Secret Power - New Zealand's Role in the International Spy Network

Small crease on front cover. Otherwise good condition.

Craig Potton Publishers, 1996. Few New Zealanders have heard of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB). Even fewer know what the GCSB does. In fact, the GCSB is New Zelaand's largest and most secret intelligence agency, using state-of-the-art electronics to spy on countries throughout the Pacific, including friends, neighbours and trading partners. Here the shadowy world of the GCSB is broken open for the first time. Secret Power exposes, in remarkable detail, the secret workings of this organisation and the global network of which it is part, and reveals how the demands of this international intelligence network are put ahead of New Zealand's own political and economic interests. Geared to serve an alliance with the United States, New Zealand's spies, for example, failed to warn of the Rainbow Warrior bombing, and proved useless during the Fiji coup. Secret Power provides compelling arguments for strengthening New Zealand's independence by leaving that alliance...