Step into the shadows for a revealing two-course look at the world of spies. Start with The Secret World of Espionage, which plunges you into stories of real-life spies as they crack codes, conduct covert operations, and change the course of world events. Then continue with The Agency: A History of the CIA, where you’ll better understand the roles the CIA has played in recent American history, from the eve of the Cold War against communism to the 21st-century War on Terror.
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In The Secret World of Espionage, go behind the shadows with a distinguished panel of historians—including a former intelligence case officer—in search of the secret meeting places, complex codes, stealth observations, and cutting-edge technologies spies have used throughout history.
Few organizations are as fascinating, as mysterious—and as controversial—as the Central Intelligence Agency. In The Agency: A History of the CIA, Professor Hugh Wilford transforms decades of research into an engrossing 24-lecture course that helps you better understand the role the CIA has played in recent American history, from the Cold War to the War on Terror.
Take a detailed tour of the millennia-long history and enduring legacy of a top-secret subject in Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History. Delivered by master historian and Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, these 24 thrilling lectures survey how world powers have worked in the shadows to gain information or subvert enemies. Filled with stories that are both marvelous and mysterious, and insights that will change the way you think about some of world history's most defining events, this course lets you peer inside a subject whose truths most of us are unaware of.
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