents the rocky evolution of the FBI's relationship with Britain's vaunted MI5 and MI6, the book brings to light the feud between Hoover and Williams Stephenson, director of the British Secret Intelligence Service's U.S. operation.

Batvinis reveals how the agency gained access to ULTRA intelligence. He uncovers eye-opening details of the FBI's participation in the famed "Double-Cross System, which effectively "turned" German agents against the Fatherland, among them a flamboyant, larger-than-life playboy, a world famous French flyer, and a lecherous Dutchman. Batvinis tells for the first time how the Bureau manipulated these agents, and how it transmitted deceptive information critical to the Normandy landings, the Allied invasion of the Marshall Islands, and the atomic bomb program, among other matters. Rich with secrets and surprises worthy of the finest spy fiction, this true story of espionage and counterintelligence gives us our first clear look at the secret second world war, and a significant moment in history.

About the author

Raymond J. Batvinis, former Supervisory Special Agent for the FBI and Executive Director of the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation, is the author of The "Origins of FBI Counterintelligence." He teaches at The George Washington University, Mercyhurst University, and The Institute of World Politics.

Raymond J. Batvinis, Former Supervisory Special Agent at the FBI and professor at The Institute of World Politics, discussed his new book entitled "Hoover's Secret War against Axis Spies: FBI Counterespionage during World War II" on June 17 at IWP.

Please click here to purchase the book: http://www.amazon.com/Hoovers-Secret-against-Axis-Spies/dp/0700619526

About the book

The world was at war, America precariously poised on the sidelines. But already a second secret war was well underway. While he fought on the home front to consolidate the FBI's intelligence gathering power, J. Edgar Hoover was conducting an all-out campaign to make his agency America's first foreign espionage service-a campaign that would lead to an uneasy alliance with British intelligence in a brilliantly successful operation to undermine Germany.

Taking up the tale begun in his acclaimed "Origins of FBI Counterintelligence," FBI historian and former agent Raymond Batvinis mines a wealth of heretofore untapped resources to expose Hoover's remarkable connivances and accomplishments in concert-and occasionally contention-with the Allies in outsmarting German intelligence. Hoover's Secret War opens up a world of spy rings, secret and double agents, surveillance, codes and ciphers, wire taps, microdots, mail drops, invisible ink, radio transmissions, and deception and disinformation as it tracks the warring nations spreading their intelligence tentacles throughout Europe and North and South America. As it documents the rocky evolution of the FBI's relationship with Britain's vaunted MI5 and MI6, the book brings to light the feud between Hoover and Williams Stephenson, director of the British Secret Intelligence Service's U.S. operation.

Batvinis reveals how the agency gained access to ULTRA intelligence. He uncovers eye-opening details of the FBI's participation in the famed "Double-Cross System, which effectively "turned" German agents against the Fatherland, among them a flamboyant, larger-than-life playboy, a world famous French flyer, and a lecherous Dutchman. Batvinis tells for the first time how the Bureau manipulated these agents, and how it transmitted deceptive information critical to the Normandy landings, the Allied invasion of the Marshall Islands, and the atomic bomb program, among other matters. Rich with secrets and surprises worthy of the finest spy fiction, this true story of espionage and counterintelligence gives us our first clear look at the secret second world war, and a significant moment in history.

About the author

Raymond J. Batvinis, former Supervisory Special Agent for the FBI and Executive Director of the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation, is the author of The "Origins of FBI Counterintelligence." He teaches at The George Washington University, Mercyhurst University, and The Institute of World Politics.

Raymond J. Batvinis, Former Supervisory Special Agent at the FBI and professor at The Institute of World Politics, discussed his new book entitled "Hoover's Secret War against Axis Spies: FBI Counterespionage during World War II" on June 17 at IWP.

Please click here to purchase the book: http://www.amazon.com/Hoovers-Secret-against-Axis-Spies/dp/0700619526

About the book

The world was at war, America precariously poised on the sidelines. But already a second secret war was well underway. While he fought on the home front to consolidate the FBI's intelligence gathering power, J. Edgar Hoover was conducting an all-out campaign to make his agency America's first foreign espionage service-a campaign that would lead to an uneasy alliance with British intelligence in a brilliantly successful operation to undermine Germany.

Taking up the tale begun in his acclaimed "Origins of FBI Counterintelligence," FBI historian and former agent Raymond Batvinis mines a wealth of heretofore untapped resources to expose Hoover's remarkable connivances and accomplishments in concert-and occasionally contention-with the Allies in outsmarting German intelligence. Hoover's Secret War opens up a world of spy rings, secret and double agents, surveillance, codes and ciphers, wire taps, microdots, mail drops, invisible ink, radio transmissions, and deception and disinformation as it tracks the warring nations spreading their intelligence tentacles throughout Europe and North and South America. As it documents the rocky evolution of the FBI's relationship with Britain's vaunted MI5 and MI6, the book brings to light the feud between Hoover and Williams Stephenson, director of the British Secret Intelligence Service's U.S. operation.

Batvinis reveals how the agency gained access to ULTRA intelligence. He uncovers eye-opening details of the FBI's participation in the famed "Double-Cross System, which effectively "turned" German agents against the Fatherland, among them a flamboyant, larger-than-life playboy, a world famous French flyer, and a lecherous Dutchman. Batvinis tells for the first time how the Bureau manipulated these agents, and how it transmitted deceptive information critical to the Normandy landings, the Allied invasion of the Marshall Islands, and the atomic bomb program, among other matters. Rich with secrets and surprises worthy of the finest spy fiction, this true story of espionage and counterintelligence gives us our first clear look at the secret second world war, and a significant moment in history.

About the author

Raymond J. Batvinis, former Supervisory Special Agent for the FBI and Executive Director of the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation, is the author of The "Origins of FBI Counterintelligence." He teaches at The George Washington University, Mercyhurst University, and The Institute of World Politics.

On May 8, 2014, The Institute of World Politics hosted a book lecture for "Nuclear Weapons Materials Gone Missing: What Does History Teach?"

The book's authors gave presentations:

Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and Adjunct Professor at IWP

Charles Ferguson, Federation of American Scientists

Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists

Jodi Lieberman, American Physical Society

Physicist Ryan Snyder also provided commentary.

Please click here to download the book: http://npolicy.org/thebook.php?bid=31

On May 8, 2014, The Institute of World Politics hosted a book lecture for "Nuclear Weapons Materials Gone Missing: What Does History Teach?"

The book's authors gave presentations:

Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and Adjunct Professor at IWP

Charles Ferguson, Federation of American Scientists

Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists

Jodi Lieberman, American Physical Society

Physicist Ryan Snyder also provided commentary.

Please click here to download the book: http://npolicy.org/thebook.php?bid=31