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  • Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence
  • Written by: James Bamford
  • Narrated by: David Colacci
  • Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Spyfail

Written by: James Bamford
Narrated by: David Colacci
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James Bamford, the bestselling author of The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets, unveils a hidden cabal of foreign powers that have spied against America to reveal the incredible spygames, secrets, and cyberweapons they’ve hatched, unlocked, and stolen—and how U.S. intelligence has utterly failed to stop them.

Spyfail is about the highly dangerous and growing capability of foreign countries to conduct large-scale espionage within the United States and how the FBI and other agencies have failed to prevent it. These covert operations involve a variety of foreign countries—North Korea, Russia, Israel, China, and others—and include cyberattacks, espionage, psychological warfare, the infiltration of presidential campaigns, the smuggling of nuclear weapons components, and other incredibly nefarious actions.

With his trademark deep investigative style, James Bamford digs as deep as one can go into these clandestine invasions and attacks, uncovering who’s involved, how these spygames were carried out, and why none of this was stopped. Full of revelations, Spyfail includes access to previously secret and withheld documents, such as never-before-seen parts of the Mueller Report, and interviews with confidential sources.

Throughout this stunning, eye-opening account, Spyfail demonstrates again and again how large a role politics, special interests, and corruption play in allowing these shocking foreign intrusions to continue—leaving America and its secrets vulnerable and undefended.

©2023 James Bamford (P)2023 Twelve

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Outstanding investigative journalism

Whether you're a Republican or Democrat, constitutionalist or progressive, patriot or cynic, this is a sad but extremely important journal of not only the the lack of competence at America's intelligence agencies, but the very real crisis in integrity through successive American administrations. Bamford is unrelenting in his criticism of Israel and gives a pass to Palestinian deceptiveness, corruption and terror which tests the patience of those familiar with both sides of this conflict. Regardless, his witness to the complete disregard for the law and the Constitution from both American (sworn to uphold it) and foreign leadership, along with their underlings in the intelligence community, and a complete lack in accountability, is a wake-up call to anyone valuing the principals the US was founded on, or our ability to preserve our republic going forward. Bamford should be commended on this highly valuable piece of journalism.

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A meandering journey

There is some interesting content in this audiobook, but overall it was not a good investment of time or effort in listening to it.

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