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A Bold New Look at China’s Audacious Spies

‘Spies and Lies’ unmasks Beijing’s aggressive and confident espionage service

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Matt Brazil
Oct 18, 2022
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DURING AND AFTER THE COLD WAR, English-speaking readers could choose from dozens of books about the spy services of Russia, Britain, America, France, and Israel. Absconding former KGB officers wrote memoirs of service to—and flight from—The Center’s embrace. Disgruntled former CIA officers detailed their complaints about the disconnect between American …

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Matt is a China analyst at BluePathLabs.com, a Fellow at Jamestown.org, and the co-author of Chinese Communist Espionage, An Intelligence Primer (2019). www.mattbrazil.net; matt.brazil@hushmail.com; matthew.brazil@gmail.com
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