"KGB - The Inside Story" by Oleg Gordievsky & Christopher
Andrew - Harper Collins
(Ben N. Venzke - A good historical accounting of Russian intelligence.)
(Ross Hedvicek)
(David Ferreira)
"Puzzle Palace" by James Bamford - Penguin
(Brian Combs)
"The Second Oldest Profession" by Philip Knightley
(Bodo Wegmann)
"History of Espionage" by Janusz Piekalkiewicz
(Bodo Wegmann)
"Informing Statecraft: Intelligence for a New Century" by Angelo
Codevilla
(Peter Klerks - Lucid and wise analysis of current issues in western
intelligence.)
"Strategic Intelligence and Statecraft" by Ada Bozeman
(Peter Klerks)
"Policing Politics: Security Intelligence and the Liberal
Democratic State" by Peter Gill
(Peter Klerks)
"Surprise Attack: The Victim's Perspective" by Ephraim Kam
(Peter Klerks - An excellent example of applied 'intelligence' and
academic rigour in both meanings of the word, in the best Israeli
tradition, proving that there's nothing as practical as a good theory.)
"Organizational Intelligence: Knowledge and Policy in Government
and Industry" by Harold L. Wilensky
(Peter Klerks - Insightful, systematic, and solid)
"Inside Intelligence" by Anthony Cavendish
(Peter Klerks - I believe Cavendish managed to transmit the
'spirit' of British intelligence tradition here.)
"GCHQ - The Wireless War" by Idem
(Bodo Wegmann)
"MI-5 1909-1945" by Nigel West
(Bodo Wegmann)
"MI-5 1945-1972" by Nigel West
(Bodo Wegmann)
"Inside Intelligence" by Anthony Cavendish
(Alec Chambers)
"Every Spy a Prince" by Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman - Houghton
Mifflin
(Ben N. Venzke - An excellant overview of the Israeli intelligence
services and their start.)
(Brian Combs - The only good source of information on Israel's 'other'
intelligence agencies)
"By Way of Deception" by Victor Ostrovsky & Claire Hoy
(Ben N. Venzke)
"KGB Files" by Oleg Gordievsky
(Ross Hedvicek)
"KGB - Death & Rebirth" by Martin Ebon
(Bodo Wegmann)
"The First Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage
Against the West" by Oleg Kalugin with Fen Montaigne - St. Martin's
Press
(Ben N. Venzke - A valuable look at the workings of the KGB from someone
who was not a defector.)
"Staatsschutz in der Schweiz. Die Entwicklung von 1935-1990"
by Georg Kreis
(Peter Klerks - Solid, scientific description and analysis of Swiss
intel history since 1935.)
"Skunk Works" by Ben Rich and Leo Janos - Little, Brown
(Brian Combs)
(Ben N. Venzke - An excellent look at the inner-workings of Skunk
Works.)
"The US Intelligence Community" (3rd. Ed.) by Jeffrey T. Richelson
- Westview
(Ben N. Venzke - The best up-to-date reference work on the US IC.)
(David Aidekman)
"Deep Black" by William E. Burrows - Berkley
(David Aidekman)
(Ben N. Venzke - A good accounting of the early days of the US satellite
program.)
"National Security Directives of the Reagan & Bush Administrations"
by Christopher Simpson - Westview
(Ben N. Venzke - An excellant reference work.)
"For the President's Eyes Only" by Christopher Andrew - Harper
Collins
(Alec Chambers - The first book to look at that most important link in
the intel. chain: the relationship between the intel. community and the
President.)
(Ben N. Venzke - A must read if you want to understand the interaction
between the President and the IC.)
"A Century of Spies" by Jeffrey Richelson - Oxford University
Press
(Alec Chambers - The ultimate starting point for looking at intelligence
in the 20th Century.)
"Back Fire: The CIA's Secret War in Laos and Its Link to the War in
Vietnam" by Roger Warner - Simon & Schuster
(Ben N. Venzke - A good accounting of the CIA's covert actions in Laos and
the personalities behind them.)
"Unknown CIA" by Russell Jack Smith
(Ross Hedvicek)
"Inside the CIA" by Ronald Kessler - Pocket Books
(Ross Hedvicek)
(Alix Verhaegen)
"The CIA and American Democracy" by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
(Alec Chambers)
"The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA"
by Thomas Powers
(Peter Klerks - Perhaps the best intel biography I ever read.)
"Nightmover: How Aldrich Ames Sold the CIA to the KGB
for $4.6 Million" by David Wise - Harper Collins
(Peter Klerks - A great book on the processes of changing
allegiances, bureacratic impotence, CI investigations and
intelligence psychology.)
"Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987" by Bob Wooward - Simon
& Schuster
(Peter Klerks - So many new insights, so well written. Too bad
about the last pages (the deathbed scene).)
"Lost Victory" by William Colby - Contemporary Books
(Ben N. Venzke - An interesting and detailed look at the Vietnam war from
the point of view of the CIA.)
