Yaacov Caroz: The Arab Secret Service

The author is the former deputy chief of the Israeli secret service, the Mossad. This book is a product of its times, the 70s.More than half the book concentrates on the Egyptian intelligence and security services,at the time Egypt was the primary threat to Israel and this was before the peace treaty between the 2 countries. Followed by a few chapters on Syria and individual chapters on Jordan, Libya,etc and the very interesting chapter 22 called THE PARTY AS A SECRET SUPERSERVICE which is about Iraq and also details the failed 1973 attempt by General Nazem Kazar, chief of the Iraqi General Security Directorate to overthrow Saddam Hussein.This excellent but obviously partial book(considering the author) has masses of information and stories I've not seen anywhere else.Chapter 1 details what the work of intelligence and counterintelligence entails. Good book. (Amazon.com)