A CIA reading list

As
you compile your resolutions for the new year, Best Defense is offering three
different reading lists to help you. Here is a list from CIA veteran
Hayden Peake.
One reason I don't write much about intelligence is that I don't know much
about it -- as this list reminds me -- I haven't read any of them. But he does.
Current Topics
Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance: Acquisitions, Policies and
Defense Oversight, by Johanna A. Montgomery (ed.).
General
The Dictionary of Espionage: Spyspeak into English, by Joseph C.
Goulden.
Historical
Black Ops Vietnam: The Operational History of MACVSOG, by Robert
M. Gillespie.
Classical Spies: American Archaeologists with the OSS in World War II
Greece, by Susan Heuck Allen.
Dealing With the Devil: Anglo-Soviet Intelligence Cooperation During the
Second World War, by Dónal O'Sullivan.
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, by Ben Macintyre
Enemies: A History of the FBI, by Tim Weiner.
Franco's Friends: How British Intelligence Helped Bring Franco To Power
In Spain, by Peter Day.
Gentleman Spymaster: How Lt. Col. Tommy 'Tar' Robertson Double-crossed
the Nazis, by Geoffrey Elliott.
The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War, by Joshua Kurlantzick.
Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey
of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway, by Elliot Carlson, with a foreword by RAdm. Donald "Mac" Showers, USN
(Ret.).
Memoir
Malayan Spymaster: Memoirs of a Rubber Planter Bandit Fighter and Spy,
by Boris Hembry.
Intelligence Abroad
Historical Dictionary of Chinese Intelligence, by I.C. Smith and
Nigel West.
Israel's Silent Defender: An Inside Look at Sixty Years of Israeli
Intelligence, by Amos Gilboa and Ephraim Lapid (eds.).
Learning from the Secret Past: Cases in British Intelligence History, by Robert Dover and Michael S. Goodman (eds.).
Main Intelligence Outfits of Pakistan, by P.C. Joshi.
The Politics of Counterterrorism in India: Strategic Intelligence and
National Security in South Asia, by Prem Mahadevan.
Stalin's Man in Canada: Fred Rose and Soviet Espionage, by David Levy.
Stasi Decorations and Memorabilia: Volume II, by Ralph Pickard, with a foreword by Ambassador Hugh Montgomery.
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