Fair Play
The Moral Dilemmas of Spying
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Narrated by:
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Joel Richards
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By:
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James M. Olson
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Revolutionary War officer Nathan Hale, one of America's first spies, said, "Any kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary." A statue of Hale stands outside CIA headquarters, and the agency often cites his statement as one of its guiding principles. But who decides what is necessary for the public good, and is it really true that any kind of service is permissible for the public good?
These questions are at the heart of James M. Olson's book, Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying. Olson, a veteran of the CIA's clandestine service, takes listeners inside the real world of intelligence to describe the difficult dilemmas that field officers face on an almost daily basis. Far from being a dry theoretical treatise, this fascinating book uses actual intelligence operations to illustrate how murky their moral choices can be. Listeners will be surprised to learn that the CIA provides very little guidance on what is, or is not, permissible.
Rather than empowering field officers, the author has found that this lack of guidelines actually hampers operations. Olson believes that US intelligence officers need clearer moral guidelines to make correct, quick decisions.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-03-2021
He knows why...
He knows why it’s only a one star. The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.
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- Anonymous User
- 29-03-2024
Truely amazing book
I really enjoyed reading this book I’m not officiated with any intelligence organisation or even the government but I see this book as fascinating and defiantly helps to make me more informed when creating my judgements around how intelligence agency’s act and how the individual situations have different effical guide lines and motivations and how context matters. Great book I’ve also read his to catch a spy witch is another amazing look but at the history of counter intelligence
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