In Trading Secrets, former Financial Times security correspondent Mark Huband aims toudprovide a unique and controversial assessment of the ability of the major intelligence agenciesudto combat the threat of twenty-first century terrorism. With access to intelligence officers fromudRome to Kabul and from Khartoum to Guantanamo Bay, Huband covers how spies createdudsecret channels to the IRA, deceived Iran’s terrorist allies, frequently attempted to infiltrate al-udQaeda, and forced Libya to abandon its nuclear weapons. Julia Muravska finds the accountsudto be somewhat sensationalist in parts, but mostly valuable and intriguing.
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