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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