IC Smith and Nigel West to Co-Write Historical Dictionary Of Chinese Intelligence
Two noted Raleigh Spy Conference authors have been commissioned by The Scarecrow Press of Lanham, MD to publish a new title on Chinese intelligence in the publishing firm’s series on Intelligence and Counterintelligence Studies.
IC Smith, a former senior FBI counterintelligence expert and intelligence historian, will join with British intelligence expert and author Nigel West on the book project.
Scheduled for release in late 2010, the historical dictionary will augment the existing series by Scarecrow Press that has included British, United States, German, World War II, Cold War counterintelligence, Russian and Soviet, Israeli, Air, Naval, Middle East and International intelligence.
The series follows a standard format with a chronology of relevant events, a comprehensive bibliography and individual cross-references entries that include organizations, personalities and incidents.
According to the authors, Chinese Intelligence poses special problems for Western researchers, causing a dearth of material in the open literature. In recent years the Ministry of State Security suffered several setbacks, including the defection of a senior official - codenamed PLANESMAN - stemming the flow of stolen military and commercial secrets to Beijing.
Go to www.raleighspyconference.com to access talks on Chinese espionage by Smith, and to view a video of the keynote address at the 2009 conference by West. And go to
www.scarecrowpress.com for more details on the new book addressing Chinese Intelligence.