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Intelligence Agencies Books
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.95 — 15,413 ratings — published 2007
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.04 — 37,435 ratings — published 2019
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.61 — 17,732 ratings — published 2020
Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,656 ratings — published 1999
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.31 — 18,996 ratings — published 2004
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.35 — 8,259 ratings — published 2015
Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.88 — 197 ratings — published 2002
Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,203 ratings — published 1987
The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,324 ratings — published 1982
Safe For Democracy: The Secret Wars Of The CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.78 — 132 ratings — published 2006
The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.95 — 387 ratings — published 2016
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.37 — 720 ratings — published 1972
The Recruiter: Spying in the Twilight of American Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.70 — 352 ratings — published 2021
Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.96 — 560 ratings — published 2010
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,051 ratings — published 1998
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,266 ratings — published 2019
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,518 ratings — published 2013
Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.99 — 252 ratings — published 1991
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,512 ratings — published 2018
The Code of Trust: An American Counterintelligence Expert's Five Rules to Lead and Succeed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.86 — 547 ratings — published
Enemies: A History of the FBI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,071 ratings — published 2012
Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,471 ratings — published 2016
Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,098 ratings — published 2014
Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.58 — 2,834 ratings — published 2007
State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.74 — 839 ratings — published 2006
The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,304 ratings — published 2003
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,117 ratings — published 2014
Thieves Emporium (The New Badlands)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.05 — 168 ratings — published 2013
The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,742 ratings — published 2014
In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.41 — 6,145 ratings — published 2009
By Way of Deception: The Making of a Mossad Officer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,122 ratings — published 1990
Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.87 — 14,529 ratings — published 2012
Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools & Operations That Helped Win the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.98 — 457 ratings — published 2002
The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA – The First CIA-Authorized Memoir of International Espionage Operations (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,401 ratings — published 1999
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.91 — 421 ratings — published 2004
Dulles: A Biography of Eleanor, Allen & John Foster Dulles & Their Family Network (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.77 — 43 ratings — published 1978
The Official CIA Interrogation & Manipulation Manual: The Cold War KUBARK Files - Updated 2014 Release, Full-Size Edition, Newly Indexed with Glossary (Carlile Intelligence Library) Large Print
by (shelved 1 time as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.20 — 10 ratings — published
How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.62 — 829 ratings — published
Transfer of Power (Mitch Rapp, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.35 — 60,770 ratings — published 1999
The Area Intelligence Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published
Subverting Syria: How CIA Contra Gangs and NGOs Manufacture, Mislabel and Market Mass Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.69 — 16 ratings — published 2012
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.42 — 9,916 ratings — published 2018
Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East)
by (shelved 1 time as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.18 — 39 ratings — published 2004
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,109 ratings — published 2015
The Defector (Gabriel Allon, #9)
by (shelved 1 time as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.33 — 36,993 ratings — published 2009
The US Intelligence Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.74 — 149 ratings — published 1985
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,065 ratings — published 1999
Cases in Intelligence Analysis: Structured Analytic Techniques in Action (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 4.09 — 86 ratings — published 2011
MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.61 — 93 ratings — published 2000
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intelligence-agencies)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,983 ratings — published 2013
“In the twenty-first century, unfortunately, quite often policymakers and politicians judge intelligence agencies in comparison with what has appeared in the media.”
― The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage
― The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage
“There are no victory parades, and no one would light a lamp for the unknown agents,”
― The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives
― The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives







