作者曾是新闻记者，第二次世界大战期间为美国情报机关服务，著有《巴顿:艰难与胜利》。

第一部分 情报活动

斗智

什么是情报？

情报的迷宫

搜集情报的必要性

情报机关的组织

情报工作的代价

情报的搜集

情报的来源

情报的鉴定

情报的传递

情报工作中的暗礁

对情报人员的要求

情报机关的领导人员

情报宫

情报中的女人

情报工作的辅助人员

情报工作与国家教育制度的关系

情报工作与群众的关系

公民的任务

第二部分 间谍活动

间谍的艺术

什么是间谍活动？

间谍组织

典型的间谍组织

苏联间谍

间谍活动的计划

理想的间谍

间谍如何进行活动？

一 间谍的招募

二 训练和教育

三 掩护和伪装

四 出发

五 敌区掩护及发展情报来源

六 秘密搜集情报

七 接头的方法

八 传递和联系

九 安全和保密

密码术和密写分析术

神秘的间谍

第三部分 破坏活动

什么是破坏活动？

破坏活动的效果

破坏活动方案

破坏组织

理想的破坏工作者

“炮线”：一个成功的使命

破坏活动和冷战

第四部分 反间谍活动

对内情报工作

反间谍工作

现代反间谍机关

美国反间谍机关——联保调查局

威廉·格·赛鲍尔德案件

邮件检查制度

第五部分 宣传活动

什么是政治战？

什么是宣传？

宣传的力量

宣传的方式

宣传的策略

谣言——宣传的武器

政治战和冷战

Ladislas Farago (1906-1980) was a screenwriter and part-time journalist who published a number of popular books on history and espionage, especially concerning the World War II era.

He was the author of an acclaimed biography of George Patton and received a screen writing credit for the movie Tora! Tora! Tora! together with Gordon W. Prange. Some of his other work (for example, a book in which he claimed to have located Martin Bormann alive in South America in the early 1970s) was perhaps less reliable.

He was born in Hungary in 1906 and came to the United States in 1937. During the 1930s, he was on the payroll of several European intelligence agencies and during World War II, he worked for U.S. Naval Intelligence. There he wrote, among other things, statements that were broadcast to the crews of German U-boats in an attempt to induce them to surrender. These scripts were often aired under the name of Commander Norden. [1]

Other aspects of Farago's intelligence activities are more problematic. The British historian Stephen Dorril, in his history of MI6, asserts that Farago was the 'most successful disinformer or dupe' concerning the presence of Nazis in South America.

Farago died in 1980. His son, John M. Farago, is a Professor of Law at the City University of New York.