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Author:   Simon Willmetts ,  Constant Hijzen ,  Simon Willmetts ,  Timothy Melley
Publisher:   Georgetown University Press
Imprint:   Georgetown University Press
Weight:   0.522kg
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9781647126629

ISBN 10:   1647126622
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   02 March 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgments Introduction, Simon Willmetts Part I: Intelligence and the Politics of Fiction 1. Security's Fictions: Speculative Narrative and the Imagination of the State, Timothy Melley 2. Taking Fiction Seriously: Spies, Secrecy, and Democracy, Pauline Blistène 3. The CIA and Hollywood, Tricia Jenkins and Simon Willmetts 4. An Interview with German Spy Novelist Titus Müller, Constant Hijzen Part II: Intelligence, Secrecy, and Paranoia 5. Trust No One: An Intellectual and Cultural History of US Deep State Conspiracy Theories, Kathryn Olmsted 6. The Perfidious and Invisible Enemy: Narratives of the Dutch Covert Sphere in the 1960s, Constant Hijzen 7. An Interview with Swedish Psychological Defense Practitioners Björn Palmertz and Per Thunholm, Simon Willmetts Part III: Journalism and State Secrecy 8. A Culture Collapses?: Spies, Unsecrecy, and the American Press since 9/11, Richard J. Aldrich 9. An Interview with National Security Reporter James Risen, Constant Hijzen and Simon Willmetts Part IV: Intelligence Mentalities 10. Imperial Boomerang: Domestic CIA Operations during the Cold War, Hugh Wilford 11. Cord Meyer: A Gray Man of the CIA, Jonathan Nashel Conclusion: Spies and Society, the Cultural Politics of Espionage, Constant Hijzen List of Contributors 297 Index 303

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Simon Willmetts is an associate professor of intelligence studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University. He is the author of In Secrecy's Shadow: The OSS and CIA in Hollywood Cinema, 1941–1979. Constant Hijzen is the historical adviser at the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) and is a research fellow in intelligence and security at Leiden University. He is the author of Roots of Counterterrorism: Contemporary Wisdom from Dutch Intelligence.

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