Book Release - "How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence"
Webinar
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Intelligence officers discern the truth... Looking through the eyes of one of Britain's most senior ex-intelligence officers, Professor Sir David Omand's, How Spies Think shows how the big decisions in your life will be easier to make when you apply the same frameworks used by British intelligence.
In everyday life, you are faced with contradictory, incomplete information, too. Reading the news on social media, figuring out the next step in your career, or trying to discover if gossip about a friend is legitimate, you are building an image of the world and making decisions about it.
Looking through the eyes of one of Britain's most senior ex-intelligence officers, a new book by Professor Sir David Omand, How Spies Think, launched on 29 October, shows how the big decisions in your life will be easier to make when you apply the same frameworks used by British intelligence. Full of revealing examples from his storied career, including key briefings with Prime Ministers from Thatcher to Blair, and conflicts from the Falklands to Afghanistan, Professor Omand arms us with the tools to sort fact from fiction, and shows us how to use real intelligence every day.
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Speaker:
David Omand was the first UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator, responsible to the Prime Minister for the professional health of the intelligence community, national counter-terrorism strategy and "homeland security". He served for seven years on the Joint Intelligence Committee. He was Permanent Secretary of the Home Office from 1997 to 2000, and before that Director of GCHQ.
