Nathan's review
Inside CIA's Private World: Declassified Articles from the Agency`s Internal Journal, 1955-1992
by H. Bradford Westerfield
Nathan's review
Inside CIA's Private World: Declassified Articles from the Agency`s Internal Journal, 1955-1992 by H. Bradford Westerfield
Nathan's review
rating:
bookshelves:
cia,
cia-angleton,
history
recommended for: Spy nerds & people who liked the Woody Allen version of Casino Royale.
Studies in Intelligence is CIA's intelligence journal. "Inside CIA's Private World" is a collection of articles from that journal. Simple enough. I checked this book out, to thumb through some of the declassified articles to try and satiate some of my current Nosenko / Golitsyn fascination and my Jimmy Angleton fetish. It was partially successful, as there are a couple of pertinent articles ("Nosenko: The Five Paths to Judgment"). It gets three stars because, hey, it's great that we live in a society that puts stuff like this out, etc, etc, yada. There are plenty of other fascinating articles with appropriate barely-English, governmentnese titles: "Clandestinity" and "UNCTAD V", and for the metaphysical among us, there's the article "Do You Really Need More Information?" There's also plenty of accidental irony, like the fact that the article "The Reports Officer: Issues of Quality" contains sentences that follow phrases like &...more
