作者曾是新聞記者，第二次世界大戰期間為美國情報機關服務，著有《巴頓:艱難與勝利》。

第一部分 情報活動

鬥智

什麼是情報？

情報的迷宮

搜集情報的必要性

情報機關的組織

情報工作的代價

情報的搜集

情報的來源

情報的鑒定

情報的傳遞

情報工作中的暗礁

對情報人員的要求

情報機關的領導人員

情報宮

情報中的女人

情報工作的輔助人員

情報工作與國傢教育製度的關係

情報工作與群眾的關係

公民的任務

第二部分 間諜活動

間諜的藝術

什麼是間諜活動？

間諜組織

典型的間諜組織

蘇聯間諜

間諜活動的計劃

理想的間諜

間諜如何進行活動？

一 間諜的招募

二 訓練和教育

三 掩護和僞裝

四 齣發

五 敵區掩護及發展情報來源

六 秘密搜集情報

七 接頭的方法

八 傳遞和聯係

九 安全和保密

密碼術和密寫分析術

神秘的間諜

第三部分 破壞活動

什麼是破壞活動？

破壞活動的效果

破壞活動方案

破壞組織

理想的破壞工作者

“炮綫”：一個成功的使命

破壞活動和冷戰

第四部分 反間諜活動

對內情報工作

反間諜工作

現代反間諜機關

美國反間諜機關——聯保調查局

威廉·格·賽鮑爾德案件

郵件檢查製度

第五部分 宣傳活動

什麼是政治戰？

什麼是宣傳？

宣傳的力量

宣傳的方式

宣傳的策略

謠言——宣傳的武器

政治戰和冷戰

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.