Jack Devine, a 32-year veteran of the CIA, began working for one of the main agencies of the United States in 1967. His track record is impressive: the coup in Chile; operation "Cyclone" during the Afghan adventure of the USSR in the 1980s; the hunt for the drug trafficker Pablo Escobar; exposure of O. Ames and R. Hanssen, who spied for Russia... Devine headed the CIA's covert operations, which involved thousands of agents in sensitive missions around the world. Currently, he lives in New York, is a member of the US Council on Foreign Relations, co-founder and president of the international consulting firm The Arkin Group.
In December 2018, Jack Devine visited Kyiv, where he presented his book "Successful Hunting. The story of America's top spy", published by the Folio publishing house, and was awarded the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called.
Here is a translation of the new book of the legend of the CIA, which was published in America in March 2021. The author's goal is to provide an objective view of the relationship between the USA and Russia (and not only between them) and the peculiarities of intelligence and counterintelligence of the two superpowers. Based on his own analysis of the CIA's successes and failures over the past nearly 75 years and Russia's covert operations not only during the Cold War but also before its meddling in American affairs during the Trump presidency, Devine offers 13 key intelligence lessons that teach how to be ready for any challenges from opponents. And he also tells how counter-intelligence works, how to calculate "strangers" among your own and not make a mistake, draw up a psychological portrait of a traitor and expose him, and most importantly - about the mission of secret service employees, people "without faces": to collect extremely valuable information for the sake of national security countries
Author: Jack Devine
Publication language: Ukrainian
Year of publication: 2022
Number of pages: 256
Binding: Hard