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Hoover's library materials encompass nearly 300,000 titles, with the total number of volumes well over half a million. These holdings include books, periodicals, newspapers, and other distinctive and rare publications that support research on war, revolution, and peace in the 20th and 21st centuries. This section lists some of our library materials related to Intelligence Services.

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L'Intelligence service; machine de guerre de la City: by J.M. Rochard discussing the British Secret Service, MI6. This work is part of the collection "Les Temps nouveaux."

Intelligence : a bibliography of its functions, methods and techniques: Bibliography compiled by the United States Department of State, Division of Library and Reference Services detailing books, monographs, periodicals, and newspaper articles related to intelligence services. 

The German Intelligence Service: published by the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, Counter Intelligence War Room, London, April 1945. Wartime analysis of Nazi Germany's intelligence organizations and operations, serving as reference for Allied intelligence services. 

The Okhrana -- The Russian Department of Police: A Bibliography. [Stanford, Calif.]: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, 1967. Lists and annotates books, pamphlets, articles in periodicals, and manuscripts dealing with the Imperial Russian Secret Police, known as the Okhrana.

The Stasi : the East German Intelligence and Security Service: Second only to the KGB, the Stasi was the Soviet Bloc's most effective spy organization. Although it was employed mainly against West Germany, it successfully infiltrated NATO, the European Community, the US Department of Defense, NSA, and had agents at British and other universities. This book traces the Stasi's origins in the dreaded Soviet Cheka, and outlines its development, structure, organization, personnel, system of rewards and punishments, and more. 

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