World War II & Before
Alan Harris Bath
Tracking the Axis Enemy: The Triumph of Anglo-American Naval Intelligence.
Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
An account of the importance naval intelligence played in WWII.
Willam B. Feis
Thaddeus HoltGrant’s Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox.
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2002.
A look General Ulysses Grant's use of intelligence in the Civil War.
Douglas J. MacEachinThe Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War.
New York: Scribner, 2004.
A study of the various deception operations the Allies conducted against the Axis during WWII.
David RobargeWashington, D.C.: History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1998.
The importance of signals intelligence at a critical juncture in WWII.
P.K. RoseIntelligence in the War for Independence.
Washington, D.C.: Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1997.
Use of intelligence operations in America's fight for freedom.
Hugh Sebag-MontefioreBlack Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War.
Washington, D.C.: Center for Study of Intelligence, 1999.
The story of African-American contributions to Union intelligence during the Civil War.
Simon SinghEnigma: The Battle for the Code.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, inc., 2001.
The story of the incredible efforts of the Allies to obtain the Enigma machine and break the Nazi code.
Robert W. StephanThe Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography.
New York: Doubleday, 1999.
A history of codes and ciphers and the role they play in warfare and politics.
Stalin's Secret War: Soviet Counterintelligence Against the Nazis, 1941-1945.
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004.
An examination of Soviet military counterintelligence and deception operations against the Nazis during WWII.
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CIA & OSS History
Christopher Andrew
Ray ClineFor the President's Eyes Only-Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995.
The CIA: Reality vs Myth--The Evolution of the Agency from Roosevelt to Reagan,
(Revised edition of The CIA under Reagan, Bush and Casey).Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1982.
The author, a former top official of the Agency, discusses what clandestine work in an open society is like, why it is needed, and how it can be carried out effectively.
Arthur Darling
Douglas F. GarthoffThe Central Intelligence Agency An Instrument of Government to 1950.
State College: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990.
A look at the bureaucratic struggles that led to the development of the CIA and the battles that ensued afterward.
Directors of Central Intelligence as Leaders of the U.S. Intelligence Community — 1946-2005
Washington, DC: Center for The Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 2005.
A comprehensive study of how politics, institutions, and personalities influenced the DCI's ability to oversee the Intelligence Community.
Ted Gup
Loch K. JohnsonThe Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives
New York: Random House, 2000
Journalist Ted Gup presents the stories of many of the CIA officers who died in the service of their country.
The Central Intelligence Agency: History and Documents.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Johnson, a professor at the University of Georgia who worked for the Church Committee, discusses both the history of the Agency and the theory of intelligence as he grapples with the issues of secret intelligence in a free society.
Barry M. Katz
Foreign Intelligence: Research and Analysis in the Office of Strategic Services 1942-1945.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989
An intellectual history of OSS's Research and Analysis Branch.
Ronald Kessler
The CIA At War: Inside the Secret Campaign Against Terror.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003
A look at the major events of the Agency from the 1980s to the present based mainly on interviews with DCIs and former Agency personnel.
William M. Leary, ed.
The Central Intelligence Agency: History and Documents.
Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1984.
This book reprints Anne Karalekas's "History of the Central Intelligence Agency," originally published in Book IV of the Church Committee's report. Leary has added an introduction and an appendix of historical documents.
Patrick O'Donnell
Operatives, Spies and Saboteurs: The Unknown Story of the Men and Women of WWII's OSS.
New York: Public Affairs, 2004.
Through OSS officer interviews and archive records, O'Donnell tells some heroic and often amazing OSS officer tales that have not been told before.
G. J. A. O'Toole
John RanelaghHonorable Treachery: A History of Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.
A wide-ranging study by a former Agency officer places intelligence in general and the CIA in particular in historical context.
Donald P. SteuryThe Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.
A comprehensive and well-researched history of the CIA written by a British author, this work provides a sharp description of the people and events that created the Agency. The most recent comprehensive treatment.
On the Front Lines of the Cold War: Documents on the Intelligence War in Berlin, 1946-1961.
Washington, D.C.: CIA History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1999.
A look at the beginnings of the Cold War from the front lines of Berlin.
Thomas F. Troy
Donovan and the CIA: A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1981.
Troy studies the concept of centralized intelligence from 1939-1947 and describes the bureaucratic battles involved in trying to establish a central intelligence organization. He had access to many classified documents, some of which appear in the book.
Michael Warner, ed.
The CIA Under Harry Truman
Washington, D.C.: Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1994.
The early years of the Agency under the President who created it.
Michael Warner
The Office of Strategic Services: America's First Intelligence Agency.
Washington, D.C.: CIA History Staff , Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2000.
The story of CIA's WWII predecessor.
H. Bradford Westerfield, ed.
Inside the CIA's Private World: Declassified Articles from the Agency's Internal Journal, 1955-1992.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.
Declassified articles from the Agency's "Studies in Intelligence" authored by mostly CIA employees and covering a wide range of intelligence topics.
Robin Winks
Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1987.
An account of the beginnings of the link between the American academic community and the Intelligence Community beginning with the creation and running of the Research and Analysis Branch of the OSS.
Biographies & Memoirs
Clarence Ashley
CIA Spymaster
Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 2004
A biography of legendary CIA case officer George Kisevalter, who handled the extremely important Soviet assets Pyotr Popov and Oleg Penkousky.
Mary Bancroft
Autobiography of a Spy.
New York: Morrow, 1983.
The author worked for Allen Dulles in Switzerland in World War II.
Anthony Cave Brown
The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan
New York: Times Books, 1982.
The biography of the father of the Office of Strategic Services, CIA's predecessor.
Victor Cherkashin with Gregory Feifer
Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer
New York: Basic Books, 2005
When CIA officer Aldrich Ames and FBI special agent Robert Hanssen offered their services to the KGB, Victor Cherkashin was the man they encountered in the Washington Embassy. He tells his side of the story in this memoir.
Duane R. Clarridge with Digby Diehl
A Spy For All Seasons: My Life in the CIA
Dulles, VA: Brassey’s, 2004
Colorful “Dewey” Clarridge was the role model for a dynamic case officer in the CIA that DCI Bill Casey wanted. Their interaction makes good reading as does the balance of Clarridge’s career during some turbulent times in the Cold War.
William E. Colby with James McCarger
Lost Victory: A Firsthand Account of America's Sixteen-Year Involvement in Vietnam.
Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1989.
Former DCI Colby tells of his role while serving intelligence and CIA Headquarters.
Robert M. Gates
From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.
Gates, a former Director of the CIA, gives an autobiographical look at the White House and National Security planning and policy during the five administrations in which he served.
Tom Gilligan
CIA Life: 10,000 Days with the Agency.
Connecticut: Foreign Intelligence Press, 1991.
The author covers his 28-year career from his recruitment through his training as a CIA operations officer, culminating with his assignment as chief of applicant recruitment in New England.
Peter Grose
Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
A biography of the Director who many consider a "legendary figure".
Richard Helms with William Hood
A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency.
New York: Random House, 2003.
Richard Helms, former OSS officer and longtime Director of Central Intelligence, looks at his career and world of intelligence. Helms reviews his role in many operations and discusses the relationship of the Agency with the White House and Congress.
James Lilley with Jeffrey Lilley
China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage and Diplomacy.
New York: Public Affairs, 2004
A look at America's involvement in East Asia through the eyes of an operations officer who rose through the ranks to become the first Chief of Station in China and eventually Ambassador to that country
Richard L. Holm
The American Agent: My Life in the CIA.
London: St. Ermin's Press, 2003.
What is involved in being a CIA operations officer through the eyes of a retired officer. This book reviews an entire career, the type of training, various assignments, family considerations, and retirement considerations.
David Kahn
Oleg KaluginThe Reader of Gentleman's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
The story of the man who revolutionized code breaking in America, making it part of peace time intelligence gathering and not just for war.
The First Directorate: My 32 years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
The head of the former KGB tells about life in the intelligence world on the other side.
Patrick E. Kennon
The Twilight of Democracy.
New York: Doubleday, 1995.
The author offers the lessons he learned from his 25 years as a global political analyst for the CIA.
Tom Mangold
Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton: The CIA's Master Spy Hunter.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.
Mangold is a BBC producer whose biography of the CIA's famous head of counterintelligence will probably hold the field until the Agency releases its files on such topics as the investigation of Soviet defectors' claims.
Antonio J. Mendez
The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA.
New York: Morrow, 1999.
The story of the ex-operative whose blend of artistry and insight saved many lives in the field.
Ludwell Lee Montague
General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence.
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.
The biography of the DCI credited with defining the Agency's structure and mission in its early years.
Floyd L. Paseman
A Spy’s Journey: A CIA Memoir
St. Paul, MN: Zenith Press, 2004
A fine candid account of how a young man comes to join the CIA’s clandestine service, raise a family, and rise to high position after a number of careers ups and downs.
Joseph E. Persico
Casey: From the OSS to the CIA.
New York: Viking Penguin, 1990.
The biography of William J. Casey, Director of Central Intelligence from 1981 to 1987.
David Atlee Phillips
The Night Watch: 25 Years of Peculiar Service.
New York: Atheneum, 1977.
The memoirs of a senior CIA operations officer whose career involved many of the Agency's most important covert activities.
Thomas Powers
The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.
An account of the evolution of CIA as seen in the professional career of Richard Helms, from his OSS service in World War II through his years as Director of Central Intelligence from 1966-1973.
John Prados
Evan ThomasLost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
The story of the career of the former OSS officer and Director of Central Intelligence, William Colby, who served during a controversial period in the Agency's history.
The Very Best Men--Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
Written by the first "outsider" allowed to see the CIA's own secret histories of its operations in the first twenty years of its existence. This book relates how the Agency saw itself through the eyes of the men who made the history.
George Tenet
At the Center of the Storm.
New York: HarperLuxe, 2007.
The controversial memoir by the DCI whose tenure spanned 9/11, the fall of the Taliban, the Iraq WMD debate, and the first phase of the war in Iraq.
Stansfield Turner
Secrecy and Democracy--The CIA in Transition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
The author reviews his controversial tenure as DCI under President Carter. He discusses the problems involved in operating a secret intelligence organization in a democratic society.
Markus Wolf
Man Without a Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Great Spymaster.
New York: Random House, 1997.
The story of the head of the East German foreign intelligence service, one of the most professional and successful opponents faced by the CIA.
Women in Intelligence
Sarah Helm
A Life In Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE
London: Little Brown, 2005
In the “man’s world” of WWII European intelligence, Atkins rose quickly to a key position in Britain’s Special; Operations Executive (SOE) selecting agents and sending them to Europe. After the war she went searching for those who hadn't returned. This book tells her story.
Mary S. Lovell
Cast No Shadow: The Life of the American Spy Who Changed the Course of World War II.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.
The story of Amy Elizabeth Thorpe Pack who spied for the British Security Coordination and the Office of Strategic Services. Her work led to the acquisition of the Italian and French naval ciphers prior to America's landing in North Africa and other critical data.
Melissa Boyle Mahle
Denial and Deception: An Insider’s View of the CIA from Iran-Contra to 9/11
New York, Nation Books, 2004
The author was a successful operations officer in the CIA’s clandestine service. In he book she tells how that came about, what the training was like, and share some of her experiences in espionage.
Elizabeth P. McIntosh
Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS.
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
Veteran of the OSS, Elizabeth McIntosh relates her own experiences and those of fellow OSS women in this book that reveals interesting stories and long kept secrets from WWII.
Judith Pearson
Wolves At The Door : The True Story of America’s Greatest Female Spy
Guildford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2005
Pearson tells the story of American Virginia Hall who became first a British agent with the French resistance, then an OSS officer behind the Nazi lines, and finally a CIA officer. All this despite the slight handicap of her wooden leg. She was the only women in WWII to receive the Distinguished Service Cross.
Tammy M. Proctor
Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War.
New York: New York University Press, 2003.
This book examines several important but little known espionage cases involving female spies during WWI.
Margaret Rossiter
Women in the Resistance.
New York: Praeger, 1991.
Stories of the Allied women who were part of the WWII resistance movement behind German lines.
Elizabeth R. Varon
Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
New details from archives highlight this biography of this very successful Union agent who lived in the South.
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