Aviation hobbyists expose CIA rendition flights: http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=65446.
Special operations “military liaison elements”: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/08/international/americas/08forces.html?pagewanted=print;http://www.specwarnet.net/americas/isa.htm.
Russia governed by siloviki, ex-KGB, and ex-military: http://www.monitor.upeace.org/archive.cfm?id_article=107.
Chinese antisatellite efforts: http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/world/china/asat.htm.
Russian cyberwarfare efforts: http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/05/17/1248215.shtml.
Eighth Air Force Cyber Command: http://www.af.mil/news/storyasp?id=123030505.
CIA: Hackers to blame for power outages: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/26/power.at.risk/index.html.
Wrongful prosecution of Iranian-American businessman Alex Latin: http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002484.
CIA/mafia connection: http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Briefing/ 2007/06/26/family_jewels_detail_castro_mafia_plot/6711/; http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/archived/castro.htm.
Executive order prohibiting assassination: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A63203-20010ct27?language=printer.
Dark Avenger and the polymorphic engine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Avenger.
Adam Young, Moti Yung, and cryptovirology: http://www.cryptovirology.com/
Chinese cyberwarfare initiatives: http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystorycfm?story_id=9769319 &CFID=11752607 &CFTOKEN=ccdd4740076c5dcl-43Bl0757-B27C-BB00-012901C5EA08C4BB.
Abuse of national security letters (NSLs): http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/03/06/nsls/index.html.
National Security Agency domestic spy program: http://wsj.com/public/article_print/SB120511973377523845.html?mod=djm_HAWSJSB_Welcome.
FISA and warrantless eavesdropping: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/02/14/fisa_101/.
The Quantico circuit and warrentless eavesdropping: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/whistleblower-f.html.
The Bay Area and Istanbul locations that appear in this book are described, as always, as I have found them.
About the AuthorAfter graduating from CornellLawSchool in 1989, BARRY EISLER spent three years in a covert position with the CIA's Directorate of Operations, and then three years in Japan, where he earned his black belt at the KodokanInternationalJudoCenter. Eisler's thrillers have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller of the Year, have been included in numerous “Best of” lists, and have been translated into nearly twenty languages. The first book in Eisler's assassin John Rain series, Rain Fall, has been made into a motion picture starring Gary Oldman and will be released by Sony Pictures in April 2009. To learn more, please visit www.barryeisler.com.
