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
America and the Islamic Bomb: The Deadly
Compromise by David Armstrong and Joseph Trento (52 2 [June]. Bookshelf)
Analyzing
Intelligence: Origins, Obstacles, and Innovations by Roger Z.
George and James B. Bruce (52 3 [September]. Bookshelf)
Countering Terrorism:
Blurred Focus, Halting Steps by Richard A. Posner (52 1 [March]. Bookshelf)
Counterterrorism
Strategies: Successes and Failures of Six Nations by Yonah Alexander
(ed.) (52 2 [June]. Bookshelf)
The Commission: The
Uncensored History of the 9/11 Commission by Philip Shenon (52 3 [September].
Bookshelf)
In the Common
Defense: National Security Law for Perilous Times by James E. Baker (52 4
[December]. Bookshelf]
Deception: Pakistan, the United States,
and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons by Adrian Levy and Catherine
Scott-Clark. (52 2 [June]. Bookshelf)
Democratic Control of
Intelligence Services: Containing Rogue Elephants by Hans Born and Marina Caparini
(eds.) (52 1 [March]. Bookshelf)
Failure of
Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA by Melvin A. Goodman (52 4
[December]. Bookshelf]
Insurgents, Terrorists and
Militias: The Warriors of Contemporary Combat by Richard H. Schultz Jr. &
Andrea J. Dew (52 2 [June]. Bookshelf)
Intelligence
Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach, 2nd edition revised by Robert M.
Clark (52 1 [March]. Bookshelf)
Leaderless Jihad:
Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century by Marc Sageman (52 3 [September].
Bookshelf)
The Nuclear Jihadist:
The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World’s Most Dangerous Secrets and How
We Could Have Stopped Him by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins (52 2 [June].
Bookshelf)
The Quest for
Absolute Security: The Failed Relations Among U.S.
Intelligence Agencies by Athan Theoharis (52 1 [March]. Bookshelf)
Reforming
Intelligence: Obstacles to Democratic Control and Effectiveness by Thomas C.
Bruneau and Steven C. Boraz (eds.) (52 1 [March]. Bookshelf)
The Search For WMD:
Non-Proliferation, Intelligence and Pre-emption in the New Security Environment
by
Graham F. Walker (ed.) (52 3 [September]. Bookshelf)
Spies For Hire: The
Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing by Tim Shorrock (52 4 [December].
Bookshelf]
Spying Blind: The
CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11 by Amy B. Zegart (52 1 [March].
Bookshelf)
Still Broken: A
Recruit’s Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, From Baghdad
to the Pentagon by A. J. Rossmiller (52 3 [September]. Bookshelf)
Terror and Consent: The
Wars for the Twenty-First Century by Philip Bobbitt (52 4 [December].
Bookshelf]
Torture and Democracy by Darius
Rejali (52 4 [December]. Bookshelf]
Why Spy?: Espionage
In An Age of Uncertainty by Frederick P. Hitz (52 3 [September]. Bookshelf)
Your Government
Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Defense Disasters by Richard A. Clarke (52 4
[December]. Bookshelf]
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General
Intelligence
The Agency and The
Hill: CIA’s Relationship with Congress, 1946-2004 by L. Britt
Snider (52 3 [September]. Bookshelf)
Communicating with
Intelligence: Writing and Briefing in the Intelligence and National Security
Communities by James S. Major (52 3 [September]. Bookshelf)
Detecting Deception:
A Bibliography of Counterdeception Across Time, Cultures, and Disciplines—Supplement
to the Second Edition by Barton Whaley (52 1 [March]. Bookshelf)
The History of
Information Security: A Comprehensive Handbook by Karl de Leeuw and Jan Bergstra
(eds.) (52 4 [December]. Bookshelf]
Intelligence and
National Security: A Reference Handbook by J. Ransom Clark
(52 1 [March]. Bookshelf)
Intelligence and
National Security: The Secret World of Spies—An Anthology, Second Edition by Loch K. Johnson and
James J. Wirtz (52 1 [March]. Bookshelf)
Intelligence, Crises
and Security Prospects and Retrospects by Len Scott and R. Gerald Hughes (52 2
[June]. Bookshelf)
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Historical
Comrade J: The Untold
Story of Russia’s Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War by Pete Earley (52
1 [March]. Bookshelf)
Declassified: 50
Top-Secret Documents that Changed History by Thomas B. Allen (52 4 [December].
Bookshelf]
Empires of
Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder After 1914 by Martin Thomas
(52 2 [June]. Bookshelf)
Exploring
Intelligence Archives: Enquiries into the Secret State by R. Gerald
Hughes, Peter Jackson, and Len Scott (52 4 [December]. Bookshelf]
The FBI: A History by
Rhodri
Jeffreys-Jones (52 1 [March]. Bookshelf)
The Final Dive: The
Life and Death of “Buster” Crabb by Don Hale (52 4 [December]. Bookshelf]
Historical Dictionary
of World War Two Intelligence by Nigel West (52 2 [June]. Bookshelf)
Hostile
Intent: U.S. Covert Operations in Chile, 1964–1974 by by Kristian Gustafson (52 3 [September]. David
Robarge)
The Hunt for Nazi
Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France by Simon Kitson (52 3 [September]. Bookshelf)
I Engaged in
Intelligence Work by Colonel Dinh Thi Van (52 2 [June]. Bookshelf)
Intelligence,
Statecraft and International Power by Eunan O’Halpin, Robert Armstrong and
Jane Ohlmeyer (eds.) (52 1 [March]. Bookshelf)
The King’s Most Loyal
Enemy Aliens: Germans Who Fought for Britain in the Second World War by Helen Fry
(52 4 [December]. Bookshelf]
The Kravchenko Case:
One Man’s War On Stalin by Gary Kern (52 2 [June]. Bookshelf)
Living With the
Enigma Secret: Marian Rejewski 1905-1980 by Jan Stanislaw Ciechanowski (eds.)
(52 1 [March]. Bookshelf)
A Man of
Intelligence: The Life of Captain Theodore Eric Nave, Australian Codebreaker
Extraordinary by Ian Pefenningwerth (52 2 [June]. Bookshelf)
The Mighty Wurlitzer:
How the CIA Played America by Hugh
Wilford (52 2 [June]. Michael Warner)
Military Intelligence
and the Arab Revolt: The First Modern Intelligence War by Polly A. Mohs
(52 3 [September]. Bookshelf)
Nazi War Crimes, US
Intelligence and Selective Prosecution at Nuremburg: Controversies Regarding
the Role of the Office of Strategic Services by Michael Salter (52 1 [March].
Bookshelf)
Nisei
Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service During World
War II by James
C. McNaughton (52 4 [December]. Stephen Mercado)
One Minute to
Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs (52 4 [December].
Bookshelf]
Operation Freshman:
The Hunt for Hitler’s Heavy Water by Jostein Berglyd (52 3 [September].
Bookshelf)
Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA by Jefferson
Morley (52 3 [September]. Bookshelf)
Programmed to Kill:
Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination – The Training
of a Dedicated Agent by Ion Mihai Pacepa (52 2 [June]. Bookshelf)
The Real Enigma
Heroes by Phil Shanahan (52 4 [September]. Bookshelf)
RUSE: Undercover With FBI Counterintelligence by Robert Eringer
(52 3 [September]. Bookshelf)
Secrets and Lies: A
History of CIA Mind Control and Germ Warfare by Gordon Thomas (52 2 [June].
Bookshelf)
Seduced by Secrets:
Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World by Kristie Macrakis (52 3 [September].
Bookshelf)
The Sixth Man: the
extraordinary life of Paddy Costello by James McNeish (52 3 [September].
Bookshelf)
Spies and
Revolutionaries: A History of New Zealand
Subversion by Graeme Hunt (52 2 [June]. Bookshelf)
Spies in Arabia: The
Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's
Covert Empire in the Middle East by Pryia Satia (52
3 [September]. Bookshelf)
Spies in the Empire:
Victorian Military Intelligence by Stephen Wade (52 3 [September].
Bookshelf)
Spycraft: The Secret
History of CIA’s Spytechs from Communism to Al-Qaeda by Robert
Wallace and H. Keith Melton (52 2 [June]. Hayden Peake]
The Spy Within: Larry Chin and
China’s Penetration of the CIA by Tod Hoffman (52 4 [December]. Bookshelf]
STASI Decorations and
Memorabilia: A Collectors Guide by Ralph Pickard (52 3 [September].
Bookshelf)
Stasi: Shield and
Sword of the Party by John C. Schmeidel (52 2 [June]. Bookshelf)
YEZHOV: The Rise of
Stalin’s “Iron Fist,” by J. Arch Getty and Oleg Naumov (52 4 [December].
Bookshelf]
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Intelligence
Around the World
Inside IB and RAW:
The Rolling Stone that Gathered Moss by K. Sankaran Nair (52 1 [March].
Bookshelf)
Intelligence: Past,
Present and Future by B. Raman
The Kaoboys of
R&AW: Down Memory Lane by B. Raman
(52 1 [March]. Bookshelf)
SMOKESCREEN: Canadian
Security Intelligence after September 11, 2001 by J. Michael Cole
(52 4 [December]. Bookshelf)
The Volunteer: The
Incredible True Story of an Israeli Spy on the Trail of International
Terrorists by Michael Ross with Jonathan Kay (52 1 [March]. Bookshelf)
My Years In a
Pakistani Prison: The Untold Story of Kishorilal, alias Amaril Singh, alias
Saleem, an Indian Spy in Pakistan by Kishorilal Sharma (52 3 [September].
Bookshelf)
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Fiction
An Ordinary Spy by Stephen
Weisberg (52 4 [December]. John Ehrman)
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