All About History Secret Services

Around the world, right now, security services and their agents are locked in battles you will never see. Some of them are bold and bloody – daring assassinations, mysterious murders, poisonings and precision bombings and all manner of unlikely “accidents”. But many are subtler and far more dangerous. These are wars for information and emotion, for the knowledge of enemy military secrets or the destabilisation of enemy society through propaganda and fear. They’re fought from inside unlikely-looking buildings and seen only through the eyes of screens and smartphones and the agents who wield them. These are weapons just as deadly as any spy gadget in the right hands – the hands of the secret services...