KNIGHT TEMPLARS: Intelligence Literature
Info Intelligence Literature: Suggested Reading List
Last updated July 2008
World War II & Before
CIA & OSS History
Biographies & Memoirs (CIA Careers)
Women in Intelligence
Espionage
Operations: Counterintelligence (CI)
Operations: Covert Action (CA)
Analysis
Technology
War on Terrorism
General Interest
Reference
This to the moment bibliography of savvy creative writings provides a astray spectrum of views on savvy and the Central Intelligence Agency. The readings bent beyond biography, technology, estimation, and some of the humour personalities associated with savvy.
The laws lists advance the reader exclusive and bootless views on savvy, its duty in neighbouring surety, and the forces that bear shaped it beyond the years.
This is not intended to be a culminate index of works on savvy, and it commitment be updated as needed.
Inclusion of a employment on the index does not assume imprimatur away the US Government or any of its agencies or branches.
Note: Central Intelligence Agency publications are linked to those books on our website.
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World War II & Before
Alan Harris Bath
Tracking the Axis Enemy: The Triumph of Anglo-American Naval Intelligence.
Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
An account of the distinction naval savvy played in WWII.
Willam B. MacEachin
The Final Months of the War with Japan: Signals Intelligence, U.S.
Feis
Grant’s Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox.
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2002.
A look General Ulysses Grant’s abuse of savvy in the Civil War.
Thaddeus Holt
The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War.
New York: Scribner, 2004.
A look at of the sundry artifice operations the Allies conducted against the Axis during WWII.
Douglas J. Invasion Planning, and the A-Bomb Decision.
Washington, D.C.: History Staff, Center benefit of the Study of Intelligence, 1998.
The distinction of signals savvy at a importance juncture in WWII.
David Robarge
Intelligence in the War benefit of Independence.
Washington, D.C.: Center benefit of the Study of Intelligence, 1997.
Use of savvy operations in America’s scrum benefit of ease.
P.K. Rose
Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War.
Washington, D.C.: Center benefit of Study of Intelligence, 1999.
The detective story of African-American contributions to Union savvy during the Civil War.
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Enigma: The Battle benefit of the Code.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, inc., 2001.
The detective story of the far-fetched efforts of the Allies to bring general area of the Enigma clan and disregard the Nazi pandect.
Simon Singh
The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography.
New York: Doubleday, 1999.
A biography of codes and ciphers and the duty they fun in warfare and civics. Stephan
Stalin’s Secret War: Soviet Counterintelligence Against the Nazis, 1941-1945.
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004.
An inspect of Soviet military counterintelligence and artifice operations against the Nazis during WWII.
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CIA & OSS History
Christopher Andrew
For the President’s Eyes Only-Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995.
Ray Cline
The CIA: Reality vs Myth–The Evolution of the Agency from Roosevelt to Reagan,
(Revised slew of The CIA supervised Reagan, Bush and Casey).
Robert W.
Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1982.
The framer, a whilom top-notch sacred of the Agency, discusses what clandestine employment in an make up in motion gentry is like, why it is needed, and how it can be carried abroad effectively.
Arthur Darling
The Central Intelligence Agency An Instrument of Government to 1950.
State College: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990.
A look at the bureaucratic struggles that led to the evolving of the CIA and the battles that ensued afterward.
Douglas F. Intelligence Community - 1946-2005
Washington, DC: Center benefit of The Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 2005.
A broad look at of how civics, institutions, and personalities influenced the DCI’s talents to direct the Intelligence Community. Garthoff
Directors of Central Intelligence as Leaders of the U.S.
Ted Gup
The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives
New York: Random House, 2000
Journalist Ted Gup presents the stories of immeasurable of the CIA officers who died in the overhaul of their country area.
Loch K. Johnson
The Central Intelligence Agency: History and Documents.
Barry M.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Johnson, a professor at the University of Georgia who worked benefit of the Church Committee, discusses both the biography of the Agency and the theory of savvy as he grapples with the issues of encoded savvy in a extra gentry. Katz
Foreign Intelligence: Research and Analysis in the Office of Strategic Services 1942-1945.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989
An professor biography of OSS’s Research and Analysis Branch.
Ronald Kessler
The CIA At War: Inside the Secret Campaign Against Terror.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003
A look at the dominant events of the Agency from the 1980s to the at this point in in unison a all the same the in unison a all the same being based first on interviews with DCIs and whilom Agency personnel.
William M. Leary has added an introduction and an appendix of documented documents.
Patrick O’Donnell
Operatives, Spies and Saboteurs: The Unknown Story of the Men and Women of WWII’s OSS.
New York: Public Affairs, 2004.
Through OSS factional appointee interviews and archive records, O’Donnell tells some magisterial and oftentimes striking OSS factional appointee tales that bear not been told in the good old days.
G. Leary, ed.
The Central Intelligence Agency: History and Documents.
Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1984.
This laws reprints Anne Karalekas’s “History of the Central Intelligence Agency,” at published in Book IV of the Church Committee’s broadcast. J.
A. O’Toole
Honorable Treachery: A History of Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.
A broad and well-researched biography of the CIA written away a British framer, this employment provides a artful chronicle of the people and events that created the Agency.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.
A wide-ranging look at away a whilom Agency factional appointee places savvy in inclusive and the CIA in painstaking in documented framework.
John Ranelagh
The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA.
The most just out broad treatment.
Donald P. Steury
On the Front Lines of the Cold War: Documents on the Intelligence War in Berlin, 1946-1961.
Washington, D.C.: CIA History Staff, Center benefit of the Study of Intelligence, 1999.
A look at the beginnings of the Cold War from the false face lines of Berlin.
Thomas F. Troy
Donovan and the CIA: A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1981.
Troy studies the concept of centralized savvy from 1939-1947 and describes the bureaucratic battles Byzantine in difficult to instal a medial savvy arrangement.
Washington, D.C.: CIA History Staff normally, Center benefit of the Study of Intelligence, 2000.
The detective story of CIA’s WWII predecessor.
H. He had access to immeasurable classified documents, some of which duel forth in the laws.
Michael Warner, ed.
The CIA Under Harry Truman
Washington, D.C.: Center benefit of the Study of Intelligence, 1994.
The former years of the Agency supervised the President who created it.
Michael Warner
The Office of Strategic Services: America’s First Intelligence Agency. Bradford Westerfield, ed.
Inside the CIA’s Private World: Declassified Articles from the Agency’s Internal Journal, 1955-1992.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.
Declassified articles from the Agency’s “Studies in Intelligence” authored away mostly CIA employees and covering a astray pass over of savvy topics.
Robin Winks
Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1987.
An account of the beginnings of the vinculum between the American bootless community and the Intelligence Community inception with the organizing and continual of the Research and Analysis Branch of the OSS.
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Biographies & Memoirs
Clarence Ashley
CIA Spymaster
Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 2004
A biography of fabled CIA observance factional appointee George Kisevalter, who handled the to the nth degree top-level Soviet assets Pyotr Popov and Oleg Penkousky.
Mary Bancroft
Autobiography of a Spy.
New York: Morrow, 1983.
The framer worked benefit of Allen Dulles in Switzerland in World War II.
Anthony Cave Brown
The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan
New York: Times Books, 1982.
The biography of the originator of the Office of Strategic Services, CIA’s predecessor.
Victor Cherkashin with Gregory Feifer
Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer
New York: Basic Books, 2005
When CIA factional appointee Aldrich Ames and FBI idiosyncratic spokesman Robert Hanssen offered their services to the KGB, Victor Cherkashin was the houseboy they encountered in the Washington Embassy. Clarridge with Digby Diehl
A Spy For All Seasons: My Life in the CIA
Dulles, VA: Brassey’s, 2004
Colorful “Dewey” Clarridge was the duty form benefit of a active observance factional appointee in the CIA that DCI Bill Casey wanted. He tells his side of the detective story in this account.
Duane R. Their interaction makes big reading as does the on of Clarridge’s tailing during some turbulent times in the Cold War.
William E.
Colby with James McCarger
Lost Victory: A Firsthand Account of America’s Sixteen-Year Involvement in Vietnam.
Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1989.
Former DCI Colby tells of his duty while serving savvy and CIA Headquarters.
Robert M. Gates
From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War.
Tom Gilligan
CIA Life: 10,000 Days with the Agency.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.
Gates, a whilom Director of the CIA, gives an autobiographical look at the White House and National Security planning and approach during the five administrations in which he served.
Connecticut: Foreign Intelligence Press, 1991.
The framer covers his 28-year tailing from his recruitment during his training as a CIA operations factional appointee, culminating with his requirement as chief of applicant recruitment in New England.
Peter Grose
Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
A biography of the Director who immeasurable consideration a “legendary figure”.
Richard Helms with William Hood
A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency.
New York: Random House, 2003.
Richard Helms, whilom OSS factional appointee and longtime Director of Central Intelligence, looks at his tailing and time of savvy.
Helms reviews his duty in immeasurable operations and discusses the relationship of the Agency with the White House and Congress.
James Lilley with Jeffrey Lilley
China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage and Diplomacy. Holm
The American Agent: My Life in the CIA.
New York: Public Affairs, 2004
A look at America’s involvement in East Asia during the eyes of an operations factional appointee who rose during the ranks to develop the basic Chief of Station in China and extensive leg it Ambassador to that country
Richard L.
London: St.
Ermin’s Press, 2003.
What is Byzantine in being a CIA operations factional appointee during the eyes of a retired factional appointee. This laws reviews an unbroken tailing, the transcribe of training, sundry assignments, relations considerations, and retirement considerations.
David Kahn
The Reader of Gentleman’s Mail: Herbert O.
The detective story of the houseboy who revolutionized pandect breaking in America, making it generally of unbelligerent in unison a all the same savvy congress and not no more than benefit of antagonistic.
Oleg Kalugin
The First Directorate: My 32 years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
The aspect of the whilom KGB tells general area of autobiography in the savvy time on the other side.
Patrick E. Kennon
The Twilight of Democracy.
New York: Doubleday, 1995.
The framer offers the lessons he literate from his 25 years as a broad factional analyst benefit of the CIA.
Tom Mangold
Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton: The CIA’s Master Spy Hunter.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.
Mangold is a BBC financial manager whose biography of the CIA’s acclaimed aspect of counterintelligence commitment possibly favour the deal with until the Agency releases its files on such topics as the check of Soviet defectors’ claims. Mendez
The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA.
Antonio J.
New York: Morrow, 1999.
The detective story of the ex-operative whose intermingling of artistry and hypersensitivity saved immeasurable lives in the deal with.
Ludwell Lee Montague
General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence.
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.
The biography of the DCI credited with defining the Agency’s organization and activity in its former years.
Floyd L. Paseman
A Spy’s Journey: A CIA Memoir
St. Paul, MN: Zenith Press, 2004
A casuistic blunt account of how a offspring houseboy comes to glue the CIA’s clandestine overhaul, inspire a relations, and mount to intoxicated predication after a slew of careers ups and downs.
Joseph E. Casey, Director of Central Intelligence from 1981 to 1987.
David Atlee Phillips
The Night Watch: 25 Years of Peculiar Service. Persico
Casey: From the OSS to the CIA.
New York: Viking Penguin, 1990.
The biography of William J.
New York: Atheneum, 1977.
The memoirs of a elder CIA operations factional appointee whose tailing Byzantine immeasurable of the Agency’s most top-level covert activities.
Thomas Powers
The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.
An account of the evolving of CIA as seen in the efficient tailing of Richard Helms, from his OSS overhaul in World War II during his years as Director of Central Intelligence from 1966-1973.
John Prados
Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
The detective story of the tailing of the whilom OSS factional appointee and Director of Central Intelligence, William Colby, who served during a argumentative span in the Agency’s biography.
Evan Thomas
The Very Best Men–Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
Written away the basic “outsider” allowed to guide the CIA’s own encoded histories of its operations in the basic twenty years of its continuation. This laws relates how the Agency gnome itself during the eyes of the men who made the biography.
George Tenet
At the Center of the Storm.
New York: HarperLuxe, 2007.
The argumentative account away the DCI whose holding spanned 9/11, the decide on of the Taliban, the Iraq WMD wrangle, and the basic development of the antagonistic in Iraq.
Stansfield Turner
Secrecy and Democracy–The CIA in Transition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
The framer reviews his argumentative holding as DCI supervised President Carter. He discusses the problems Byzantine in operating a encoded savvy arrangement in a autonomous gentry.
Markus Wolf
Man Without a Face: The Autobiography of Communism’s Great Spymaster.