Gordon Corera

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Gordon Corera (born 1974) is a British

computer technology
.

Early life

Corera was born in London; his father was from the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India and his mother is German.[citation needed] The family has a home near Cavelossim, in the state of Goa in western India, which he says he has a deep affection for, and visits regularly.[1]

Education

Corera was educated at

US foreign policy at Harvard University.[3]

Life and career

Corera worked on the

Today programme.[3] He was appointed BBC News' security correspondent in 2004.[2]

Corera presented the 2009 Radio 4 programme MI6: A Century in the Shadows, a three-part history of Britain's

Books

Corera wrote The Art of Betrayal: Life and Death in the British Secret Service (Orion 2011) about

.

He wrote Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies, also Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage.

Corera wrote the introduction to

Inside the Jihad: My Life with al Qaeda, a Spy's story
.

Corera most recently wrote Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putins Spies. The book covers the FBI and CIA investigation into the Russian Illegals programs.[5]

References

  1. ^ "The Goan Voice - Gordon Corera". GoanVoice.org. 14 July 2005. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  2. ^ a b c BBC press office biography Archived 9 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ a b c Biography from the BBC's Today programme Archived 9 March 2005 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ MI6: A Century in the Shadows, BBC website
  5. ^ Myre, Greg (10 April 2020). "The Cold War roots of Putin's digital-age intelligence strategy". The Washington Post. Retrieved 3 July 2020.

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