Intelligence in Public Literature

Following book titles and author names are the Studies in Intelligence issue in which the review appeared and the name of the reviewer. All Bookshelf reviews are by Hayden Peake.

Current Topics and Issues

Anticipating Surprise: Analysis for Strategic Warning by Cynthia M. Grabo (51 2 [June]. Bookshelf)

Counterdeception: Principles and Applications for National Security by Michael Bennett and Edward Waltz (51 3 [September]. Bookshelf)

Educing Information Interrogation: Science and Art by Intelligence Science Board (51 1 [March]. Loch K. Johnson)

Enemies: How America's Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets-and How We Let It Happen by Bill Gertz (51 2 [June]. Bookshelf)

Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying by James M. Olson (51 1 [March]. David Robarge)

FIASCO: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks (51 1 [March] Bookshelf)

Handbook of Intelligence Studies by Loch Johnson (ed.) (51 2 [June]. Bookshelf)

Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn (51 1 [March]. Bookshelf)

Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al-Qaeda: A Spy’s Story by Omar Nasiri (51 2 [June]. Bookshelf)

Intelligence in an Insecure World by Peter Gill and Peter Phythian (51 2 [June]. Bookshelf)

JIHAD Incorporated: A Guide to Militant Islam in the US by Steven Emerson (51 2 [June]. Bookshelf)

Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (51 1 [March]. Bookshelf)

On the Brink: How the White House Has Compromised American Intelligence by Tyler Drumheller (51 1 [March]. Bookshelf)

Safe For Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA by John Prados (51 2 [June]. Bookshelf)

Sharpening Strategic Intelligence: Why the CIA Gets It Wrong and What Needs to be Done to Get It Right by Richard L. Russell (51 4 [December]. Bookshelf)

Shopping For Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity and the Rise and Fall of the A. Q. Kahn Network by Gordon Corera (51 2 [June]. Bookshelf)

Special Agent, Vietnam: A Naval Intelligence Memoir by Douglass L. Hubbard. (51 2 [June]. Michael J. Sulick)

Terrorism and Espionage in the Middle East: Deception, Displacement, and Denial by H.H.A. Cooper and Lawrence J. Redlinger (51 2 [June]. Bookshelf)

The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 by Ron Susskind (51 1 [March]. Bookshelf)

Triple Cross: How Bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI—and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him by Peter Lance (51 2 [June]. Bookshelf)

Warning Analysis for the Information Age: Rethinking the Intelligence Process by John W. Bodnar (51 2 [June]. Bookshelf)

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General Intelligence

Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life by Ted Gup (51 4 December]. Bookshelf)

Politics, Paradigms, and Intelligence Failures: Why So Few Predicted the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Ofira Seliktar (51 1 [March]. Bookshelf)

STRATAGEM: Deception and Surprise in War by Barton Whaley (51 4 [December]. Bookshelf)

Strategic Intelligence: Understanding the Hidden Side of Government – Volumes 1-5 by Loch K. Johnson (ed.) (51 3 [September]. Bookshelf)

The US Intelligence Community: Fifth Edition by Jeffrey T. Richelson (51 4 [December]. Bookshelf)

Understanding Surveillance Technologies: Spy Devices, Privacy, History and Applications by J. K. Petersen (51 4 [December]. Bookshelf)

Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission by Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton, with Benjamin Rhodes (51 1 [March]. Bookshelf)

Words of Intelligence: A Dictionary by Jan Goldman (51 1 [March]. Bookshelf)

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Historical

A Journey Through the Cold War: A Memoir of Containment and Coexistence by Raymond L. Garthoff (51 1 [March]. Bookshelf)

Agent ZIGZAG: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman—Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy by Ben Macintyre (51 3 [September]. Bookshelf)

Alliance of Enemies: The Untold Story of the Secret American and German Collaboration to End World War II by Agostino von Hassell and Sigrid MacRae (51 3 [September]. Bookshelf)

American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate & Beyond by E. Howard Hunt (51 3 [September]. Bookshelf)

Apartheid’s Friends; The Rise and Fall of South Africa’s Secret Service by James Sanders (51 4 [December]. Bookshelf)

Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control by Dominic Streatfeild (51 1 [March]. Bookshelf)

Capturing Jonathan Pollard: How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice by Ronald J. Olive (51 1 [March]. Bookshelf)

Churchill's Man of Mystery: Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence by Gill Bennett (51 2 [(June]. Bookshelf)

Dances In Deep Shadows: Britain’s Clandestine War In Russia by Michael Occleshaw (51 1 [March]. Bookshelf)

Delusions of Intelligence: Enigma, ULTRA, and the End of Secure Ciphers by R. A. Ratcliff (51 1 [March]. Bookshelf)

The Detonators: The Secret Plot to Destroy America and an Epic Hunt for Justice by Chad Millman (51 1 [March]. Thomas Boghardt)

Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials That Shaped American Politics by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr (51 2 [June]. John Erhman)

The Enemy Within: A History of Espionage by Terry Crowdy (51 3 [September]. Bookshelf)

FDR’s 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved the Way for the Invasion of North Africa by Hal Vaughn (51 3 [September]. Bookshelf)

Flawed Patriot: The Rise and Fall of CIA Legend Bill Harvey by Bayard Stockton (51 2 [June]. Bookshelf)

Historical Dictionary of Cold War Counterintelligence by Nigel West (51 2 (June). Bookshelf)

Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence by Nigel West (51 2 [June]. Bookshelf)

Historical Dictionary of Russian & Soviet Intelligence: Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, No. 5 by Robert W. Pringle (51 1 [March]. Bookshelf)

James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips (51 1 [March]. Bookshelf)

GATEKEEPER: Memoirs of a CIA Polygraph Examiner by John Sullivan (51 3 [September]. Bookshelf)

Legacy of Ashes: The History of CIA by Tim Weiner (51 3 [September]. Nicholas Dujmovic)

The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession by Ken Alder (51 4 [December]. Bookshelf)

The Meinertzhagen Mystery: The Life and Legend of a Colossal Fraud by Brian Garfield [51 2 (June]. Bookshelf)

My Father’s Secret War: A Memoir by Linda Franks (51 3 [September]. Bookshelf)

The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence by Raymond J. Batvinis (51 3 [September]. Bookshelf)

The Need To Know: The Clandestine History of a CIA Family by Harold Lloyd Goodall Jr. (51 1 [March]. Bookshelf)

Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent by Larry Berman (51 4 [December]. Bookshelf)

The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War: Special Operations Executive, 1940–1946 by Neville Wylie (ed.) (51 3 [September]. Bookshelf)

Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi (51 4 [December]. Bookshelf)

Setting the Desert on Fire: T.E. Lawrence and Britain’s Secret War in Arabia 1916-1918 by James Barr (51 4 [December]. Bookshelf)

Skating on the Edge: A Memoir and Journey Through a Metamorphosis of the CIA by Carlos D. Luria (51 4 [December]. Bookshelf)

Special Agent Vietnam: A Naval Intelligence Memoir by Douglass L. Hunter (51 4 [December]. Michael Sulick)

Spies of the Bible: Espionage in Israel from the Exodus to the Bar Kokhba Revolt by Rose Mary Sheldon (51 3 [September]. Bookshelf)

Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins: The Greatest Female Agent in World War II by William Stevenson. (51 2 [June]. Thomas F. Troy)

Spying On Science: Western Intelligence in Divided Germany 1945–1961 by Paul Maddrell (51 3 [September]. Bookshelf)

SPY Satellites: and Other Intelligence Technologies That Changed History by Thomas Graham Jr. and Keith A. Hansen (51 3 [September]. Bookshelf)

True Believer: Inside the Investigation and Capture of Ana Montes, Cuba's Master Spy by Scott W. Carmichael (51 2 [June]. Bookshelf)

Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring by Alexander Rose (51 1 [March]. Bookshelf)

ZIGZAG: The Incredible Wartime Exploits of Double Agent Eddie Chapman by Nicholas Booth (51 3 [September]. Bookshelf)

Intelligence Around the World

At Her Majesty's Secret Service: The Chiefs of Britain's Intelligence Agency by Nigel West (51 2 [June]. Bookshelf)

CANARIS: The Life and Death of Hitler’s Spymaster by Michael Mueller (51 4 [December]. Bookshelf)

Che-3 ui sinario [The Third Scenario] by Kim Chinmyong (51 1 [March]. Stephen Mercado)

Collusion: International Espionage and the War On Terror by Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe D’Avanzo (51 3 [September]. Bookshelf)

Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB by Alex Goldfarb and Marina Litvinenko (51 4 [December]. Bookshelf)

Dutch Intelligence: Towards a Qualitative Framework for Analysis, with Case Studies on the Shipping Research Bureau and the National Security Service (BVD) by Giliam de Valk (51 1 [March]. Bookshelf)

India’s External Intelligence: Secrets of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) by Maj. Gen. V. K. Singh (51 4 [December]. Bookshelf)

Inside Canadian Intelligence: Exposing the New Realities of Espionage and International Terrorism by Dwight Hamilton (51 1 [March]. Bookshelf)

The Litvinenko File: The True Story of a Death Foretold by Martin Sixsmith (51 3 [September] Bookshelf)

Sin ui chugum [God’s Death] by KIm Chin-myong (51 1 [March]. Stephen Mercado)

Spying For Empire: The Great Game in Central and South Asia, 1757-1947 by Robert Johnson (512 [June. Bookshelf)

The Tao of Deception; Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China by Ralf D. Sawyer with the collaboration of Mei-Chu Lee Sawyer (51 4 [December]. Bookshelf)

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