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MaGoose
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To Catch a Spy by James M. Olson is my #DoubleSpin (#6) for June. I have no idea where The Vegas Flop, the book for my #BookSpin (#17), is located. Although the title is familiar... 🤔

Talk about an overwhelming TBR. 😅🤣😆

@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 6mo
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tokorowilliamwallace
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Last audiobook finished; I need to catch up on my reviews. No interesting recs from Hoopla app after finishing the last, so I decided to try this out. Turned out to be a suitable follow-up to the one I listened to about Jack Ruby, including more background for the CIA's knowledge and suspicion (very well hidden even from the Kennedy assignation investigation) of Oswald, and Kennedy's and Nixon's relation with security agencies and their impact.

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Macnjen

This book is an extrapolation based on a screenplay, with some dialog generated and assumed. The writing is simplistic, and the unbelievable dialog simply odd in places. Only a third of this book is about the spying, much of it is guesswork and assumptions with possible dialog and situations. I was hoping for a profile of Hanssen, his actual misdeeds and the results.

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peaKnit
The Wonder Test: A Novel | Michelle Richmond
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We are having “easy like Sunday morning” on Saturday.

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Hooked_on_books
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Pickpick

After a series of CIA compromises in Moscow in 1978, the NSA investigated the US embassy and found spying technology so sophisticated that many didn‘t believe the Russians could have planted it, allowing its use to continue for 6 more years. This is a fascinating exploration of how ego and hubris can cause problems and how we‘ve learned so little from this incident and others.

#ReadingEurope2020 #Russia

Oryx That is one relaxed pooch 4y
Hooked_on_books @Oryx That‘s Bindi. She lives a low-stress life. 😂 I call this dog yoga. 4y
Soubhiville That‘s one of Sietje‘s favorite sleeping positions too 😁 4y
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Librarybelle Oh! This sounds so good! 4y
AlaMich You should make a collage of all the photos you‘ve taken of her in that position. 😂 4y
Beatlefan129 Is she a greyhound? I recognize that position from my own greyhound girls 4y
Hooked_on_books @Soubhiville She does this often but it doesn‘t last long. Either the paws slowly lower while she falls deeply asleep or she flops on her side. Makes me chuckle every time. 4y
Hooked_on_books @AlaMich That would be a big collage! 😂 4y
Hooked_on_books @Beatlefan129 No, Great Dane mix, so there‘s some similarities to the build. Plus she‘s daintier than a Dane and thus closer to greyhound. She does love to run! 4y
LeahBergen Oh, jeez ... the yoga in the background 😂 4y
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Eyejaybee
The Secret World | Christopher Andrew
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Pickpick

A fascinating and exhaustive history of intelligence and counter-intelligence, stretching from ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs right up to WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden. See my Goodreads review at; https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3002125600. #book #books #christopherandrew #bookstagram #bookphotography #bookish #bookcommunity #nonfiction #dauntbooks #espionage #intelligence #counterintelligence #MI5 #MI6 #history #diplomacy #militaryhistory

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Nitpickyabouttrains
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Pickpick

Nonfiction about the Cold War. So basically made for me.

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Decalino
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Pickpick

My dad recommended this first-person account of how a Cold War spy almost got away with selling some of America's most valuable military secrets. The author, Joe Navarro, was an FBI agent in the Tampa field office when he picked up on physical tells that led him to believe an interview subject was lying. The case would ultimately reveal shocking lapses in nuclear security. An incredible story.

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Eyejaybee
Need to Know | Karen Cleveland
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This didn‘t quite live up to its very high early promise, but I as still and engaging and clever thriller. See my Goodreads review at: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35004364-need-to-know. #karencleveland #needtoknow #espionage #thriller #dilemma #spystory #cia #sleepercell #coldwar #fbi #counterintelligence #americanfiction