News you may have missed #434 (book news edition)
September 27, 2010 Leave a comment
- CIA drone strikes have killed Americans, claims journalist. In his new book, Obama’s Wars, veteran US journalist Bob Woodward claims that CIA drone strikes in Pakistan have killed many Westerners, including some US citizens.
- Norway’s greatest spy case to be re-examined. The case of former Norwegian diplomat Arne Treholt, who was sentenced during the end of the Cold War in Norway’s most famous spy case, is to be re-opened, after the publication of book called Counterfeit, whose authors charge that Norwegian police fabricated evidence against Treholt.
- US Pentagon censors widely used acronyms in book. Pentagon censors, who recently struck a deal to redact portions of Operation Dark Heart, a book written by US Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer, have blacked out from the text widely used terms such as SIGINT, which means signals intelligence.