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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,113 ratings — published 2007
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,592 ratings — published 2004
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,143 ratings — published 1999
Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,872 ratings — published 2003
The Art of Intelligence (Audio CD)
by (shelved 48 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,273 ratings — published 2012
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.89 — 377,339 ratings — published 1984
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,191 ratings — published 1985
Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master On The Fundamentals Of Intelligence Gathering For A Free World (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.75 — 945 ratings — published 1962
On Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,003 ratings — published 2004
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.25 — 838,011 ratings — published 1966
The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,344 ratings — published 1982
Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.90 — 699 ratings — published 1999
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.85 — 21,638 ratings — published 2014
Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,833 ratings — published 2001
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.97 — 816 ratings — published 2018
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.06 — 139,837 ratings — published 1995
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,548 ratings — published 2022
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,130 ratings — published 2021
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,470 ratings — published 2018
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.52 — 95,702 ratings — published 2018
Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.94 — 239 ratings — published 2003
The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,579 ratings — published 2018
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,542 ratings — published 2015
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,574 ratings — published 1994
Digital Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.71 — 672,819 ratings — published 1998
The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)
by (shelved 25 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.23 — 463 ratings — published 2015
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.46 — 5,765 ratings — published 2023
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,939 ratings — published 2019
Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,175 ratings — published 2009
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.12 — 392,704 ratings — published 1984
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,259 ratings — published 2002
Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,403 ratings — published 2018
Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.88 — 53,376 ratings — published 2003
Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan, #5; Jack Ryan Universe, #6)
by (shelved 22 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.15 — 145,757 ratings — published 1989
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,835 ratings — published 1979
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,598 ratings — published 2020
Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.31 — 288 ratings — published 2010
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,663 ratings — published 2018
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,024 ratings — published 2015
Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.85 — 213 ratings — published 2010
Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,703 ratings — published 1999
Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,414 ratings — published 2008
Spook Country (Blue Ant, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.72 — 21,609 ratings — published 2007
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,080 ratings — published 2014
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,147 ratings — published 2014
Out of My Mind (Out of My Mind, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.34 — 194,082 ratings — published 2010
Analyzing Intelligence: Origins, Obstacles, and Innovations (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.83 — 190 ratings — published 2008
How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.62 — 864 ratings — published
Frames Of Mind: The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,804 ratings — published 1983
By Way of Deception: The Making of a Mossad Officer (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,174 ratings — published 1990
“The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
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