CIA History Staff, 2012. — 30 p. In late 1961, CIA employees began relocating from a disparate collection of buildings in Washington, to a newly constructed headquarters complex in Langley, Virginia. The Original Headquarters Building (OHB) was the first home designed specifically for Agency officers, and it still serves today as an iconic symbol of CIA and its mission. As part...
Ig Publishing, 2013. — 271 p. A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terror shows how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than fifteen thousand informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate phony terrorist...
New Press, 2013. — 304 p. In August 1953, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the next twenty-six years, the United States backed the unpopular, authoritarian shah and his secret police; in exchange, it reaped a share of Iran’s oil wealth and...
University Press of Kentucky, 2012. — 224 р. Above the politics and ideological battles of Washington, D.C., is a committee that meets behind locked doors and leaves its paper trail in classified files. The President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) is one of the most secretive and potentially influential segments of the U.S. intelligence community. Established in 1956, the...
Jist Works, 2002. — 275 p. The definitive guide to acing the FBI's rigorous selection process-for special agents as well as professional support personnel. Part. FBI Basics The History and Organization of the FBI Salary and Benefits Part. Getting into the FBI FBI Special Agent Career Opportunities The Special Agent Hiring Process Professional Support Career Opportunities The...
Routledge, 2010. — 368 p. The tools of American statecraft―defense, diplomacy, foreign and security assistance, homeland security and intelligence―are rarely examined together. Adams and Williams fill this gap by examining how these tools work, how they are planned for, and how they are budgeted. Seeing policy through the lens of the budget can help decision makers and ordinary...
Kent State University Press, 2013. — 382 p. An expert dissection of the crime, its witnesses, and Washington's shifting goals. Murder and Martial Justice is a good murder mystery, based on a solid examination of the various contradictions and irritating bureaucratic villains."—Arnold Krammer, author of Nazi Prisoners of War in America and Undue Process: The Untold Story of...
Steerforth Press, 2020. — 295 p. In vibrant, engaging prose, this memoir from inside the belly of US intelligence operations reveals what fundamentally went wrong for the US and its allies, and why the Vietnam War was never "winnable." A cautionary tale about the perils of politicizing and manipulating honest intelligence. For political reasons, the Johnson and Nixon...
Dorset Press, 1978. — 319 p. You won't like knowing what the US government has been doing with your tax dollars in other countries. The agency appears to be a serial violator of human rights around the world including inside America itself. The books shows everyone how to identify CIA operatives in Western Europe countries embassy staff, what they do, how they do it, and why it...
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Movilidad Humana, 2014. — 108 p. Philip Burnett Franklin Agee was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer and writer of the 1975 book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, detailing his experiences in the CIA. Agee joined the CIA in 1957, and over the following decade had postings in Washington, D.C., Ecuador, Uruguay and Mexico. After...
Movimiento Segunda Independencia, 1978. — 172 p. El celebérrimo libro de Philip Agee (1935-2008) es una reconstrucción de lo que fueron los años que pasó dentro de la cuestionada Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA) (1957–1968): los períodos de reclutamiento, de riguroso entrenamiento y de asignación como oficial de operaciones en tres países latinoamericanos para...
Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1975. — 572 p. Not light entertainment but a serious history loaded with detail about CIA operations, strategies, and methods that most Americans never knew were being used in their name. It covers more about covert action in Latin American countries and their leaders than you will ever learn from history books. The book is structured like a personal...
Globe Pequot, 2012. — 182 p. As the Civil War ground on, an underground Unionist movement flourished in the heart of the Confederacy, led by an unlikely leader. Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy and well connected member of Richmond's elite, risked everything to help save the Union, skillfully directing this clandestine group and becoming General Ulysses S. Grant's spy in Richmond....
Routledge, 2018. — 359 p. This book is a critical exploration of the war on terror from the prism of armed drones and globalization. It is particularly focused on the United States’ use of the drones, and the systemic dysfunctions that globalization has caused to international political economy and national security, creating backlash in which the desirability of globalization...
The University Press of Kentucky, 2009. — 476 p. Vietnam Declassified is a detailed account of the CIA's effort to help South Vietnamese authorities win the loyalty of the Vietnamese peasantry and suppress the Viet Cong. Covering the CIA engagement from 1954 to mid-1972, it provides a thorough analysis of the agency and its partners. Retired CIA operative and intelligence...
Bloomsbury Press, 2012. — 272 p. The United States intelligence establishment is a colossus. With stations in 170 countries, armed with cutting-edge surveillance gear, high-tech weapons, and fleets of armed and unarmed drone aircraft, it commands the most extensive and advanced intel force in history. But America's spy establishment still struggles to keep pace with a host of...
Bloomsbury Press, 2009. — 432 p. In the first complete history of the National Security Agency, America’s most powerful and secretive intelligence organization. In February 2006, while researching this book, Matthew Aid uncovered a massive and secret document reclassification program—a revelation that made the front page of the New York Times. This was only one of the discoveries...
New York, Berlin, London: Bloomsbury Press, 2006. — 884 p. In February 2006, while researching this book, Matthew Aid uncovered a massive and secret document reclassification program―a revelation that made the front page of the New York Times. This was only one of the discoveries Aid has made during two decades of research in formerly top-secret documents. In The Secret Sentry,...
Trine Day, 2011. — 856 p. Following nearly a decade of research, this account solves the mysterious death of biochemist Frank Olson, revealing the identities of his murderers in shocking detail. It offers a unique and unprecedented look into the backgrounds of many former CIA, FBI, and Federal Narcotics Bureau officials, including several who actually oversaw the CIA’s...
Trine Day, 2011. — 856 p. Following nearly a decade of research, this account solves the mysterious death of biochemist Frank Olson, revealing the identities of his murderers in shocking detail. It offers a unique and unprecedented look into the backgrounds of many former CIA, FBI, and Federal Narcotics Bureau officials, including several who actually oversaw the CIA’s...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2021. — 720 p. The CIA, Dallas, and the Hard Details of the JFK Assassination. Coup in Dallas leaves speculation and theory aside to give the hard details of who killed President John F. Kennedy and how the assassination plot was carried out. Through exhaustive research and newly translated documents, author H. P. Albarelli uncovers and explains the...
Praeger, 2007. — 1451 p. Including many older documents not available electronically or otherwise accessible, this three-volume set provides the first comprehensive collection of key documents, statements, and testimony on U.S. government counterterrorism policies as they have evolved in the face of the changing terrorist threats. Selected executive and congressional materials...
University of Michigan Press, 2011. — 445 p. Classical Spies will be a lasting contribution to the discipline and will stimulate further research. Susan Heuck Allen presents to a wide readership a topic of interest that is important and has been neglected.”—William M. Calder III, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Classical Spies is the first insiders’ account of the...
Hurst, 2017. — 192 p. Born in Margilan, Central Asia on the eve of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Ruzi Nazar had one of the most exciting lives of the twentieth century. Charming, intellectually brilliant and passionately committed to the liberation of Central Asia from Russian rule, his life was a series of adventures and narrow escapes. He was successively a Soviet student,...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 288 p. The outlook for a victory of the Allied Powers was dim in the spring of 1942. Britain was being unmercifully bombed and threatened with invasion. Rommel's forces were rampaging across North Africa toward Alexandria. Only two American divisions had arrived in the European theatre. Stationed in Ireland, they were green, untested troops, their...
University Press of Kansas, 2016. — 359 p. For the period between World War II and the full onset of the Cold War, histories of American intelligence seem to go dark. Yet in those years a little known clandestine organization, the Strategic Services Unit (SSU), emerged from the remnants of wartime American intelligence to lay the groundwork for what would become the CIA and, in...
University Press of Kansas, 2017. — 292 p. To defeat your enemies you must know them well. In wartime, however, enemy codemakers make that task much more difficult. If you cannot break their codes and read their messages, you may discover too late the enemy's intentions. That's why codebreakers were considered such a crucial weapon during World War II. In Secret Messages, David...
John Wiley and Sons, 2012. — 70 p. The U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) has proven to be the most lethal weapon in the president's arsenal. Shrouded in secrecy, the Command has done more to degrade the capacity of terrorists to attack the United States than any other single entity. And counter-terrorism is only one of its many missions. Because of such high profile...
Wiley, 2013. — 336 p. There is a hidden country within the United States. It was formed from the astonishing number of secrets held by the government and the growing ranks of secret-keepers given charge over them. The government secrecy industry speaks in a private language of codes and acronyms, and follows an arcane set of rules and customs designed to perpetuate itself, repel...
University of Mississippi Press, 1999. — 368 p. Dwight D. Eisenhower's public image was that of a wide-grinning Daddy Warbucks who preferred the golf course over the cabinet room. He was perceived as a military bureaucrat who never held a combat command. A Republican sandwiched between two Democratic administrations, he lacked the political vigor of his predecessor Harry S. Truman...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2020. — 536 p. At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing - seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear - to some - that the Soviet Union was already executing a plan to expand and foment revolution around the world. The American government's...
Harper Collins Publishers, 1995. — 672 p. From the co-author of KGB: The Inside Story and acknowledged authority on the subject comes the most important book ever written about American intelligence. This work shows how the US Presidency both transformed, and was itself transformed by the activities of US Intelligence. The book answers controversial questions about the Cold...
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1916. — 235 p. What would happen if a man went undercover into enemy territory during World War One? One man ventured to find out. The book’s unnamed narrator, a Daily Mail journalist, begins his journey posing as a steel worker in Essen, before being ‘dismissed with ignominy’ and moving on to Constantinople. The journalist, who at the beginning...
St. Martin's Press, 2011. — 352 p. On April 6, 2003, twenty-six Green Berets, including those of Sergeant 1st Class Frank Anentori's Special Forces A-Team (call sign Roughneck Nine One), led a violent battle against a vastly superior force at the remote crossroads near the village of Debecka, Iraq. In an already legendary conflict that will influence US Army doctrine for years...
Sky Pony, 2017. — 232 p. Anyone who has ever participated in a demonstration, gone to a rally, or even written a term paper on a subject remotely "un-American," you may have been watched. Whether they've helped organize a union or engaged in anti-labor activities, there is a chance that your phone may be tapped or your mail opened. There may be a file about you at the FBI....
Candlewick Press, 2012. — 230 p. Dr. Martin Luther King received this demand in an anonymous letter in 1964. He believed that the letter was telling him to commit suicide. Who wrote this anonymous letter? The FBI. And the man behind it all was J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI's first director. In this unsparing exploration of one of the most powerful Americans of the twentieth century,...
Pelican Books, 2004. — 288 p. Drawing upon newly released CIA files, conversations with KGB defectors, and interviews with key operatives of the CIA and Secret Intelligence Service, CIA SpyMaster is the inside story of an Agency legend, George Kisevalter. In 1953 the United States still knew very little about the Soviet regime and its plans. Early that year, a Soviet Military...
Gadfly Press, 2019. — 295 p. In the 1980s, George HW Bush imported cocaine to finance an illegal war in Nicaragua. Governor Bill Clinton’s Arkansas state police provided security for the drug drops. For assisting the CIA, the Clinton Crime Family was awarded the White House. The clinton-body-count continues to this day, with the deceased including Jeffrey Epstein. This book...
Naval Institute Press, 2020. — 224 p. In September 1918, World War I was nearing its end when Marguerite E. Harrison, a thirty-nine-year-old Baltimore socialite, wrote to the head of the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Division asking for a job. The director asked for clarification. Did she mean a clerical position? No, she told him. She wanted to be a spy. Harrison, a member...
Frontline Books, 2021. — 375 p. Protecting the Presidential Candidates is the first book of its kind to examine how presidents and presidential candidates were protected during the presidential election cycles – from JFK to Biden. It is also the first book of its kind to tell the story of the role of state troopers and private bodyguards in protecting presidential candidates....
Crown Publishing Group, 2011. — 320 p. Robert Baer was known inside the CIA as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. Over several decades he served everywhere from Iraq to New Delhi and racked up such an impressive list of accomplishments that he was eventually awarded the Career Intelligence Medal. But if his career was everything a spy might aspire to, his...
Crown Publishing Group, 2011. — 320 p. Robert Baer was known inside the CIA as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. Over several decades he served everywhere from Iraq to New Delhi and racked up such an impressive list of accomplishments that he was eventually awarded the Career Intelligence Medal. But if his career was everything a spy might aspire to, his...
Broadway, 2003. — 320 p. In his explosive New York Times bestseller, top CIA operative Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides startling evidence of how Washington politics sabotaged the CIA’s efforts to root out the world’s deadliest terrorists, allowing for the rise of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda and the continued entrenchment of...
Bitokmurqiie, Ltd, Croydon. Surrey : Arrow Books, 2002. — 424 p. In this astonishing and controversial memoir, one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century recounts his career running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East. In the process, Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides compelling evidence about...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2018. — 309 p. In this first comprehensive history of the polygraph as a tool and symbol for American Cold War policies, John Philipp Beasler tells the story of a technology with weak scientific credentials that was nevertheless celebrated as a device that could expose both internal and external enemies. Considered the go-to technology to test...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 255 p. Since the US Navy SEALs came into existence in 1983, they have become famous for their daring missions, advanced and unconventional tactics, hard training and hard-fought successes. SEALs have taken part in numerous conflicts ranging from Grenada in 1983, the invasion of Panama and operations in Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, and Liberia. Most recently,...
Philadelphia: 1867. — 704 p. IN" giving to the public this volume, it has been the design to present the operations of the Bureau of the National Detective Police during the war, so far as it is proper to make them known to the people. It is not a book of romantic adventures, but a narrative of facts in the secret history of the conflict, and mainly an exposure of the manifold and...
Arcadia Publishing, 2014. — 208 p. Discover true stories of daring and deceit in 18th century Connecticut in this history of American Revolutionary espionage. Covert intelligence played a critical role in the American Revolution, and Connecticut produced an extraordinary number of spies on both sides of the conflict. The infamous traitor Benedict Arnold was born in Norwich,...
WWP Publishing, 2015. — 236 p. Behind the Shades tells the story of the life of a female agent entering the male dominated world of the Secret Service. It is a story of personal sacrifice, adventure, acceptance and rejection, tenacity, endurance, and hard work during trying times. Sue Ann Baker was on the front lines of history and observed it being made on a larger scale. She...
Bombardier Books, 2022. — 368 p. An FBI veteran explains how the Mueller–Comey cabal turned the FBI from a "swear to tell the truth" law-enforcement agency to a politicized intelligence organization. Americans have lost faith in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an institution they once regarded as the world's greatest law-enforcement agency. Thomas Baker spent many years...
Casemate, 2021. — 264 p. A riveting combination of war memoir and unique examination of the role of intelligence during the Easter Offensive 1972 written by an intelligence analyst who was there in 1972. For the first two weeks of the Easter Offensive of 1972, the 571st Military Intelligence Detachment provided the only pertinent collateral intelligence available to American...
Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — 368 p. The story of a young woman from Montana who joined the CIA and worked her way up through the ranks to the frontline of the fight against Islamic extremists. In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, DC, to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity for intelligence work, Nada was determined to...
Public Affairs, 2014. — 382 p. Relates the history of American police forces from the constables and sheriffs of the past to the modern-day special military SWAT teams and riot squads that blur the line between police officers and soldiers. Today's armored-up policemen are a far cry from the constables of early America. The unrest of the 1960s brought about the invention of the...
Anchor Books, 2005. — 480 p. In A Pretext for War, acclaimed author James Bamford–whose classic book The Puzzle Palace first revealed the existence of the National Security Agency–draws on his unparalleled access to top intelligence sources to produce a devastating expos? of the intelligence community and the Bush administration. A Pretext for War reveals the systematic weaknesses...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. — 228 p. The first book ever written on the National Security Agency from the New York Times bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Shadow Factory. In this groundbreaking, award-winning book, James Bamford traces the NSA's origins, details its inner workings, and explores its far-flung operations. He describes the city of fifty thousand...
Penguin Books, 1983. — 669 p. In this remarkable tour de force of investigative reporting, James Bamford exposes the inner workings of America's largest, most secretive, and arguably most intrusive intelligence agency. The NSA has long eluded public scrutiny, but The Puzzle Palace penetrates its vast network of power and unmasks the people who control it, often with shocking...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008. — 395 p. Journalist Bamford exposed the existence of the top-secret National Security Agency in The Puzzle Palace and continued to probe into its workings in his follow-up Body of Secrets. Now Bamford discloses inside, often shocking information about the transformation of the NSA in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 2001. He shows...
SCB Distributors, 2016. — 208 p. Space expert Bara delves into the secret space program, examining the possibility that there are secret bases on the Moon, and exploring the many other rumors surrounding the military’s secret projects in space. Starting with the mysterious airship flap of 1897, tracing its possible origin to a 19th century Prussian secret society, Bara posits...
National Defense University Press, 1988. — 325 p. Special Operations and the Threats to the United States Interests in the 1980's by Maurice Tugwell and David Charters; Special Operations in the 1980's: American Moral, Legal, Political, and Cultural Constraints by William V. O'Brien; The Soviet Approach to Special Operations by John J. Dziak; Military Capabilities and Special...
University Press of Kansas, 2005. — 554 p. From its inception more than half a century ago and for decades afterward, the Central Intelligence Agency was deeply shrouded in secrecy, with little or no real oversight by Congress-or so many Americans believe. David M. Barrett reveals, however, that during the agency's first fifteen years, Congress often monitored the CIA's actions...
Public Affairs, 2020. — 336 p. The 2016 Election, which altered American political history, was not decided by the Russians or in Ukraine or by Steve Bannon. The event that broke Hillary's blue wall in the Midwest and swung Florida and North Carolina was an October Surprise, and it was wholly a product of the leadership of the FBI. This is the inside story by the reporter...
Routledge, 2011. — 225 p. This book investigates representations of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Hollywood films, and the synergies between Hollywood product, U.S. military/defense interests and U.S. foreign policy. As probably the best known of the many different intelligence agencies of the US, the CIA is an exceptionally well known national and international icon...
Casemate, 2015. — 304 p. This work reveals one of the most important intelligence triumphs of World War II. It was no less than the capture of Japan’s “Plan Z”—the Empire’s fully detailed strategy for prosecuting the last stages of the Pacific War. It’s a story of happenstance, mayhem, and intrigue, and resulted directly in the spectacular U.S. victory in the Philippine Sea and...
Regnery Publishing, 1995. — 368 p. Operation Solo is America's greatest spy story. For 17 years, Morris Childs, code named "Agent 58," provided the United States with the Kremlin's innermost secrets. Repeatedly risking his life, "Agent 58" made 51 clandestine missions into the Soviet Union, China, Eastern Europe, and Cuba. Because Morris was in effect the second-ranking man in the...
University Press of Kansas, 2006. — 447 p. Some will be shocked to find out that the United States and Ho Chi Minh, our nemesis for much of the Vietnam War, were once allies. Indeed, during the last year of World War II, American spies in Indochina found themselves working closely with Ho Chi Minh and other anti-colonial factions-compelled by circumstances to fight together...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. — 252 p. This is a stellar, courageous work of investigative journalism and historical scholarship—grippingly told, meticulously documented, and doggedly pursued over thirty years. Tracking a Cold War confrontation that has compromised the national interests of both Mexico and the United States, Eclipse of the Assassins exposes deadly...
Second Impression. — Boston: The Page Co., 1918. — 322 p. The romance of war in its most thrilling form is exemplified in this narrative of the adventures of "The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents." IMuch has been published upon the subject of espionage, and the memoirs and secret histories of the courts of Europe give us instances of men and women who have...
Third Impression. — Boston: The Page Co., 1926. — 322 p. The romance of war in its most thrilling form is exemplified in this narrative of the adventures of "The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents." I Much has been published upon the subject of espionage, and the memoirs and secret histories of the courts of Europe give us instances of men and women who...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 265 p. The author has tackled a subject of great importance, infused with emotions and obscured by political manipulation, objectively and with care, using all available sources and to put the events in their proper context. The book deserves a wide audience and should do much to bring this episode into proper perspective. In short, a first-rate...
Praeger, 2011. — 240 p. Since 9/11, U.S. intelligence organizations have grappled with the use of "open source" information derived from unclassified material, including international newspapers, television, radio, and websites. They have struggled as well with the idea of sharing information with international and domestic law enforcement partners. The apparent conflict...
Prufrock Press, 2015. — 70 p. The pigpen cipher, the Devil's Coffee Mill, and germ warfare were all a part of the Civil War, but you won't learn that in your history books! Discover the truth about Widow Greenhow's spy ring, how soldiers stole a locomotive, and the identity of the mysterious "Gray Ghost." Then learn how to make a cipher wheel and send secret light signals to your...
Duke University Press, 2021. — 335 p. In The CIA in Ecuador, Marc Becker draws on recently released US government surveillance documents on the Ecuadorian left to chart social movement organizing efforts during the 1950s. Emphasizing the competing roles of the domestic ruling class and grassroots social movements, Becker details the struggles and difficulties that activists,...
Duke University Press, 2017. — 337 p. During the Second World War, the FDR administration placed the FBI in charge of political surveillance in Latin America. Through a program called the Special Intelligence Service (SIS), 700 agents were assigned to combat Nazi influence in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. The SIS’s mission, however, extended beyond countries with...
Harper Collins, 2013. — 371 p. The definitive insider's account of the U.S. Army's most elite and secretive special-ops unit, written by the legendary founder and first commanding officer of Delta Force. When Charlie Beckwith issued this call to arms in Vietnam in 1965, he revolutionized American armed combat. This is the story of what would eventually come to be known as Delta...
Harper Collins, 2010. — 263 p. America's greatest idea factory isn't Bell Labs, Silicon Valley, or MIT's Media Lab. It's the top-secretive, Pentagon-led agency known as DARPA. Founded by Eisenhower in response to Sputnik and the Soviet space program, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) mixes military officers with sneaker-wearing scientists, seeking...
Lyons Press, 2021. — 228 p. In January 1785, a young African American woman named Elizabeth was put on board the Lucretia in New York Harbor, bound for Charleston, where she would be sold to her fifth master in just twenty-two years. Leaving behind a small child she had little hope of ever seeing again, Elizabeth was faced with the stark reality of being sold south to a life...
Columbia University Press, 2023. — 384 p. M. Todd Bennett explores the logistics, media fallout, and geopolitical significance of one of the most ambitious operations in intelligence history. The Glomar mission, he argues, played a pivotal but under-appreciated role in helping the CIA ward off oversight amid a push for transparency and accountability.
CRC Press, 2022. — 238 p. While there are books that cover national security, intelligence collection, intelligence analysis, and various intelligence services, U.S. National Security and the Intelligence Services is the first, all-inclusive book to examine intelligence agencies as a direct function of national security. It serves as a comprehensive text for students and a...
Bombardier Books, 2021. — 320 p. The untold story of the last unrevealed American counterterrorism project built from the debris of 9/11. Its surprising ongoing purpose: to prevent terrorist infiltration over the US southwest border. This thirteen-year work of journalism finally settles one of the nation’s most controversial and politically powerful ideas about the American...
Crown Publishers, 2005. — 328 p. Gary Berntsen, the CIA's key commander coordinating the fight against the Taliban forces around Kabul, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit and cornering of Osama bin Laden, and the reason the terrorist leader escaped American retribution. As disturbingly eye-opening as it is adrenaline-charged,...
Potomac Books, 2008. — 224 p. The next president of the United States faces innumerable complex problems, from a possible prolonged recession to climate change. An immediate difficulty for the president will be the global conflict between the West and Islamic jihadists and state sponsors of terrorism. The creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the recommendations...
Renaissance Literary and Talent, 2020. — 208 p. Launched by the DEA after the gruesome 1985 abduction, torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena by Mexican drug cartels, Leyenda was meant to find those responsible. But when Berrellez took over the investigation in 1989, what he uncovered was a tangled web of treachery and deceit. During his gravity-defying...
Columbia University Press, 2007. — 264 p. The tragic events of September 11, 2001, and the false assessment of Saddam Hussein's weapons arsenal were terrible reminders that good information is essential to national security. These failures convinced the American public that their intelligence system was broken and prompted a radical reorganization of agencies and personnel, but as...
Berkley Press, 2017. — 304 p. The thrilling, true-life account of the FBI’s hunt for the ingenious traitor Brian Regan—known as the Spy Who Couldn’t Spell. Before Edward Snowden’s infamous data breach, the largest theft of government secrets was committed by an ingenious traitor whose intricate espionage scheme and complex system of coded messages were made even more baffling...
Microcosm Publishing, 2013. — 160 p. These five case studies offer a chilling glimpse into the negligence, greed, murder, and at times comical disorganization behind some of the CIA's most controversial secret operations. Science fiction could not have invented the influence the CIA had in the assassination of Martin Luther King. Jr, the AIDS virus, the killing of the leader of...
US Army Intelligence and Security Command, 2012. — 59 p. On July 1, 2012, the Military Intelligence (MI) Branch turned fi fty years old. When it was established in 1962, it was the Army’s fi rst new branch since the Transportation Corps had been formed twenty years earlier. Today, it remains one of the youngest of the Army’s fi fteen basic branches (only Aviation and Special...
University of Minnesota Press, 2021. — 264 p. Reimagining transparency and secrecy in the era of digital data When total data surveillance delimits agency and revelations of political wrongdoing fail to have consequences, is transparency the social panacea liberal democracies purport it to be? This book sets forth the provocative argument that progressive social goals would be...
United States Government Printing, 1997. — 332 p. U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1860-1941, is the first of a two-volume study on the U.S. Army's experience in "small war" situations and the development of low-intensity conflict doctrine. Focusing on the suppression of insurgent or other irregular forces during overseas constabulary and...
Center of Military History, 2006. — 588 p. Examines the nature of counterinsurgency and nation-building missions, the institutional obstacles inherent in dealing effectively with such operations, and the strengths and weaknesses of U.S. doctrine, including the problems that can occur when that doctrine morphs into dogma.
Yale University Press, 1996. — 275 p. Richard M. Bissell, Jr., the most important CIA spymaster in history, singlehandedly led America's intelligence service from the age of Mata Hari into the space age. In this compelling memoir, Bissell gives readers an insider's view of the personalities, policies, and historical forces surrounding such paramount covert operations as the Bay...
Berkley Caliber, 2008. — 336 p. As a commander of Delta Force-the most elite counter—terrorist organization in the world—Pete Blaber took part in some of the most dangerous, controversial, and significant military and political events of our time. Now he takes his intimate knowledge of warfare—and the heart, mind, and spirit it takes to win—and moves his focus from the combat zone...
Citadel, 2022. — 384 p. Never has the saying “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” had more truth than when the US government and the criminal underground joined forces to defeat the Nazi menace. For the first time ever the full story of how Charles “Lucky” Luciano—the U.S. Mafia boss who put the “organized” into organized crime—was recruited by U.S. Naval Intelligence in 1944...
Ballantine Books, 2007. — 384 p. Even as a boy growing up amid the green hills of rural Pennsylvania, Robert W. Black knew he was destined to become a Ranger. With their three-hundred-year history of peerless courage and independence of spirit, Rangers are a uniquely American brand of soldier, one foot in the military, one in the wilderness—and that is what fired Black’s...
Stackpole Books, 2006. — 384 p. With a centuries' old warrior heritage, American Rangers endured the most difficult training that man could devise to overcome the most difficult challenges of the enemy and nature. For more than fourteen months, the volunteers that made up the 2nd Ranger Battalion had been finely honed for combat. Now, on June 6, 1944--D-Day--their battle would...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 320 p. The American internal War of 1861-1865 was not only civil. Those fighting for the Union called it the “War of the Rebellion” while the Confederacy viewed it as the “War of Yankee Aggression” or the “Second War of Independence." Armies fought great, sweeping battles over vast distances and are well recorded – Antietam, Shiloh,...
Random House Publishing Group, 2005. — 224 p. For sheer bravado and style, no woman in the North or South rivaled the Civil War heroine Rose O’Neale Greenhow. Fearless spy for the Confederacy, glittering Washington hostess, legendary beauty and lover, Rose Greenhow risked everything for the cause she valued more than life itself. In this superb portrait, biographer Ann Blackman...
Anchor Foundation, 1988. — 190 p. Describes the decades-long covert counterintelligence FBI program code-named Cointelpro directed against socialists and activists in the Black and anti-Vietnam War movements.
Gallery Books, 2010. — 448 p. An elite team of men who share a single mission: to protect the president of the United States. On November 22, 1963, these men failed—and a country would never be the same. Now, for the first time, a member of JFK’s Secret Service detail reveals the inside story of the assassination, the weeks and days that led to it and its heartrending aftermath....
Water Brook Press, 2014. — 368 p. When Navy SEAL Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didn’t know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan—but he was ready. In a letter to his children, not meant to be seen unless the worst happened, he wrote, “I’m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing...
Harper Collins, 2010. — 384 p. The author exposes the realities of unconventional warfare and nation-building in Afghanistan in this chronicle of one of the most important military mission in the early days of the Global War on Terror--ODA 574--wherein a Special Forces team infiltrated the mountains of southern Afghanistan, fomented a tribal revolt, and forced the Taliban to...
Arcadia Publishing, 2021. — 357 p. In 1778, two years after the British forced the Continental Army out of New York City, George Washington and his subordinates organized a secret spy network to gather intelligence in Manhattan and Long Island. Known today as the "Culper Spy Ring," Patriots like Abraham Woodhull and Robert Townsend risked their lives to report on British...
Routledge, 2005. — 210 p. A close examination of the role of intelligence in shaping America’s perception of the Vietnam War, looking closely at the intelligence leadership and decision process. In 1967, intelligence was called upon to bolster support for the Vietnam War and allowed America’s leaders to portray a ‘bankrupt’ enemy ready to quit the battlefield. The audacious Tet...
Harper Collins, 2018. — 336 p. In 1946, genius linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States, whose goal was to infiltrate American intelligence and steal the nation’s military and atomic secrets. Over the course of the next decade, he and young FBI supervisor Bob...
Harper, 2022. — 352 p. A retired spy gets back into the game to solve a perplexing case--and reconcile with his daughter, a CIA officer who married into the very family that derailed his own CIA career--in this compulsive true-life tale of vindication and redemption, filled with drama, intrigue, and mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Goodnight, It's...
Editorial Oriente, 2005. — 577 p. Asesinando la esperanza está considerado el recuento más útil y abarcador de la historia de la CIA y de las intervenciones militares de Estados Unidos en el mundo. Apoyado en una impresionante investigación, y con multitud de evidencias irrefutables, su autor pone al desnudo la doble moral, soberbia, y extraordinaria crueldad con la que...
Common Courage Press, 2003. — 500 p. Is the United States a force for democracy? From China in the 1940s to Guatemala today, William Blum presents a comprehensive study of American covert and overt interference, by one means or another, in the internal affairs of other countries. Each chapter of the book covers a year in which the author takes one particular country case and...
Zed Books Ltd., 1987. — 436 p. The CIA: A Forgotten History tells the remarkable story of CIA interventions in more than fifty countries, from the earliest actions in China to the present day [1980s years] campaign against Nicaragua. William Blum is one of the United States' leading non-mainstream experts on American foreign policy. He left the State Department in 1967, abandoning...
Cavendish Square Publishing, 2017. — 152 p. Edward Snowden worked as a subcontractor for the National Security Agency collecting information culled by domestic surveillance programs. Disturbed by the spying on US citizens, he fled to China and leaked classified documents that were published in newspapers. Living now in Russia and the subject of a 2016 film titled Snowden, he...
Crown, 2008. — 320 p. A gripping and unforgettable true story of bravery and patriotism in the face of bitter hatred. Abraham Bolden was a young African American Secret Service agent in Chicago when he was asked by John F. Kennedy himself to join the White House Secret Service detail. For Bolden, it was a dream come true–and an encouraging sign of the charismatic president’s...
Post Hill Press, 2018. — 272 p. Everyone has an opinion about whether or not Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016. The number of actors involved is staggering, the events are complicated, and it’s hard to know who or what to believe. Spygate bypasses opinion and brings facts together to expose the greatest political scandal in American...
WND Books, 2013. — 208 p. Why would a successful, twelve-year Secret Service agent resign his position in the prime of his career to run for political office against all the odds?Dan Bongino's book is an intimate look at life inside the presidential "bubble," a haze of staffers, consultants, cronies, acolytes, bureaucrats and lobbyists that creates the "alternate reality" in...
WND Books, 2017. — 169 p. Being a Secret Service agent is one of the most treacherous jobs in the world and never more so than in today’s highly polarized America. Facing threats from fence jumpers and manifesto writers, and from fanatical terrorists and sophisticated spies, protecting the president is harder than ever. In an age of hyper-partisan politics, emotions are high...
St. Martin’s Press, 2016. — 240 p. In The Fight, Dan Bongino picks up the story where his New York Times bestselling book Life Inside the Bubble ends, tackling current political and security issues and offering new solutions. From Hillary's emails to the security failings at the White House (including the drone crash and the fence jumper); from Charlie Hebdo to Bowe Bergdahl--the...
Potomac Books, 2008. — 272 p. A desperate gunman holds a planeload of innocent passengers hostage. A heavily armed cult leader refuses to leave his compound, threatening mass suicide by a hundred of his brainwashed followers. A neo-Nazi militant in a cabin hideout keeps federal agents at bay with gunfire. A baby disappears; his only trace is an ominous ransom call to his...
Fontana Collins, 1978. — 311 p. This could be the most terrifying true story ever to emerge regarding the U.S. national security state - the first book ever written about the CIA's mind control programs. The book became an instant classic, in part because the CIA bought up all the copies it could, simply to keep them off the shelves and out of the hands of the public. In these...
Hachette Books, 2009. — 192 p. At the height of the Korean War, President Truman launched one of the most important intelligence — gathering operations in history. So valuable were the mission's findings about the North Korean-Soviet-Chinese alliance that it is no stretch to say they prevented World War III. Only one man — sworn to secrecy for a half-century — survived...
New York: Routledge, 2020. — 383 p. Background, History and Organization The Role and Nature of Intelligence Organization and Operation of the National Security Council The Director of Central Intelligence and the CIA The DCI and the Intelligence Community The DCI and Management of Intelligence Collection The Congress and Intelligence Secrecy, Activites and Techniques Security...
Routledge, 2020. — 383 p. Background, History and Organization. The Role and Nature of Intelligence. Organization and Operation of the National Security Council. The Director of Central Intelligence and the CIA. The DCI and the Intelligence Community. The DCI and Management of Intelligence Collection. The Congress and Intelligence. Secrecy, Activites and Techniques. The...
NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 495 p. Название книги говорит само за себя: истории о том, как американские спецслужбы начали использовать немецких военных преступников в своих целях в борьбе против Советского Союза в первые годы холодной войны. Книга основана на рассекреченных документах Национального архива США и написана историками, уполномоченными для этого...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 510 p. At a time when intelligence successes and failures are at the center of public discussion, this book provides an unprecedented inside look at how intelligence agencies function during war and peacetime. As the direct result of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, the volume draws upon many documents declassified under this law to...
Wiley and Sons, 2002. — 243 p. Daring Missions of World War II The author brings to light many previously unknown stories of behind-the-scenes bravery and covert activities that helped the Allies win critical victories. In his latest collection of fresh and surprising stories from World War II, popular author and distinguished historian William Breuer recounts over fifty...
Wiley, 1994. — 258 p. Early on the morning of January 28, 1945, a small detachment of volunteers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry A. Mucci, leader of the 6th Ranger Battalion, embarked from their base in the Philippines on the most audacious rescue operation ever undertaken. Their objective: Penetrate thirty miles behind enemy lines and liberate 511 POWs from...
SPI Books, 1992. — 460 p. An investigative reporter exposes President Bush's business ties with the Mafia, detailing the crimes of Bush's sons, Jeb and Neil, Bush's link to the BCCI scandal, and the CIA's involvement in disguising that involvement. Mr. Brewton not only documents hundreds of serious and egregious financial crimes -and worse- but more importantly he documents...
Casemate Publishing, 2018. — 360 p. A Green Beret's gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. In 1970, on his second tour to Vietnam, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. Officially, it was known as the Studies and Observations group. In fact, this Special Forces squad, which Brokhausen calls "an unwashed, profane, ribald,...
Casemate Publishers, 2019. — 228 p. This is the second volume of a Green Beret's riveting memoir of his time serving in Recon Teams Habu and Crusader, CNN, part of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam—Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG). Picking up where We Few left off, Whispers in the Tall Grass opens as the war moves into a new phase. The enemy are using special...
Casemate Publishers, 2020. — 224 p. Joining the CIA after fighting in Vietnam as a Marine, Barry Broman's first posting was war-torn Cambodia. He was present at the fall of Phnom Penh in 1975, escaping just before the Khmer Rouge took power. During his career, he was twice chief of station, once a deputy chief of station, and he supervised an international paramilitary project...
Diversion Books, 2021. — 255 p. A story of courage, perseverance, and patriotism behind the 75th Ranger Regiment's rescue mission following one of the deadliest Special Ops incidents in Afghanistan―a grueling search for twelve Navy SEAL casualties and eight downed Night Stalkers, but just one lone survivor. On June 28th, 2005, a four-man Navy SEAL reconnaissance team under...
Villard Books, 1986. — 100 p. It is now very dated and a book that has only the most general military information on the U.S. Special Forces Green Berets. If you want a history lesson then this is a good place to start. There are alot better Army Special Forces books out there these days.
MIT Press, 2019. — 392 p. — ISBN 0262517892; ISBN13 9780262517898. Selections from FBI files on political activists including Betty Friedan, Abbie Hoffman, Martin Luther King, Aaron Swartz, and Malcolm X. The FBI has always kept tabs on political activists. During the directorship of J. Edgar Hoover, it was a Bureau-wide obsession. Did you see that guy who didn't quite look...
Verso Books, 2020. — 192 p. Gripping behind-the-scenes story of Edward Snowden's massive leak of US secret surveillance. In the summer of 2013, the world was riveted by Edward Snowden's leak of millions of classified documents detailing the US government's massive and secret electronic surveillance program, in which the NSA had infiltrated tech companies, communication systems,...
Naval Institute Press, 2010. — 520 p. Dino A. Brugioni, author of the best-selling account of the Cuban Missile crisis, Eyeball to Eyeball, draws on his long CIA career as one of the world's premier experts on aerial reconnaissance to provide the inside story of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's efforts to use spy planes and satellites to gather intelligence. He reveals...
Post Hill Press, 2018. — 182 p. If you ask most Americans what they think about the FBI, they would tell you it's far and away the government agency they trust the most. The Bureau has, for decades, sold an image of itself as efficient, professional, unbiased, and untouchable by corruption. That portrait is a sham. Seamus Bruner and the Government Accountability Institute have...
Atria Books, 2013. — 216 p. In 2006, twenty-seven-year-old Jessica Buchanan stepped off a plane in Nairobi, Kenya, with a teaching degree and long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married a native Swede named Erik Landemalm, who worked to coordinate humanitarian aid with authorities in Africa. Together the two moved from Nairobi to...
Knopf, 2016. — 416 p. — ISBN: 978-0-385-35267-3. The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German and Japanese codes, thereby turning the tide of Allied victory. In the postwar years, as the United States developed a new enemy in the Soviet Union, our intelligence community...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017. — 416 p. The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German and Japanese codes, thereby turning the tide of Allied victory. In the postwar years, as the United States developed a new enemy in the Soviet Union, our intelligence community...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017. — 416 p. The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German and Japanese codes, thereby turning the tide of Allied victory. In the postwar years, as the United States developed a new enemy in the Soviet Union, our intelligence community...
Ediciones Océano, 1985. — 234 p. Parece no haber dudas entre los analistas de que una parte de la garra de la CIA reposa precisamente en México. Aunque no existen datos precisos al respecto, la paciente labor de numerosos investigadores - muchos de ellos iniciados en su trabajo a raíz del despertar que trajo consigo el terrible episodio de Vietnam - permite componer un cuadro...
Grove Press, 1981. — 261 p. With the exception of records that have been reviewed and released to the public, all access to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) records is gained by requesting specific case files through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). If the FBI provides you with file designations for records transferred to the National Archives, you should then...
Penguin Press, 2015. — 608 p. From the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s. The Weathermen. The Symbionese Liberation Army. The FALN. The Black Liberation Army. The names seem quaint now, when not forgotten altogether. But there was a stretch...
Penguin Books, 2014. — 624 p. In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to tell the full story—for the first time—of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine...
Penguin Books, 2009. — 392 p. In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to tell the full story—for the first time—of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun...
NAL, 2018. — 400 p. From the New York Times bestselling coauthors of Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi comes the riveting true story of the kidnapping and murder of CIA station chief William Buckley, and the bloody beginning of the CIA’s endless war against Islamic radicalism. On April 18th, 1983, a van rigged with 2,000 pounds of heavy explosives broke...
Random House Publishing Group, 2008. — 276 p. In this hard-hitting memoir, Fred Burton, a key figure in international counterterrorism and domestic spycraft, emerges from the shadows to reveal who he is, what he has accomplished, and the threats that lurk unseen except by an experienced, worldly-wise few. Plunging readers into the murky world of violent religious extremism that...
Center Street, 2018. — 304 p. From the author of the № 1 New York Times bestseller comes an explosive new exposé of the Secret Service. The United States Secret Service is tasked with protecting our Presidents, their families, and the complex in which they live and work. Given this important mission, world stability rests upon the shoulders of its agents. In his new book, former...
Penn State University Press, 2021. — 245 p. Killing Detente tells the story of a major episode of intelligence intervention in politics in the mid-1970s that led to the derailing of detente between the Soviet Union and the United States and to the resurgence of the Cold War in the following decade. Although the basic outlines of the story are already known, Anne Cahn succeeded...
West LA Publishers, 1998. — 389 p. Michael Calder is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. It is at Berkeley that Mr. Calder wrote his thesis, The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy; An Analysis of the Social, Political, and Economic factors which led to his assassination by the Central Intelligence Agency. Discover who in the Central Intelligence Agency...
I. B. Tauris, 2009. — 285 p. Born out of the ashes of World War II, the covert action arm of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was created to counter the challenge posed by the Soviet Union and its allies and bolster American interests worldwide. It evolved rapidly into an eclectic, well-resourced organization whose activities provided a substitute for overt military action...
Synova Press, 2019. — 126 p. Sit back and relax as Synova regales you with tales of master art thieves, bumbling criminals, and multi-million-dollar art heists from around the world. There will be stories of mafia-commissioned heists, of Daredevil art thieves, and of the brave men and women of the FBI Art team who are trying to stop this multi-billion-dollar industry of art...
Greenwood Publishing, 2008. — 305 p. One of the greatest sources of America's troubles in Iraq, Afghanistan, and New Orleans was the inability of our government's many parts to work well together. Often called interagency operations, applying everything that official Washington can do to keep Americans safe, free, and prosperous, is no easy task. The Pentagon, State Department,...
Scribe Publications, 2013. — 321 p. This is the never-before-told story of the 'dark side' of the Bush administration's war on terror, and of one of the CIA's biggest failures — the kidnapping, rendition, and torture of the wrong man — as told by a person who conducted the interrogation. It is an indictment of the CIA's enhanced interrogation from the inside, from a very senior...
Public Affairs, 2018. — 464 p. This firsthand account of the fight to protect America from foreign hackers warns of the unprecedented danger that awaits us in the era of the internet of things, unless we can change our internet and technology culture. Over the past decade, there have been a series of internet-linked attacks on American interests, including North Korea's...
Post Hill Press, 2020. — 256 p. A CIA officer’s inside account of how Libya’s descent into rampant violence precipitated the harrowing overland evacuation of the entire U.S. Mission from Tripoli after being trapped in the city for weeks. Most of the world is aware of the tragic events surrounding the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans. Most are also...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 288 p. Ana Montes appeared to be a model employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Known to her coworkers as the Queen of Cuba, she was an overachiever who advanced quickly through the ranks of Latin American specialists to become the intelligence community's top analyst on Cuban affairs. But throughout her sixteen-year career at DIA,...
Create Space Independent Publishers, 2010. — 548 p. Early in the Vietnam conflict the U.S. command structure recognized a need for solid verifiable intelligence about enemy locations, movements and tactics. Much of the enemy's covert activity was occurring in Laos and Cambodia, areas where U.S. presence was not permitted. Project Delta was the first successful unit that evolved...
Amacom, 2009. — 273 p. When it comes to motivating and inspiring employees, there is no better or tougher model than the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In its one hundred-year fight against the ever-changing tactics of organized crime and terrorism, the FBI has learned invaluable lessons about powerful leadership and management. Like many companies, the FBI must succeed on a...
CRC Press, 2013. — 265 p. The American legal profession and judicial system bear a unique responsibility to set and maintain the balance between defending homeland security and protecting the civil liberties outlined in the Bill of Rights. These competing interests will continue to collide as the threats to our safety grow. Exploring the most significant terrorist cases of the...
University Press of Kansas, 2016. — 344 p. Hunting down America's public enemies was just one of the FBI's jobs. Another--perhaps more vital and certainly more covert--was the job of promoting the importance and power of the FBI, a process that Matthew Cecil unfolds clearly for the first time in this eye-opening book. The story of the PR men who fashioned the Hoover era,...
University Press of Kansas, 2015. — 354 p. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was an agency devoted to American ideals, professionalism, and scientific methods, directed by a sage and selfless leader—and anyone who said otherwise was a no-good subversive, bent on discrediting the American way of life. That was the official story, and how J. Edgar Hoover made it stick—running...
Casemate, 2019. — 570 p. The first full history of the U.S. Army Special Forces who served and fought in the Secret War in Laos. The Secret War in Laos was one of the first “Long Wars” for special operations, spanning a period of about thirteen years. It was one of the largest CIA-paramilitary operations of the time, kept out of the view of the American public until now....
Office of Public Affairs CIA, 2000. — 32 p. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) left a legacy of daring and innovation that has influenced American military and intelligence thinking since World War II. OSS owed its successes to many factors, but most of all to the foresight and drive of William J. Donovan, who built and held together the office’s divergent missions and...
William Morrow, 2002. — 351 p. Considered one of the most elite fighting forces in the US military, Seal Team Six specialises in counter-terrorist operations. In this comprehensive first-person history, Master Chief Boatswain Mate Dennis Chalker reveals the missions and perils he encountered as "plankowner" - a founding member of this elite unit - over the past two decades. A...
Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1980. — 718 p. Witness, first published in May 1952, is a best-selling book of memoirs by American writer Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961), which recounts his life as a dedicated Marxist-communist ideologist in the 1920s, his work in the Soviet underground during the 1930s, and his 1948 testimony before the US Congress, which led to a criminal indictment...
Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1980. — 718 p. Witness, first published in May 1952, is a best-selling book of memoirs by American writer Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961), which recounts his life as a dedicated Marxist-communist ideologist in the 1920s, his work in the Soviet underground during the 1930s, and his 1948 testimony before the US Congress, which led to a criminal indictment...
Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1980. — 718 p. Witness, first published in May 1952, is a best-selling book of memoirs by American writer Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961), which recounts his life as a dedicated Marxist-communist ideologist in the 1920s, his work in the Soviet underground during the 1930s, and his 1948 testimony before the US Congress, which led to a criminal indictment...
Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1980. — 718 p. Witness, first published in May 1952, is a best-selling book of memoirs by American writer Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961), which recounts his life as a dedicated Marxist-communist ideologist in the 1920s, his work in the Soviet underground during the 1930s, and his 1948 testimony before the US Congress, which led to a criminal indictment...
Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1980. — 718 p. Witness, first published in May 1952, is a best-selling book of memoirs by American writer Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961), which recounts his life as a dedicated Marxist-communist ideologist in the 1920s, his work in the Soviet underground during the 1930s, and his 1948 testimony before the US Congress, which led to a criminal indictment...
University of North Carolina Press, 2021. — 384 p. During the presidency of Richard Nixon, homegrown leftist guerrilla groups like the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army carried out hundreds of attacks in the United States. The FBI had a long history of infiltrating activist groups, but this type of clandestine action posed a unique challenge. Drawing on...
University of North Carolina Press, 2021. — 384 p. During the presidency of Richard Nixon, homegrown leftist guerrilla groups like the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army carried out hundreds of attacks in the United States. The FBI had a long history of infiltrating activist groups, but this type of clandestine action posed a unique challenge. Drawing on...
University Press of Kansas, 2015. — 480 p. At the FBI, the “Sex Deviates” program covered a lot of ground, literally; at its peak, J. Edgar Hoovers notorious “Sex Deviates” file encompassed nearly 99 cubic feet or more than 330,000 pages of information. In 1977–1978 these files were destroyed—and it would seem that four decades of the FBIs dirty secrets went up in smoke. But in...
University Press of Kansas, 2015. — 480 p. At the FBI, the “Sex Deviates” program covered a lot of ground, literally; at its peak, J. Edgar Hoovers notorious “Sex Deviates” file encompassed nearly 99 cubic feet or more than 330,000 pages of information. In 1977–1978 these files were destroyed—and it would seem that four decades of the FBIs dirty secrets went up in smoke. But in...
ABC-CLIO, 2022. — 2003 p. — ISBN 978-1-4408-7161-0. This authoritative set provides a one-stop resource for understanding specific FBI controversies as well as for those looking to understand the full history, law enforcement authority, and inner workings of the nation's most famous and important federal law enforcement agency.This authoritative two-volume reference resource...
ABC-CLIO, 2022. — 739 p. — ISBN 978-1-4408-7160-3. This authoritative set provides a one-stop resource for understanding specific FBI controversies as well as for those looking to understand the full history, law enforcement authority, and inner workings of the nation's most famous and important federal law enforcement agency.This authoritative two-volume reference resource...
Ohio State University Press, 2007. — 197 p. In this very timely manuscript, Douglas M. Charles reveals how FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover catered to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s political interests. Between 1939 and 1945, the Federal Bureau of Investigation monitored the political activities of President Roosevelt’s anti-interventionist foreign policy critics. Hoover, whose...
Charles River Editors Press, 2020. — 62 p. Various flying saucer sightings got the attention of the governments of the United States and other nations. The world was gripped in a Cold War, and some officials wondered if the UFOs might be experimental craft from some hostile power, most likely the Soviet Union. The American government in particular wanted to investigate the...
Charles River Editors, 2019. — 84 p. Though it might be hard to believe, the Americans did not have a covert operations organization when they joined World War II, and like the British, it took them some time to realize it could be a powerful tool. As a result, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was not established until June 13, 1942, six months after the attack on Pearl...
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1983. — 176 p. This collection also describes another form of sabotage-ideological- which is part of the subversive activity conducted by the CIA against the socialist world and the national liberation movement. These ‘champions of the idea’, whose weapons are the pen and the microphone, are paid from the same purse as those whose hands are stained...
St. Martin's Press, 2020. — 322 p. No Ordinary Dog is the powerful true story of a SEAL Team Operator and military dog handler, and the dog that saved his life. Two dozen Navy SEALs descended on Osama bin Laden’s compound in May 2011. After the mission, only one name was made public: Cairo, a Belgian Malinois and military working dog. This is Cairo's story, and that of his...
Springer International Publishing, 2020. — 89 p. This book describes the common pitfalls of U.S. military interventions in efforts at stabilization, which supports post-conflict societies by establishing stable governance, rule of law, a safe and secure environment, economic development and social well-being for all members of the population. These efforts are often...
South End Press, 1990. — 283 p. For those wondering how Bill Clinton could pardon white-collar fugitive Marc Rich but not Native American leader Leonard Peltier, important clues can be found in this classic study of the FBI's COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program). Agents of Repression includes an incisive historical account of the FBI siege of Wounded Knee, and reveals the...
Berkley Publishing Corporation, 2001. — 368 p. They are sent to the world's hot spots-on covert missions fraught with danger. They are called on to perform at the peak of their physical and mental capabilities, primed for combat and surveillance, yet ready to pitch in with disaster relief operations. They are the Army's Special Forces Groups. Now follow Tom Clancy as he delves...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 288 p. This is the official report that is helping shape the international debate about the unprecedented surveillance activities of the National Security Agency. Commissioned by President Obama following disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward J. Snowden, and written by a preeminent group of intelligence and legal experts, the report...
Scribner, 2002. — 432 p. In a memoir as gripping as his action-packed career, the flamboyant "King of the CIA Cowboys" - former CIA Deputy Director Duane R. "Dewey" Clarridge--lays bare the fascinating particulars of the covert operations he planned and carried out around the world during his long security career.
Open Road Media, 2015. — 654 p. On December 6, 1941, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander in chief of the United States Pacific Fleet, assured his staff that the Japanese would not attack Pearl Harbor. The next morning, Japanese carriers steamed toward Hawaii to launch one of the most devastating surprise attacks in the history of war, proving the admiral disastrously wrong....
Verso, 1999. — 389 p. On March 16, 1998, the CIA’s Inspector General, Fred Hitz, finally let the cat out of the bag in an aside at a Congressional Hearing. Hitz told the US Reps that the CIA had maintained relationships with companies and individuals the Agency knew to be involved in the drug business. Even more astonishingly, Hitz revealed that back in 1982 the CIA had...
Bold Type Books, 2022. — 368 p. A hard-hitting exposé of SEAL Team 6, the US military’s best-known brand, that reveals how the Navy SEALs were formed, then sacrificed, in service of American empire. The Navy SEALs are, in the eyes of many Americans, the ultimate heroes. When they killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011, it was celebrated as a massive victory. Former SEALs rake in cash...
Penguin Press, 2018. — 784 p. Resuming the narrative of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, bestselling author Steve Coll tells for the first time the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11. Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale...
Penguin Books, 2005. — 732 p. Steve Coll's study "Ghost Wars" is the most comprehensive study of the CIA and other secret services operating in Afghanistan covering the twenty odd years preceding the September 11th attack that I have read so far. The account is based on an impressive bibliography and large number of interviews. It is factual, but the narrative is quite vivid...
Free Press, 2014. — 304 p. More than a high-stakes espionage thriller, "Fallout "painstakingly examines the huge costs of the CIA's errors and the lost opportunities to halt the spread of nuclear weapons technology long before it was made available to some of the most dangerous and reckless adversaries of the United States and its allies. For more than a quarter of a century,...
Washington: National Defense University Press, 1994. — 189 p. In this volume, John Collins speaks with the authority of one who was literally present at the birth of the "low intensity conflict. His long-term. intimate, and direct contact with the esoteric world of special operations has fcw parallels, Their roots go back in time and history considerably farther, but todaky's...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 320 p. An analysis of U.S. Special Operations, at the center of America’s twenty-first-century wars. This original and accessible book is a comprehensive, authoritative analysis of U.S. Special Operations. U.S. Special Operations Command trains and equips units to undertake select military activities, frequently high-risk missions, often for the...
St. Martins Press, 1991. — 525 p. "Silent Coup" is an important work of "Watergate Revisionism" that brings the Radford spy ring into the picture. In short, senior Pentagon officials at the Joint Chiefs of Staff level authorised what amounted to an "unofficial" spy operation targeted at the White House. They wanted to keep tabs on Kissinger and his secret diplomacy. Kissinger's...
Simon and Schuster, 2011. — 395 p. Bestselling author Jennet Conant brings us a stunning account of Julia and Paul Child’s experiences as members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the Far East during World War II and the tumultuous years when they were caught up in the McCarthy Red spy hunt in the 1950s and behaved with bravery and honor. It is the fascinating...
Casemate, 2021. — 255 p. During the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency’s biggest and longest paramilitary operation was in the tiny kingdom of Laos. Hundreds of advisors and support personnel trained and led guerrilla formations across the mountainous Laotian countryside, as well as running smaller road-watch and agent teams that stretched from the Ho Chi Minh Trail to...
Casemate Publishers, 2021. — 272 p. During the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency’s biggest and longest paramilitary operation was in the tiny kingdom of Laos. Hundreds of advisors and support personnel trained and led guerrilla formations across the mountainous Laotian countryside, as well as running smaller road-watch and agent teams that stretched from the Ho Chi Minh...
Naval Institute Press, 2018. — 216 p. Today the vast archipelago of Southeast Asia islands known as Indonesia is in the headlines because of political instability, religious tension, and violence in the streets. Forty years ago similar conditions led the Central Intelligence Agency to mount a top-secret covert action campaign designed to hold that nation's left-leaning...
Naval Institute Press, 2000. — 238 p. Today the vast archipelago of Southeast Asia islands known as Indonesia is in the headlines because of political instability, religious tension, and violence in the streets. Forty years ago similar conditions led the Central Intelligence Agency to mount a top-secret covert action campaign designed to hold that nation's left-leaning...
University Press of Kansas, 2002. — 312 p. Defiance against Chinese oppression has been a defining characteristic of Tibetan life for more than four decades, symbolized most visibly by the much revered Dalai Lama. But the story of Tibetan resistance weaves a far richer tapestry than anyone might have imagined. Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison reveal how America's Central...
University Press of Kansas, 2019. — 252 p. For most Americans, Cambodia was a sideshow to the war in Vietnam, but by the time of the Vietnam invasion of Democratic Kampuchea in 1978 and the subsequent war, it had finally moved to center stage. Kenneth Conboy chronicles the violence that plagued Cambodia from World War II until the end of the twentieth century and peels back the...
Harper Collins, 1998. — 412 p. In the mid-nineteen sixties, Harry Constance made a life-altering journey that led him out of Texas and into the jungles of Vietnam. As a young naval officer, he went from UDT training to the U.S. Navy's newly formed SEAL Team Two, and then straight into furious action. By 1970, he was already the veteran of three hundred combat missions and the...
Feral House, 2014. — 320 p. In this follow-up to Psychic Dictatorship in the USA, researcher Alex Constantine explores the government's misinformation campaigns about its "black-ops." This book deals with issues relating to CIA mind control experiments, alien abductions, CIA child abuse allegations, OJ Simpson, Tim McVeigh, and the postal service/CIA connection. The majority of...
Macmillan Company, 1964. — 456 p. One of the great freelance investigative reporters of the Cold War period, Fred J. Cook (1911-2003) took on J. Edgar Hoover at a point in time when Hoover was in the middle of his non-investigation of the assassination of JFK. This is a fine early expose of the questionable actions and finely-polished mythology of the Director of the FBI. Cook...
Henry Holt and Company, 2020. — 275 p. A news-making account of the war between David Koresh’s Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today’s militias. In 1993, David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A two-month siege of their compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a firefight that killed...
Hearthstone Publishing, 1999. — 427 p. Big Brother NSA is the best researched, best documented book ever written regarding the Beast's international computer system. Many rumors and overly dramatic, undocumented speculations have been postulated regarding a possilbe Beast computer system in Brussels, Belgium. The solid research in "Big Brother NSA" refutes these rumors by...
Third Edition. — Pluto Press, 2002. — 288 p. This completely revised edition examines the events of September 11th 2001, Osama bin Laden's role and the complex working of the Al Qa'ida terror network. This is the classic book on the history of the USA's involvement with Afghanistan that explains the devastating consequences of the alliance between the US government and radical...
Routledge, 2007. — 238 p. Based on recently declassified documents, this book provides the first examination of the Truman Administration’s decision to employ covert operations in the Cold War. Although covert operations were an integral part of America’s arsenal during the late 1940s and early 1950s, the majority of these operations were ill conceived, unrealistic and ultimately...
Holt Paperbacks, 2015. — 420 p. The mandate for Los Angeles' unique police unit Homicide Special is to take on the toughest, most controversial, and highest-profile cases. In this "literate, unfailingly interesting work of true crime", acclaimed writer Miles Corwin uses unprecedented access to narrate six of the unit's cases-and capture its newest generation at work. When a...
Naval Institute Press, 2010. — 192 p. Following the success of his recent book on Navy SEALs in Iraq, The Sheriff of Ramadi, bestselling author and combat veteran Dick Couch now examines the importance of battlefield ethics in effectively combating terrorists without losing the battle for the hearts of the local population. A former SEAL who led one of the only successful POW...
Archetype, 2005. — 255 p. In America's battle against al-Qaeda and their allies, the goal of the Navy SEALs is to be the best guns in the fight--stealthy, effective, professional, and lethal. In this book Couch, himself a former Navy SEAL and CIA case officer, brings firsthand accounts from the warriors in combat during key missions. "Down range" is what SEALs in Afghanistan...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 224 p. This now-classic true tale of SEAL combat action in Vietnam marked Dick Couch's debut as a novelist in 1990 and sold more than 100,000 copies. Hailed for its authenticity, it was the first novel about Navy SEALs to be written by one of their own. Couch, a SEAL platoon leader in the Mekong Delta from 1970 to 1971, includes gripping...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2012. — 400 p. Army Rangers are not born. They are made. The modern 75th Ranger Regiment represents the culmination of 250 years of American soldiering. As a fighting force with our nation’s oldest and deepest tradition, the Regiment traces its origins to Richard Rogers’s Rangers during the pre-revolutionary French and Indian War, through the likes of...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 224 p. In this ground-breaking book, best-selling author and former U.S. Navy SEAL Dick Couch reports on the actions of the SEAL Task Unit during the Battle of Ramadi in Iraq s al-Anbar Province between 2005 and 2007. When he began his research, the author thought he would be writing about the SEALs courage in the face of a losing cause. Instead,...
St. Martin's Press, 2006. — 352 p. Marine Sniper Sgt. Jack Coughlin carried his specially designed bolt action rifle―and its nearly magical scope―into a landscape of sandstorms, firefights, and chaos during Operation Iraqi Freedom. As marines charged through the desert and leapfrogged through bizarre, treacherous urban battlefields, Coughlin and his sniper teammate did their...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015. — 550 p. Two recent events have transformed the world: the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of militant Islam. This is the first book to explain the link between these two occurrences. George Crile spent nearly a decade researching and writing this original account of the biggest, most expensive secret war in history: the arming of the...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. — 261 p. Project Paperclip brought hundreds of German scientists and engineers, including aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, to the United States in the first decade after World War II. More than the freighters full of equipment or the documents recovered from caves and hastily abandoned warehouses, the German brains who designed and...
Jerry Crouso Books, 2017. — 104 p. Covert operation is "an operation that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial. CIA is the US Government agency legally allowed to carry out covert action. These special activities include covert political influence and paramilitary operations. A black op is a covert operation by a government, a...
Penguin Press, 2012. — 352 p. A legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career. Revelatory and groundbreaking, The Art of Intelligence will change the way people view the CIA, domestic and foreign intelligence, and international terrorism. Henry A. “Hank” Crumpton, a twenty-four-year veteran of the CIA’s...
Penguin Press, 2012. — 338 p. A counterterrorism spy describes his leadership of the campaign that routed al Qaeda and the Taliban in the weeks after the September 11 attacks, offering insight into the ways in which the Afghanistan campaign changed American warfare. Dreaming -- Training -- Recruiting -- Collecting -- Liaising -- Counterterrorism -- Federal Bureau of Investigation...
Stanford University Press, 2013. — 336 p. — ISBN 9780804770699. Governing Security investigates the surprising history of two major federal agencies that touch the lives of Americans every day: the Roosevelt-era Federal Security Agency––which eventually became today's Department of Health and Human Services––and the more recently created Department of Homeland Security. By...
Presidio Press, 2007. — 288 p. It’s not easy to stay alive with a $1,000 bounty on your head.” In 1967, a bullet cost thirteen cents, and no one gave Uncle Sam a bigger bang for his buck than the 5th Marine Regiment Sniper Platoon. So feared were these lethal marksmen that the Viet Cong offered huge rewards for killing them. Now noted Vietnam author John J. Culbertson, a former...
Stanford University Press, 1999. — 200 p. In 1992, the Central Intelligence Agency hired the young historian Nick Cullather to write a history (classified “secret” and for internal distribution only) of the Agency’s Operation PBSUCCESS, which overthrew the lawful government of Guatemala in 1954. Given full access to the Agency’s archives, he produced a vivid insider’s account,...
McFarland, 2021. — 270 p. Published for the first time, the history of the CIA's clandestine short-wave radio broadcasts to Eastern Europe and the USSR during the early Cold War is covered in-depth. Chapters describe the "gray" broadcasting of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty in Munich; clandestine or "black" radio broadcasts from Radio Nacional de Espana in Madrid to...
University of California Press, 2004. — 379 p. Using over twelve thousand previously classified documents made available through the Freedom of Information Act, David Cunningham uncovers the riveting inside story of the FBI's attempts to neutralize political targets on both the Right and the Left during the 1960s. Examining the FBI's infamous counterintelligence programs...
Editorial Capitán San Luis, 2007. — 336 p. The CIA and the US embassy take action against the guerrilla movement in Bolivia. The CIA and its Intromission in the Armed Forces and Other Bolivian sectors. The role of the CIA in Bolivia’s repression. The role of the CIA in Che’s Murder. International repercussions of Che’s assassination. CIA agents against Regis Debray and Ciro...
Georgetown University Press, 2013. — 255 р. How can the United States avoid a future surprise attack on the scale of 9/11 or Pearl Harbor, in an era when such devastating attacks can come not only from nation states, but also from terrorist groups or cyber enemies? Intelligence and Surprise Attack examines why surprise attacks often succeed even though, in most cases, warnings...
Georgetown University Press, 2014. — 336 p. Students and enthusiasts of American history are familiar with the Revolutionary War spies Nathan Hale and Benedict Arnold, but few studies have closely examined the wider intelligence efforts that enabled the colonies to gain their independence. Spies, Patriots, and Traitors provides readers with a fascinating, well-documented, and...
Hachette Books, 2019. — 246 p. A riveting, edge-of-your seat account of how a battalion of Marines faced off against the most brutal of Al Qaeda at its most desperate and vicious moment—and how the Marines decisively crushed the terrorists. When the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Marine Regiment ("2/3") arrived in the little-known "Haditha Triad" region of western Iraq's Al Anbar...
University Press of Kentucky, 2004. — 327 p. Borrowing the words of former Idaho senator Frank Church, one widespread notion of the Central Intelligence Agency is that it tends to behave like a "rogue elephant" rampaging out of control, initiating risky covert action programs without the sanction of either Congress or the White House. In Executive Secrets: Covert Action and the...
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 289 p. Still vivid in many Americans' memories are the 444 days of 1979 when Islamic militants held U.S. diplomatic personnel hostage in Iran. Though their story has been told before, never has it been related from such a perspective. Unique among the hostages, the author was an officer for the Central Intelligence Agency serving at the U.S....
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 108 p. During the period of decolonisation in Africa, the CIA covertly subsidised a number of African authors, editors and publishers as part of its anti-communist propaganda strategy. Managed by two front organisations, the Congress of Cultural Freedom and the Farfield Foundation, its Africa programme stretched across the continent. This...
Praeger, 1997. — 240 p. The New Left was founded in 1962, and as a social and political protest movement, it captured the attention of the nation in the Sixties. By 1968, the New Left was marching in unison with hundreds of political action groups to achieve one goal—the end of the war in Vietnam. Under J. Edgar Hoover's direction, the FBI went from an intelligence collection...
Charles Bridge, 2017. — 240 p. At the height of the Red Scare, Angela Calomiris was a paid FBI informant inside the American Communist Party. As a Greenwich Village photographer, Calomiris spied on the New York Photo League, pioneers in documentary photography. While local Party officials may have had their sus-picions about her sexuality, her apparent dedication to the cause won...
Time Life Education, 1986. — 176 p. Beautifully bound and illustrated volume of the American Civil War (1861-1865) featuring famous Spies, Scouts and Raiders, Irregular Operations.
Smithsonian Institution Press, 2015. — 306 p. Presenting the full story of the Corona spy satellites' origins, Eye in the Sky explores the Cold War technology and far-reaching effects of the satellites on foreign policy and national security. Arguing that satellite reconnaissance was key to shaping the course of the Cold War, the book documents breakthroughs in intelligence...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2017. — 431 p. An incredible true tale of espionage and engineering set at the height of the Cold War—a mix between The Hunt for Red October and Argo—about how the CIA, the U.S. Navy, and America’s most eccentric mogul spent six years and nearly a billion dollars to steal the nuclear-armed Soviet submarine K-129 after it had sunk to the bottom of the...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2017. — 431 p. An incredible true tale of espionage and engineering set at the height of the Cold War—a mix between The Hunt for Red October and Argo—about how the CIA, the U.S. Navy, and America’s most eccentric mogul spent six years and nearly a billion dollars to steal the nuclear-armed Soviet submarine K-129 after it had sunk to the bottom of the...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2018. — 288 p. It was September 18, 2001, just seven days after al-Qaeda hijackers destroyed the Twin Towers. In the early morning darkness, a lone figure dropped several letters into a mailbox. Seventeen days later a Florida journalist died of inhalational anthrax. The death from the rare disease made world news. These anthrax attacks marked...
Harper Collins, 2017. — 400 p. The riveting and suspenseful account of two young FBI agents in a pursuit of a drug cartel's most fearsome leader, Miguel Treviño. Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he's deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is...
Harper Collins, 2017. — 400 p. The riveting and suspenseful account of two young FBI agents in a pursuit of a drug cartel's most fearsome leader, Miguel Treviño. Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he's deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is...
Grove Atlantic, 2007. — 308 p. In 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central Intelligence Agency. That man was Fritz Kolbe, who had decided to betray his country after years of opposing Nazism. While Dulles was skeptical, Kolbe's information was such that he eventually admitted,...
Hyperion, 2001. — 300 p. Candice DeLong has been called a real-life Clarice Starling and a female Donnie Brasco. She has been on the front lines of some of the FBIs most gripping and memorable cases, including being chosen as one of the three agents to carry out the manhunt for the Unabomber in Lincoln, Montana. She has tailed terrorists, gone undercover as a gangsters moll, and...
Cornell University Press, 2022. — 408 p. In the winter of 1952, at the height of the Korean War, the CIA flew a covert mission into China to pick up an agent. Trained on a remote Pacific island, he belonged to an obscure anti-communist group known as the Third Force based out of Hong Kong. The exfiltration would fail, disastrously, and one of the Americans on the mission, a...
Cornell University Press, 2022. — 375 p. In the winter of 1952, at the height of the Korean War, the CIA flew a covert mission into China to pick up an agent. Trained on a remote Pacific island, he belonged to an obscure anti-communist group known as the Third Force based out of Hong Kong. The exfiltration would fail, disastrously, and one of the Americans on the mission, a...
Independent Publishers, 2018. — 621 p. Project Serpo was a Top Secret, United States Government program that sent twelve carefully selected military personnel to a distant star system over 30 Light Years away. How did they traverse this enormous distance? The answer is exactly why our governments haven't admitted to the existence of "aliens" or disclosed any of the countless...
Roaring Brook Press, 2020. — 224 p. Catching a Russian Spy is the story of the FBI's investigation of Aldrich Ames, CIA agent who turned Russian spy, and the agent who helped bring him to justice. Aldrich H. "Rick" Ames was a 31-year veteran of the CIA. He was also a Russian spy. By the time Ames was arrested in 1994, he had betrayed the identities of dozens and caused the...
Roaring Brook Press, 2020. — 208 p. Uncovering a Terrorist is the story of the FBI's investigation of Mohamed Mohamud led by Agent Ryan Dwyer, the agent who helped bring him to justice, creating room for the conversation surrounding religious terrorism and its effects around the world. Mohamed Osman Mohamud was an American citizen, a college student at Oregon State University,...
Howard Books, 2016. — 128 р. In a fast-paced and action-packed narrative, Navy SEAL commander Rorke Denver tackles the questions that have emerged about America's past decade at war—from what makes a hero to why we fight and what it does to us. Heroes are not always the guys who jump on grenades. Sometimes, they are the snipers who decide to hold their fire, the wounded...
Skyhorse, 2014. — 288 p. The U.S. Army Intelligence and Interrogation Handbook provides doctrinal guidance, techniques, and procedures governing the use of interrogators as human intelligence collection agents in support of a commander's intelligence needs. It outlines the interrogator's role within the greater intelligence effort as well as the unit's day-to-day operations,...
Sarah Crichton Books, 2014. — 336 p. Jack Devine ran Charlie Wilson’s War in Afghanistan. It was the largest covert action of the Cold War, and it was Devine who put the brand-new Stinger missile into the hands of the mujahideen during their war with the Soviets, paving the way to a decisive victory against the Russians. He also pushed the CIA’s effort to run down the narcotics...
University Press of Kansas, 2017. — 278 p. In 1979, with El Salvador growing ever more unstable and ripe for revolution, the United States undertook a counterinsurgency intervention that over the following decade would become Washington’s largest nation-building effort since Vietnam. In 2003, policymakers looked to this “successful” undertaking as a model for US intervention in...
Stanford University Press, 2008. — 552 p. The 9/11 attacks and the war in Iraq sprang in no small part from massive intelligence failures, that much is well understood. How the CIA got to a point where it could fail so catastrophically is not. According to John Diamond, this slippage results from the tendency to overlook the links between seemingly unrelated intelligence...
Simon and Schuster, 2010. — 336 p. Christopher Dickey takes us inside the best and most ambitious anti-terror operation in the country, the seat-of-the-pants intelligence operation of the NYPD—with undercover resources all over the world and two extraordinary men in charge. If you're concerned about a terrorist threat to America, you need to read this eye-opening and...
University of Nebraska Press, 2016. — 296 p. In 1954 the U.S. Air Force launched an ambitious program known as WS-117L to develop the world’s first reconnaissance satellite. The goal was to take photographic images from space and relay them back to Earth via radio. Because of technical issues and bureaucratic resistance, however, WS-117L was seriously behind schedule by the time...
Skyhorse, 2017. — 256 p. The sniper is a battlefield threat second to none. Mastering the art of marksmanship is critical but is only part of what makes a Navy SEAL sniper. Snipers must be able to apply the craft in an urban environment or alone on a hostile mountain top with equal effectiveness. Today's sniper must not just leverage technological advances but also have the...
Public Affairs, 2021. — 321 p. In 2015, the White House claimed triumphantly that “the longest war in American history” was over. But for some, it was just the beginning of a new war, fought by Special Operations Forces, with limited resources, little governmental oversight, and contradictory orders. With big picture insight and on-the-ground grit, Jessica Donati shares the...
Vintage Books, 1981. — 578 p. From the Red Scare of World War I to the Watergate scandals of the 1970s, an intense, clandestine (and often illegal) campaign was mounted against American citizens by key elements of their own government. The official name for this was "political intelligence" or "surveillance," but its real purpose was the restriction and suppression of all forms...
Random House Publishing Group, 2007. — 224 p. The fighting was fierce in the Central Highlands where Green Beret George Dooley served with elite Special Forces A-teams, training the rugged Montagnards in guerrilla warfare and accompanying them on patrols. The Viet Cong and NVA were entrenched in the sparsely populated Highlands, where towering mountains gave them the ruthless...
Springer, 2016. — 284 p. When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, it was woefully unprepared to wage a modern war. Whereas their European counterparts already had three years of experience in using code and cipher systems in the war, American cryptologists had to help in the building of a military intelligence unit from scratch. This book relates the...
Naval Institute Press, 1985. — 178 p. Covers the history of the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence from its austere beginnings in the late 1880's as a functional unit of the Bureau of Navigation, amazingly enough. The author culled information from a variety of obscure sources, placed it in chronological order, and gave it a consistent flavor, for which he deserves great credit....
Frontline Books, 2020. — 322 p. On the day that Roswell K. Doughty graduated from Boston University, he also received a commission as a second lieutenant in the army of the United States of America. It was not until 1942 that he was called to active duty-to face some of the toughest fighting of the Second World War. He subsequently saw action in North Africa, then at the...
Frontline Books, 2020. — 322 p. On the day that Roswell K. Doughty graduated from Boston University, he also received a commission as a second lieutenant in the army of the United States of America. It was not until 1942 that he was called to active duty-to face some of the toughest fighting of the Second World War. He subsequently saw action in North Africa, then at the...
Las Cruces: TBR News, 1986. — 204 p. Most books on historical personages are only repetition of the subject done by earlier writers. New historical material, especially important material, on controversial individuals rarely appears in print, either because it has been destroyed or deliberately hidden away. If such material does surface, it is generally met with hostility by...
Dey Street Books, 2019. — 352 p. The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix show Mindhunter delves deep into the lives and crimes of four of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details about his profiling process, and divulging the strategies used to crack...
Dey Street Books, 2020. — 304 p. The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of Mindhunter and The Killer Across the Table returns with this timely, relevant book that goes to the heart of extremism and domestic terrorism, examining in-depth his chilling pursuit of, and eventual prison confrontation with Joseph Paul Franklin, a White Nationalist...
Kensington Publishing, 2013. — 404 p. For twenty-five years, John E. Douglas worked for the FBI, where he headed the elite Investigative Support Unit. He's had a brilliant and terrifying career, getting inside the minds of notorious murderers and serial killers. Through a series of character-driven case histories--from the earliest trials in Salem, Massachusetts, to the bungled...
Pocket Books, 1996. — 397 p. During his twenty-five year career with the Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas became a legendary figure in law enforcement, pursuing some of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers of our time: the man who hunted prostitutes for sport in the woods of Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer, the...
Scribner, 1999. — 320 p. Why? In this eagerly anticipated new book from the international bestselling authors of Mindhunter, Journey into Darkness, and Obsession, legendary crime fighter John Douglas explores the root of all crime -- motive. Every crime is a mystery story with a motive at its heart. Understand the motive and you can solve the mystery. The Anatomy of Motive...
Second Edition. — Kaplan Publishing, 2009. — 128 p. John Douglas's Guide to Careers in the FBI new edition includes: An overview of the history, structure, programs, services, and training programs of the FBI. Strategies for pursuing a career in the FBI including practical advice on how to make yourself a competitive candidate. Details on the academic fields, professional...
University Press of Kansas, 1991. — 312 p. Cracking the enemy's radio code is a task so urgent and so difficult that it demands the military's best minds and most sophisticated technology. But when the coded messages are in a language as complex as Japanese, decoding problems multiply dramatically. It took the U.S. Army a full two years after the attack on Pearl Harbor to break...
University of Notre Dame Pess, 2020. — 350 p. A rediscovered classic of military history back in print for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of World War II When William B. Dreux parachuted into France in 1944, the OSS infantry officer had cinematic visions of blood-and-guts heroics, of leading the French Maquis resistance forces in daring missions to blow up key bridges...
Diversion Books, 2022. — 255 p. With echoes of Unbroken; the derring-do and bravado of The Right Stuff; and the battle-forged camaraderie of Band of Brothers, this is the World War II story of 95-year-old veteran George Morgan and the Underwater Demolition Teams. Forerunners of the Navy SEALs, the elite unit was given nearly impossible pre-invasion missions from D-Day to the...
Hot Books, 2018. — 328 p. In 2009, documentarians John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski arrived at the offices of Richard Clarke, the former counter-terror adviser to Presidents Clinton and Bush. In the meeting, Clarke boldly accused one-time Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet of “malfeasance and misfeasance” in the pre-war on terror. Thus began an...
Scribner, 2014. — 352 p. The never-before-told tale of the German-American who spearheaded a covert mission to infiltrate New York’s Nazi underground in the days leading up to World War II—the most successful counterespionage operation in US history. From the time Adolf Hitler came into power in 1933, German spies were active in New York. In 1937, a German national living in...
Skyhorse, 2014. — 448 p. The extraordinary firsthand account of an American special forces unit in the jungles of southeast Asia and their guerilla operations against the Japanese during World War II! In early 1942, with World War II going badly, President Roosevelt turned to General William Wild Bill” Donovan, now known historically as the Father of Central Intelligence,”...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. — 592 p. One of the most celebrated and highly decorated heroes of World War I, a noted trial lawyer, presidential adviser and emissary, and chief of America's Office of Strategic Services during World War II, William J. Donovan was a legendary figure. Donovan, originally published in 1982, penetrates the cloak of secrecy surrounding this remarkable...
Penguin, 2006. — 352 p. In the world of covert warfare, Special Operations pilots are notoriously close-lipped about what they do. They don’t talk about their missions to anyone outside their small community. But now, Michael J. Durant and Steven Hartov shed fascinating light on the mysterious elite commandos known as SOAR (Special Operations Aviation Regiment) and take readers...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 340 p. Examining the political foundations of American intelligence policy, this book develops a new theory of intelligence adaptation to explain the success or failure of major reform efforts since World War II. Durbin draws on careful case histories of the early Cold War, the Nixon and Ford administrations, the first decade after the Cold War,...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 557 p. An illuminating documentary history of America's most renowned intelligence agency. Includes a wealth of declassified documents that will give readers an understanding of how the CIA instigated, understood or reacted to key historical events, with the authors' commentary providing broader contextual analysis. Provides a robust...
Mason Crest Publishers, 2011. — 98 p. Known around the world for both their skill in combat and their unparalleled ability to survive in harsh, unforgiving conditions, the Green Berets are among America's greatest soldiers. Officially called the U.S. Army Special Forces, the Green Berets work to fight terrorism, rescue hostages, gather intelligence, and defend America's allies...
Mason Crest Publishers, 2011. — 98 p. The Rangers are some of the best-trained and most skilled soldiers in the Army. Their motto—Rangers lead the way!—is not just a slogan; in many of the modern conflicts in which the U.S. military has been involved, the Rangers have been among the first soldiers on the ground. In both Iraq and Afghanistan, Rangers carry out raid, ambush, and...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 360 p. In the summer of 1970 and for years after, photos of Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jones, and other members of the Weather Underground were emblazoned on FBI wanted posters. In Bad Moon Rising, Arthur Eckstein details how Weather began to engage in serious, ideologically driven, nationally coordinated political violence and how the FBI...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 360 p. In the summer of 1970 and for years after, photos of Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jones, and other members of the Weather Underground were emblazoned on FBI wanted posters. In Bad Moon Rising, Arthur Eckstein details how Weather began to engage in serious, ideologically driven, nationally coordinated political violence and how the FBI...
Brookings Institution Press, 2017. — 272 p. While Edward Snowden began the process in 2013 with his leaks of top secret documents, the Obama administration's own reforms have also helped bring the National Security Agency and its programs of signals intelligence collection out of the shadows. The real question is: What should we do about mass surveillance? Timothy Edgar, a...
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2014. — 121 p. Take Back Our Civil Liberties! Beatrice Edwards, executive director of the organization representing Edward Snowden and four other NSA whistleblowers, argues that we now live in a Corporate Security State, where the government is more interested in protecting the companies that serve it than the citizens who support it. Heavy domestic...
University of North Texas Press, 2001. — 296 p. As an intelligence marine officer during the Vietnam War, Fred L. Edwards Jr., was instructed to "visit every major ground unit in the country. Go to Special Forces camps, ground reconnaissance units, armored cavalry units, and waterborne reconnaissance units. Search everywhere for intelligence sources--long range patrols, boats,...
Temple University Press, 2000. — 253 p. The Cold War has been over for ten years and no country threatens this nation's existence, yet, we still spend billions of dollars on covert action and espionage. In this book, ten prominent experts describe, from an insider perspective, what went wrong with US intelligence and what needs to be done to fix it.
Viking, 2017. — 368 p. A thrilling story of espionage, daring and deception set in the exotic landscape of occupied Manila during World War II. On January 2, 1942, Japanese troops marched into Manila unopposed by U.S. forces. Manila was a strategic port, a romantic American outpost and a jewel of a city. Tokyo saw its conquest of the Philippines as the key in its plan to...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 262 p. Acts of terrorist violence and foreign espionage may pose a serious threat to the security of the United States; yet recent disclosures demonstrate the great risk in giving an agency such as the FBI unlimited authority for gathering intelligence about terrorists and spies. Taking into account the findings and recommendations of the...
New York, Toronto, London: Touchstone, 2015. — 277 p. — ISBN10: 147679605X, 13 978-1476796055. A hands-on, practical survival guide from retired Navy SEAL Clint Emerson-adapted for civilians from actual special forces operations-to eluding pursuers, evading capture, and surviving any dangerous situation. In today's increasingly dangerous world, threats to your personal safety...
Atria Books, 2019. — 307 p. Clint Emerson, retired Navy SEAL and author of the bestselling 100 Deadly Skills, presents an explosive, darkly funny, and often twisted account of being part of an elite team of operatives whose mission was to keep America safe by whatever means necessary. Clint Emerson is the only SEAL ever inducted into the International Spy Museum. Operating from...
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1988. — 256 p. Reveals: private notebooks of Oliver North; Administration's secret plans to invade Nicaragua; details of the second planned rescue attempt of the Iran hostages and why it happened; story behind the commando raid to free the hostages in Lebanon and why the raid was cancelled; most explosive secret courts-martial in American military history; how...
St. Martin's Press, 2017. — 209 p. Traces the real story of a Secret Service agent who protected three American presidents, describing how he pursued his job after the assassination of JFK and how he met a range of challenges throughout a career shaped by major historical events.
St. Martin's Press, 2014. — 320 p. Dan Emmett was just eight years old when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The events surrounding the President's death shaped the course of young Emmett's life as he set a goal of becoming a US Secret Service agent—one of a special group of people willing to trade their lives for that of the President, if necessary. Within Arm's...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017. — 368 p. A groundbreaking exposé that convincingly challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable our national security systems have become--as exciting as any political thriller, and far more important. After details of American government surveillance were published in...
Grub Street Publishers, 2017. — 192 p. Within hours after the World Trade Center attacks in 2001, ex-Green Beret Duane Evans began a personal quest to become part of the US response against al-Qa’ida. His determination led him to join one of the CIA's elite teams bound for Afghanistan. It was a journey that eventually took him to the front lines in Pakistan—first as part of the...
Marine Corps University Press, 2008. — 354 p. Since the tragic events of 9/11 and the consequent advent of the Global War on Terrorism, there has been a remarkable surge of interest in counterinsurgency. This anthology presents 27 articles on counterinsurgency and irregular warfare, particularly highlighting and examining the U.S. Marine Corps' roles in conflicts from 1898...
Presidio Press, 2005. — 272 p. It started as a special mission to capture a Somali warlord. It turned into a disastrous urban firefight and death-defying rescue operation that shocked the world and rattled a great nation. Now the 1993 battle for Mogadishu, Somalia–the incident that was the basis of the book and film Black Hawk Down–is remembered by the men who fought and...
Lyons Press, 2011. — 208 p. It is not an attack on the men and women of the Clandestine Service of the Central Intelligence Agency, the overwhelming majority of whom are dedicated, patriotic Americans working hard everyday on behalf of their fellow citizens. God knows that they do not do it for the money nor do they do it for the recognition. They do it because they believe in...
Casemate Publishers, 2020. — 240 p. In early 2002 Sam Faddis was named to head a CIA team that would enter Iraq, prepare the battlefield and facilitate the entry of follow-on conventional military forces numbering in excess of 40,000 American soldiers. This force, built around the 4th Infantry Division would, in partnership with Kurdish forces and with the assistance of Turkey,...
The American Report Books, 2020. — 491 p. The Hammer is the Key to the Coup" is a summary of a multi-year investigation by national security journalists Mary Fanning and Alan Jones of The American Report into the supercomputer surveillance system known as THE HAMMER. John Brennan, James Clapper and Barack Obama illegally commandeered the powerful foreign surveillance tool, THE...
Fort Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute Press US Army Combined Arms Center, 2009. — 146 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9823283-3-0 The Israeli incursions into Lebanon in mid-2006 and into Gaza in late 2008/early 2009 are important studies in contrasts. During the first, often termed “the Second Lebanon War,” Hezbollah fought Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) seeking hostage rescue and...
Quantico: FBI, 2003. — 90 p. In the wake of the September 11, 2001, airline hijackings the Firearms and Toolmarks Unit of the FBI Laboratory has started a collection of small and easily concealed knives. This is the first installment of a continuing effort to collect and distribute information on knives that otherwise may be dismissed as non threatening items. Many of the knives...
Melville House, 2014. — 525 p. Meticulously formatted, this is a highly readable edition of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of Central Intelligence Agency interrogation and detention programs launched in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Based on over six million internal CIA documents, the report details secret prisons, prisoner deaths, interrogation practices,...
University of Nebraska Press, 2002. — 330 p. William B. Feis offers us the first scholarly examination of the use of military intelligence under Ulysses S. Grant’s command during the Civil War. Feis makes the new and provocative argument that Grant’s use of the Army of the Potomac’s Bureau of Military Information played a significant role in Lee’s defeat. Feis’s work articulately...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 224 p. In the early days of World War II, a young Marine named Charles Fenn was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) for undercover operations in the China-Burma-India theatre. Fenn knew exactly what it took to get the job done. His wartime exploits are the stuff of legend, but not even his OSS compatriots knew the full extent of...
Harper Collins, 2021. — 272 p. The FBI’s former head of counterintelligence reveals the Bureau's field-tested playbook for unlocking individual and organizational excellence, illustrated through dramatic stories from his own storied career. Frank Figliuzzi was the "Keeper of the Code," appointed the FBI’s Chief Inspector by then-Director Robert Mueller. Charged with overseeing...
Stanford University Press, 2021. — 262 p. In From Mandate to Blueprint, Thomas Fingar offers a guide for new federal government appointees faced with the complex task of rebuilding institutions and transitioning to a new administration. Synthesizing his own experience implementing the most comprehensive reforms to the national security establishment since 1947, Fingar provides...
McFarland, 2013. — 288 p. The leader of one of the most successful U. S. Marine long range reconnaissance teams during the Vietnam War, Andrew Finlayson recounts his team's experiences in the year leading up to the Tet Offensive of 1968. Using primary sources, such as Marine Corps unit histories and his own weekly letters home, he presents a highly personal account of the...
McFarland, 2014. — 320 p. A young U.S. Marine officer recounts his experiences of the Vietnam War over a nineteen month period. He graphically describes what it was like to perform three distinct combat missions: long-range ground reconnaissance in the Annamite Mountains of I Corps, infantry operations in the rice paddies and mountains of Quang Nam Province and special police...
Arizona: US Army Intelligence Center & Fort Huachuca, 1995. — 445 p. Defining military intelligence as “all the knowledge which we have of the enemy and his country,” Carl von Clausewitz goes on to discount its trustworthiness. “Great part of the information obtained in War is contradictory, a still greater part is false, and by far the greatest part is of a doubtful character.”...
Mariner Books, 1998. — 762 p. Most histories of the Civil War explain victory and defeat in terms of the skill of commanders and their troops. Intelligence records disappeared after the war, and thus a critically important element has largely been ignored. Fishel has unearthed substantial collections of such records, and his "intelligence explanation" radically alters history's...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2016. — 192 p. A courageous look at a historic figure. From Oscar-winner Oliver Stone, Snowden is a riveting personal look at one of the most polarizing figures of the twenty-first century, the man responsible for what has been described as the most far-reaching security breach in US intelligence history. This official motion picture screenplay edition,...
Forge, 2012. — 334 p. The Jack Nicholson film The Departed didn’t tell half of their story. A poor kid from the slums, Robert Fitzpatrick grew up to become a stellar FBI agent and challenge the country’s deadliest gangsters. Relentless in his desire to catch, prosecute, and convict Whitey Bulger, Fitzpatrick fought the nation’s most determined cop-gangster battle since Melvin...
A Monograph. — Fort Leavenworth: School of Advanced Military Studies United States Army Command and General Staff College, 1993. — 57 p. This monograph examines the utility of U.S. Army Special Forces in the changing world security environment. It first analyzes the security environment by looking at several theories and assessments. Then it rocuses on the post-Cold War...
Field Manual. Department of the Army, 1955. — 194 p. The group is a cellular type unit employed at theater level. It operates initially within the Army forces of the theater to conduct guerrilla operations. An appropriate command organization for the conduct of Unconventional Warfare may be organized as needed by the theater commander. Typical of an appropriate command...
Washington: Department of the Army. — 1987. — 177 p. This manual provides doctrinal guidance, techniques, and procedures governing employment of interrogators as human intelligence (HUMINT) collection assets in support of the commander’s intelligence needs. It outlines the interrogator’s role within the intelligence collection effort and the supported wit’s day-to-day...
Simon and Schuster, 2012. — 335 p. The riveting account of former head of Massachusetts State Police Thomas J. Foley's twenty-year pursuit of murderous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, and of Foley's key role in exposing the FBI's protection of Bulger's criminal empire. June 23, 2011. The news of the notorious gangster Whitey Bulger's capture—after sixteen years on the FBI's Most...
Harper Collins, 2022. — 304 p. For the first time, a story about the specialized teams of forensic psychologists, FBI agents, and other experts who are successfully stopping mass shootings—a hopeful, myth-busting narrative built on new details of infamous attacks, never-before-told accounts from perpetrators and survivors, and real-time immersion in confidential threat cases,...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 252 p. It is the culminating chapter of a trilogy that began with The Highway War: A Marine Company Commander in Iraq in 2006 and continued with In the Gray Area: A Marine Advisor Team at War in 2010. The chronicle of Folsom's command of 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, "The Cutting Edge," and his harrowing deployment to Afghanistan's volatile...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 147 p. This study analyzes the strategic effectiveness of special operations conducted by the Far East Command (FECOM) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Korea during the Korean Conflict from 1950 to 1953. Each organization's effectiveness is determined by examining the areas of strategy, organization and operations. Special...
Naval Institute Press, 2011. — 288 p. In this exploration of U.S. naval operations and intelligence-gathering efforts, Douglas Ford introduces a new perspective on the clash between the United States and Japan in the Pacific. At the outset of the war, the U.S. Navy could not accurately determine the fighting efficiency of Japan's Imperial Navy and land-based fighting forces. As...
Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1998. — 142 p. This study examines three episodes between 1962 and 1968 when US policymakers faced critical points in the evolution of US involvement in Vietnam. During that period, CIA assessments and senior Agency personalities had at least the potential for significantly affecting policy decisions taken by Kennedy and Johnson...
Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — 400 p. A young American lost in Russia. An FBI-cover up. A mystery leading from Washington to the heart of the Kremlin's war in Ukraine. When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son’s disappearance connected to his mysterious work for the FBI, or was it a personal quest gone wrong? Only when...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2019. — 240 p. Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter.
Routledge, 2017. — 254 p. Until recent years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation enjoyed an exalted reputation as America's premier crime-fighting organization. However, it is now common knowledge that the FBI and its long-time director, J. Edgar Hoover, were responsible for the creation of a massive internal security apparatus that undermined the very principles of freedom...
Independently Publishers, 2019. — 257 p. Destroying America: A Dossier on the CIA’s Quest to Control the United States Government” lays out the most shocking information that has ever come forth on corruption in the United States government and the CIA… Rife with documented evidence about subversive efforts to sabotage democracy, Destroying America explains how Members of...
Sperling & Kupfer, 2018. — 612 p. Q uando, nel giugno 2013 , Edward Snowden rivelò che la National security agency aveva intercettato milioni di persone, compresi diversi capi di Stato e di governo, si scoprì che non erano sfuggiti allo spionaggio neppure Jorge Mario Bergoglio e i cardinali che avevano eletto il nuovo Pontefice. Niente di nuovo per le organizzazioni di...
Sperling and Kupfer, 2018. — 612 p. Q uando, nel giugno 2013, Edward Snowden rivelò che la National security agency aveva intercettato milioni di persone, compresi diversi capi di Stato e di governo, si scoprì che non erano sfuggiti allo spionaggio neppure Jorge Mario Bergoglio e i cardinali che avevano eletto il nuovo Pontefice. Niente di nuovo per le organizzazioni di...
The Free Press, 1978. — 312 p. Introduction. Howard Frazier and Martin Cherniack The Problem and the potential. Michael J. Harrington Now or never. Victor Marchetti Hearing the screams. John D. Marks Strongarm of the TNCs. Ernest De Maio Crimes against the people. Joelle Fishman The CIA in Puerto Rico. Florencio Merced The Stinking fish. Stanley Faulkner The Case of Chile. Adam...
Regnery History, 2022. — 255 p. Fans of Stephen E. Ambrose's Band of Brothers will be drawn to this complex portrait of the controversial Ronald Speirs, an iconic commander of Easy Company during World War II, whose ferocious courage in three foreign conflicts was matched by his devotion to duty and the bittersweet passions of wartime romance. His comrades called him "Killer."...
St. Martin's Press, 2005. — 352 p. Louis Freeh led the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1993 to 2001, through some of the most tumultuous times in its long history. This is the story of a life in law enforcement, and of one man’s determined struggle to strengthen and reform the FBI while ensuring its freedom from political interference. Bill Clinton called Freeh a “law...
Penguin Group, 2008. — 336 p. The astonishing, never before told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II—when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. During a bombing campaign over Romanian oil fields, hundreds of American airmen were shot down in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. Local Serbian farmers and peasants risked...
California University Press, 2013. — 432 p. The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. In this innovative and timely history, Andrew Friedman chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions created a U.S. imperial home front in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. In this covert capital, the suburban landscape...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2004. — 354 p. Dubbed by Barron's as "The Shadow CIA," George Friedman's global intelligence company, Stratfor, has provided analysis to Fortune 500 companies, news outlets, and even the U.S. government. Now Friedman delivers the geopolitical story that the mainstream media has been unable to uncover ' the startling truth behind America's...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 369 p. This eye-opening study uncovers the history of the most important instrument of U.S. counterterrorism today: the armed drone. It reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the CIA’s covert drone program is not a product of 9/11. Rather, it is the result of U.S. counterterrorism practices extending back to an influential group of policy...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 369 p. This eye-opening study uncovers the history of the most important instrument of U.S. counterterrorism today: the armed drone. It reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the CIA’s covert drone program is not a product of 9/11. Rather, it is the result of U.S. counterterrorism practices extending back to an influential group of policy makers...
Viking, 2022. — 857 p. A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape. We remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when...
Repeater Books, 2018. — 328 p. A threat of the first magnitude tells the story of the FBI's fake Maoist organization and the informants they used to penetrate the highest levels of the Communist Party USA, the Black Panther Party, the Revolutionary Union, and other groups labelled threats to the internal security of the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.
Over the Edge Books, 2016. — 178 p. Inside The CIA’s Secret War In Jamaica tells the story of the campaign from the United States to destabilize the Michael Manley government in 1976 due to his ties to Fidel Castro. The book covers the rise of violence between the PNP (People’s National Party) and the JLP (Jamaica Labor Party), the assassination attempt of Bob Marley, and the...
Liveright, 2019. — 272 p. Since its founding more than seventy years ago, the National Security Council has exerted more influence on the president’s foreign policy decisions—and on the nation’s conflicts abroad—than any other institution or individual. And yet, until the explosive Trump presidency, few Americans could even name a member. “A must-read for anyone interested in...
Simon and Schuster, 2012. — 224 p. So begins Making Jack Falcone, the extraordinary true story of an undercover FBI agent's years-long investigation of the Gambinos, which resulted in a string of arrests that crippled the organized crime family. But long before Joaquin "Jack" Garcia found himself wearing a wire with some of the Mafia's top capos, he was one of the FBI's...
IUniverse, 2013. — 182 p. Growing up in Da' Harbor, a rough steel town with more than its share of notorious criminals passing through, a young boy seemed destined to a life of crime or, at best, a hazardous life in the steel mill. In Harbor Knight CIA Agent, Ralph Garcia reflects on "pivotal moments" when his life in East Chicago, Indiana might have taken a horrible turn for...
The New Press, 2016. — 321 p. Four days before Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, someone leaked American contingency war plans to the Chicago Tribune. The small splash the story made was overwhelmed by the shock waves caused by the Japanese attack on the Pacific fleet anchored in Hawaii-but the ripples never subsided, growing quietly but steadily across the Cold War, Vietnam, the...
Open Road Media, 2015. — 224 p. The author of Bearing the Cross, the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., exposes the government's massive surveillance campaign against the civil rights leader. When US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy authorized a wiretap of Martin Luther King Jr.'s phones by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he set in motion one of...
Central Intelligence Agency Press, 2005. — 356 p. This authoritative publication throughly explains how each director of Central Intelligence (CIA) sought to fulfill his "community" role, that of enhancing the cooperation among the many parts of the nation's intelligence community under his leadership. Explores that the nation's leaders expected of directors and how those...
Syracuse University Publications, 2004. — 384 p. Mohammad Mosaddeq is widely regarded as the leading champion of secular democracy and resistance to foreign domination in Iran's modern history. Mosaddeq became prime minister of Iran in May 1951 and promptly nationalized its British-controlled oil industry, initiating a bitter confrontation between Iraq and Britain that...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016. — 256 p. Having led change successfully at three sprawling, monumental organizations—the CIA, Texas University, and the Department of Defense—Robert M. Gates offers the ultimate insider's look at how leaders can transform large organizations and companies. For many Americans, bureaucracy and corporate structure are code words for inertia....
Casemate Publishers, 2007. — 228 p. No history of the war in Europe has ever taken into account the actions of the men of the US 23rd Special Troops. These men took part in over twenty-two deception operations against the German army. Some of these operations had tremendous impact upon how the battles in Europe were fought. The men who participated in these actions were sworn...
South End Press, 1991. — 275 p. Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI: The Covert War Against the Central America Movement raises the curtain on the Bureau’s secret attempts to undermine and demonize the nationwide network of individuals and protest groups opposed to the Reagan Administration’s Central America policies and programs. Ross Gelbspan demonstrates that the more than...
Penguin Press, 2020. — 448 p. Edward Snowden chose three journalists to tell the stories in his Top Secret trove of NSA documents: Barton Gellman of The Washington Post, Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian and filmmaker Laura Poitras, all of whom would share the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Poitras went on to direct the Oscar-winning Citizen Four. Greenwald wrote an instant...
Routledge, 2009. — 225 p. This book examines the communicative aspects and implications of US counter-terrorist policies towards al-Qaeda. Recent US counter-terrorist strategy has been largely based upon projecting certain perceptions of America as an actor to those drawn to al-Qaeda, and this book investigates in what ways, and to what extent, US officials believed that the...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2001. — 848 p. Shocking, grim, frightening, Curt Gentry’s masterful portrait of America’s top policeman is a unique political biography. From more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Gentry reveals exactly how a paranoid director created the fraudulent myth of an invincible, incorruptible FBI. For almost fifty...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2001. — 848 p. The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Roosevelt was right: Hoover's FBI was an American gestapo. Shocking, grim, frightening, Curt Gentry's masterful portrait of America's top secret policeman is a unique political biography. From more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Gentry reveals...
Georgetown University Press, 2019. — 295 p. John A. Gentry and Joseph S. Gordon update our understanding of strategic warning intelligence analysis for the twenty-first century. Strategic warning ― the process of long-range analysis to alert senior leaders to trending threats and opportunities that require action ― is a critical intelligence function. It also is frequently...
Georgetown University Press, 2020. — 328 p. This textbook introduces students to the critical role of the US intelligence community within the wider national security decision-making and political process. Intelligence in the National Security Enterprise defines what intelligence is and what intelligence agencies do, but the emphasis is on showing how intelligence serves the...
Dutton, 2002. — 400 p. Profiles the virtually unknown 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, an elite, thousand-man "ghost army" that helped win the Battle of Europe and fought in more campaigns than any other unit in the European Theater of Operations. Although it includes some U.S. Navy deception activities carried out by the late actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., among others,...
New Press, 2019. — 339 p. A former FBI undercover agent and whistleblower gives us a riveting and troubling account of the contemporary FBI—essential reading for our times Impressively researched and eloquently argued, former special agent Mike German’s Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide tells the story of the transformation of the FBI after the 9/11 attacks from a law enforcement...
Scarecrow Press, 2014. — 272 p. In World War I and the Origins of U.S. Military Intelligence, military historian James L. Gilbert provides an authoritative overview of the birth of modern Army intelligence. Following the natural division of the intelligence war, which was fought on both the home front and overseas, Gilbert traces the development and use of intelligence and...
United States Government Printing, 1993. — 265 p. U.S. Army Signals Intelligence in World War II preserves the memory of the Army's role in what was perceived as a signals intelligence war. The availability of superb military intelligence was central but heretofore unheralded because of security considerations. With the security barriers now lifted, James L. Gilbert and John P....
Duke University Press, 2004. — 304 p. Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (SOA) is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand soldiers and police, mostly from Latin America, in counterinsurgency and combat-related skills since it was founded in 1946. So widely documented is the participation of the School’s graduates in...
Naval Institute Press, 2011. — 320 p. During the Vietnam War, the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACVSOG) was a highly-classified, U.S. joint-service organization that consisted of personnel from Army Special Forces, the Air Force, Navy SEALs, Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance units, and the CIA. This secret organization was committed to...
Allen and Unwin, 2019. — 302 p. At the height of the Cold War the chief of one of Australia's spy agencies joined three CIA men at a remote site in Central Australia to toast the success of a top secret project known in US intelligence circles as RAINFALL. The CIA listening station at Pine Gap was officially called the Joint Defence Space Research Facility, but it had nothing...
South End Press, 1998. — 97 p. This is a must handbook for private study and group discussion by all progressive and radical activists. Today's defense depends on our knowledge of yesterday's repression. The message: the political police haven't forgotten us - we can't afford to forget them and their methods. - Philip Agee, former CIA agent.
Routledge, 2000. — 384 p. Contrary to popular misconceptions and public branding as "dirty tricks," covert action and counterintelligence can have considerable value. Democracies, while wary of these instruments, have benefited significantly from their use, saving lives, treasure, and gaining strategic advantage. As liberal democracies confront the post-Cold War mix of rogue...
McMillan, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1627796355, ISBN13: 978-1627796354. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Daniel Golden exposes how academia has become a major target of foreign and domestic espionage―and why that is troubling news for our nation's security and democratic values. Grounded in extensive research and reporting, Spy Schools reveals that globalization―the influx of...
New York: ABC-Clio, 2015. — 963 p. The Central Intelligence Agency is essential in the fight to keep America safe from foreign attacks. This two-volume work traces through facts and documents the history of the CIA, from the people involved to the operations conducted for national security. Covers the history of the CIA from its days prior to World War II, when it was known as...
University Press of Kentucky, 2013. — 430 p. A vital source of American intelligence on Hitler's rise to power and military ambitions, Colonel Truman Smith was one of the most compelling and controversial figures of the Second World War. In Exposing the Third Reich, Henry G. Gole tells this soldier's story for the first time. An American aristocrat from a prominent New England...
St. Martin's Press, 2014. — 320 p. In Level Zero Heroes, Michael Golembesky follows the members of U.S. Marine Special Operations Team 8222 on their assignment to the remote and isolated Taliban stronghold known as Bala Murghab as they conduct special operations in an effort to break the Taliban’s grip on the Valley. What started out as a routine mission changed when two 82nd...
Macmillan, 2016. — 336 p. The sequel to New York Times bestseller Level Zero Heroes Level Zero Heroes, Michael Golembesky's bestselling account of Marine Special Operations Team 8222 in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan, was just the beginning for these now battle-hardened special operations warriors. The unforgiving Afghan winter has settled upon the 22 men of Marine Special...
Routledge, 2016. — 401 p. In scenes eerily parallel to the culture of fear inspired by our current War on Terror, A Need to Know explores the clandestine history of a CIA family defined, and ultimately destroyed, by their oath to keep toxic secrets during the Cold War. When Bud Goodall’s father mysteriously died, his inheritance consisted of three well-worn books: a Holy Bible,...
University of North Texas Press, 1997. — 306 p. This is an excellent book for a number of reasons. First, it is a poignant and heart-wrenching memoir of a young Marine in Vietnam. The lucid voice of a sensitive and thoughtful warrior reverberates throughout the text. Secondly, this book covers a little known aspect of the war: The Marine Corps Combined Action Platoons (CAP)....
Boston: Little Brown, 1975. - 461 p. Lucky Luciano's posthumous memoirs may well have cost him his life. The partner of Meyer Lanksy and Bugsy Siegel, the man who created and controlled the "Commission" and the set down the rules, wanted to have his side of the story on record. It turns out that most of Luciano's criminal activity coincides with the history of the Mafia in...
Simon & Schuster, 2023. — 544 p. From Garrett M. Graff, New York Times bestselling author of Raven Rock , The Only Plane in the Sky , and Pulitzer Prize finalist for history Watergate , comes the first comprehensive and eye-opening exploration of our government’s decades-long quest to solve one of humanity’s greatest mysteries: Are we alone in the universe? For as long as we...
Little, Brown and Co, 2011. — 672 p. Based on access to never-before-seen task forces and FBI bases from Budapest, Hungary, to Quantico, Virginia, this book profiles the visionary agents who risked their lives to bring down criminals and terrorists both here in the U.S. and thousands of miles away long before the rest of the country was paying attention to terrorism. Given...
Random House, 2004. — 296 p. In this explosive, controversial, and profoundly alarming insider’s report, Senator Bob Graham reveals faults in America’s national security network severe enough to raise fundamental questions about the competence and honesty of public officials in the CIA, the FBI, and the White House. For ten years, Senator Graham served on the Senate...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 344 p. US intelligence agencies - the eponymous American spies - are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance. Written for a general audience by a surveillance law expert, this book educates readers about how the reality of modern surveillance differs...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022. — 255 p. In 1974, Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace. In 2020, Donald Trump was impeached. Both were investigated by the FBI, an agency under their control. How is it that the bureau is responsible for investigating the president it serves? How can it do so effectively? Nixon's FBI confronts these questions. Melissa Graves draws on groundbreaking...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 240 p. Michael Graziano’s intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller’s Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin’s Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly,...
Lexington Books, 2012. — 398 p. Surveillance in America provides a historical exploration of FBI surveillance practices and policies since 1920 based on recently declassified FBI files. Using the new information available through these documents, Ivan Greenberg sheds light on the activities and beliefs of top FBI officials as they develop and implement surveillance practices....
Rowman and Littlefield, 2020. — 228 p. What happens when the history books are wrong? The United States Government wants you to not question the narrative that, in some cases, has been written by them for more than a century. But sometimes, real facts emerge from declassified documents that challenge what you thought you knew. This book dissects some of the most amazing...
Penguin, 2014. — 272 p. In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency’s widespread,...
Accurance, 2013. Driven by Pope Paul VI's edicts 'Populorum Progressio' and 'Liberation Theology,' there were two fronts on which the CIA was confronted by communism as a democratic society-Italy and Central America. If Italy fell to communism, all of Europe would surely follow. If Central America fell to communism, all of Latin America would surely follow. It was in these parts...
University Of Wisconsin Press, 2016. — 280 p. To defend its citizens from harm, must the government have unfettered access to all information? Or, must personal privacy be defended at all costs from the encroachment of a surveillance state? And, doesn’t the Constitution already protect us from such intrusions? When the topic of discussion is intelligence-gathering, privacy, or...
Mariner Books, 2011. — 320 p. This book shares one man’s story of extraordinary leadership and service as both a humanitarian and a warrior. In a life lived at the raw edges of the human experience, Greitens has seen what can be accomplished when compassion and courage come together in meaningful service. As a Rhodes Scholar and Navy SEAL, Greitens worked alongside volunteers...
Simon & Schuster, 2015. — 464 p. The First American-Afghan War, a CIA war, was approved by President George W. Bush and directed by the author, Robert Grenier, the CIA station chief in Islamabad. Forging separate alliances with warlords, Taliban dissidents, and Pakistani intelligence, Grenier launched the “southern campaign,” orchestrating the final defeat of the Taliban and Hamid...
St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2006. — 224 p. For the first time, Stephen Grey tells the inside story of international prisons sanctioned by the U.S. Government and used by the CIA to hold and torture people suspected of terrorism. Using contacts deep inside the U.S. Government, Grey reveals how deeply the Bush administration is involved in the program and questions the truth...
Routledge, 2022. — 221 p. This book examines the United States neoconservative movement, arguing that its support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq was rooted in an intelligence theory shaped by the policy struggles of the Cold War. The origins of neoconservative engagement with intelligence theory are traced to a tradition of labour anti-communism that emerged in the early 20th...
Debate, 2006. — 320 p. Tuteló la Transición, intervino en el golpe de Estado del 23-F, se aseguró de que la respuesta al referéndum sobre la OTAN fuera el más favorable a sus intereses? La CIA, la Agencia Central de Inteligencia de Estados Unidos, ha tenido un papel fundamental en innumerables acontecimientos políticos de la historia reciente de España. Mediante la instalación...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2014. — 255 р. — ISBN-10 0425273008. — ISBN-13 978-0425273005. By a veteran of Lt. Col. Merritt A. Edson's battalion, and author of the Dick Winters biography Biggest Brother and coauthor of A Higher Call On the killing ground that was the island of Guadalcanal, a 2,000-yard-long ridge rose from the jungle canopy. Behind it lay the all-important air...
University of Massachusetts Press, 1996. — 682 p. Grose has produced what must be the most comprehensive account to date of the CIA's deeds and misdeeds during the cold-war years. It makes an absorbing story. This is the first full-length biography of the man historian Michael Beschloss calls the keystone figure in the history of American intelligence. Allen Dulles (1893-1969)...
Houghton Mifflin, 2000. — 275 р. After the collapse of Nazi power in 1945, a sweeping change occurred in international relations that would transform the landscape of world politics for the next half-century. Uneasy allies in the war against Germany, the United States and the Soviet Union started secretly mobilizing forces against each other, building intricate networks of...
Casemate Publishers, 2010. — 187 p. With his parting words, "I shall return," General Douglas MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan. Yet one young Army Captain named Russell Volckmann refused to surrender. He disappeared into the jungles of north Luzon where he raised a Filipino army of more than 22,000 men. For the next three years he led a guerrilla...
Casemate Publishers, 2015. — 217 p. The true story of the US Army legend who organized “Blackburn’s Headhunters” against Japan in WWII and went on to initiate Special Forces operations in Vietnam. The fires on Bataan burned on the evening of April 9, 1942—illuminating the white flags of surrender against the dark sky. Outnumbered and outgunned, remnants of the...
OR Books, 2015. — 264 p. Chameleo is a true account of what happened in a seedy Southern California town when an enthusiastic and unrepentant heroin addict named Dion Fuller sheltered a U.S. Marine who'd stolen night vision goggles and perhaps a few top secret files from a nearby military base. Dion found himself arrested (under the ostensible auspices of The Patriot Act) for...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2019. — 252 p. The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day"--;During World War II the American military was on the lookout for native French speakers to...
The History Press, 2016. — 224 p. Jean Claude Guiet, born in France and raised in the US, attended Harvard aged 18 until, as a 'naïve' 19-year-old, he entered the US Army in 1943. As a native French speaker he was quickly assigned to SOE and the OSS (the precursor of the CIA) and parachuted into occupied France in the lead up to D-Day. After the liberation of Paris he was sent...
New York: The Home Publishing Company, 1903. — 295 p. The summer night was falling softly upon Saratoga when that great watering place was scarce more than a village embowered in trees ; when most of its present magnificent avenues were pretty turnpike roads and some only bridle paths; Saratoga when those who sought its summer retreat came to it leisurely, many of them by...
Anchor Books, 2001. — 396 p. In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall into which seventy-one stars are carved-each representing an agent who has died in the line of duty. Official CIA records only name thirty-five of them, however. Undeterred by claims that revealing the identities of these "nameless stars" might compromise national security, Ted Gup sorted...
The New Press, 2013. — 273 p. The first book of its kind, Hearts and Minds is a scathing response to the grand narrative of U.S. counterinsurgency, in which warfare is defined not by military might alone but by winning the "hearts and minds" of civilians. Dormant as a tactic since the days of the Vietnam War, in 2006 the U.S. Army drafted a new field manual heralding the...
Potomac Books, 2007. — 288 p. Kristian Gustafson’s Hostile Intent reexamines one of the most controversial chapters in U.S. intelligence history, the Central Intelligence Agency’s covert operations in Chile from 1964 to 1974. At the request of successive U.S. presidents, the CIA in conjunction with the State Department and the Defense Intelligence Agency first acted to prevent...
Lexington Books, 2021. — 274 p. A multi-chapter book that examines the FBI files on two well known persons of Mexican origin, Luisa Moreno and Ernesto Galarza; four Chicanos, Ambassador Raymond Telles and his wife Delfina Navarro, Francisco "Pancho" Medrano, Freddy Fender; two organizations, the Texas Farm Workers Union and teh American G.I. Forum; and, one event, the Zoot Suit...
Lexington Books, 2020. — 380 p. A multi-chapter book, first of its kind, that identifies, describes, and analyzes FBI documents revealing the hidden history of surveillance of Mexicans and Chicanos in the United States of America. Jose Angel Gutierrez, achieved in his book an exemplary research work which shows extraordinary tenacity. His originality resulted in the revelation...
Michigan State University Press, 2019. — 384 p. This book is the first of its kind to bring transparency to the FBI’s attempts to destroy the incipient Chicano Movement of the 1960s. While the activities of the deep state are current research topics, this has not always been the case. The role of the U.S. government in suppressing marginalized racial and ethnic minorities began...
Chicago Review Press, 2009. — 424 p. It’s around 7:00 A.M. on December 4, 1969, and attorney Jeff Haas is in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton’s fiancée. She is describing how the police pulled her from the room as Fred lay unconscious on their bed. She heard one officer say, He’s still alive.” She then heard two shots. A second officer said, He’s good and dead...
Lyons Press, 2022. — 392 p. The First Counterspy is the pulse-quickening and traumatic story of spy, counterspy, and an American family unwittingly caught in its web. Until this case, the FBI had never recruited civilian counterspies to catch a Soviet agent. The first two were Larry Haas, a leading aviation engineer at Bell Aviation, and Leona Franey, head librarian at Bell’s...
Air University Press, 1997. — 380 p. Presenting a fascinating insider's view of U.S.A.F. special operations, this volume brings to life the critical contributions these forces have made to the exercise of air & space power. Focusing in particular on the period between the Korean War & the Indochina wars of 1950-1979, the accounts of numerous missions are profusely illustrated with...
Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2010. — 142 p. Interest in congressional oversight of intelligence has risen again in the 110th Congress, in part because of the House Democratic majority's pledge to enact the remaining recommendations from the U.S. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, commonly known as the 9/11 Commission. Its 2004 conclusions set the...
Potomac Books, 2014. — 228 p. While at Purdue University on an NROTC scholarship in 1971, Roland Haas was recruited to become a CIA deep clandestine operative. He underwent intensive training to prepare for insertion into hostile areas, including High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachuting and weapons instruction. In the course of his first mission (to East and West Germany,...
Phoenix Books, 2007. — 480 p. While many of FBI's Director J. Edgar Hoover's achievements and insecurities are well-documented, the author of Hughes and Clash of the Titans reveals for the first time the most hidden secrets of Hoover's private life and exposes previously undisclosed conduct that threatened to compromise the security of the entire nation. of photos.
Arcade Publishing, 2015. — 284 p. For forty years John Hadden and his father of the same name fought at the dinner table over politics, art, and various issues concerning America. One was haunted by what he had witnessed during his long CIA career, from Berlin to Tel Aviv; the other retreated to the Vermont woods to direct Shakespeare until finally he confronted his father at...
University Press of Kentucky, 2019. — 272 p. — ISBN-10 0813177375, ISBN-13 978-0813177373. The US intelligence community as it currently exists has been deeply influenced by the press. Although considered a vital overseer of intelligence activity, the press and its validity is often questioned, even by the current presidential administration. But dating back to its creation in...
Langley: Central Intelligence Agency, 2001. — 323 p. Controversy over the performance of the Central Intelligence Agency during the Cold War has raged since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union. From its origins in 1947, the Agency had, as one of its major missions, the responsibility of analyzing and explaining the intentions and...
American Bar Association, 2015. — 279 p. Terrence Hake recounts his involvement in the events of Operation Greylord, the FBI's longest and most successful undercover operation that led to charges against over one hundred of Chicago's judges, lawyers, and court personnel. In the 1980s Hake, a young assistant prosecutor in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in Chicago, worked...
Zenith Press, 2011. — 160 p. The U.S. Navy SEALs—named for the three environments from which they operate (Sea, Air, and Land)—was organized and created during World War II and has taken the lead in many special operations missions protecting the United States over the past seventy years. In this quick read, Hans Halberstadt offers an overview of various SEAL teams, including...
Voyageur Press, 2004. — 320 p. The US Army Special Forces, more familiarly known as the Green Berets, are the elite fighting force of the United States military. Their experiences in covert operations and unconventional warfare have been a part of American military action for decades Author Hans Halberstadt has collected first-hand recollections of dozens of Green Berets, past...
Ballantine Books, 2008. — 332 p. In 1996, the Aryan Nations was considered to be the most dangerous white supremacist group in the United States. This brutally violent neo-Nazi organization dreamed of carving an isolated homeland out of the American northwest–a dream they would finance by robbery, intimidation, and murder. For years, the FBI had sought to infiltrate the Aryan...
Naval Institute Press, 2004. — 220 p. With a sharp eye and wry wit, Roger Hall recounts his experiences as an American Army officer assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. First published in 1957 to critical and popular acclaim, his book has become a cult favorite in intelligence circles. The story follows Hall's experiences from a junior officer...
Counterpoint, 2014. — 368 p. Contrary to its contemporary image, deniable covert operations are not something new. Such activities have been ordered by every president and every administration since the Second World War. In many instances covert operations have relied on surrogates, with American personnel involved only at a distance, insulated by layers of deniability. Shadow...
Counterpoint, 2014. — 368 p. Contrary to its contemporary image, deniable covert operations are not something new. Such activities have been ordered by every president and every administration since the Second World War. In many instances covert operations have relied on surrogates, with American personnel involved only at a distance, insulated by layers of deniability. Shadow...
Counterpoint, 2015. — 464 p. Surprise Attack explores sixty plus years of military and terror threats against the United States. It examines the intelligence tools and practices that provided warnings of those attacks and evaluates the United States' responses, both in preparedness -- and most importantly -- the effectiveness of our military and national command authority....
Delta Press, 2005. — 196 p. Delta Force. They are the U.S. Army's most elite top-secret strike force. They dominate the modern battlefield, but you won't hear about their heroics on CNN. No headlines can reveal their top-secret missions, and no book has ever taken readers inside—until now. Here, a founding member of Delta Force takes us behind the veil of secrecy and into the...
Center for Cryptologic History National Security Agency, 2002. — 500 p. AThe Indochina peninsula extends south from the Chinese landmass like a pendulous bulge. The coastline of Vietnam twists in a great S-curve extending south from the Tonkin region along the coastal areas of Annam and Cochin before it heads west to Cambodia. Indochina is divided by two great riverine systems....
Viking, 2017. — 272 p. In 1946, master sergeant Donald Nichols was repairing jeeps on the sleepy island of Guam when he caught the eye of recruiters from the army's Counter Intelligence Corps. After just three months' training, he was sent to Korea, then a backwater beneath the radar of MacArthur's Pacific Command. Though he lacked the pedigree of most U.S. spies—Nichols was a...
Allen and Unwin, 2010. — 288 p. An unforgettable story of growing up in a Mafia world of wealth, glamour, sex and random violence - a unique 'insiders' view of the most notorious criminal organisation in the world. The Scarpa's were a New York Mafia Dynasty led by Greg Scarpa Sr., nicknamed 'the grim reaper' for his brutal addiction to violence and murder. But since the 1960s...
Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 285 p. When Gail Harris was assigned by the U.S. Navy to a combat intelligence job in 1973, she became the first African American female to hold such a position. Harris's memoir, A Woman's War, follows her 28-year career as a naval intelligence officer, sharing her unique experience and perspective as she completed the complex task of providing...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 248 p. During the Cold War a number of high-ranking Soviet citizens spied for the CIA, providing the United States with valuable information while putting themselves and their families in great danger. In this book a seasoned CIA field operator and station chief looks at what drove these agents to betray their own country. Unlike many authors who...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2019. — 277 p. The thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow—before more American assets are rounded up and killed. In the late 1970s, the National Security Agency still did not officially exist—those in the know referred to it dryly as the No Such Agency. So why, when NSA engineer Charles Gandy filed for a visa to...
Verso, 2005. — 245 p. In this revealing history of Allende’s Chile, Jonathan Haslam uncovers the actual involvement of Cuba, the Soviet Union, and the CIA in that country’s struggle for political and economic stability. The story begins by tracing the trajectory of the communist and socialist parties from the pre-war period through to the dramatic election of Salvador Allende...
Stackpole Books, 2008. — 228 p. In-the-cockpit perspective on aerial warfare during the Vietnam War. Many never-before-heard stories—some of them tragic, others humorous. At the height of the Vietnam War, in 1968 and 1969, Reginald Hathorn (call sign NAIL 31) flew 229 combat missions as a forward air controller for the U.S. Air Force. He inserted Special Forces teams into North...
Skyhorse, 2018. — 208 p. For the first time, a Navy SEAL tells the story of the US's clandestine operations in North Vietnam and the Congo during the Cold War. Sometime in 1965, James Hawes landed in the Congo with cash stuffed in his socks, morphine in his bag, and a basic understanding of his mission: recruit a mercenary navy and suppress the Soviet- and Chinese-backed rebels...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 304 p. A recovery of the vital role Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans played in US intelligence services in Asia during World War II. Spies deep behind enemy lines; double agents; a Chinese American James Bond; black propaganda radio broadcasters; guerrilla fighters; pirates; smugglers; prostitutes and dancers as spies; and Asian Americans...
Penguin Press, 2018. — 238 p. A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself, in a time when that community's work has never been harder or more important. In the face of a President who lobs accusations without facts, evidence, or logic, truth tellers are under attack. Meanwhile,...
Penguin Press, 2018. — 304 p. A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself, in a time when that community's work has never been harder or more important. In the face of a President who lobs accusations without facts, evidence, or logic, truth tellers are under attack. Meanwhile, the...
Penguin Press, 2016. — 464 p. An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, from the only person ever to helm both CIA and NSA, at a time of heinous new threats and wrenching change For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk dust on your cleats. Otherwise, by playing back, you may protect...
Westview Press, 1998. — 480 p. Even paranoids have enemies. Hitler’s most powerful foes were the Allied powers, but he also feared internal conspiracies bent on overthrowing his malevolent regime. In fact, there was a small but significant internal resistance to the Nazi regime, and it did receive help from the outside world. Through recently declassified intelligence...
Presidio Press, 2004. — 496 p. A Look over My Shoulder begins with President Nixon’s attempt to embroil the Central Intelligence Agency, of which Richard Helms was then the director, in the Watergate cover-up. Helms then recalls his education in Switzerland and Germany and at Williams College; his early career as a foreign correspondent in Berlin, during which he once lunched...
William Morrow, 2015. — 389 p. In February 1945, as the U.S. victory in the Pacific drew nearer, the Japanese army grew desperate, and its soldiers guarding U.S. and Allied POWs more sadistic. Starved, shot and beaten, many of the 2,146 prisoners of the Los Baños prison camp in the Philippines—most of them American men, women and children—would not survive much longer unless...
University of California Press, 2010. — 336 p. This is the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its emergence as a large professional police force. To tell this story, Kelly Lytle Hernández dug through a gold mine of lost and unseen records stored in garages, closets, an abandoned factory, and in U.S. and...
Random House Publishing, 2012. — 304 p. In a gripping memoir that reads like a spy novel, one man recounts his personal experience with Operation Phoenix, the program created to destroy the Vietcong’s shadow government, which thrived in the rural communities of South Vietnam. Stuart A. Herrington was an American intelligence advisor assigned to root out the enemy in the Hau...
Presidio Press, 1999. — 432 p. For eleven years during the height of the Cold War, the author was one of the Army's top counterintelligence officers, in other words: a spycatcher. From Berlin to Washington, Herrington was responsible for pursuing some of the most damaging as well as delicate cases of espionage ever perpetrated against the United States.
Maxwell Macmillan, 1992. — 536 p. This book deeply research and lays out the involvement of the lawyers who founded civilian intelligence in the United States -- 'Wild Bill' Donovan, Allen and Foster Dulles, Frank Wisner -- with several generations of American elite's reactionary, pro-nazi clients.
New Horizon Press, 2013. — 208 p. As children, two sisters became pawns in a top secret government program to train guerrilla leaders, assassins and information couriers: secret weapons for American intelligence services. Years passed; the sisters grew up, married and had children. But inside lay dormant, hidden skills - weapons training, reconnaissance work, pilot training and...
Routledge, 2019. — 194 p. Bridging the gap between the scientific approach to international relations and the intuitive analysis of the government foreign affairs specialist, this book reports on a concerted effort by the CIA to apply modern social science methods to problems confronted by political intelligence analysts. Quantitative Approaches to Political Intelligence...
Hot Books, 2017. — 154 p. The Convenient Terrorist is the definitive inside account of the capture, torture, and detention of Abu Zubaydah, the first "high-value target" captured by the CIA after 9/11. But was Abu Zubaydah, who is still being indefinitely held by the United States under shadowy circumstances, the blue-ribbon capture that the Bush White House claimed he was?...
Post Hill Press, 2016. — 152 p. — ISBN 978-1618688118. Carl Higbie was on the Navy Seal assault team that captured the most wanted man in the Middle East–the Butcher of Fallujah, Ahmed Hashim Abd Al-Isawi. But instead of receiving the hero's welcome the SEALs deserved, they were charged with prisoner abuse after Al-Isawi alleged they'd beaten him up. Carl Higbie was a witness...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 272 p. This is a story of adventure in the Hindu Kush Mountains, and of a previously untold Military and Naval Intelligence Mission along about 800 miles of the Durand Line in World War II. The American officers passed through the Tribal Areas and the princely states of the North-West Frontier Province, and into Baluchistan. It also provides an...
University Press of Kentucky, 2011. — 288 p. Major Richard J. Meadows is renowned in military circles as a key figure in the development of the U.S. Army Special Operations. A highly decorated war veteran of the engagements in Korea and Vietnam, Meadows was instrumental in the founding of the U.S. Delta Force and hostage rescue force. Although he officially retired in 1977,...
Potomac Books, 2011. — 255 p. An FBI agent's adventures in fighting terrorists. FBI operative Raymond W. Holcomb's assignments took him across America, the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Africa, and involved espionage, counter narcotics, Mafia takedowns, national security, Special Weapons and Tactics, and much more. He and his men captured the terrorists behind the 1993 assault...
MBI, 2010. — 144 p. The Secret Service was established after the Civil War by the Treasury Department, originally to protect American currency against counterfeiters. After the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901, Congress directed the Secret Service to protect the President of the United States. Protection remains the primary mission of the United States Secret...
Praeger, 1997. — 265 p. The last decade of the 20th century and on into the early years of the 21st will be a time of great turmoil and violent change. As the United States faces the uncertainty and violence of a postcolonial, multitribal world, it is abundantly clear that American Intelligence will have to be rethought and rebuilt.' Sharing the Secrets: Open Source...
Mountain Lake Press, 2011. — 192 p. Many books, fiction and nonfiction alike, purport to probe the inner workings of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Many attempt to create spine-tingling suspense or allege that America's civilian spy operation has run amok and been infested with rogues and criminals. Not that The Craft We Chose lacks suspense, harrowing encounters, or its...
Naval Institute Press, 1994. — 241 p. Assigned to the combat intelligence unit in Honolulu from June 1941 until the end of World War II, author W. J. Holmes was an important part of the naval organization that collected, analyzed, and disseminated intelligence information, and his compassionate understanding of the business of intelligence gathering is unique. Here, he not only...
Naval Institute Press, 1994. — 241 p. Assigned to the combat intelligence unit in Honolulu from June 1941 until the end of World War II, author W. J. Holmes was an important part of the naval organization that collected, analyzed, and disseminated intelligence information, and his compassionate understanding of the business of intelligence gathering is unique. Here, he not only...
Penguin, 2022. — 255 р. From the New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls comes the never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA—women who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage (and blazed new paths for equality in the workplace) in the treacherous post-WWII era. In the wake of...
Routledge, 2019. — 298 p. The military intelligence community is one of the most misunderstood and maligned facets of the U.S. government. To much of the American public, intelligence means an organization of James Bonds, sophisticated, super-individualists, John Waynes who live slightly beyond the law. To others, military intelligence is considered as a constant threat to...
The Madcow Press, 2006. — 486 p. Based on the author’s three-year-long investigation, this account exposes the story of lifelong CIA agent Barry Seal, the most successful drug smuggler in American history, who died in a hail of bullets with George Bush’s private phone number in his wallet. Revealing Seal’s active role in many of the nation’s most notorious scandals—including...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 575 p. The true story of the conspiracy that came close to destroying the Union from within, getting Illinois, Indiana and Ohio to join the Confederacy while New York City was in flames. Chicago was ready for rebellion, 100,000 Northern Confederates stood ready to strike. Based on official papers hitherto suppressed by the U.S. War Dept.—the...
Nation Books, 2015. — 272 p. Forty years ago, a majority of Americans were highly engaged in issues of war and peace. Whether to go to war or keep out of conflicts was a vital question at the heart of the country’s vibrant, if fractious, democracy. But American political consciousness has drifted. In the last decade, America has gone to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, while pursuing...
Open Road Media, 2022. — 365 p. The exposé that reveals “a prostitution ring, heavy CIA involvement, spying on the White House as well as on the Democrats, and plots within plots. Ten years after the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency, Jim Hougan—then the Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine—set out to write a profile of Lou Russell, a boozy...
Random House, 1984. — 376 p. The author presents startling discoveries that indicate that the American public has been seriously misinformed about the famous political Watergate Scandal and reveals the actual culprits, sexual scandals, and malicious interagency spying
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 248 p. Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, shows us, that disastrous failure came just a few years after the Manhattan Project's intelligence team had...
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 248 p. Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, shows us, that disastrous failure came just a few years after the Manhattan Project's intelligence team had...
How Stuff Works, 2013. — 208 p. From book chock full of information about the US military and its special units, including their work, their training, and what it takes to be among the best of the best SEAL Team Six. Army Rangers and Delta Force operators. Green Berets. Who are these highly specialized soldiers? They are the elite units within the US military. They are trained...
Pan Macmillan, 2017. — 384 p. A thrilling true crime caper, bursting with colorful characters and awash in ‘70s glamour, that spotlights the FBI's first white-collar undercover sting. 1977, the Thunderbird Motel. J.J. Wedick and Jack Brennan—two fresh-faced, maverick FBI agents—were about to embark on one of their agency's first wire-wearing undercover missions. Their target?...
MacDill Air Force Base: The JSOU Press, 2011. — 50 p. This study, Cultural and Linguistic Skills Acquisition for Special Forces: Necessity, Acceleration and Potential Alternatives, was initiated before the directive mentioned in the Preface. However, the directive is well-timed in that it makes the findings and recommendations from this monograph-and its post-publication...
Naval Institute Press, 2018. — 304 p. Red Crew is a first-hand account of U.S. Coast Guard anti-smuggling operations during the early years of the nation’s maritime war on drugs. Jim Howe describes his experience as the executive officer of a specialized drug-hunting crew that sailed in then-state-of-the-art “surface effect ships,” a small flotilla of high-speed vessels pressed...
Random House Publishing Group, 2011. — 224 p. A look at the Navy SEALS describes their use by the military and discusses their experiences in such “theaters of operation” as Omaha Beach, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf. The Dell War Series takes you onto the battlefield, into the jungles and beneath the oceans with unforgettable stories that offer a new look at the terrors and...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 138 p. Special Forces forward operational bases (FOB) are essential for mission and contingency planning as well as for the preparation, infiltration and exfiltration of Operational Detachment Alphas (ODA). Therefore, the defense of this command and control headquarters is critical for preserving combat power and synchronizing military...
Praeger, 1999. — 246 p. With the end of the Cold War and the dawning of a new century, the U.S. intelligence system faces new challenges and threats. The system has suffered from penetration by foreign agents, cutbacks in resources, serious errors in judgment, and what appears to be bad management; nonetheless, it remains one of the key elements of America's strategic defense....
Wiley, 2007. — 352 p. Startling revelations from the OSS, the CIA, and the Nixon White house. Think you know everything there is to know about the OSS, the Cold War, the CIA, and Watergate? Think again. InAmerican Spy, one of the key figures in postwar international and political espionage tells all. Former OSS and CIA operative and White House staffer E. Howard Hunt takes you...
Virgin Books, 1975. — 376 p. In "Undercover" we learn not only about the origins of all the plumber operations, who insisted on the Watergate break-in, the facts on the "hush" money, etc., but also particulars on how the CIA actually operates, the many personal dramas in Hunt's strange life, including his wife Dorothy's death, plus Hunt's own incisive analysis of all the...
University of Chicago Press, 2010. — 389 p. On July 31, 1997, a six-man Emergency Service team from the NYPD raided a terrorist cell in Brooklyn and narrowly prevented a suicide bombing of the New York subway that would have cost hundreds, possibly thousands of lives. Seven Shots tells the dramatic story of that raid, the painstaking police work involved, and its paradoxical...
Thomas Dunne Books, 1991. — 370 p. The subject of this book is hauntingly familiar: a covert group of men in the Pentagon decide that they alone know what is the best for the country. Project Paperclip - their effort to bring German scientists, including known Nazis, to the U.S. after WWII - ran roughshod over official American policy; its details and deceits were then covered...
Trine Day, 2012. — 192 p. A father's last confession to his son about the CIA, Watergate, and the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy, this is the remarkable true story of St. John Hunt and his father E. Howard Hunt, the infamous Watergate burglar and CIA spymaster. In Howard Hunt's near-death confession to his son St. John, he revealed that key figures in the CIA were...
Trine Day, 2012. — 192 p. A father's last confession to his son about the CIA, Watergate, and the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy, this is the remarkable true story of St. John Hunt and his father E. Howard Hunt, the infamous Watergate burglar and CIA spymaster. In Howard Hunt's near-death confession to his son St. John, he revealed that key figures in the CIA...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 257 p. Truth to Power, the first-ever history of the U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC), is told through the reflections of its eight Chairs in the period from the end of the Cold War until 2017. Co-editors Robert Hutchings and Gregory Treverton add a substantial introduction placing the NIC in its historical context going all the way back...
University of Texas Press, 1983. — 301 p. Using documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, recently opened archival collections and interviews with the actual participants, Immerman provides us with a definitive, powerfully written and tension-packed account of the USA's clandestine operations in Guatemala and their consequences in Latin America since then.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 264 p. The Hidden Hand is a succinct accessible and up-to-date survey of the Central Intelligence Agency’s history from its inception in 1947 to the present. Covers both aspects of the CIA’s mission – the collection and analysis of intelligence and the execution of foreign policy through covert, paramilitary operations De-mythologizes the CIA’s role in...
Greenwood Group, 2006. — 396 p. Created in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency plays an important part in the nation's intelligence activities, and is currently playing a vital role in the war on terrorism. While the agency is often in the news and portrayed in television shows and films, it remains one of the most secretive and misunderstood organizations in the United States....
U.S. Army Intelligence Center, 1959. — 4408 p. History of the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps. Intelligence Axiom: "To remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors or emoluments is the height of inhumanity..." Sun Tzu The mission of the Counter Intelligence Corps is to contribute to the...
U.S. Army Intelligence Center, 1959. — 4408 p. History of the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps. Intelligence Axiom: "To remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors or emoluments is the height of inhumanity..." Sun Tzu The mission of the Counter Intelligence Corps is to contribute to the...
Washington, Military Intelligence Division War Department, 1946. — 86 p. Guided Missiles — The Weapon Of The Future Compulsory Military Training In The USSR Defense By Flame German Combustible Cartridge Cases Credit — Where It's Due Black Dragon German Induction Mine Detonator Hasty Minefields — Russian Style Amt Vi D 4 — A Story Of Nazi Espionage Incendiary Rifle Grenade...
Headquartfrs United States Arm Forces Pacific Ocean Areas APO 958, No. 8 -14 Jan 1945. — 34 p. Jap Commandos American Propaganda Leaflets Japanese Non-Poisonous Smoke Candles Method of Attacking Pillboxes CIC Operations on Leyte Jap Sticky Type Mine Jap Raiding Party Equipment Attacking Tanks With Explosives Note on Bacteria Hold that MG Fire! Attack Behavior Japanese Method of...
War Department N1, Washington, September 1942. — 183 p. Armored Forces. The 88-mm. Gun. Tanks in the Spotlight. Mechanized Warfare. Air Forces. Focke-Wulf - FW190. Parachutists. Training. Tactics. Organization of Division. The Parachutist's "Ten Commandments". Booby Traps. General. Operation. Principles of Use. Keeping Normal Appearance. Small Spaces. Many Traps In One Place....
Routledge, 2007. — 200 p. This volume examines US Army Special Forces efforts to mobilize and train indigenous minorities in Vietnam. Christopher K. Ives shows how before the Second Indochina War, the Republic of Vietnam had begun to falter under the burden of an increasingly successful insurgency. The dominant American military culture could not conform to President Kennedy’s...
McFarland, 2019. — 348 p. The Texas Ranger law enforcement agency features so prominently in Texan and Wild West folklore that its accomplishments have been featured in everything from pulp novels to popular television. After a brief overview of the Texas Rangers' formation, this book provides an exhaustive account of every known Ranger unit from 1823 to the present. Each...
Casemate, 2021. — 272 p. A comprehensive, illustrated history of photo recon launched by the U.S. Navy over Vietnam, 1964–1972. Photo reconnaissance played a significant role during the Cold War, however it remained unknown to the public for many years because its product and methods remained classified for security purposes. While the U-2 gets most of the credit, low-level...
Jackson Brian, Peter Chalk, Richard Warnes, Lindsay Clutterbuck, Aidan Winn. — Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2009. — 194 p. With terrorism still prominent on the U.S. agenda, whether the country’s prevention efforts match the threat the United States faces continues to be central in policy debate. One element of this debate is questioning whether the United States should create...
Rand Corporation, 2009. — 309 p. Whether U.S. terrorism-prevention efforts match the threat continues to be central in policy debate. Part of this debate is whether the United States needs a dedicated domestic counterterrorism intelligence agency. This book examines such an agency's possible capability, comparing its potential effectiveness with that of current efforts, and its...
Hachette Book Group, 2015. — 560 p. — ISBN: 978-0-316-37165-0. The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51 No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the...
Hachette Book Group, 2015. — 560 p. — ISBN 978-0-316-37165-0 The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51 No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the...
Little, Brown and Company, 2014. — 365 p. The explosive story of Americas secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reichs scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis once-indomitable war...
Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — 560 p. The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored assassinations, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain. Since 1947, domestic and foreign assassinations have been executed under the CIA-led covert action operations team. Before that time, responsibility for taking...
Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — 560 p. The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored assassinations, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain. Since 1947, domestic and foreign assassinations have been executed under the CIA-led covert action operations team. Before that time, responsibility for...
Cornell University Press, 2023. — 245 p. Khmer Nationalist is a political history of Cambodia from World War II until 1975, examining the central role of Sõn Ngc Thành. It is a story of nationalistic independence movements, political intrigue, coup attempts, war, and American intelligence. The rise of Cambodian nationalism, the brief period of Japanese dominance, the fight for...
Somerville, MA : Candlewick Press, 2010. — 256 p. , b&w illus. Ever since George Washington used them to help topple the British, spies and their networks have helped and hurt America at key moments in history. In this fascinating collection, Paul B. Janeczko probes examples from clothesline codes to surveillance satellites and cyber espionage. Colorful personalities, daring...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2012. — 576 p. Who really murdered Mary Pinchot Meyer in the fall of 1964? Why was there a mad rush by CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton to locate and confiscate her diary? What in that diary was so explosive? Had Mary Meyer finally put together the intricate pieces of a plan to assassinate her lover, President Kennedy, with the trail ultimately...
Pathfinder, 1998. — 272 p. The 1987 victory in the 14-year SWP legal battle against the FBI, CIA, and other government spy agencies “increases the space for politics, expands the de facto use of the Bill of Rights, increases the confidence of working people that you can be political and hold the deepest convictions against the government and it’s your right to do so and act...
Lexington Books, 2017. — 342 p. When the Chinese Communists defeated the Chinese Nationalists and occupied the mainland in 1949-1950, U.S. policymakers were confronted with a dilemma. Disgusted by the corruption and, more importantly, failure of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist armies and party and repelled by the Communists' revolutionary actions and violent class warfare, in the...
Yale: Yale University Press, 2003. — 369 p. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a leading expert on the history of American espionage, here offers a lively and sweeping history of American secret intelligence from the founding of the nation through the present day. Jeffreys-Jones chronicles the extraordinary expansion of American secret intelligence from the 1790s, when George Washington...
Routledge, 1997. — 254 p. Eternal Vigilance? seeks to offer reinterpretations of some of the major established themes in CIA history such as its origins, foundations, its treatment of the Soviet threat, the Iranian revolution and the accountability of the agency. The book also opens new areas of research such as foreign liaison, relations with the scientific community, use of...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 312 p. A Question of Standing deals with recognizable events that have shaped the history of the first 75 years of the CIA. Unsparing in its accounts of dirty tricks and their consequences, it values the agency's intelligence and analysis work to offer balanced judgements that avoid both celebration and condemnation of the CIA. The mission of...
Yale University Press, 2003. — 369 p. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a leading expert on the history of American espionage, here offers a lively and sweeping history of American secret intelligence from the founding of the nation through the present day. Jeffreys-Jones chronicles the extraordinary expansion of American secret intelligence from the 1790s, when George Washington set...
Third Edition. — Yale University Press, 2003. — 368 p. This third edition of Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’s engrossing history of the Central Intelligence Agency includes a new prologue that discusses the history of the CIA since the end of the Cold War, focusing in particular on the intelligence dimensions of the terrorist attacks on 9/11. I have read many books on the CIA, but none...
Yale University Press, 2007. — 328 p. In The FBI, U.S. intelligence expert Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones presents the first comprehensive portrait of the vast, powerful, and sometimes bitterly criticized American institution. Setting the bureau’s story in the context of American history, he challenges conventional narratives—including the common misconception that traces the origin of...
Yale University Press, 2007. — 328 p. In The FBI, U.S. intelligence expert Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones presents the first comprehensive portrait of the vast, powerful, and sometimes bitterly criticized American institution. Setting the bureau’s story in the context of American history, he challenges conventional narratives—including the common misconception that traces the origin of...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2013. — 439 p. Introduction to Intelligence Studies, 2nd Edition, by David H. McElreath, Melissa Graves and Carl J. Jensen III provides a comprehensive overview of intelligence and security issues confronting the United States today. Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States Intelligence Community has undergone an extensive overhaul. This textbook...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2013. — 439 p. Introduction to Intelligence Studies, 2nd Edition, by David H. McElreath, Melissa Graves and Carl J. Jensen III provides a comprehensive overview of intelligence and security issues confronting the United States today. Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States Intelligence Community has undergone an extensive overhaul. This textbook...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2013. — 439 p. Introduction to Intelligence Studies, 2nd Edition, by David H. McElreath, Melissa Graves and Carl J. Jensen III provides a comprehensive overview of intelligence and security issues confronting the United States today. Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States Intelligence Community has undergone an extensive overhaul. This textbook...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2013. — 439 p. Introduction to Intelligence Studies, 2nd Edition, by David H. McElreath, Melissa Graves and Carl J. Jensen III provides a comprehensive overview of intelligence and security issues confronting the United States today. Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States Intelligence Community has undergone an extensive overhaul. This textbook...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2013. — 439 p. Introduction to Intelligence Studies, 2nd Edition, by David H. McElreath, Melissa Graves and Carl J. Jensen III provides a comprehensive overview of intelligence and security issues confronting the United States today. Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States Intelligence Community has undergone an extensive overhaul. This textbook...
Cornell University Press, 2010. — 249 p. The U.S. government spends enormous resources each year on the gathering and analysis of intelligence, yet the history of American foreign policy is littered with missteps and misunderstandings that have resulted from intelligence failures. In Why Intelligence Fails, Robert Jervis examines the politics and psychology of two of the more...
Henry Holt and Company, 2008. — 368 p. In his prophetic book Blowback, Chalmers Johnson linked the CIA's clandestine activities abroad to disaster at home. In The Sorrows of Empire, he explored the ways in which the growth of American militarism and secret service's operations, and the garrisoning of the planet have jeopardized our stability. In Nemesis, the bestselling and...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade, 2010. — 336 p. In the wake of the news that the 9/11 hijackers had lived in Europe, journalist Ian Johnson wondered how such a radical group could sink roots into Western soil. Most accounts reached back twenty years, to U.S. support of Islamist fighters in Afghanistan. But Johnson dug deeper, to the start of the Cold War, uncovering the untold...
Oxford University Press, 1989. — 368 p. In 1975, after The New York Times published a devastating critique of the CIA, three government panels--the Rockefeller, Church, and Pike Committees--were formed to examine these allegations in depth. What they uncovered--assassination plots, opened mail, drug experiments against unsuspecting subjects (two of whom died from side...
NYU Press, 2002. — 329 p. Recent years have seen numerous books about the looming threat posed to Western society by biological and chemical terrorism, by narcoterrorists, and by the unpredictable leaders of rogue nations. Some of these works have been alarmist. Some have been sensible and measured. But none has been by Loch Johnson. Johnson, author of the acclaimed Secret...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 632 p. All democracies have had to contend with the challenge of tolerating hidden spy services within otherwise relatively transparent governments. Democracies pride themselves on privacy and liberty, but intelligence organizations have secret budgets, gather information surreptitiously around the world, and plan covert action against foreign...
Praeger Security, 2006. — 1807 p. While several fine texts on intelligence have been published over the past decade, there is no complementary set of volumes that addresses the subject in a comprehensive manner for the general reader. This major set explains how the sixteen major U.S. intelligence agencies operate, how they collect information from around the world, the problems...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 405 p. Loch Johnson's new book explores the subject of covert action, often referred to as a "Third Option" between America's use of diplomacy and warfare---a shadowy approach to international affairs based on the controversial use of secret propaganda, political activities, economic sabotage, and paramilitary operations (whether clandestine...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 550 p. The Aspin-Brown Commission of 1995-1996, led by former U.S. Defense Secretaries Les Aspin and Harold Brown, was a landmark inquiry into the activities of America's secret agencies. The purpose of the commission was to help the Central Intelligence Agency and other organizations in the U.S. intelligence community adapt to the quite different...
McFarland, 2011. — 289 p. In this Marine combat memoir, Steve Johnson recounts his reconnaissance service in Vietnam from April 1967 to May 1968. Only 17 when he enlisted in 1964, Johnson deployed to Vietnam with the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, and his tour included such now famous locations as Phu Bai, Khe Sanh, Nha Trang and Quang Tri, among others....
University of California Press, 2017. — 377 p. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has had a long and tortuous relationship with religion over almost the entirety of its existence. As early as 1917, the Bureau began to target religious communities and groups it believed were hotbeds of anti-American politics. Whether these religious communities were pacifist groups that opposed...
Washington: NSA, 1995. — p. 289-652. Within NSA's Production organization, fully 50 percent worked the Soviet problem. Another 8.4 percent worked in Acorn (Asian Communist) while 7.6 percent were in AHo (all others, Le., Third World). The remaining 35 percent was allocated to centralized technical or staff functions such as machine processing and collection support (including...
Smashwords Edition, 2017. — 242 p. Flanked on the east and west by the world's two largest oceans, the United States has needed little more for its territorial defense. Nonetheless, the U.S. military had early expanded far beyond what was needed to insure security from external threats. Concomitant with the rapid growth of U.S. industry the military forcefully facilitated...
Potomac Books, 2019. — 368 p. Late in his life, former president Lyndon B. Johnson told a reporter that he didn’t believe the Warren Commission’s finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President John F. Kennedy. Johnson thought Cuban president Fidel Castro was behind it. After all, Johnson said, Kennedy was running “a damned Murder, Inc., in the Caribbean,”...
The Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2005. — 173 p. It is a rare season when the intelligence story in the news concerns intelligence analysis, not secret operations abroad. The United States is having such a season as it debates whether intelligence failed in the run-up to both September 11 and the second Iraq war, and so Rob Johnston’s wonderful book is perfectly timed...
Stanford Security Studies, 2013. — 392 p. Constructing Cassandra analyzes the intelligence failures at the CIA that resulted in four key strategic surprises experienced by the US: the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the Iranian revolution of 1978, the collapse of the USSR in 1991, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks—surprises still play out today in U.S. policy. Although there has been...
Stanford University Press, 2013. — 392 p. Constructing Cassandra analyzes the intelligence failures at the CIA that resulted in four key strategic surprises experienced by the US: the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the Iranian revolution of 1978, the collapse of the USSR in 1991, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks—surprises still play out today in U.S. policy. Although there has...
W. W. Norton Company, 2018. — 320 p. December, 1981—the CIA receives word that the Polish government has cut telephone communications with the West and closed the Polish border. The agency’s leaders quickly inform President Ronald Reagan, who is enjoying a serene weekend at Camp David. Within hours, Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski has appeared on Polish national television to...
Sonia Draga, 2019. — 228 s. Grudzień 1981. CIA otrzymuje informację, że polski rząd zerwał łączność telefoniczną z Zachodem i zamknął granice. Agencja natychmiast powiadamia o tym prezydenta Ronalda Reagana, który odpoczywa w Camp David. Parę godzin później premier Wojciech Jaruzelski ogłasza w telewizji wprowadzenie stanu wojennego. Zaczyna się nowy rozdział zimnowojennej...
Ballantine Books, 2007. — 296 p. A book about fine leadership in combat, LRRP Company Command focuses on Captain George Paccerelli as he molds the men of the Air Cav's LRRP company into a successful reconnaissance unit. Jorgenson spent 7 years in the Army; three as an infantryman and four as a journalist. After surviving a number of missions as a LRRP with Hotel Company...
Threshold Editions, 2010. — 354 p. A true story as exhilarating as a great spy thriller, as turbulent as today's headlines from the Middle East, 2010 National Best Books Award-winning A Time to Betray reveals what no other previous CIA operative's memoir possibly could: the inner workings of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, as witnessed by an Iranian man inside their...
Yale University Press, 2004. — 341 p. Few people understand the roots of US intelligence and cryptology as well as Dr. David Kahn. His biography of Herbert O. Yardley is a tribute to an energetic pioneer of modern intelligence, an intelligence hero of the Great War and a struggling Depression-era author and reluctant contractor. It's time that the Intelligence Community extend...
Simon and Schuster, 2016. — 352 p. As cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers join terrorists on the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, by Slate columnist and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Fred Kaplan. Kaplan probes the inner...
Simon and Schuster, 2020. — 384 p. Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter,” takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s “Tank” in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command to bring us the untold stories—based on exclusive interviews and previously classified...
Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2014. — 251 p. Much has been written about the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)--the forerunner of the CIA--and the exploits of its agents during World War II. Virtually unknown, however, is the work of the extraordinary community of scholars who were handpicked by "Wild Bill" Donovan and William L. Langer and recruited for wartime service...
NAL Trade, 2005. — 336 p. Describes a 1997 terrorist plot by Palestinians to detonate bomb belts on a packed rush-hour subway train, the Egyptian dishwasher who overheard his roommates' plans and warned police, and the NYPD Emergency Services Unit raid on a Brooklyn apartment that stopped the terrorists just in time. Had the New York Police Department's Emergency Service Unit...
Princeton University Press, 1989. — 232 p. In the super-heated anticommunist politics of the early Cold War period, American liberals turned to the FBI. With the Communist party to the left of them and McCarthyism to the right, liberal leaders saw the Bureau as the only legitimate instrument to define and protect the internal security interests of the state. McCarthyism...
Free Press, 1998. — 360 p. This provocative, headline-grabbing expose sheds disturbing light on the massive shortcomings of the FBI crime lab--sure to open the eyes of the public and cause great controversy.
Open Road Media, 2014. — 350 p. The definitive account of the illustrious and controversial history of America & rsquo;s most elite Special Operations fighting force & mdash;the US Navy SEALs The legend was forged in the fires of World War II, when special units of elite navy frogmen were entrusted with dangerous covert missions in the brutal global conflict. These Underwater...
Open Road Media, 2014. — 228 p. A fascinating history of the most secretive and unsung branch of the US military's Special Forces, from World War II through Desert Storm. Very little is known about USAF Special Operations—yet their exploits have been as daring and their achievements as remarkable as anything accomplished by their brother warriors. Since World War II, these...
Open Road Media, 2014. — 255 p. A riveting oral history of the US Navy SEALs—from World War II to Vietnam to Iraq—in the words of the warriors themselves. There is no more elite fighting force in the world than the esteemed US Navy SEALs. Famous for their rigorous training, fearlessness, and incomparable skills on sea, air, and land, these are the warriors who are routinely...
Open Road Media, 2017. — 1408 p. Four action-packed military histories “of great interest and usefulness both to casual readers and to uniformed students of special ops. An expert in military affairs, Orr Kelly reveals the cutting-edge technology and jaw-dropping courage of the US military’s elite forces on land, sea, and air. Very little is known about US Air Force Special...
Abrams Press, 2019. — 359 p. The masterful true-crime account of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing that captured the world's attention, and the heroic security guard-turned-suspect at the heart of it all. On July 27, 1996, a hapless former cop turned hypervigilant security guard named Richard Jewell spotted a suspicious bag in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, the town...
University of Michigan Library, 1994. — 183 p. Sherman Kent And The Board Of National Estimates: Collected Essays is the single best thing that can happen to a U.S. citizen's understanding of foreign policy processes. The heart of this book is the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) process, which in turn informs critical foreign policy. An NIE defines the US perspective on...
New York: Enigma Books, 2003. — 515 p. — ISBN10: 1929631146; ISBN13: 978-1929631148. Walter G. Krivitsky (nee Samuel Ginsburg) was one of the U.S. government's most valuable weapons in the wars of intelligence and espionage, from his 1938 defection from the Soviet Union during Stalin's reign of terror to his mysterious death in a Washington hotel in 1941. But not until this...
St. Martin’s Press, 2003. — 228 p. Based on exclusive interviews-including the first interview with Robert Mueller since his nomination as director-The Bureau reveals why the FBI was unprepared for the attacks of September 11 and how the FBI is combating terrorism today. The book answers such questions as: Why did the FBI know nothing useful about al-Qaeda before September 11?...
Griffin, 2004. — 400 p. With the CIA at the core of the war on terror, no agency is as important to preserving America's freedom. Yet the CIA is a closed and secretive world-impenetrable to generations of journalists-and few Americans know what really goes on among the spy masters who plot America's worldwide campaign against terrorists. Only Ronald Kessler, an award-winning...
Crown Forum, 2014. — 272 p. Since publication of his New York Times bestselling book In the President’s Secret Service, award-winning investigative reporter Ronald Kessler has continued to penetrate the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, breaking the story that Secret Service agents who were to protect President Obama hired prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia...
Crown Forum, 2011. — 296 p. The Secrets of the FBI by New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler reveals the FBI’s most closely guarded secrets and the secrets of celebrities, politicians, and movie stars uncovered by agents during their investigations. Based on inside access, the book presents revelations about the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, the recent Russian...
Crown Publishing Group, 2008. — 272 p. Drawing on unprecedented access to FBI and CIA counterterrorism operatives, New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler presents the chilling story of terrorists’ relentless efforts to mount another devastating attack on the United States and of the heroic efforts being made to stop those plots. Kessler takes you inside the war rooms...
University Press of America, 2000. — 624 p. J. Edgar Hoover: The Father of the Cold War examines Hoover's career in detail, and looks at his role in the development of the Cold War against Communism. With considerable detail and an excellent selection of photographs, Kiel traces Hoover's anti-communism to his earliest experiences, during World War I. Well-documented and thought...
Sentinel HC, 2013. — 256 p. When General George Washington beat a hasty retreat from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolution might soon be over. Instead, Washington ralliedthanks in large part to a little-known, top-secret group called the Culper Spy Ring. Washington realized that he couldn’t beat the British with military might, so he recruited a...
Wiley and Sons, 2003. — 282 p. This is the first full-length account of the CIA's coup d'etat in Iran in 1953—a covert operation whose consequences are still with us today. Written by a noted New York Times journalist, this book is based on documents about the coup (including some lengthy internal CIA reports) that have now been declassified. Stephen Kinzer's compelling...
Henry Holt and Company, 2019. — 357 p. The bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and ’60s. The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer―the agency’s “poisoner in chief.” As head of the MK-ULTRA mind...
Times Books, 2014. — 416 p. A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today’s world. During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. John Foster Dulles was...
Times Books, 2013. — 416 p. A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today’s world. During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. John Foster Dulles was...
Skyhorse, 2020. — 352 p. In The CIA Guide to Iran, former CIA Officer John C. Kiriakou explores one of the most intractable and difficult problems in American foreign policy. This book looks at the political and social history of Iran, its strategic importance to the Soviet Union and its economic and strategic importance to the US and the United Kingdom. It explains to the...
Simon and Schuster, 2022. — 168 p. Have you ever thought you were being followed or watched? Have you ever needed to follow or observe someone and not be seen? In the world of espionage, surveillance and surveillance detection are a way of life. It is the job of every CIA operations officer to make sure he or she is not under surveillance—that is, being followed to the...
Basic Books, 2016. — 224 p. A dramatic portrait of the innovative Special Forces commanders and FBI agents who wage war against America's hidden enemies With the planned withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, the longest conflicts in our nation's history were supposed to end. Yet we remain at war against expanding terrorist movements, and our security forces have...
Regnery Publishing, 2016. — 256 p. Hillary Clinton is unqualified to lead the United States through one of the most perilous periods in our history. Like it or not, however, she is on the ballot this November. Either Hillary or Donald Trump—two exceedingly unpopular candidates—will be our next president. Which means we face a choice: Should we vote for someone who is fresh,...
Westholme Publishing, 2008. — 536 p. On February 11, 1861, the "Lincoln Special" - Abraham Lincoln's private train—began its journey from Springfield, Illinois, to the City of Washington, carrying the president-elect to his inauguration as the sixteenth president of the United States. Considered a "sectional candidate" by the South, and winning the election without the popular...
John Hunt Publishing, 2014. — 224 р. This book breaks new ground in two important areas that have yet to be linked and explored by any JFK-assassination historian. John Koerner argues that the CIA's secret drug trade in Laos, and the president's effort to end it, provided the primary motive that the CIA needed to assassinate the president. A lot of effort has been made to...
Riverhead Book, 2004. — 480 p. A vivid and gripping portrait of a spy at every stage of his life and career, from the son of a spymaster who became a spy himself. Larry Kolb was born into a house of spies. Raised all over the world as the son of a high-ranking American spymaster, Kolb was taught by his father to think, look, and listen like a spy. But when Kolb himself was...
Skyhorse, 2018. — 224 p. Iran, once known as Persia, is one of the oldest nations on earth. It has a rich history and a unique culture, and is bordered by seven countries, the Caspian Sea, and the Persian Gulf. It is literally the intersection of many countries and many worlds. It has a population of eighty million people and occupies a space nearly the size of Alaska, the...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. — 199 p. An in-depth look at the decades-long effort to escalate hostilities with Russia and what it portends for the future. Since 1945, the US has justified numerous wars, interventions, and military build-ups based on the pretext of the Russian Red Menace, even after the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991 and Russia stopped being Red. In fact,...
CRC Press, 2018. — 241 p. U.S. Counterterrorism: From Nixon to Trump - Key Challenges, Issues, and Responses examines the "war on modern terrorism," from the Nixon administration to the early stages of the Trump administration. The book describes the evolution of U.S. counterterrorism responses to the changing terrorist threats, from primarily secular groups, to those with...
CRC Press, 2011. — 398 p. U.S. Government Counterterrorism: A Guide to Who Does What is the first readily available, unclassified guide to the many U.S. government agencies, bureau offices, and programs involved in all aspects of countering terrorism domestically and overseas. The authors, veterans of the U.S. government’s counterterrorism efforts, present a rare insider’s view of...
I.B. Tauris, 2017. — 194 p. Edward Snowden's revelations about the mass surveillance capabilities of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other security services triggered an ongoing debate about the relationship between privacy and security in the digital world. This discussion has been dispersed into a number of national platforms, reflecting local political realities...
Simon and Schuster, 2016. — 320 p. The Last Punisher is a gripping and intimate on-the-ground memoir from a Navy SEAL who was part of SEAL Team THREE with American Sniper Chris Kyle. Experience his deployment, from his first mission to his first kill to his eventual successful return to the United States to play himself in the Oscar-nominated film directed by Clint Eastwood and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 188 p. This book explores the contributions of Italian Americans employed by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. Italian Americans fluent in Italian language and customs became integral parts of intelligence operations working behind enemy lines. These units obtained priceless military information that significantly helped...
Grove Press, 2020. — 364 p. Into Tibet is the incredible story of a 1949-1950 American undercover expedition led by America's first atomic agent, Douglas S. Mackiernan -- a covert attempt to arm the Tibetans and to recognize Tibet's independence in the months before China invaded. It recounts a harrowing and unprecedented two-thousand-mile trek on foot and camel across China...
Perfect Bound, 2003. — 590 p. Introduces Nancy Floyd, an FBI agent and Ronnie Bucca, a New York fire marshal, strangers to each other, but both aware of the alarming events leading to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.
William Morrow Paperbacks, 2009. — 688 p. This is the story of the most dangerous triple-agent in US history. Peter Lance, author of the highly acclaimed "1000 Years for Revenge and Cover Up", returns to uncover the story of Ali Mohamed, a trusted security advisor of Osama bin Laden who hoodwinked the United States for more than a decade. As Lance reveals for this first time,...
Hanover Square Press, 2019. — 352 p. Empire Freedom's Detective reveals the untold story of the Reconstruction-era United States Secret Service and their battle against the Ku Klux Klan, through the career of its controversial chief, Hiram C. Whitley. In the years following the Civil War, a new battle began. Newly freed African American men had gained their voting rights and...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. — 328 p. Mark Lane tried the only U.S. court case in which the jurors concluded that the CIA plotted the murder of President Kennedy, but there was always a missing piece: How did the CIA control cops and secret service agents on the ground in Dealey Plaza? How did federal authorities prevent the House Select Committee on Assassinations from...
Pantheon Books, 1978. — 329 p. In 1960, former Richmond, Indiana, police chief Dan Mitrione moved to Brazil to begin a new career with the United States Agency for International Development. During his ten years with the USAID, Mitrione trained and oversaw foreign police forces in extreme counterinsurgency tactics—including torture—aimed at stomping out communism across South...
Stackpole Books, 2017. — 192 p. Behind-enemy-lines stories of elite Marines in Vietnam. Force Recon companies were the eyes and ears of the Marine Corps in Vietnam. Classified as special operations capable, Force Recon Marines ventured into the enemy’s backyard to conduct reconnaissance and launched deliberate strikes against the enemy. Lanning and Stubbe blend analysis and...
Stackpole Books, 2022. — 288 p. From the War for Independence to the War on Terror, American military intelligence has often failed, costing needless casualties and squandering money and materiel as well as prestige – and all too often it has failed to learn from its mistakes. Senseless Secrets covers more than 200 years of intelligence breakdowns in every American war,...
Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2016. — 64 p. The works in this anthology are essentially arranged chronologically through the several phases of CIA engagement in the region. The first part of this anthology contains brief historical surveys written by Dr. Laurie of each of the phases to provide context for the selections identified after each section. The titles in these...
University Press of Kansas, 1996. — 352 p. Legendary "Wild Bill" Donovan, CIA directors Allen Dulles and William Casey, journalists Stewart Alsop and James Reston, diplomat John McCloy, philanthropist Paul Mellon, playwright Robert Sherwood, theatrical great John Houseman, and civil rights leader Ralph Bunche were among the thousands of people who led or participated in...
St. Martin’s Press, 2016. — 320 p. On September 11, 2001, Doug Laux was a freshman in college, on the path to becoming a doctor. But with the fall of the Twin Towers came a turning point in his life. After graduating he joined the Central Intelligence Agency, determined to get himself to Afghanistan and into the center of the action. Through persistence and hard work he was...
Thames and Hudson, 1988. — 230 p. From its inception, the Marine Corps has been an elite fighting force. Lawliss has created a rich, insiders portrait of the Marines, with extensive accounts of the officer corps, Marine aviation, and the transformation of the Corps into a state-of-the-art war machine. Lawliss also covers the Marines in Kuwait with Operation Desert Storm. 150...
Covenant Books, 2020. — 287 p. Born in his grandfather’s house during a blizzard, breech baby Martin George Le Blanc was not expected to survive. Instead of baptism, he received last rites. Lack of birth registration made him the ideal future “warrior of last resort”: a blank slate. Le Blanc enlisted in the U.S. Army as a footloose 20-year-old Canadian, during the early days of...
Penn State University Press, 2007. — 232 p. Since its release in 1954, scholars have been aware of the Central Intelligence Agency’s involvement in the making of the controversial animated motion picture adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. In Orwell Subverted, Daniel Leab gives an authoritative and well-documented account of the CIA’s powerful influence on the film....
University of Alabama Press, 2006. — 294 p. Civil Air Transport (CAT), founded in China after World War II by Claire Chennault and Whiting Willauer, was initially a commercial carrier specializing in air freight. Its role quickly changed as CAT became first a paramilitary adjunct of the Nationalist Chinese Air Force, then the CIA's secret "air force" in Korea, then "the most...
Open Road Media, 2015. — 773 p. Marching Orders tells the story of how the American military’s breaking of the Japanese diplomatic Purple codes during World War II led to the defeat of Nazi Germany and hastened the end of the devastating conflict. With unprecedented access to over one million pages of US Army documents and thousands of pages of top-secret messages dispatched to...
Harper Paperbacks, 2001. — 424 p. When the FBI turned an Irish mobster into an informant, they corrupted the entire judicial system and sanctioned the worst crime spree Boston has ever seen. This is the true story behind the major motion picture. James "Whitey" Bulger became one of the most ruthless gangsters in US history, and all because of an unholy deal he made with a...
Canongate Books, 2015. — 417 p. One FBI Agent. One Boston Gangster. One Deal. The greatest and bloodiest story of corruption ever told. James 'Whitey' Bulger and John Connolly grew up together on the tough streets of South Boston. Decades later in the mid-1970s, they met again. By then, Connolly was a major figure in the FBI's Boston office and Whitey had become godfather of...
Harper Collins, 2015. — 292 p. From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana comes the poignant and gripping story of a groundbreaking team of female American warriors who served alongside Special Operations soldiers on the battlefield in Afghanistan—including Ashley White, a beloved soldier who died serving her country’s cause. In 2010, the...
Zero Books, 2015. — 356 p. Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists is a history of the Revolutionary Union/Revolutionary Communist Party — the largest Maoist organization to arise in the US — from its origins in the explosive year of 1968, its expansion into a national organization in the early seventies, its extension into major industry throughout early part of...
Zero Books, 2022. — 372 p. This is a revised edition of the 2015 volume, with a new introduction containing more information on FBI's "Maoist" Ad Hoc Committee, the informant on RU's leading body, and much more. Also an appendix with an interview with and RU delegate who traveled to China in 1971 before Nixon's historic visit. Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on America's...
Watkins Media, 2020. — 323 p. The first book to document the efforts of the FBI against the most famous American folk singers of the mid-twentieth century, including Woody Guthrie, 'Sis Cunningham, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Burl Ives. Some of the most prominent folk singers of the twentieth century, including Woody Guthrie, 'Sis Cunningham, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Burl Ives,...
Hoffmann Verlag, 2021. — 228 p. Kann der Secret Service den US-Präsidenten noch schützen? Das erste Buch über den Secret Service überhaupt - Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Carol Leonnig erzählt die Geschichte des Geheimdienstes, der vor allem dafür bekannt ist, den Präsidenten der USA zu schützen. Ihre Recherchen lassen die Erfolge und Skandale des Secret Service in völlig neuem Licht...
Random House Publishing, 2021. — 560 p. Carol Leonnig has been reporting on the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the secrets, scandals, and shortcomings that plague the agency today—from a toxic work culture to dangerously outdated equipment to the deep resentment within the ranks at key agency leaders, who put protecting the...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 252 p. Contrary to popular assumption, the development of stronger oversight mechanisms actually leads to greater secrecy rather than the reverse. When Should State Secrets Stay Secret? examines modern trends in intelligence oversight development by focusing on how American oversight mechanisms combine to bolster an internal security system...
University Publications of America, 1989. — 96 p. Soon after declassif¡cation of selected communications intelligence material from World War II was undertaken by the National Security Agency in the late 1970s, many valuable documents were made available to researchers in the National Archives. An early scholar of this material, the late Ronald Lewin, said to the press in...
University Publications of America, 1989. — 40 p. Special Research Histories (SRHs), a series of studies, monographs, and reports principally concerning cryptographic operations in World War II, were compiled mostly from highly classified contemporary files by wartime participants. Each SRH addresses a specific topic. For example, SRH- 090, compiled only in six copies in late...
University Publications of America, 1989. — 48 p. Soon after declassif¡cation of selected communications intelligence material from World War II was undertaken by the National Security Agency in the late 1970s, many valuable documents were made available to researchers in the National Archives. An early scholar of this material, the late Ronald Lewin, said to the press in...
Scribner, 2021. — 320 p. The first book ever written about FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by a member of his personal staff—his former assistant, Paul Letersky—offers unprecedented, “clear-eyed and compelling” (Mark Olshaker, coauthor of Mindhunter) insight into an American legend. The 1960s and 1970s were arguably among America’s most turbulent post-Civil War decades. While the...
Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2015. — 50 р. Some men and women in the armed forces shoot right to the top. Special Forces are the elite troops who work alone or in small teams on special and dangerous missions around the world. These high-caliber troops are the best of the best. Green Berets, Delta Force, Navy SEALs, and others perform and engage in secret unseen missions. From...
IUniverse, 2000. — 332 p. Deep Cover, a New York Times non-fiction bestseller, is a first-hand account of how the CIA, State and Justice Departments teamed up to destroy a DEA undercover sting operation that threatened to expose US government ties to drug-financed governments in Mexico, Panama and Bolivia. Written by the man 60 Minutes called "America's top undercover cop"...
Book Baby, 1993. — 288 р. The Big White Lie, by New York Times best-selling author and former DEA undercover agent, Michael Levine, is a fly-on-the-wall look at the top-secret deep cover operation that ripped the lid off CIA sabotage of the War on Drugs. The New York Times described the book as a "hair-raising" non-fiction book that "moves with the speed of a first-rate...
Public Affairs, 2018. — 250 p. The internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built. In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the secret origins of the internet, tracing it back to a Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance project. A visionary intelligence officer, William Godel, realized that the key to winning the war in...
Mason Crest Publishers, 2017. — 82 p. Rescuing hostages from captors, who are frequently violent, is one of the hardest jobs in the world. Kidnapping is nothing new. Its been a fact of life since before recorded history, but kidnapping has a different face today as both domestic and foreign terrorists with political aims use it as a means of blackmailing governments and...
Yale University Press, 2008. — 336 p. What happens when the world of venture capital collides with the world of espionage? To find the answer, Jonathan E. Lewis takes us inside the executive suite at Itek Corporation during the Cold War years from 1957 to 1965. Itek was manufacturing the world’s most sophisticated satellite reconnaissance cameras, and the information these...
St. Martins Press, 2012. — 560 p. A harrowing, edge-of-your-seat narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels, this book chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII―the real events behind the highly-anticipated Warner Bros. film. A full...
Praeger, 2019. — 286 p. In 1954 Aristotle Onassis (long before he married Jacqueline Kennedy) made a bold business gamble: he tried to corner the crude oil shipping market by signing a deal with the King of Saudi Arabia. If it had worked, it would have reshaped the history of the Middle East. As it was, the proposed deal terrified British and U.S. oil companies and the Dulles...
St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2023. — 288 p. John Lisle reveals the untold story of the OSS Research and Development Branch—The Dirty Tricks Department—and its role in World War II. In the summer of 1942, Stanley Lovell, a renowned industrial chemist, received a mysterious order to report to an unfamiliar building in Washington, D.C. When he arrived, he was led to a barren...
Countryman Press, 2020. — 288 p. The abolitionist legacies of Orville Brown and his son, Spencer, live on in this historic and daring 19th-century account. Journeying apart from each other, but with similar passion, Orville and Spencer’s stories span virtually every major abolitionist event: from the battles of Bleeding Kansas and the establishment of the free-soil movement to...
Edinburgh University Press, 2019. — 288 p. James Lockhart blends Chilean, inter-American and transatlantic national, regional and world-historical trends into a century-long Cold War narrative. He argues that Chileans made their own history as highly engaged internationalists while reassessing American and other foreign-directed intelligence, surveillance and secret warfare...
Atria Books, 2021. — 384 p. The international bestselling author of the “exciting, suspenseful, inspirational” weaves another exceptional and thrilling hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS’s most daring spies in World War II before marrying into European nobility. When Aline Griffith was born in a quiet suburban New York hamlet, no one had any...
University Press of Kansas, 2011. — 288 p. Timothy Lomperis knows the Vietnam War, both as a soldier and as a scholar. In the latter role he has published extensively, including The War Everyone Lost—and Won, hailed as one of the best books ever written on that conflict. Even though he served two tours "in country" during the war's most frustrating period-from the infamous...
Hachette Books, 2021. — 432 p. This revealing memoir from a 34-year veteran of the CIA who worked as a case officer and recruiter of foreign agents before and after 9/11 provides an invaluable perspective on the state of modern spy craft, how the CIA has developed, and how it must continue to evolve. If you've ever wondered what it's like to be a modern-day spy, Douglas London...
Hachette Books, 2021. — 432 p. This revealing memoir from a 34-year veteran of the CIA who worked as a case officer and recruiter of foreign agents before and after 9/11 provides an invaluable perspective on the state of modern spy craft, how the CIA has developed, and how it must continue to evolve. If you've ever wondered what it's like to be a modern-day spy, Douglas London...
I.B. Tauris, 2014. — 370 p. The Central Intelligence Agency was established by Harry S. Truman after World War II and it soon provided covert political and paramilitary support to further US foreign policy. Strengthened by President Eisenhower, by the early 1950s, under the command of Allen Dulles, the CIA was actively overthrowing governments-notably Prime Minister Mossadegh...
Routledge, 2015. — 221 p. First published in 1995. This series seeks to consolidate published material on a wide variety of public, private, and non-profit organizations including: (a) federal agencies, Congressional committees, the judicial branch, and international bodies; (b) corporations, interest groups, trade unions, and consulting firms; as well as (c) professional...
Praeger Publishers, 1992. — 200 p. No major twentieth-century power has so short a history of national intelligence agencies or activities as does the United States, and few have been as public or as tumultuous. A major debate has now opened over the future structure, size, and role of U.S. intelligence in the aftermath of the cold war. This unique, and fully updated, book is a...
Arcade Publishing, 2014. In 1949, a newly minted branch of the CIA (the precursor of today’s National Clandestine Service), flush with money and burning with determination to roll back the Iron Curtain, embarked on the first paramilitary operation in the history of the agency. They hatched an elaborate plan, coordinated with the British Secret Intelligence Service, to foment...
Alliance for Global Justice, 2019. — 272 p. In April of 2018 armed and unarmed covert proxies of the US in collaboration with Nicaraguan pro-US elites launched a war against the Nicaraguan state, its government, its economy and its people. It disrupted transportation and communications throughout the country and sabotaged the economy. This was effected through acts of...
Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — 300 p. On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less then twenty-four hours later, only one...
Little, Brown and Company, 2012. — 224 p. Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell returned from his star-crossed mission in Afghanistan with his bones shattered and his heart broken. So many had given their lives to save him-and he would have readily done the same for them. As he recuperated, he wondered why he and others, from America's founding to today, had been willing to sacrifice...
CreateSpace, 2014. — 732 p. This book goes inside the real X-Files. Not only have the FBI and CIA investigated UFOs, but both agencies have actively tried to conceal that fact from the public. This book proves it. These agencies collected information which, when combined with evidence collected by Air Force Intelligence, proves that at least some UFOs are interplanetary craft....
Pennsylvania State University, 2002. — 265 p. Douglas MacEachin has provided a valuable insider’s account of the performance of the U.S. intelligence community in an important episode of the Cold War. It is a significant addition to the literature on intelligence analysis." Douglas MacEachin’s analysis of the use of intelligence during the Polish crisis of 1980–1981 offers a...
Routledge, 2003. — 288 p. Based on OSS records only recently released to US National Archives, and on evidence from British archival sources, this is a thoroughly researched study of the Office of Strategic Services in London. The OSS was a critical liaison and operational outpost for American intelligence during World War II. Dr MacPherson puts the activities of the OSS into the...
Georgetown University Press, 2023. — 280 p. An eye-opening account of the perils of America's techno-spy empire. Ever since the earliest days of the Cold War, American intelligence agencies have launched spies in the sky, implanted spies in the ether, burrowed spies underground, sunk spies in the ocean, and even tried to control spies' minds by chemical means. But these weren't...
Napoleone Editore, 1972. — 380 p. The rulers of the USA are, of course, extremely interested in keeping the mantle of secrecy over their intelligence network. This mantle has been torn aside in not a few cases in recent months. The CIA answered by tightening up their secrecy directives and also by improving their cloak and dagger rules. The ‘invisible government’ shall have...
Berlin: Julius Mader Press, 1968. — 615 p. The rulers of the USA are, of course, extremely interested in keeping the mantle of secrecy over their intelligence network. This mantle has been torn aside in not a few cases in recent months. The CIA answered by tightening up their secrecy directives and also by improving their cloak and dagger rules. The ‘invisible government’ shall...
Indepently Publishers, 2012. — 397 p. This book covers Barack H. Obama, Jr's rapid rise in American politics and the role that the CIA played in propelling him into the White House. Research is based on formerly classified CIA and State Department files, personal interviews, and international investigations. Obama's birth certificate has never been the issue. The real issue,...
Public Affairs, 2005. — 400 p. The reality for a woman agent working in the secret world of intelligence often leads to extraordinary obstacles and sacrifices. Melissa Boyle Mahle, a sixteen-year covert operative for the CIA in the Middle East, was the Agency's top-ranked female Arabist before she left in 2002. In Denial and Deception, Mahle not only describes the Agency's...
Skyhorse, 2019. — 424 p. Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America’s most remarkable espionage plots ever—with CIA agents, mob hitmen, “kompromat” sex, presidential indiscretion, and James Bond-like killing devices together in a top-secret mystery full of surprise twists and deadly intrigue. In the early 1960s, two top gangsters, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, were hired...
Simon and Schuster, 1991. — 488 p. James Angleton was the most controversial and mysterious counterintelligence spymaster in the CIA's history. Veteran reporter Tom Mangold covers every phase of the spymaster's career and lays bare the dangerous, illusory world of high intelligence in the white heat of the Cold War. His tale is as suspenseful as a work of fiction.
Skyhorse, 2019. — 344 p. In a world where acts of terror have become all too commonplace, America has turned to the elite warriors of special operations to lead the fight and hunt down those whose very ideology is one of hate for everything our nation stands for. Among those units one stands apart from the rest, carrying out the most dangerous missions with precision and now...
Little, Brown and Company, 2011. — 304 p. The Inside Story of America's Ultimate Warriors. When Osama bin Laden was assassinated, the entire world was fascinated by the men who had completed the seemingly impossible mission that had dogged the U.S. government for over a decade. SEAL Team 6 became synonymous with heroism, duty, and justice. Only a handful of the elite men who make...
Mulholland Books, 2014. — 320 p. When a senator's wife and teenage daughter are kidnapped, Seal Team Six leader Thomas Crocker and his men are sent to Mexico's lawless countryside, where federal agents protect violent narcotics kingpins instead of hunting them down. The two women have been taken by the Jackal, a drug lord drunk on power and and influence. He also happens to be...
Knopf, 1974. — 398 p. The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence is a 1974 controversial non-fiction political book written by Victor Marchetti, a former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and John D. Marks, a former officer of the United States Department of State. The book discusses how the CIA works and how its original purpose (i.e....
Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. — 398 p. What is the CIA really up to? What does it do and why? No other element of the U.S. government is so lapped in mystery, no other is quite so plainly self-willed and independently powerful. And in the end, no other represents quite such a threat to our long-treasured democratic principles. Never before had there been a book about the CIA that laid...
Times Books, 1979. — 254 p. A 'Manchurian Candidate' is an unwitting assassin brainwashed and programmed to kill. In this book, former State Department officer John Marks tells the explosive story of the CIA's highly secret program of experiments in mind control. His curiosity first aroused by information on a puzzling suicide. Marks worked from thousands of pages of newly...
New Page Books, 2007. — 320 p. PSI Spies will take you behind the scenes of the U.S. Army’s formerly top-secret remote viewing unit to discover how the military has used this psychic ability as a tool, and a weapon. Despite the fact that remote viewing was developed by various tax-supported government agencies, including the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and even the...
Red Wheel Weiser Conari, 2006. — 330 p. Jim Marrs presents the U.S. official government and secret's services pronouncement on 9/11 as an obvious conspiracy. The only question is whose conspiracy it was. According to the government, the conspiracy involved about nineteen suicidal Middle Eastern Muslim terrorists, their hearts full of hatred for American freedom and democracy,...
South End Press, 1987. — 315 p. This is the definitive volume exploring the internecine intricacies of the Iran-Contra scandal involving drug-trafficking, gun-running, assassination, and subversion of U.S. constitutional checks and balances between a passive Congress and an out-of-control Executive branch.
Cohan and Cohen Publishers, 1991. — 93 p. Explores how United States foreign drug policy overseas has been subordinated to larger foreign policy objectives and security interests.
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 352 p. The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation. On a Sunday morning in 1966, a group of white evangelicals dedicated a stained glass window to J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI director was not an evangelical, but his Christian admirers anointed him as their...
University of California Press, 1989. — 312 p. Providing a rich picture of past and present special undercover work, and drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with the FBI and local police, this penetrating study examines the variety of undercover operations and the ethical issues and empirical assumptions raised when the state officially sanctions deception and...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2014. — 416 p. A fascinating and shocking historical expose, The Malaria Project is the story of America's secret mission to combat malaria during World War II a campaign modeled after a German project which tested experimental drugs on men gone mad from syphilis. American war planners, foreseeing the tactical need for a malaria drug, recreated the...
False Buddha, 2015. — 165 p. Single in the CIA is a memoir about the author’s experience as a single female working for the extremely male-dominated National Clandestine Service of the CIA. From romantic relationships with a high level Division Chief to a forbidden romance with an officer under cover on a perilous mission, the author’s story covers various romantic...
Harper Collins, 2010. — 208 p. The history, the hunts, the captures — and the criminals still at large. In 1950, the FBI officially instituted its now-legendary list of the "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" as a means of alerting the public and enlisting their aid in the apprehension of notorious felons. Over the years, it has included such infamous names as bank robber Willie...
Dutton Caliber, 2013. — 272 p. Until the war in Iraq, Special Forces were the military’s counterinsurgency experts. Their specialty was going behind enemy lines and training insurgent forces. In Afghanistan, they toppled the Taliban by transforming Northern Alliance fighters into cohesive units. But since that time, Special Forces units have focused on offensive raids. With...
Arcadia Publishing, 2009. — 152 p. The remarkable true story of the woman who sheltered Confederate soldiers and gathered intelligence—and the secret book given to her by J. E. B. Stuart. As the Civil War raged, Confederate brigadier general J. E. B. Stuart entrusted a secret album to Laura Ratcliffe, a young girl in Fairfax County, "as a token of his high appreciation of her...
Yale University Press, 2005. — 431 p. In The Informant, historian Gary May reveals the untold story of the murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo, shot to death by members of the violent Birmingham Ku Klux Klan at the end of Martin Luther King’s historic Voting Rights March in 1965. The case drew national attention and was solved almost instantly, because one of the Klansman...
Yale University Press, 2005. — 448 p. In The Informant, historian Gary May reveals the untold story of the murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo, shot to death by members of the violent Birmingham Ku Klux Klan at the end of Martin Luther King’s historic Voting Rights March in 1965. The case drew national attention and was solved almost instantly, because one of the...
Little, Brown and Company, 2009. — 368 p. Robert Mazur was a federal agent for 27 years. During 5 years of his law enforcement career he was a long-term undercover agent operating in deep cover within the underworld as a high-level money launderer for senior members of Colombian drug cartels. He not only dealt directly with cartel leaders, but also functioned as their conduit...
Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1992. — 354 p. The collection in this volume includes many of CIA's most important documents on the Cuban missile crisis. It contains the honeymoon cables that Director of Central Intelligence DCI John A. McCone sent to Headquarters from France a month before the missile crisis, as well as McCones notes taken during the National Security...
Grand Central Publishing, 2020. — 224 p. Retired Navy SEAL and professional photographer Darren McBurnett takes readers behind the scenes into the elite SEAL training program, BUD/S, in Coronado, California. Striking, beautiful, and haunting, Uncommon Grit takes a unique, unprecedented look at the toughest training in the military -- and the world -- from the vantage point of...
Pantheon Books, 1992. — 632 p. Uses recently declassified documents to survey the American use of covert warfare against terrorists and adversarial states. The locale may have changed--Greece, the Philippines, Vietnam, Africa, Central America--but the strategy was the same: a proxy action by the US government fought on the cheap and on the sly against the Soviet Union. This...
Bordertown Publishing, 2017. — 214 p. Imagine being married to a spy. Imagine keeping the big secret and moving your family from country to country to country. How does it all work? In this entertaining memoir, Lillian McCloy shares stories from her life as the wife of an undercover CIA officer. It's an eye-opening and often humorous tale about the CIA, marriage, family,...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. — 255 p. During World War I, fear that a network of German spies was operating on American soil justified the rapid growth of federal intelligence agencies. When that threat proved illusory, these agencies, staffed heavily by corporate managers and anti-union private detectives, targeted antiwar and radical labor groups, particularly the...
Lawrence Hill Books, 2003. — 734 p. The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, The Politics of Heroin includes meticulous documentation of dishonesty and dirty dealings at the highest levels from the Cold War until today. Maintaining a global perspective, this groundbreaking study details the mechanics of drug trafficking in Asia,...
St. Martins Press, 2006. — 324 p. An indispensable and riveting account" of the CIA's development and use of torture, from the cold war to Abu Ghraib and beyond (Naomi Klein, The Nation). In this revelatory account of the CIA's fifty-year effort to develop new forms of torture, historian Alfred W. McCoy locates the deep roots of recent scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in a...
Amazon Digital Services LLC, 2019. — 251 p. — ISBN: 1079893814. It’s time to take control of your life and become a perfect man Mark McCoy, CIA agent and chief commander in the agency’s training academy, retired from his job after twenty-five years of non-stop action. Thanks to the nature of his role, Mark became an expert in coping within every imaginable area of life,...
Amazon Digital Services LLC, 2019. — 251 p. — ISBN: 1079893814. It’s time to take control of your life and become a perfect man Mark McCoy, CIA agent and chief commander in the agency’s training academy, retired from his job after twenty-five years of non-stop action. Thanks to the nature of his role, Mark became an expert in coping within every imaginable area of life,...
Amazon Digital Services LLC, 2019. — 251 p. — ISBN: 1079893814. It’s time to take control of your life and become a perfect man Mark McCoy, CIA agent and chief commander in the agency’s training academy, retired from his job after twenty-five years of non-stop action. Thanks to the nature of his role, Mark became an expert in coping within every imaginable area of life,...
Simon and Schuster, 2020. — 288 p. A search for the truth behind the DEA’s life imprisonment of acid's most famous martyr. Operation White Rabbit traces the rise and fall—and rise and fall again—of the psychedelic community through the life of the man known as the “Acid King:” William Leonard Pickard. Pickard was a legitimate genius, a follower of Timothy Leary, a con artist, a...
Center Street, 2014. — 320 p. The book contains incredible accounts of major SEAL operations-from the violent birth of SEAL Team Six and the aborted Operation Eagle Claw meant to save the hostages in Iran, to key missions in Iraq and Afghanistan where the SEALs suffered their worst losses in their fifty year history-and every chapter illustrates why this elite military special...
Open Road Media, 2015. — 239 p. Ralph W. McGehee was a patriot, dedicated to the American way of life and the international fight against Communism. Following his graduation with honors from Notre Dame, McGehee was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1952 and quickly became an able and enthusiastic cold warrior. Stationed in Southeast Asia in the mid-1960s, he worked...
Open Road Media, 2015. — 239 p. A veteran of two and a half decades with the Central Intelligence Agency unmasks the culture of lethal lies at its foundation in this devastating exposé, now with a new foreword by David MacMichael. Ralph W. McGehee was a patriot, dedicated to the American way of life and the international fight against Communism. Following his graduation with...
St. Martin's Press, 2018. — 320 p. The explosive memoir of an FBI field operative who has worked more undercover cases than anyone in history. Within FBI field operative circles, groups of people known as "Special" by their titles alone, Michael McGowan is an outlier. 10% of FBI Special Agents are trained and certified to work undercover. A quarter of those agents have worked...
Pluto Press, 2022. — 272 p. 'Early in my research, a friend with excellent knowledge of the United Auto Workers internal operations told me, "Don't give up. They are hiding something. It’s 1990, and US labour is being outsourced to Mexico. Rumours of a violent confrontation at the Mexican Ford Assembly plant on January 8 reach the United Auto Workers (UAW) union in the US: nine...
Crossroad Press, 2015. — 338 p. The Remarkable Life of U.S. Government Remote Viewer 001 Joseph McMoneagle is now known as the best Operational Remote Viewer in the history of the U.S. Army's Special Project-Stargate. His intelligence collection results have never been surpassed and rarely equaled. Among his achievements: - He described the interior of a top-secret Soviet...
Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 376 p. From Roger's Rangers to the Revolution, Civil War, World War I & II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Bin Laden raid, this book covers over 250 years of American Special Forces action. America's Elite takes the reader through some of the most dramatic special forces operations in US history, from sniping British commanders during the...
First Printing. — Washington: Department of the Army, 2006. — 514 p. This book tells the story of an unusual group of American soldiers in World War II , second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served as interpreters and translators in the Military Intelligence Service. It describes how the War Department recruited soldiers from an ethnic minority and trained them in a...
University of California Press, 2019. — 304 p. The United States has poured over a billion dollars into a network of interagency intelligence centers called “fusion centers.” These centers were ostensibly set up to prevent terrorism, but politicians, the press, and policy advocates have criticized them for failing on this account. So why do these security systems persist?...
Grand Central Publishing, 2019. — 353 p. Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden. Sea Stories begins in 1960 at the American Officers' Club in France, where...
Grand Central Publishing, 2019. — 353 p. Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden. Sea Stories begins in 1960 at the American Officers’ Club in France, where...
Knopf, 2014. — 608 p. The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists—quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans—that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, his own...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. — 288 p. In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA. The missing man, Robert Levinson, appeared in pictures dressed like a Guantánamo prisoner and pleaded in a video for help from the United States. Barry Meier, an...
Edwin Mellen Press, 1989. — 690 p. A work of investigative journalism that presents the theory that the Central Intelligence Agency employed the Reverend Jim Jones to administer a pharmaceutical field test in mind control and ethnic weaponry to a large test group, namely the membership of the Peoples Temple. The text proposes that Dr. Laurence Layton (former Chief of the U.S....
Skyhorse Publishing, 2013. — 255 p. The Great Game in Cuba uses the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution to examine the CIA's inner workings during the fifties and sixties. Detailing the agency's lies and deceits, Mellen paints a vivid behind-the-scenes picture of the CIA in Cuba after the Castro revolution: what it wanted and the lengths it was willing to go to paralyze the...
Cornell University Press, 2012. — 304 p. In December 2010 the U.S. Embassy in Kabul acknowledged that it was providing major funding for thirteen episodes of Eagle Four―a new Afghani television melodrama based loosely on the blockbuster U.S. series 24. According to an embassy spokesperson, Eagle Four was part of a strategy aimed at transforming public suspicion of security forces...
HarperCollins e-books, 2009. — 178 p. John Mulholland was never a household word, like the world famous escapologist Houdini or, more recently, the illusionist David Copperfield. But among professional magicians from the 1930s to the 1950s, he was seen as the very model of what a magician should be-urbane, highly skilled, inventive, and prolific. He was very successful...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2012. — 310 p. The true, declassified account of CIA operative Tony Mendez's daring rescue of American hostages from Iran that inspired the critically-acclaimed film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, and co-starring John Goodman, Alan Arkin, and Bryan Cranston. On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and...
ABC-CLIO, 2020. — 386 p. This book provides a penetrating look into U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's brilliant strategy to bait Adolf Hitler into declaring war on America in order to defeat Germany militarily, thus preventing the Nazis from developing the atomic bomb. In late 1939, President Roosevelt learned that Hitler was attempting to develop an atomic bomb to use...
ABC-CLIO, 2020. — 386 p. This book provides a penetrating look into U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's brilliant strategy to bait Adolf Hitler into declaring war on America in order to defeat Germany militarily, thus preventing the Nazis from developing the atomic bomb. In late 1939, President Roosevelt learned that Hitler was attempting to develop an atomic bomb to use...
David McKay Company, 1972. — 294 p. This is an excellent read, written in fast-paced, journalistic style by former reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal, Hank Messick. Most known for his book on Meyer Lansky, Messick chisels away at the legend of renowned Commie-fighter, John Edgar Hoover. The cover reveals much. Pictured is a puppet with Hoover's face, holding a club in...
Real War Stories, 2004. — 192 p. True stories of bravery by the special men of MACV-SOG. The author, a One-Zero for RT Idaho during the Vietnam War whose team was sent into Laos to conduct covert missions against the North Vietnamese, recounts some of those missions as well as those by other teams in a straightforward and clear-eyed manner. Relive those days with him as he...
SOG Publishing, 2011. — 370 p. During the Vietnam War, a "secret war" was fought across the fence in Laos, Cambodia and North Vietnam, unknown to the media or the public, under the aegis of the Military Assistance Command Vietnam's top secret Studies and Observation Group. SOG's chain of command for missions and after-action reports extended to the White House and the Joint...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 255 p. Bruce Meyers, an experienced reconnaissance Marine officer, paints a colorful and accurate picture of the special recon landings that preceded every major amphibious operation in the Pacific during World War II. Credited with saving countless lives, the Marine scouting missions went in stealthily at night from submarines, PT boats,...
Potomac Books, 2020. — 359 p. Applicants to the Central Intelligence Agency often asked Edward Mickolus what they might expect in a career there. Mickolus, a former CIA intelligence officer whose duties also included recruiting and public affairs, never had a simple answer. If applicants were considering a life in the National Clandestine Service, the answer was easy. Numerous...
New York: Wonder Books, 1965. — 87 p. The Hollow Nickel How the Bureau Began On the Firing Line New Approaches to Combating Crime Outwitting the Bank Robbers The Fighting Fronts of Science The War on Spies More About Jimmy's Nickel The Many Faces of Crime "The Ten Most Wanted" G-Men in Action A Tip Traps a Kidnapper Outwitting the Bank Robbers The FBI and Civil Rights A Career...
Potomac Books, 2000. — 256 p. After Germany’s surrender in World War II, Jim Milano, a young U.S. army intelligence officer, led a small, independent group of soldiers charged with carrying out some of the first intelligence efforts of the postwar era. Inventing the techniques of Cold War espionage for themselves and improvising unorthodox methods, the major and his creative...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 336 p. These are the combat experiences of the first Marine to command a special operations task force, recounted against a backdrop of his journey from raw Second Lieutenant to seasoned Colonel and Task Force Commander; from leading Marines through the streets of Mogadishu, Baghdad, Fallujah and Mosul to directing multi-national special...
Routledge, 2008. — 282 p. This volume examines the investigation by the 1975 Senate Select Committee (‘Church Committee’) into US intelligence abuses during the Cold War, and considers its lessons for the current ‘war on terror’. This report remains the most thorough public record of America’s intelligence services, and many of the legal boundaries operating on US intelligence...
Simon Schuster, 2017. — 368 p. This is the secret and suspenseful account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of Germans conspiring to assassinate Hitler and negotiate surrender to bring about the end of World War II before the Soviet’s advance. Agent 110 is Allen Dulles, a newly minted spy from an eminent family. From his townhouse in Bern, and in clandestine meetings...
Bantam Books, 2021. — 640 p. How did the US Navy—the branch of the US military tasked with patrolling the oceans—ever manage to produce a unit of raiders trained to operate on land? And how, against all odds, did that unit become one of the world’s most elite commando forces, routinely striking thousands of miles from the water on the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria,...
Potomac Books, 2020. — 304 p. By 1926 the Mexican government of Plutarco Elías Calles had sparked widespread discontent with its radical social policies. Plots to overthrow the administration ran rampant. One of the strangest conspiracies arose within a clique of exiled Mexican military officers in Hollywood. Bill Mills takes readers inside the forgotten story of General...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2013. — 228 p. The little-known history of the quarter-million Americans who volunteered to investigate suspected enemy activity during WWI. Two weeks before the U.S. entered World War I, a Chicago advertising executive visited the Department of Justice with a proposal: organize the country's businessmen into a secret force of volunteer agents to ferret out...
Stackpole Books, 2017. — 208 p. Details the overseas diplomatic and intelligence contest between Union and Confederate governments. Documents the historically neglected Thomas Haines Dudley and his European network of agents. Explores the actions that forced neutrality between England and the Union. The American Civil War conjures images of bloody battlefields in the eastern...
McFarland and Company, 2013. — 182 p. This book consists of seven stand-alone accounts of individuals who operated as spies during the American Revolutionary War. They were not trained as covert agents, which meant they had to develop their skills and techniques on their own, often while in the midst of the enemy where discovery meant almost certain death for them, and...
Columbia University Press, 2020. — 392 p. The twenty-first century witnessed a new age of whistleblowing in the United States. Disclosures by Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, and others have stoked heated public debates about the ethics of exposing institutional secrets, with roots in a longer history of state insiders revealing privileged information. Bringing together...
Open Road Distribution, 2015. — 257 p. Dangerous Dossiers is as powerful and relevant today as it was when it first made worldwide headlines 25 years ago: a chilling reminder of the dangers of unfettered government intrusion into the lives and beliefs of private citizens, whether famous or not. This shocking account by award-winning author and former New York Times cultural...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014. — 90 p. With USSOCOM assuming the role as supported command in the Global War on Terror, Army Special Forces will no doubt to play a primary role in that effort. The unspoken assumption seems to be that America’s new, unconventional foe will best be combated with America’s own unconventional warriors. It is unclear, however, if a force raised...
Westport, London: Greenwood, 2008. — 472 p. The Central Intelligence Agency's relative transparency makes it unique among the world's espionage operations. Over the past few decades it has released over 31 million pages of previously classified documents, including, most recently, the so-called Family Jewels, a special collection of records on a series of operations from the 1950s...
Mason Crest Publishers, 2011. — 65 p. In September 2001, in response to terrorist attacks on New York and Washington D.C., the American forces, including the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), were put on the highest level of military alert since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. These soldiers are among the toughest in the world; the prestige of the unit is second to none. The entry...
Mason Crest Publishers, 2010. — 98 p. The U.S Navy SEALs were created in the 1960s as an elite team to fight along the rivers and coastline of Vietnam. Since that time, the SEALs have become the world's best at surviving and operating at sea. They are some the foremost fighters the American military has in its arsenal, able to engage any enemy, at any time, in any conditions....
Mason Crest Publishers, 2014. — 98 p. The Parachute Regiment is one of the toughest units in the U.S. military and in the world. Its training course is designed to push recruits to their limits; only those who are strong in mind and body can pass the course. This book will take you through the entire training course. Only when the recruits have show real endurance can they even...
Spark Press, 2022. — 212 p. A missing Iraqi scientist, an ex–Secret Service agent, and the threat of another biological terrorist attack—all these elements come together in the gripping true story of the Gray Bird of Baghdad. Iraqi Microbiologist Thamer Abdul Rahman Imran has information vital to stopping the unthinkable: a biological attack on the US. When he learns that the...
Digital Dreams Press, 2016. — 100 p. Over preparation is a gift in an ideal world, although operationally that is not always the case. Intelligence can change by the minute; a firefight can change in seconds. All these are things that Delta operators train and prepare for, even if improvisation is all that you have left in a tactical situation. Something Delta has quickly become...
Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 304 p. From frozen mountaintops to dusty city streets and everything in between, Run to the Sound of the Guns is a compelling and deeply personal account of a husband and father who nearly lost his life 'leading the way' in America's secretive global wars. Nicholas Moore served as part of an elite special operations unit at the fighting edge of the...
Naval Institute Press, 2018. — 384 p. Uncommon Valor is a look into the formation and operation of an advanced Special Forces recon company during the Vietnam War. Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most covert U.S. military unit in its time and contained only volunteers from such elite units as the Army's Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and Air Force Air...
Chicago Press, 2012. — 326 p. For decades, movies and television shows have portrayed FBI agents as fearless heroes leading glamorous lives, but this refreshingly original memoir strips away the fantasy and glamour and describes the day-to-day job of an FBI special agent. The book gives a firsthand account of a career in the Federal Bureau of Investigation from the academy to...
St. Martin's Press, 2016. — 346 p. Spies are supposed to keep quiet, never betraying their agents nor discussing their operations. Somehow, this doesn't apply to the CIA, which routinely vets, and approves, dozens of books by former officers. Many of these memoirs command huge advances and attract enormous publicity. Take Valerie Plame, the CIA officer whose identity was leaked...
Berkley Books, 2005. — 295 p. Call me naïve, but when I was a girl-watching James Bond and devouring Harriet the Spy-all I wanted was to grow up to be a spy. Unlike most kids, I didn't lose my secret-agent aspirations. So as a bright-eyed, idealistic college grad, I sent my resume to the CIA. Getting in was a story in itself. I peed in more cups than you could imagine, and was...
Berkley Books, 2005. — 304 p. Call me naïve, but when I was a girl-watching James Bond and devouring Harriet the Spy-all I wanted was to grow up to be a spy. Unlike most kids, I didn't lose my secret-agent aspirations. So as a bright-eyed, idealistic college grad, I sent my resume to the CIA. Getting in was a story in itself. I peed in more cups than you could imagine, and was...
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1998. — 310 p. David Morehouse - A highly decorated, exemplary Army officer, special operations infantryman, and elite Airborne Ranger Company Commander. Wounded by machine-gun fire during a training mission, Morehouse began to have inexplicable visions and haunting nightmares - an experience that would redirect his military career and land him in the...
Potomac Books, 2007. — 256 p. Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn had no idea of what they would discover when they set out for Hong Kong, China, and Burma in 1941. The husband-and-wife team of celebrity literati intended to report on the China-Japan war while honeymooning in the romantic Far East. What they found was a maddening, intriguing, colorful world of dictators and...
Twelve, 2016. — 384 p. Called the "Bob Gates of his generation" by Politico, Michael Morell was a top CIA officer who played a critical role in the most important counterterrorism events of the past two decades. Morell was by President Bush's side on 9/11/01 when terrorists struck America and in the White House Situation Room advising President Obama on 5/1/11 when America struck...
Random House, 1999. — 402 p. The extraordinary life of Jay Lovestone is one of the great untold stories of the 20th century. A Lithuanian immigrant who came to the USA in 1897, he rose to leadership in the Communist Party of America, only to fall out with Moscow & join the anti-Communist establishment after WW2. He became one of the leading strategists of the Cold War, being...
Warrior Mind Publications, 2014. — 341 p. This Kindle book introduces the reader to the well-known and lesser-known elite military units within the Unites States Military. It is rich with content and high quality photography. Highlights of this book: Descriptions of sixteen elite units, including selection, training and mission. Hundreds of high-quality photos unveiling the...
University Press of Kansas, 2013. — 384 p. Mexico City was the Casablanca of the Cold War-a hotbed of spies, revolutionaries, and assassins. The CIA's station there was the front line of the United States' fight against international communism, as important for Latin America as Berlin was for Europe. And its undisputed spymaster was Winston Mackinley Scott. He reveals how the...
St. Martin's Press, 2022. — 336 p. For the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in: The untold story of President Richard Nixon, CIA Director Richard Helms, and their volatile shared secrets that ended a presidency. Scorpions' Dance by intelligence expert and investigative journalist Jefferson Morley reveals the Watergate scandal in a completely new light: as the culmination...
St. Martin's Press, 2017. — 336 p. A revelatory new biography of the sinister, powerful, and paranoid man at the heart of the CIA for more than three tumultuous decades. CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton was one of the most powerful unelected officials in the United States government in the mid-20th century, a ghost of American power. From World War II to the Cold War, Angleton...
Midpoint Trade Books, 2009. — 390 p. Project Delta and its clandestine special reconnaissance operations proved to be one of the most successful Special Operation units of the Vietnam War, yet few Americans have ever heard of them, or know that this unit's operational model was precursor for the renowned Delta Force. This small unit of less than 100 U.S. Army Special Forces...
Mcfarland & Company, 2008. — 220 p. Starting in 1960, Hmong guerrilla soldiers, under the command of General Vang Pao, functioned as the hands and feet of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's secret war against communist forces in Laos. Operating out of Long Cheng, the Hmong soldiers allowed the CIA to accomplish two objectives: to maintain the perception of United States...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 368 p. According to the prevailing view of counterinsurgency, the key to defeating insurgents is selecting methods that will win the people’s hearts and minds. The hearts-and-minds theory permeates not only most counterinsurgency books of the twenty-first century but the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, the U.S. military’s...
Basic Books, 2017. — 400 p. An acclaimed military historian charts the history of America's Special Operations Forces, highlighting both the heroism of America's finest soldiers and the strategic limits of special operations.
Liveright Publishing, 2019. — 288 p. A bold account of one of the most controversial and haunting initiatives in American history, Black Site tells the full story of the post-9/11 counterterrorism world at the CIA. When the towers fell on September 11, 2001, nowhere were the reverberations more powerfully felt than at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Almost overnight, the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 216 p. On September 11, 2001, as Central Intelligence Agency analyst Philip Mudd rushed out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House, he could not anticipate how far the terror unleashed that day would change the world of intelligence and his life as a CIA officer. For the previous fifteen years, his role had...
Hachette Books, 2017. — 432 p. Code Girls reveals a hidden army of female cryptographers, whose work played a crucial role in ending World War II. Mundy has rescued a piece of forgotten history, and given these American heroes the recognition they deserve. Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as...
Jonathon Myers Books, 2021. — 288 p. American to the Corps presents a firsthand account of many of the most high-profile national security events of the last thirty years as experienced by Lt Colonel Jonathon P. Myers, United States Marine Corps. Lt Col. Myers, through skill, chance, and circumstance found himself at the center of many of the most spectacular national security...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2022. — 224 p. While FBI Agent David Nadolski risked his career, his informant, Anthony Romano risked his life to quash one of the biggest armed robberies of the twentieth century. During the 1990's Boston was a world leader in arts, culture, higher education, and medicine. It was also a world leader in organized crime. In this exciting...
Basic Books, 2012. — 428 p. In this revelatory new account, national security historian Timothy Naftali relates the full back story of America's attempts to fight terrorism. On September 11, 2001, a long history of failures, missteps, and blind spots in our intelligence services came to a head, with tragic results. At the end of World War II, the OSS's "X-2" department had...
Westholme Publishing, 2013. — 228 p. Newly Discovered Evidence Against a Man Who Has Long Been Suspected as Being a British Agent and America's First Traitor. Dr. Benjamin Church, Jr. (1734–1778) was a respected medical man and civic leader in colonial Boston who was accused of being an agent for the British in the 1770s, providing compromising intelligence about the plans of...
St. Martin’s Press, 2016. — 384 p. George Washington was America’s first spymaster, and his skill as a spymaster won the War for Independence. George Washington’s Secret Spy War is the untold story of how George Washington took a disorderly, ill-equipped rabble and defeated the best trained and best equipped army of its day in the Revolutionary War. Author John A. Nagy has become...
Westholme Publishing, 2009. — 288 p. The Critical Role of Espionage During the War of Independence and the Techniques Spies Used. During the American Revolution, espionage was critical to the successes and failures of both Continental and British efforts, and those employed in cloakand- dagger operations always risked death. While the most notorious episode of spying during the...
Pen and Sword, 2017. — 224 p. The Second World War upended many lives, disrupting patterns and routines and bringing an array of terrifying new dangers with it. For Jenny Nater, the war brought great sadness but also opportunity. Like many women left behind on the home front during the war, she found herself in an unforeseen scenario in which her talents could be put to an...
Dutton Caliber, 2006. — 373 p. Award-winning combat reporter Sean Naylor reveals how close American forces came to disaster in Afghanistan against Al Qaida—after easily defeating the ragtag Taliban that had sheltered the terrorist organization behind the 9/11 attacks. At dawn on March 2, 2002, over two hundred soldiers of the 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain Divisions flew into...
St. Martin's Press, 2015. — 560 p. Since the attacks of September 11, one organization has been at the forefront of America's military response. Its efforts turned the tide against al-Qaida in Iraq, killed Bin Laden and Zarqawi, rescued Captain Phillips and captured Saddam Hussein. Its commander can direct cruise missile strikes from nuclear submarines and conduct special...
Einleitung Philip Agee. — Mit Beiträgen von John Marks, Yiannis Roubatis, Murray Waas, Steve Weissman, Karen Wynn. — Göttingen: Lamuv Verlag, 1982. — 228 S. — ISBN 3-921521-59-9. Dieses Buch beschreibt nicht nur, wie der US-Geheimdienst CIA in Westeuropa operiert: Agenten tarnt, Organisationen gründet, falsche Nachrichten fabriziert, Gewerkschaften schwächen will, Parteien...
Princeton University Press, 2013. — 705 p. During the Second World War, three prominent members of the Frankfurt School--Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer--worked as intelligence analysts for the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime forerunner of the CIA. This book brings together their most important intelligence reports on Nazi Germany, most of them...
Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 380 p. On October 3, 1993, Task Force Ranger was dispatched to seize two high-profile lieutenants of a Somali warlord. Special Forces troops were transported by ground vehicles and helicopters, and the mission was meant to be over within the hour. They quickly found themselves under heavy fire, and two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down. With a...
Mainstream Publishing, 2011. — 304 p. Charles 'Lucky' Luciano was a vicious mobster who rose to become the multimillionaire king of the New York underworld. He was a legend - but also a fake master criminal without real power, his reputation manipulated and maintained by the government agents who had put him behind bars. Drawing on secret government documents from archives in...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2012. — 252 p. Drawing on a wealth of eyewitness accounts, contemporary reports, and declassified intelligence documents, some never published before, The Mafia at War reconstructs the relationships between the Mafia and Allied intelligence organizations. Discover how Jewish gangsters clashed with Nazis on the streets of New York; how Mafiosi nearly issued...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2008. — 680 p. One of the most unsettling, revelatory books about the relationship between the CIA and JFK's alleged assassin ever published reads like an intricate spy thriller. From the acclaimed author of JFK and Vietnam comes a book that uncovers the government's role in the Kennedy assassination more clearly than any previous inquiry. What was the extent...
Presidio Press, 2011. — 272 p. In Vietnam, the Military Assistance Command's Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) fielded small recon teams in areas infested with VC and NVA. Because SOG operations suffered extraordinary casualties, they required extraordinary soldiers. So when Capt. Thom Nicholson arrived at Command and Control North (CCN) in Da Nang, SOG's northernmost...
McFarland and Company, 2020. — 228 p. Initially stationed at the U.S. Army's counterintelligence headquarters in Saigon, David Noble was sent north to launch the army's first covert intelligence-gathering operation in Vietnam's Central Highlands. Living in the region of the Montagnards—Vietnam's indigenous tribal people, deemed critical to winning the war—Noble documented...
Random House, 2010. — 226 p. The FBI's chief hostage negotiator takes readers on a harrowing tour through many of the most famous hostage crises in the history of the modern FBI, including the siege at Waco, the Montana Freemen standoff, and the D.C. sniper attacks. Having help develop the FBI's non-violent communication techniques for achieving peaceful outcomes in tense...
Random House, 2010. — 225 p. The FBI's chief hostage negotiator takes readers on a harrowing tour through many of the most famous hostage crises in the history of the modern FBI, including the siege at Waco, the Montana Freemen standoff, and the D.C. sniper attacks. Having help develop the FBI's non-violent communication techniques for achieving peaceful outcomes in tense...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2013. — 384 p. The US Central Intelligence Agency is no stranger to conspiracy and allegations of corruption. Across the globe, violent coups have been orchestrated, high-profile targets kidnapped, and world leaders dispatched at the hands of CIA agents. During the 1960s, on domestic soil, the methods used to protect their interests and themselves at the...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2013. — 390 p. The US Central Intelligence Agency is no stranger to conspiracy and allegations of corruption. Across the globe, violent coups have been orchestrated, high-profile targets kidnapped, and world leaders dispatched at the hands of CIA agents. During the 1960s, on domestic soil, the methods used to protect their interests and themselves at the...
Fidelis Books, 2010. — 110 p. Following the success of American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam (a New York Times best seller), Oliver North moves from the frontline to the world of shadow warriors, introducing readers to the brave, noble work of Navy Seals, Rangers, and Green Berets in American Heroes in Special Operations. From the sands of Iraq to the mountains of...
Fayard, 2009. — 494 p. Jacques Chirac ? « Il est aussi américain que les Américains ! » François Mitterrand ? « Un opportuniste prêt à brandir n’importe quelle épée en échange d’une promesse d’avancement personnel… » Valéry Giscard d’Estaing ? « Brillant, élégant, mais dilettante et indiscret… » Georges Pompidou ? « Un simple manager, un directeur général… » Charles de Gaulle ?...
Permuted Press, 2022. — 352 p. The first-person account of how a small band of Green Berets used horses and laser-guided bombs to overthrow the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan after 9/11. They landed in a dust storm so thick the chopper pilot used dead reckoning and a guess to find the ground. Welcomed by a band of heavily armed militiamen, they climbed a mountain on...
Prometheus Books, 2000. — 361 p. Since 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency has secretly worked to subvert foreign powers and even overthrow enemy governments to further United States influence abroad. The vast array of CIA black "ops" (operations)--including covert acts against Saddam Hussein and international terrorists, secret Afghan missions, the overthrow of Guatemalan...
Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — 528 p. A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history. Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then...
Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — 528 p. A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history. Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then...
St. Martin's Press, 2022. — 288 p. In Killing The Killers, bestselling authors Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began more than twenty years ago on September 11, 2001. As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers fought desperately to stop a third plane from completing...
Henry Holt and Company, 2016. — 256 p. The year was 1981. Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot after leaving a speaking engagement in Washington, D. C. The quick action of the Secret Service and medical professionals saved the president's life. Mere days after his near-death experience, Reagan's personal strength propelled him back into his presidential...
Free Press, 1991. — 468 p. Author of Black Americans and Nixon's Piano Kenneth O’Reilly takes a blunt and remarkable look at the FBI and "its relentless drive to destroy the civil rights movement and its most visible leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. From Kennedy to Nixon, the FBI unwillingly found itself at the center of the struggle for racial equality and justice. Kenneth...
University Press of Kentucky, 2019. — 248 p. Since September 11, 2001, the CIA and DoD have operated together in Afghanistan, Iraq, and during counterterrorism operations. Although the global war on terrorism gave the CIA and DoD a common purpose, it was actions taken in the late eighties and early nineties that set the foundation for their current relationship. Driven by the...
Reality Marketing, 2004. — 429 p. With the advent of "pizzagate" and the exposure of Hillary Clinton in her emails, this book needs wide exposure. It has become more and more obvious that mind-controlled sex slavery and pedophilia is rife at the highest levels of psychopathic government, politics, CIA drug running, and intelligence activity. It is used to produce people who,...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2011. — 288 p. A CIA station chief, later Jordan's lawyer in Washington, reveals the secret history of a lost peace. Jack O'Connell possessed an uncanny ability to be at the center of things. On his arrival in Jordan in 1958, he unraveled a coup aimed at the young King Hussein, who would become America's most reliable Middle East ally. Over time, their...
Da Capo Press, 2012. — 320 p. An epic World War II story of valor, sacrifice, and the Rangers who led the way to victory in Europe. It is said that the right man in the right place at the right time can make the difference between victory and defeat. This is the dramatic story of sixty-eight soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 2nd Ranger Battalion, D Company—Dog Company—who made that...
Da Capo Press, 2009. — 286 p. A small team of American spies parachute into Italy behind enemy lines. Their orders: link up with local partisans and sabotage the well-guarded Brenner Pass- the Nazis' crucial supply route through the Alps, thereby bringing the German war effort in Italy to a grinding halt.
Free Press, 2004. — 384 p. The first-ever full story of American sabotage operations in World War II, based on hundreds of revealing interviews. The battles of World War II were won not only by the soldiers on the front lines, and not only by the generals and admirals, but also by the shadow warriors whose work is captured for the first time in Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs....
United States: Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 1945. — 37 p. "This booklet is designed to supplement the lectures on OSS organization. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) is an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff charged with collecting and analyzing strategic information and secret intelligence required for military operations, and with planning and executing programs of...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. — 216 p. Between 1865 and 1937, Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency was at the center of countless conflicts between capital and labor, bandits and railroads, and strikers and state power. Some believed that the detectives were protecting society from dangerous criminal conspiracies; others thought that armed Pinkertons were capital’s...
Naval Institute Press, 2009. — 219 p. Jonathan Pollard, an intelligence analyst working in the U.S. Naval Investigative Service's Anti-Terrorist Alert Center, systematically stole highly sensitive secrets from almost every major intelligence agency in the United States. In just eighteen months he sold more than one million pages of classified material to Israel. No other spy in...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2019. — 344 p. — ISBN: 9781442265042. Most people believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation began under J. Edgar Hoover in the 1920s or 1930s. Many also naturally assume it was developed for the express purpose of fighting crime. However, the reality is very different. The reality is it began years earlier, in 1908, under President Theodore...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2019. — 344 p. — ISBN: 9781442265042. Most people believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation began under J. Edgar Hoover in the 1920s or 1930s. Many also naturally assume it was developed for the express purpose of fighting crime. However, the reality is very different. The reality is it began years earlier, in 1908, under President Theodore...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2019. — 344 p. — ISBN: 9781442265042. Most people believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation began under J. Edgar Hoover in the 1920s or 1930s. Many also naturally assume it was developed for the express purpose of fighting crime. However, the reality is very different. The reality is it began years earlier, in 1908, under President Theodore...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2019. — 344 p. — ISBN: 9781442265042. Most people believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation began under J. Edgar Hoover in the 1920s or 1930s. Many also naturally assume it was developed for the express purpose of fighting crime. However, the reality is very different. The reality is it began years earlier, in 1908, under President Theodore...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2019. — 344 p. — ISBN: 9781442265042. Most people believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation began under J. Edgar Hoover in the 1920s or 1930s. Many also naturally assume it was developed for the express purpose of fighting crime. However, the reality is very different. The reality is it began years earlier, in 1908, under President Theodore...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2019. — 344 p. Most people believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation began under J. Edgar Hoover in the 1920s or 1930s. Many also naturally assume it was developed for the express purpose of fighting crime. However, the reality is very different. The reality is it began years earlier, in 1908, under President Theodore Roosevelt. In The Birth of...
University of North Carolina Press, 1996. — 272 p. Just four months after Richard Nixon's resignation, New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh unearthed a new case of government abuse of power: the CIA had launched a domestic spying program of Orwellian proportions against American dissidents during the Vietnam War. The country's best investigative journalists and members of...
Potomac Books, 2006. — 192 p. Revolutionary War officer Nathan Hale, one of America’s first spies, said, “Any kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.” A statue of Hale stands outside CIA headquarters, and the agency often cites his statement as one of its guiding principles. But who decides what is necessary for the public good, and is...
Georgetown University Press, 2021. — 248 p. How the US is losing the counterintelligence war and what the country should do to better protect our national security and trade secrets. The United States is losing the counterintelligence war. Foreign intelligence services, particularly those of China, Russia, and Cuba, are recruiting spies in our midst and stealing our secrets and...
St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2013. — 224 р. The epic story of one of America's greatest soldiers, Ranger Hall of Fame member Gary O'Neal, who served his country for forty years. Chief Warrant Officer Gary O'Neal is no ordinary soldier. For nearly forty years, he has fought America's enemies, becoming one of the greatest Warriors this nation has ever known. Part Native...
LAK Publishing, 2021. — 161 p. Have you ever wondered what the craziest and most insane missions in the CIA’s history are? In this book you’ll embark on a wild trip of some of the strangest, brutal, bizarre, and most head-scratching missions the CIA has undertaken and allowed to be declassified. You’ll learn about the truth behind these missions, finding out the answers to some...
Carlisle Barracks: US Army War College, 1991. — 30 p. This paper argues for the development of a horse-mounted capability within US Special Operations Forces to support the conduct of counter insurgency operations. Horse-mounted troops are an asset that cannot be ignored given the likelihood that the US will be involved in assisting friendly governments combating insurgencies...
Casemate Publishers, 2013. — 216 p. American military special operations forces—Rangers, SEALs, and others—have become a well-recognized and highly respected part of our popular culture. But whom do these elite warriors look to in their times of greatest need: when wounded on the battlefield, cut off deep behind enemy lines, or adrift in the expanse of the world’s oceans? They...
University Press of Kansas, 2006. — 522 p. When President Dwight Eisenhower spoke of waging "total cold war," he was proposing nothing less than a global, all-embracing battle for hearts and minds. His wide-ranging propaganda campaign challenged world communism at every turn and left a lasting mark on the American psyche. Kenneth Osgood now chronicles the secret psychological...
Washington: War Department, 1949. — 449 p. The previous volume has outlined the growth of COI/ OSS in Washington and the development of the functions of its various branches. In this section, OSS activity in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East is related, not by branches, but according to each successive target area. Eight parts cover: North Africa; the outlying neutral areas,...
Open Road, 2014. — 608 p. Foreign policy in peacetime and command decision in war have always been driven by intelligence, and yet this subject has often been overlooked in standard histories. Honorable Treachery fills in these details, dramatically recounting every important intelligence operation since our nation’s birth. These include how in 1795 President Washington mounted...
Monograph. — FBI, 1969. — 44 p. This monograph released for sale in February, 1969, is an inquiry into the nature and operations of the FBI. It discusses in detail many of the virulent charges that the FBI runs "amuck" without regard to the rights of individuals and groups and is, therefore, a danger to our democratic society. The conclusions reached by the authors state that...
Penguin Group, 2015. — 290 p. His follow-up, No Hero, is an account of Mark Owen’s most personally meaningful missions, missions that never made headlines, including the moments in which he learned the most about himself and his teammates in both success and failure. Featuring stories from the training ground to the battlefield, No Hero offers readers a never-before-seen...
Barakaldo Books, 2021. — 522 p. This work is the product of a gratifying cooperation between the Office of Naval Intelligence and the Naval Historical Center, which throughout the project has provided major support to Capt. Packard’s researches and which saw this volume through the publication process. The joint effort is intended to provide intelligence professionals,...
Pelican Publishing Company, 2017. — 136 p. Once forced onto reservations and forbidden to speak their own language, the Sioux Native Americans became national heroes when they joined the armed forces after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Serving under General MacArthur, seven Sioux men formed a small unit, known as the Lakota Code Talkers. Communicating in their native...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 550 p. The previously untold true story of the CIA’s clandestine use of American students as undercover operatives during the Cold War. In 1967, CIA director Richard Helms had, as he would later recall, “one of my darkest days” when President Lyndon Johnson told him that the muckraking magazine Ramparts was about to expose one of the Agency’s...
Trine Day, 2017. — 240 p. While there haven't been many Secret Service related books about U.S. presidents, the ones still in print (and even those long out of print) are often sanitized memoirs of a politically correct nature or "tell-all" tabloid historical junk meant merely for entertainment purposes. The Not-So-Secret Service provides the facts with the bark off, so to...
Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. — 196 p. From the roaring 20s to modern days, RJ Parker has written the true life events of cases that made major headlines all over the country. Each chapter in this book, is devoted to the biography (or background) of famous mobsters and horrendous events that the FBI has handled since the beginning of the agency. Well...
Casemate Publishers, 2018. — 228 p. In the years since the Vietnam War, the elite unit known as the Studies and Observations Group (SOG) has spawned many myths, legends, and war stories. Special Forces medic Joe Parnar served with SOG during 1968 in FOB2/CCC near the tri-border region that gave them access to the forbidden areas of Laos and Cambodia. Parnar recounts his time...
Casemate, 2022. — 304 p. The untold stories from the SOG men stationed at Forward Operating Base Kontum. The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) was a highly classified, multi-service United States Special Forces unit which conducted covert unconventional warfare operations prior to and during the Vietnam War. The unit conducted...
Center Street, 2019. — 288 p. Army Ranger and bestselling author Kris Paronto reveals the values and creed shared by special forces for self-improvement and living a purposeful life. When Kris Paronto began talking with civilians about his experiences fighting the terrorist attack on the US State Department Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012, he...
Zenith Press, 2005. — 320 p. For thirty-five years, Floyd Paseman served in the Operations Directorate of the Central Intelligence Agency. From spy in the field to the top ranks of the Company's career agents, he experienced it all as well as seven different presidential administrations. While Paseman's account of his long service has enough real-life derring-do to keep the...
Rand Corporation, 2011. — 227 p. Over the past decade, especially, U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Intelligence has had to tailor its organization to meet the evolving demands of the operational environment. This has resulted in a number of ad hoc arrangements, practices, and organizations. A broad review of the organizational design of USMC intelligence examined how to align it...
Post Hill Press, 2019. — 228 p. — ISBN-13 9781642930474. — ISBN-10 1642930474. Tom Pecora is prepared to draw back the curtain on the little-known and misunderstood world of the CIA protective operations—security teams who work on the front lines in some of the most dangerous places in the world, doing battle with America's most determined enemies in the War on Terror and more....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 282 p. Of all the 'third party' movements in American history, none have been as controversial as the Communist Party of the United States of America. Although denounced as a tool of the Soviet Union, accused of espionage and charged with advocating the revolutionary overthrow of the American government, before WWII it had been an accepted part of...
CIA History Staff Center for Study of Intelligence, 1998. — 272 p. This volume presents to scholars and the public the CIA's newly declassified internal history of the U-2 program. The original study, written by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach for the CIA History Staff in the 1980s, was published in 1992 under the title The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 192 p. From the start of the Cold War to the fall of Saigon, from the Congo to Tibet, from the Bay of Pigs to North Vietnam and Nicaragua, here is a comprehensive overview of U.S. air-supported covert operations against the Soviet bloc. Twilight Warriors brings a sense of continuity to the shifting, shadowy battle-fronts of the Cold War, spanning...
Presidio Press, 1999. — 378 p. Peebles admirably assembles, from a multitude of sources, a compact complete history of U.S. programs to develop so-called black or secret aircraft. Those began with work on the first American jet, the Bell P-59, during World War II, and proceeded to include the construction of such eventual headline-makers as the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, and the...
Presidio Press, 2001. — 326 p. Peebles recounts in eye-opening detail the history of secret reconnaissance flights over the Soviet Union in the 1950s--a breach of international law exposed by the U-2 incident of May 1960 and a potentially deadly chapter of the cold war. Such was the fear of a nuclear Pearl Harbor that Truman and Eisenhower both deemed those brazen violations of...
Columbia University Press, 2020. — 256 p. In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks originating from the far right of American politics have targeted religious and ethnic minorities, with a series of anti-government militants, religious extremists, and lone-wolf mass...
Random House Publishing Group, 2001. — 564 p. Despite all that has already been written on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Persico has uncovered a hitherto overlooked dimension of FDR's wartime leadership: his involvement in intelligence and espionage operations." "Roosevelt's Secret War also describes how much FDR had been told - before the Holocaust - about the coming fate...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. — 712 p. For three years during World War II, future Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles commanded the OSS mission in Bern, Switzerland. From Hitler's Doorstep provides an annotated selection of his reports to Washington from 1942 to 1945. Dulles was a leading source of Allied intelligence on Nazi Germany and the occupied...
American Free Press, 2007. — 154 p. Few Americans today have any idea why Iran and America seem forever to be at loggerheads or even why Iran held 52 American hostages for 444 days in Tehran after the overthrow of the shah, America's best ally in the region. Iranians remember well the 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup that forcibly removed democratically elected Prime Minster Mohammad...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2011. — 270 p. On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Laden's three-decade-long career of terror. SEAL Target Geronimo is the story of Bin...
University Press of New England, 2014. — 320 p. Now in paperback, the New York Times best-selling biography—the first in nearly a century—of the legendary Revolutionary War patriot and our country's first spy. Although famous for his purported last words―“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”―few people know the real Nathan Hale. M. William Phelps...
Crown Publishing, 2021. — 436 p. By official accounts, the Navy SEALs of Alpha platoon returned as heroes after their 2017 deployment to Mosul, following a vicious, bloody, and successful campaign to drive ISIS from the city. But within the platoon a different war raged. Even as Alpha’s chief, Eddie Gallagher, was being honored by the Navy for his leadership, several of his men...
Crown, 2021. — 435 p. An epic account of the Navy SEALs of Alpha platoon, the startling accusations against their chief, Eddie Gallagher, and the courtroom battle that exposed the dark underbelly of America’s special forces - from a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. By official accounts, the Navy SEALs of Alpha platoon returned as heroes after their 2017 deployment to Mosul,...
Columbia University Press, 2011. — 432 p. A career of nearly three decades with the CIA and the National Intelligence Council showed Paul R. Pillar that intelligence reforms, especially measures enacted since 9/11, can be deeply misguided. They often miss the sources that underwrite failed policy and misperceive our ability to read outside influences. They also misconceive the...
Dutton Caliber, 2010. — 352 p. Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most secret elite U.S. military unit to serve in the Vietnam War-its very existence denied by the government. Composed entirely of volunteers from such ace fighting units as the Army Green Berets, Air Force Air Commandos, and Navy SEALs, SOG took on the most dangerous covert assignments, in...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 302 p. Jessica Pliley links the crusade against sex trafficking to the FBI’s growth into a formidable law agency that cooperated with states and municipalities in pursuit of offenders. The Bureau intervened in squabbles on behalf of men intent on monitoring their wives and daughters and imprisoned prostitutes while seldom prosecuting their male...
Elva Resa Publishing, 2012. — 128 p. Inspiring, action-packed WWII spy biography! How did a woman of no importance become one of the bravest, most valued—and MOST WANTED—intelligence agents? How, despite having a wooden leg, did she turn the course of history? Virginia Hall had a dream to become the first woman ambassador for the United States. Turned down by the US State...
Hanover Square Press, 2023. — 288 p. The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in US history, drawing upon never-before-seen material and to be published upon her release from prison, for readers of Agent Sonya and A Woman of No Importance. Just days after the 9-11 attacks, a senior Pentagon analyst eased her red Toyota Echo into traffic and headed...
Blood Moon Productions, 2012. — 576 p. Blood Moon’s newest book examines the hidden sexual secrets of long-time companions, FBI Directors J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson, and their decades-long obsession with the darkest indiscretions of famous Americans. This is history’s first exposure of J. Edgar’s obsession with voyeuristic sex and its links to the priorities of his law...
Trine Day, 2015. — 456 p. Drugs as Weapons Against Us meticulously details how a group of opium-trafficking families came to form an American oligarchy and eventually achieved global dominance. This oligarchy helped fund the Nazi regime and then saved thousands of Nazis to work with the Central Intelligence Agency. CIA operations such as MK-Ultra pushed LSD and other drugs on...
Progressive Left Press, 2016. — 192 p. The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders, with over 900 endnotes, reveals the following: Insiders’ statements of how the FBI has continued Cointelpro, including against rappers · U.S. Intelligence attacks on the Shakur family—Abbah, Lumumba, Mutulu, Afeni, Zayd, and Assata—open a window to the attacks on many leftist black leaders ·...
Microcosm Publishing, 2021. — 217 p. Since the first day after the tragedy was announced, controversy has surrounded the death of rap and cultural icon Tupac Shakur. In this work, preeminent researcher on the topic, John Potash, puts forward his own theories of the events leading up to and following the murder in this meticulously researched and exhaustive account of the story....
Skyhorse Publishing, 2020. — 368 p. Two of the most fascinating figures in history, John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth president of the United States, and Allen Dulles, our nation’s longest-serving CIA director, often clashed over intelligence issues and national security. However, one such conflict has remained in the shadows until now. JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia...
Free Press, 1988. — 624 p. A well-researched biography about the public and private life of J. Edgar Hoover-former FBI director and America's most controversial law enforcer-that draws on previously unknown personal documents, a study of FBI files, and the presidential papers of nine administrations. Secrecy and Power is a full biography of former FBI director, covering all...
St. Martin's Press, 2022. — 400 p. A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 400 p. From his years as America's point man in Vietnam to his mysterious death in 1996, William E. Colby was one of the most enigmatic figures of the Cold War. Whether it was in CIA operations against Russia, anti-Communism in Western Europe, covert action in Southeast Asia, or its involvement in the Watergate affair, Colby stood at the center of...
William Morrow & Co., 1986. — 480 p. In this new edition of his essential work, John Prados adds his concluding findings on U.S. covert operations in Angola, Afghanistan, Nicaragua and the Persian Gulf. Acclaimed as a landmark book about U.S. intelligence agencies in the postwar era, Presidents' Secret Wars describes the secret warfare mounted by the president, the CIA and the...
Ivan R. Dee, 2006. — 752 p. From its founding in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency has been discovered in the midst of some of the most crucial-and most embarrassing-episodes in United States relations with the world. Safe for Democracy for the first time places the story of the CIA's covert operations squarely in the context of America's global...
University of Texas Press, 2013. — 400 p. In December 1974, a front-page story in the New York Times revealed the explosive details of illegal domestic spying by the Central Intelligence Agency. This included political surveillance, eavesdropping, detention, and interrogation. The revelation of illegal activities over many years shocked the American public and led to...
University of Texas Press, 2013. — 400 p. In December 1974, a front-page story in the New York Times revealed the explosive details of illegal domestic spying by the Central Intelligence Agency. This included political surveillance, eavesdropping, detention, and interrogation. The revelation of illegal activities over many years shocked the American public and led to...
The New Press, 2017. — 320 p. During his first visit to Langley, the CIA's Virginia headquarters, President Donald Trump told those gathered, "I am so behind you, there's nobody I respect more, " hinting that he was going to put more CIA operations officers into the field so the CIA could smite its enemies ever more forcefully. But while Trump was making these promises, behind the...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 224 p. Eminent scholar John Prados brings his deep expertise to the subject of the US Special Forces and provides an essential primer on its various components. The assassination of Osama bin Laden by SEAL Team 6 in May 2011 will certainly figure among the greatest achievements of US Special Forces. After nearly ten years of searching, they...
Expressão Popular, 2020. — 167 p. Este é um livro sobre balas, diz o seu autor. Balas que assassinaram processos democráticos, que assassinaram revoluções e que assassinaram esperanças. O bravo historiador e jornalista indiano Vijay Prashad emprega toda a sua vontade para explicar e ordenar de forma compreensível e totalizadora o obscuro interesse com que o imperialismo...
Duke University Press, 2016. — 489 p. In Cold War Anthropology, David H. Price offers a provocative account of the profound influence that the American security state has had on the field of anthropology since the Second World War. Using a wealth of information unearthed in CIA, FBI, and military records, he maps out the intricate connections between academia and the...
Pluto Press, 2022. — 368 p. New evidence has come to light proving how far the FBI monitored its citizens throughout the Cold War and beyond. When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it’s accepted that corporations are vested with human rights, and government agencies and corporations use computers to...
Little, Brown and Company, 2011. — 385 p. The top-secret world that the government created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks has become so enormous, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs or exactly how many agencies duplicate work being done elsewhere. The result is that the system put in place to keep the...
Charles River Editors, 2025 — 63 p. It takes a special type of person to serve in a nation’s navy, especially on long voyages that separate men and women from their loved ones, and no service is both loved and hated as that aboard submarines, for very few people ever serve on them on a whim. For one thing, the psychological impact of being trapped for long periods underwater in...
Charles River Editors, 2025 — 63 p. It takes a special type of person to serve in a nation’s navy, especially on long voyages that separate men and women from their loved ones, and no service is both loved and hated as that aboard submarines, for very few people ever serve on them on a whim. For one thing, the psychological impact of being trapped for long periods underwater in...
The Thinker's Library, 2003. — 481 p. The Secret Team, L. Fletcher Prouty’s expose´ of the CIA’s brutal methods of maintaining national security during the Cold War, was first published in the 1970s. However, virtually all copies of the book disappeared upon distribution, having been purchased en masse by shady “private buyers.” Prouty’s allegations—such as how the U-2 Crisis of...
Penguin Readers Group, 2022. — 152 p. A young readers adaptation of Sonia Purnell's New York Times bestselling book A Woman of No Importance, the story of Virginia Hall; the unassuming American spy who helped the allies win World War II. Virginia Hall was deemed "the most dangerous of all allied spies" by the Gestapo. Armed with her wits and her prosthetic leg, she was deployed...
Btb Verlag, 2022. — 500 S. 1942 sendete die Gestapo folgenden Funkspruch: »Sie ist die gefährlichste unter allen Spionen der Alliierten. Wir müssen sie finden und vernichten.« Gemeint war Virginia Hall, eine Frau aus besten amerikanischen Kreisen, die es geschafft hatte, in Winston Churchills Geheimorganisation Special Operations Executives aufgenommen zu werden. Hall war die...
Btb Verlag, 2022. — 500 S. 1942 sendete die Gestapo folgenden Funkspruch: »Sie ist die gefährlichste unter allen Spionen der Alliierten. Wir müssen sie finden und vernichten.« Gemeint war Virginia Hall, eine Frau aus besten amerikanischen Kreisen, die es geschafft hatte, in Winston Churchills Geheimorganisation Special Operations Executives aufgenommen zu werden. Hall war die...
Public Affairs, 2009. — 400 p. In The Vendetta , author Alston Purvis recounts the story of his father, Melvin Purvis, the iconic G-man and public hero made famous by his remarkable sweep of the great Public Enemies of the American Depression—John Dillinger; Pretty Boy Floyd, and Baby Face Nelson. Purvis’s successes led FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover to grow increasingly jealous, to the...
Amacom, 2009. — 257 p. The story of any military operation revolves not just around strategies and equipment, but around people. Now for the first time, readers will get an intimate look at the people behind CAS Close Air Support. Their work is both delicate and deadly, their actions rooted in months of planning and executed with split-second timing. Acting as a bridge between...
Zenith Press, 2011. — 160 p. Pushies, a freelance photographer and author of books focusing on the elite units of the US Special Operations Forces, details the US Marine Special Operations Command (MARSOC), established in 2006. He surveys the origins of the Special Operations Command from 1987 onward, the roles of the various armed forces, and its principal missions. He also...
Voyageur Press, 2016. — 323 p. It's the inside scoop on US military special operations. From weapons, gear, missions, and commandos, learn every military secret from the eighteenth century to today. Few aspects of the US military pique people's interest more than special ops. Due to the clandestine nature of their missions, weapons, and gear, these elite fighting forces are...
Naval Institute Press, 2011. — 336 p. Operation MH/CHAOS was the code name for a secret domestic spying program conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency in the late 1960s and early 1970s, after being charged with unmasking possible foreign influences on the student antiwar movement. CIA counterinsurgency officer Frank Rafalko was a member of the CHAOS special operations group....
Battle of Britain International, 2019. — 56 p. In the summer of 1944, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) sent eight so-called Operational Groups into Axis-occupied Greece. Operational Groups (OGs) were teams of uniformed American soldiers sent behind enemy lines to carry out sabotage actions in co-operation with the armed resistance of the country in which they were...
Simon and Schuster, 1986. — 847 p. Scores of interviews with insiders and more than seven thousand pages of formerly classified documents support this history of the CIA, which focuses on "The Company's" remarkable personalities and leaders from Wild Bill Donovan to William Casey. This book has held up well over time. It covers the development of the CIA as an organization from...
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 2019. — 403 p. One night in October 2001, shortly after al-Qaeda's attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, a private jet touched down in Karachi. Masood Anwar, a prominent Pakistani journalist, received an unexpected tip from a friend in the airport: "There were men in masks. They took a hooded man onboard in the early hours....
Ocean Press, 1997. — 212 p. Published for the first time are the U.S. secret police files on the legendary revolutionary Ernesto Guevara, showing how the FBI and CIA monitored his movements and activity in the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Africa and Latin America. A Freedom of Information Act request succeeded in obtaining the FBI file on Guevara, containing a wide selection of...
OR Books, 2011. — 208 p. In compelling detail two leading U.S. civil rights attorneys recount the extraordinary life and deliberate killing of the world's most storied revolutionary: Ernesto Che Guevara. Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith survey the extraordinary trajectory of Che's career, from an early politicization recounted in the Motorcycle Diaries, through meetings...
Doubleday, 2018. — 352 p. A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of disaster. On May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between the two nations. The CIA concocted a cover story for President...
NYU Press, 2017. — 238 p. The history of recruiting citizens to spy on each other in the United States. Ever since the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden, we think about surveillance as the data-tracking digital technologies used by the likes of Google, the National Security Administration, and the military. But in reality, the state and allied institutions have a much...
Yale University Press, 1992. — 256 p. Covert activity has always been a significant element of international politics. This book attempts to assess the lawfulness of covert action under US and international law and faces the implications for democratic states that covert operations pose.
Hawthorn Books, 1978. — 296 p. The heroes of World War II: They came from every walk of life, they manifested undreamed of bravery, they left home and country to fight and win on foreign shores.
Potomac Books, 2012. — 228 p. New York City has long been a breeding ground for spies, saboteurs, terrorists, and other threats to the nation and its greatest city. Battleground New York City examines the history of domestic security operations and the people and agencies involved in safeguarding ôthe city that never sleeps. Starting with the bloody draft riots during the Civil...
St. Martin's Press, 1993. — 304 p. Face-to-face with some of America's most terrifying killers, FBI veteran Robert K. Ressler learned how to identify the unknown monsters who walk among us -- and put them behind bars. In Whoever Fights Monsters, Ressler―the inspiration for the character Agent Bill Tench in David Fincher's hit TV show Mindhunter―shows how he was able to track...
Harper Collins, 2022. — 288 p. Historian and former CIA officer Nicholas Reynolds, the New York Times bestselling author of Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy, uncovers the definitive history of American intelligence during World War II, illuminating its key role in securing victory and its astonishing growth from practically nothing at the start of the war. The entire vast, modern...
Harper Collins, 2017. — 384 p. A former CIA officer and curator of the CIA Museum unveils the shocking, untold story of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway's secret life as a spy for both the Americans and the Soviets before and during World War II. While he was the curator of the CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, a longtime military intelligence expert, began to discover...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. — 335 p. The first in-depth examination of NEST: America's super-secret government agency operating to prevent nuclear terrorist attacks. Jeffrey T. Richelson reveals the history of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team, from the events leading to its creation in 1974 to today. Defusing Armageddon provides a behind-the-scenes look at NEST's personnel,...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. — 768 p. A global history of U.S. nuclear espionage from its World War II origins to today's threats from rogue states. For fifty years, the United States has monitored friends and foes who seek to develop the ultimate weapon. Since 1952 the nuclear club has grown to at least eight nations, while others are making serious attempts to join. Each...
Westview Press, 2015. — 648 p. — Seventh Edition. The role of intelligence in US government operations has changed dramatically and is now more critical than ever to domestic security and foreign policy. This authoritative and highly researched book written by Jeffrey T. Richelson provides a detailed overview of America's vast intelligence empire, from its organizations and...
Basic Books, 2002. — 416 p. In this, the first full-length study of the Directorate of Science and Technology, Jeffrey T. Richelson walks us down the corridors of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and through the four decades of science, scientists, and managers that produced the CIA we have today. He tells a story of amazing technological innovation in service of...
Touchstone, 2010. — 228 p. Prophetic when first published, even more relevant now, Wedge is the classic, definitive story of the secret war America has waged against itself. Based on scores of interviews with former spies and thousands of declassified documents, Wedge reveals and re-creates — battle by battle, bungle by bungle — the epic clash that has made America uniquely...
Brookings Institution Press, 2015. — 251 p. Bruce Riedel provides new perspective and insights into Kennedy's forgotten crisis in the most dangerous days of the cold war. The Cuban Missile Crisis defined the presidency of John F. Kennedy. But during the same week that the world stood transfixed by the possibility of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union,...
Brookings Institution Press, 2015. — 250 p. Bruce Riedel provides new perspective and insights into Kennedy's forgotten crisis in the most dangerous days of the cold war. The Cuban Missile Crisis defined the presidency of John F. Kennedy. But during the same week that the world stood transfixed by the possibility of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union,...
Ben Bella Books, 2018. — 300 p. FBI Special Agent Jeff Rinek had a gift for getting child predators to confess. All he had to do was share a piece of his soul. In the Name of the Children gives an unflinching look at what it's like to fight a never-ending battle against an enemy far more insidious than terrorists: the predators, lurking amongst us, who seek to harm our...
Random House Publishing Group, 2003. — 560 p. A history of the CIA's spy wars with the KGB ranges from 1985, through the Afghan war, to the breakup of the Soviet Union, detailing the activities of intelligence operatives on both sides of the conflict. Based on hundreds of interviews with operatives from both sides, The Main Enemy puts us inside the heads of CIA officers as they...
I.B. Tauris, 2014. — 337 p. As the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq Peters out in failure, the historical debate is just beginning. How were we so misled in to such a disastrous war? What were its real goals? What did it achieve? Former UN Weapons inspector Scott Ritter offers a rare first-hand account of the build up to the war, and how the CIA exploited weapons inspections...
Scribner, 2014. — 336 p. In 1975, fresh out of law school and working a numbing job at the Treasury Department, John Rizzo took “a total shot in the dark” and sent his résumé to the Central Intelligence Agency. He had no notion that more than thirty years later, after serving under eleven CIA directors and seven presidents, he would become a notorious public figure—a symbol and a...
Central Intelligence Agency, 2012. — 65 p. This history of the U-2's replacement provides an accessible overview of the A-12's development and use as an intelligence collector. The author has tried to make the narrative informative to lay readers while retaining enough technical detail to satisfy aeronautics and engineering readers. He has used sources listed in the...
Crown, 1987. — 420 p. In 1961-1975 the CIA ran a secret war in Laos, using Hmong tribesmen and covert U.S. Air Force air support. Ravens, USAF forward air controllers (FACs), flew low and slow over the battlefields, calling in air strikes on North Vietnamese soldiers. These men exposed themselves to every sort of risk. Robbins provides a detailed, readable account, with ample...
Crown, 2012. — 560 p. American Desperado is Roberts’ no-holds-barred account of being born into Mafia royalty, witnessing his first murder at the age of seven, becoming a hunter-assassin in Vietnam, returning to New York to become--at age 22--one of the city’s leading nightclub impresarios, then journeying to Miami where in a few short years he would rise to become the Medellin...
William Morrow, 1992. — 450 p. In this definitive sourcebook on a disgraceful chapter in American history, Robins shows how the FBI far exceeded its proper investigative role to wage war against American writers. The definitive file on the FBI's files on writers and journalists. Required reading for anyone interested in modern American intellectual history.
New York: Random House, 2000. — 400 p. Here is the first full telling of the most colorful and famous law enforcers of our time. For years, the Texas Rangers have been historical figures shrouded in myth. Charles M. Robinson III has sifted through the tall tales to reach the heart of this storied organization. The Men Who Wear the Star details the history of the Rangers, from...
Public Affairs, 2013. — 344 p. One Hundred Victories is a portrait of how after a decade of intensive combat operations special operations forces have become the go-to force for US military endeavors worldwide. Linda Robinson follows the evolution of special ops in Afghanistan, their longest deployment since Vietnam. She has lived in mud-walled compounds in the mountains and...
Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2013. — 51 p. — (Council Special Report No. 66, April 2013). The United States has arrived at a critical inflection point in the development and employment of its special operations forces. Budget pressures and exhaustion with large-scale wars now place a new premium on small-footprint operations and partnering with allies to provide...
Lerner Publishing Group, 2016. — 35 p. Told for the first time in picture book form is the true story of James Lafayette―a slave who spied for George Washington's army during the American Revolution. But while America celebrated its newfound freedom, James returned to slavery. His service hadn't qualified him for the release he'd been hoping for. For James the fight wasn't...
University of Illinois Press, 2017. — 132 p. During the Cold War, dissent against U.S. international policy was looked upon as inherently suspicious. No one was more suspicious than outspoken left-leaning intellectuals, especially those who lived in Manhattan. For national security reasons, the federal government expended considerable resources surveilling men and women who...
Kopp, Rottenburg, 2020. — 179 p. Wie kein anderer Präsident in der Geschichte der USA wurde und wird Donald Trump vom Establishment und den Massenmedien bekämpft. Dabei ist ihnen jedes Mittel recht: illegale Maßnahmen, Verleumdungen, Lügen, haltlose Anschuldigungen, Beleidigungen und persönliche Angriffe. Der »Putsch« gegen Trump nimmt immer obskurere Züge an. Lesen Sie hier,...
W.W. Norton Company, 2020. — 352 p. Three-quarters of Americans believe that a group of unelected government and military officials secretly manipulate or direct national policy in the United States. President Trump blames the "deep state" for his impeachment. But what is the American "deep state" and does it really exist? To conservatives, the “deep state” is an ever-growing...
First edition. — New York: Walker and Company Inc, 1976. — 261 p. — ISBN: 0-8027-0529-4 The Office of Coordinator of Information (COl) was established on 11 July 1941. It was announced to the public as an agency for the collection and analysis of information and data. Actually, through COl and its successor, the Office of strategic Services (OSS), the United States was...
Worth Books, 2017. — 45 p. Alexander Rose's New York Times–bestselling book Washington's Spies offers an in-depth account of the network of men who operated covertly under George Washington's command during the Revolutionary War. These men, referred to as the Culper Ring, worked largely in southern New York, sending and receiving coded messages from across Manhattan to Long...
Harper Collins, 2022. — 288 p. From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington’s Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War—and the Union agent resolved to stop him. In 1861, soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, two secret agents—one a Confederate, the other his Union rival—were dispatched to neutral...
Bantam, 2014. — 384 p. Basing his tale on remarkable original research, historian Alexander Rose reveals the unforgettable story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking, and unmasks the courageous,...
Hardie Grant Publishing, 2018. — 288 p. In 1966, Australia and the US signed a treaty that allowed the establishment of a jointly run satellite tracking station, just south of Alice Springs. For more than fifty years it has operated in a shroud of secrecy and been the target of much public and political controversy. David Rosenberg, a US high-tech spy who worked at Pine Gap for...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. — 752 p. Subversives traces the FBI’s secret involvement with three iconic figures at Berkeley during the 1960s: the ambitious neophyte politician Ronald Reagan, the fierce but fragile radical Mario Savio, and the liberal university president Clark Kerr. Through these converging narratives, the award-winning investigative reporter Seth Rosenfeld...
NYU Press, 2017. — 288 p. In April 1939, Warner Brothers studios released the first Hollywood film to confront the Nazi threat in the United States. Confessions of a Nazi Spy, starring Edward G. Robinson, told the story of German agents in New York City working to overthrow the U.S. government. The film alerted Americans to the dangers of Nazism at home and encouraged them to...
New York: Routledge, 2019. — 326 p. Allthor’s Preface Author’s Preface to the Encore Edition War, Hot and Cold To Russia by Air The Second Circle To Russia by Visa Recruiting Russians The Third Circle Espionage: the Global Beat Coun terespionage Covert Action: Propaganda Covert Action: Paramilitary Covert Action: Political The CIA at Home The CIA at Bay The Future of Secret...
Routledge, 2019. — 326 p. I am grateful to those of my CIA's colleagues in this first generation of American "spymasters" who were willing to share their experiences with me even after I retired to my unclassified farm. I am indebted to Howard Roman, who worked with Allen Dulles on his intelligence writings , for his assistance in the preparation of the early chapters, and to...
Manitou Communications, 2006. — 352 p. The C.I.A. Doctors, uncovers the truth about violations of human rights by American Psychiatrists in the twentieth century. Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and cross-referenced research published in leading medical journals expose the existence of mind altering experiments on unwitting human subjects, paid for by...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. — 352 p. During his long tenure as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover made no secret of his high regard for the Catholic faith. Though himself a Protestant, he shared with Catholicism a set of values and a vision of the world, grounded in certain assumptions about the way things ought to be in a well-ordered...
Rothmiller Books, 2014. — 192 p. L.A. Secret Police. Inside the LAPD Elite Spy Network is a New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller. This incredible non-fiction book rips the lid off the LAPD and exposes the reader to its dark underbelly of corruption during the reign of Chief Daryl Gates. L.A. cops ruined lives and reputations, inflicted mindless brutality, committed...
Prometheus, 2019. — 320 p. This ain't your daddy's spy story. In a memoir written as a series of narrative vignettes, a former CIA operations officer recounts his years of danger, intrigue, and adventure.This candid and darkly witty memoir recounts an exhilarating life --and a few close brushes with death. With remarkable sangfroid and a humorist's eye for absurdity, H. K. Roy...
Prometheus Books, 2020. — 320 p. This ain't your daddy's spy story. In a memoir written as a series of narrative vignettes, a former CIA operations officer recounts his years of danger, intrigue, and adventure.This candid and darkly witty memoir recounts an exhilarating life --and a few close brushes with death. With remarkable sangfroid and a humorist's eye for absurdity, H....
Editora Pensamento-Cultrix, 2016. — 272 p. Com a experiência adquirida durante as décadas em que serviu nos SEALs da Marinha dos Estados Unidos, Rob Roy demonstra como as habilidades que permitem às equipes SEALs alcançarem o impossível no campo de batalha podem ajudar executivos e profissionais de todas as áreas a tomar decisões melhores e a formar equipes mais entrosadas e de...
ABC-CLIO, 2022. — 484 p. This book provides a compelling overview of U.S. laws, policies, special programs, and actions in the realms of anti- and counterterrorism, as well as comprehensive coverage of the various domestic and foreign terrorist organizations threatening America, including their leaders, ideologies, and practices. These entries are supplemented with a carefully...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 230 p. Gaps in the author's reading (or writing) appeared from the very beginning. Lost first star there. He defines strategic intelligence as focused on threats and the use of force. Despite his mention of Adda Bozeman, he does not seem to have understood that the heart of strategic intelligence is deep and sustained study and understanding of...
Bancroft Press, 1998. — 820 p. Humiliated at the Bay of Pigs, John and Robert Kennedy sought desperately to eliminate Castro. Their strategies for overthrowing the Cuban leader were so elaborate and bizarre, they could only engender paranoia. Castro openly threatened to retaliate. Pro-Castro agitator Lee Harvey Oswald learned that Robert Kennedy was personally supervising...
University Press of Kentucky, 2016. — 374 p. Although most Americans paid little attention to Cambodia during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency, the nation's proximity to China and the global ideological struggle with the Soviet Union guaranteed US vigilance throughout Southeast Asia. Cambodia's leader, Norodom Sihanouk, refused to take sides in the Cold War, a policy that...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 255 p. The Fall of Che Guevara tells the story of Guevara's last campaign, in the backwoods of Bolivia, where he hoped to ignite a revolution that would spread throughout South America. For the first time, this book shows in detail the strategy of the U.S. and Bolivian governments to foil his efforts. Based on numerous interviews and on secret...
University Press of Kansas, 2014. — 336 p. "One could not choose a worse place for fighting the Japanese," said Winston Churchill of North Burma, deeming it "the most forbidding fighting country imaginable." But it was here that the fledgling Office of Strategic Services conducted its most successful combat operations of World War II. Troy Sacquety takes readers into Burma's...
Stackpole Books, 2020. — 228 p. In fall 1965, North Vietnam's high command smelled blood in the water. The South Vietnamese republic was on the verge of collapse, and Hanoi resolved to crush it once and for all. The communists set their sights on South Vietnam's strategically vital West-Central Highlands. Annihilate ARVN's defenses in Kontum and Pleiku provinces, the communists...
Little, Brown and Company, 2006. — 416 p. At the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental special fighting unit that became known as "Tiger Force." The Tigers were to be made up of the cream of the crop-the very best and bravest soldiers the American military could offer. They would be given a long leash, allowed to operate in the field with less supervision....
University Press of Mississippi, 2019. — 291 p. The outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 took the American military by surprise. Rushing to respond, the US and its allies developed a selective overflight program to gather intelligence. Silent Warriors, Incredible Courage is a history of the Cold War overflights of the Soviet Union, its allies, and the People's Republic of...
Book Baby, 2020. — 128 p. In our modern business landscape, the war for talent is more complex than ever. You need to attract and retain the best talent for your organization to win, but without the right strategy or mindset, you won't be able to compete. If your revenue is declining, you're losing market share to your competition, or your organizational health is...
Harper Collins, 2008. — 326 p. As American involvement in WW II grew imminent, President Roosevelt authorised the establishment of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the predecessor of both the CIA and military Special Operations Forces. Using military cover, OSS began building a clandestine capability to combat the Axis powers, in which saboteurs, guerillas, commandos, spies...
Center Street, 2019. — 320 p. One of the most highly regarded special operations soldiers in American military history shares his war stories and personal battle with PTSD. As a senior non-commissioned officer of the most elite and secretive special operations unit in the U.S. military, Command Sergeant Major Tom Satterly fought some of this country's most fearsome enemies....
Fazi Editore, 2004. — 500 p. Un resoconto ampio e dettagliato della potente rete di finanziamenti di illustri esponenti e organi della cultura europea messa in piedi dalla CIA dopo la seconda guerra mondiale. Dopo i due decenni dei fascismi e della guerra, la stragrande maggioranza degli intellettuali europei erano su posizioni critiche anticapitaliste. Per contrastare il...
New York: New Press, 2000. — 509 p. The Cultural Cold War Shocking evidence of cultural manipulation during the Cold War is presented as Saunders' book draws together newly declassified documents and interviews with cultural figures such as George Orwell and Gloria Steinem to expose the CIA's astonishing campaign. Exquisite Corpse Destiny’s Elect Marxists at the Waldorf...
New Press, 2013. — 427 p. The Cultural Cold War Shocking evidence of cultural manipulation during the Cold War is presented as Saunders' book draws together newly declassified documents and interviews with cultural figures such as George Orwell and Gloria Steinem to expose the CIA's astonishing campaign.
Record, 2008. — 560 p. Quem Pagou a Conta? ( original: Who Paid the Piper?: CIA and the Cultural Cold War) é um livro da pesquisadora inglesa Frances Stonor Saunders que conta como a CIA financiou publicações internacionais, artistas, intelectuais de centro e esquerda, desde do término da Segunda Guerra Mundial e o início da Guerra Fria, num esforço para mantê-los distantes da...
New Word City, 2016. — 224 p. The American Civil War was one of the most harrowing conflicts in history. What many of us don't know is the key role that spies played on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line during the four-year struggle. This shadow war was played out by an intriguing lineup of players: detective agency chief Allan Pinkerton, who was said to have thwarted a...
Cornell University Press, 2012. — 265 p. Between 1942 and 1958, J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a sweeping and sustained investigation of the motion picture industry to expose Hollywood's alleged subversion of "the American Way" through its depiction of social problems, class differences, and alternative political ideologies. FBI informants (their names...
Nation Books, 2013. — 680 p. In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, takes us inside America's new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies....
Regnery Publishing, 2007. — 229 p. Since the attacks on September 11, 2001, intelligence collection has become the number-one weapon in the effort to defeat al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. A plot penetrated is an attack stopped. And to the outside observer, the CIA has performed well as a key partner in the Bush administration's War on Terror. But as Rowan Scarborough reveals in...
Yale University Press, 2011. — 352 p. The first complete biography of a little-known but fascinating figure in the history of espionage and the American Revolution. A man of as many names as motives, Edward Bancroft is a singular figure in the history of Revolutionary America. Born in Massachusetts in 1745, Bancroft moved to England as a young man in the 1760s and began...
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2005. — 330 p. Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The...
Times Books, 2011. — 336 p. In the years following the 9/11 attacks, the United States waged a "war on terror" that sought to defeat Al Qaeda through brute force. But it soon became clear that this strategy was not working, and by 2005 the Pentagon began looking for a new way. In Counterstrike, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of The New York Times tell the story of how a group of...
Dell Books, 2011. — 224 p. Remote Viewers is a tale of the Pentagon's attempts to develop the perfect tool for espionage: psychic spies. These psychic spies, or "remote viewers," were able to infiltrate any target, elude any form of security, and never risk scratch. For twenty years, the government selected civilian and military personnel for psychic ability, trained them, and...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2010. — 309 p. Leaking — the unauthorized disclosure to the press of secret information—is a well-established part of the U.S. government’s normal functioning. Gabriel Schoenfeld examines history and legal precedent to argue that leaks of highly classified national-security secrets have reached hitherto unthinkable extremes, with dangerous potential for...
University of California Press, 2019. — 416 p. From the Cold War through today, the U.S. has quietly assisted dozens of regimes around the world in suppressing civil unrest and securing the conditions for the smooth operation of capitalism. Casting a new light on American empire, Badges Without Borders shows, for the first time, that the very same people charged with global...
Columbia: University of Missouri, 2017. — 186 p. — ISBN-13 978-0-8262-7393-2. This highly accessible book provides new material and a fresh perspective on American National Intelligence practice, focusing on the first fifty years of the twentieth century, when the United States took on the responsibilities of a global superpower during the first years of the Cold War. Late to...
University of Missouri Press, 2017. — 186 p. This highly accessible book provides new material and a fresh perspective on American National Intelligence practice, focusing on the first fifty years of the twentieth century, when the United States took on the responsibilities of a global superpower during the first years of the Cold War. Late to the art of intelligence, the...
Presidio Press, 2005. — 416 p. While America held its breath in the days immediately following 9/11, a small but determined group of CIA agents covertly began to change history. This is the riveting first-person account of the treacherous top-secret mission inside Afghanistan to set the stage for the defeat of the Taliban and launch the war on terror. Gary Schroen was hardly...
Westholme Publishing, 2014. — 208 p. On August 17, 1942, ten days after American marines had stormed Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, two U.S. submarines secretly delivered a small force from the newly formed 2nd Marine Raider Battalion to Japanese-occupied Makin Island one thousand miles to the north. The raid was intended to gather intelligence and divert attention from...
Updated Edition. — University of California Press, 2023. — 279 p. When the San Jose Mercury News ran a controversial series of stories in 1996 on the relationship between the CIA, the Contras, and crack, they reignited the issue of the intelligence agency's connections to drug trafficking, initially brought to light during the Vietnam War and then again by the Iran-Contra...
University of California Press, 2008. — 520 p. This is an ambitious, meticulous examination of how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts, including, perhaps, the catastrophe of 9/11. Peter Dale Scott, whose previous books have investigated CIA involvement in southeast Asia, the drug wars, and the Kennedy...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 228 p. When Peter Scott began a 1968 tour in Vietnam advising ethnic Cambodian Khmer Krom paramilitaries, they shared only an earnest desire to check the spread of communism. It took nearly thirty years and a chance reunion for him to realize just how much they had become a part of him. Successfully blending intense combat narrative and stirring...
Grove Atlantic, 2022. — 288 p. Some argued it would save the U.S. after 9/11. Instead, the CIA's enhanced interrogation program came to be defined as American torture. The Forever Prisoner, a primary source for the recent HBO Max film directed by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, exposes the full story behind the most divisive CIA operation in living memory. Six months after...
Grove Atlantic, 2022. — 288 p. Some argued it would save the U.S. after 9/11. Instead, the CIA's enhanced interrogation program came to be defined as American torture. The Forever Prisoner, a primary source for the recent HBO Max film directed by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, exposes the full story behind the most divisive CIA operation in living memory. Six months after...
Texas Tech University Press, 2014. — 512 p. When the Viet Nam War ended, with the United States of America defeated, many wondered how a military powerhouse lost to a “raggedy-ass, little fourth-rate country,” as President Lyndon Johnson called North Viet Nam. Frank Scotton knew why. A young Foreign Service Officer assigned to Viet Nam in 1962, Scotton drove roads others...
Verso, 2005. — 365 p. In 1945, US Intelligence officers in Manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These would be combined with treasure recovered inside Japan during the US occupation, and with Nazi loot recovered in...
Gerard Arthus Publishers, 1965. — 12 p. These are images for a 1965 take-apart vintage Secret Sam Pistol/Rifle Set. The last image includes the instruction sheet. After the creation of the spy-hero genre thanks to the James Bond films, kids all over America and the rest of the civilized Western world put aside for a while their six-guns, catcher's mitts, and domino masks, and...
Pathfinder Press, 2014. — 148 p. The 15-year political campaign of the Socialist Workers Party to expose decades of spying and disruption by the FBI and other federal cop agencies targeting working-class organizations and other opponents of government policies. Traces the origins of bipartisan efforts to expand presidential powers and build the "national security" state...
Catapult, 2023. — 282 p. The intimate and heartbreaking story of a Black undercover police officer who famously kneeled by the assassinated Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr—and a daughter’s quest for the truth about her father In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of Memphis’s Lorraine Motel, one man kneeled down beside King,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 225 p. Coming at the heels of September 11, Operation Iraqi Freedom has focused the limelight on the way in which the United States predicts and manages political change. The failure to find WMD and more important, the continued violence in Iraq instead of the hoped for democracy, has engender an acrimonious debate on the motives of the Bush...
St. Martins Press, 2019. — 539 p. Describes the career of mobster Johnny Rosselli, a protégé of Al Capone, who went on to be the Mob's man in Hollywood, oversaw the creation of Las Vegas, and worked with the CIA in an assassination attempt on Fidel Castro. A singular figure in the annals of the American underworld, Johnny Rosselli’s career flourished for an extraordinary fifty...
St. Martin's Press, 2017. — 320 p. That Others May Live" is a mantra that defines the fearless men of Alaska's 212th Pararescue Unit, the PJs, one of the most elite military forces on the planet. Whether they are rescuing citizens injured and freezing in the Alaskan wilderness or saving wounded Rangers and SEALS in blazing firefights at war, the PJs are the least known and most...
Naval Institute Press, 2023. — 212 p. Rise of the Mavericks traces the beginnings and subsequent development of the U.S. Air Force Security Service. Established in 1948 as part of the emerging U.S. national security apparatus, this communications intelligence organization was meant to place the fledgling U.S. Air Force on a competitive footing with its Army and Navy...
Potomac Books, 2005. — 336 p. The death of CIA operative Theodore G. "Ted" Shackley in December 2002 triggered an avalanche of obituaries from all over the world, some of them condemnatory. Pundits used such expressions as "heroin trafficking," "training terrorists," "attempts to assassinate Castro," and "Mob connections." More specifically, they charged him with having played a...
University Press of Kansas, 2012. — 344 p. March 1968: three miles below the stormy surface of the North Pacific, a Soviet submarine lay silent as a tomb-its crew dead, its payload of nuclear missiles, once directed toward strategic targets in Hawaii, inoperable. No longer a real threat, the sub still presented an alluring target and it was not long before the CIA answered its...
Routledge, 2021. — 537 p. This handbook comprises essays by leading scholars and practitioners on the topic of U.S. counterterrorism and irregular warfare campaigns and operations around the globe. Terrorist groups have evolved substantially since 9/11, with the Islamic State often described as a pseudo-state, a terrorist group, and insurgency all at the same time. While...
Routledge, 2021. — 537 p. This handbook comprises essays by leading scholars and practitioners on the topic of U.S. counterterrorism and irregular warfare campaigns and operations around the globe. Terrorist groups have evolved substantially since 9/11, with the Islamic State often described as a pseudo-state, a terrorist group, and insurgency all at the same time. While...
Golden Springs Publishing, 2014. — 165 p. This work examines intelligence operations conducted by Major General Rosecrans’ Army of the Cumberland during the initial phases of the Chickamauga Campaign (11 August to 16 September 1863). The thesis methodology is a detailed analysis of all intelligence reports received by the headquarters and a detailed examination of all outgoing...
Public Affairs, 2018. — 360 p. From the authors of the bestselling The Finest Hours comes the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During the ominous two weeks of the Cold War's terrifying peak, two things saved humanity: the strategic...
Simon and Schuster, 2008. — 448 p. In Spies for Hire, investigative reporter Tim Shorrock lifts the veil off a major story the government doesn't want us to know about -- the massive outsourcing of top secret intelligence activities to private-sector contractors. Running spy networks overseas. Tracking down terrorists in the Middle East. Interrogating enemy prisoners. Analyzing...
Frontline Books, 2020. — 258 p. After the Great War, there was much debate in the USA whether the country should isolate itself from ‘old world’ conflicts or follow an imperialist path and become the world’s only superpower. If the USA was to become a superpower, then conflict with Great Britain might result. Consequently, the US drew up War Plan Red. This was a scheme for the...
Frontline Books, 2020. — 257 p. After the Great War, there was much debate in the USA whether the country should isolate itself from ‘old world’ conflicts or follow an imperialist path and become the world’s only superpower. If the USA was to become a superpower, then conflict with Great Britain might result. Consequently, the US drew up War Plan Red. This was a scheme for the...
Oxford University Press, 1996. — 224 p. Science of Coercion provides the first thorough examination of the role of the CIA, the Pentagon, and other U.S. security agencies in the evolution of modern communication research, a field in the social sciences which crystallized into a distinct discipline in the early 1950s. Government-funded psychological warfare programs underwrote...
Eakin Press, 2015. — 202 p. James P. Simpson is a gifted storyteller whose life embraced some of the most significant events of the 20th century. He is the last survivor of the small team that investigated and prosecuted the forces of organized crime on Galveston Island 50 years ago. His tales of defeating the Maceo gambling empire, without the assistance of local law...
Georgetown University Press, 2009. — 310 p. Decision makers matching wits with an adversary want intelligence -- good, relevant information to help them win. Intelligence can gain these advantages through directed research and analysis, agile collection, and the timely use of guile and theft. Counterintelligence is the art and practice of defeating these endeavors. Its purpose is...
Casemate, 2014. — 256 p. U.S. Air Force Pararescue is the most skillful and capable rescue force in the world, taking on some of the most dangerous rescue missions imaginable. PJs (short for para-jumpers), are members of an elite unit whose commando skills are so wide-reaching they often seem like something out of science fiction. They routinely tackle perilous operations that...
Lyons Press, 2015. — 310 p. A month after Lincoln’s assassination, William Alvin Lloyd arrived in Washington, DC, to press a claim against the federal government for money due him for serving as the president’s spy in the Confederacy. Lloyd claimed that Lincoln personally had issued papers of transit for him to cross into the South, a salary of $200 a month, and a secret...
Izzard Ink Publishing, 2016. — 228 р. Be the FBI Agent in training under J. Edgar Hoover and run the gauntlet of Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson and the Barker Karpis Gang. Step back into downtown Chicago of the 1930s and retrace the steps of some of America's most notorious mobsters. True Stories from the Files of the FBI was written by W. Cleon Skousen under the direct...
Pathfinder Press, 1974. — 24 p. Written to show how American special secret programme CONINTELPRO targeted the black protest movement with pictures and photocopied FBI files showing it’s true.
Basic Books, 1983. — 536 p. This may be as close to a definitive medium-length history of OSS as we are likely to get. It draws fully on the extensive original files now available (both American and British) and on the recent flood of secondary writing; the only exception appears to be the personal files of General Donovan which formed the basis of the recent Cave Brown...
Random House Publishing, 2011. — 152 p. With five tours of Vietnam and 257 combat missions under his belt, Navy SEAL Gary R. Smith has witnessed hell itself. This book covers his third and fourth tours in Nam. From Cam Ranh Bay to Nam Canh to night insertions into Cambodia, he served as SEAL adviser to volatile Vietnamese special forces, including the fierce PRUs (Provincial...
William Morrow, 2015. — 400 p. This book combines covert military intelligence with boots-on-the-ground realism, following Jamie Smith through his CIA training and work as a spy in the State Department, to his co-founding of Blackwater following 9/11, to his decision to leave that company. As the founder and director of Blackwater Security, Smith's initial vision has undeniably...
Ballantine Books, 1981. — 445 p. This book covers mainly the fifties and sixties of last century, when the author was an important CIA agent in Indonesia, the Philippines and Central and South America. It clearly shows how the CIA (the author) tried to influence directly the political situation in those countries. It supported financially the political party, that it thought...
Cassell, 2007. — 356 p. — ISBN 0312362722; ISBN13 978-0312362720. The 25-year history of a top-secret US Army special operations unit. ‘The Activity’, as it became known to insiders, has hidden behind a myriad of code-names like Gray Fox and Torn Victor. It has been publicly ‘disbanded’ and then secretly resurrected so often that it has near mythical status, even among the...
Forge Books, 2005. — 525 p. If you thought The Manchurian Candidate was fiction or John Farris's The Fury, which featured a CIA mind-control program run amok, was the stuff of an overheated imagination, you were sorely mistaken. From behind the cloak of U.S. military secrecy comes the story of Star Gate, the project that for nearly a quarter of a century trained soldiers and...
University of California Press, 1972. — 465 p. In the months before World War II, FDR prepared the country for conflict with Germany and Japan by reshuffling various government agencies to create the Office of Strategic Services--America’s first intelligence agency and the direct precursor to the CIA. When he charged William (“Wild Bill”) Donovan, a successful Wall Street lawyer...
University Press of Kansas, 2014. — 615 p. Widely regarded as a classic on the Vietnam War, Decent Interval provides a scathing critique of the CIA's role in and final departure from that conflict. Still the most detailed and respected account of America’s final days in Vietnam, the book was written at great risk and ultimately at great sacrifice by an author who believed in...
Create Space, 2008. — 408 p. This is a study of the CIA's relationship with Congress. It encompasses the period from the creation of the Agency until 2004-the era of the DCIs (directors of central intelligence). This study is not organized as one might expect. It does not describe what occurred between the Agency and Congress in chronological order nor does it purport to describe...
Springer, 1996. — 318 p. Ever since Charles Whitman gunned down over a dozen innocent people in 1966 from his perch atop the University of Texas clock tower, “SWAT team” has become a household word. In this compelling book, police veteran Robert L. Snow takes us into the midst of the nation's heroic SWAT teams, allowing us to eavesdrop on harrowing negotiations between killers...
Public Affairs, 1998. — 352 p. Chronicles the history of American submarine espionage and discusses how submarines were used to tap underwater telephone cables in Russia, how the Navy might have been able to save the men on the USS Scorpion, and how the fight between the CIA and the Navy almost ruined one of the most important American undersea missions. This real-life Hunt for...
University Press of Kentucky, 2014. — 232 p. Defend and Befriend is the first comprehensive study of Americans assigned to Combined Action Platoons in Vietnam. Tracing the development as well as the implementation of the military program, author John Southard intertwines the experiences of enlisted Marines and corpsmen with an examination of the colonels and generals in charge....
FBI, 1955. — 69 p. Espionage by Soviet officials, operating out of official Soviet establishments in this country, is one of the most important problems faced by the Bureau in discharging its responsibilities in the internal security field. Obviously, penetration of the Soviet intelligence services becomes a prime objective in the Bureau’s increasing counterintelligence...
Washington: History and Museums Division Headquarters, US Marine Corps, 1987. — 35 p. This short study of the role of the U.S. Marines in Operation Urgent Fury is in some ways an experiment in the writing of contemporary military history. The near-coincident Beirut deployment and Grenada intervention presented us with the problem and opportunity ofcollecting operational history...
University Press of Mississippi, 2016. — 192 p. This true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally a federal prosecutor spans a decade of crime fighting and narrow escapes. Charlie Spillers dealt with a remarkable variety of career criminals, including heroin traffickers, safecrackers, burglars, auto thieves, and members of...
Potomac Books, 2019. — 197 p. Our national security increasingly depends on access to the most sophisticated and advanced technology. Yet the next time we set out to capture a terrorist leader, we may fail. Why? The answer lies in a conflict between two worlds. One is the dynamic, global, commercial world with its thriving innovations. The other is the world of national...
Regnery Publishing, 1999. — 575 p. Allen Dulles, the father and creator of the modern American spy system, is profiled in this detailed biography of the driving force behind the CIA. Few individuals have shaped America's intelligence community and foreign policies as powerfully as Allen Dulles. Presenting previously classified documents and exclusive interviews with...
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 360 p. Long before the overt war in Afghanistan and the covert war against al-Qaida, U.S. forces struck at one of the world's hotbeds of terrorism. On 15 April 1986, in the dead of night, American strike aircraft roared into the heart of Muammar Qaddafi's Libya, attacking carefully selected targets and nearly killing the "brother leader" himself....
Record, 2018. — 928 p. O livro que deu origem ao filme protagonizado por Chris Hemsworth, o Thor da série Vingadores. 12 heróis reconstitui a dramática história de um pequeno grupo de soldados das Forças Especiais Norte-Americanas que entrou secretamente no Afeganistão, depois do 11 de Setembro, e avançou para a guerra contra o Talibã. Com inferioridade numérica de um para...
Greenwood, 2009. — 289 p. The U.S. Constitution is designed to distribute power in order to prevent its concentration, and in particular, it draws clear lines between the responsibilities of the military and those of civilian law enforcement. But the new global threat paradigm, requiring responses both abroad and at home, calls out for military and civilian intelligence...
Dell, 1987. — 412 p. Traces the different combat experiences of U.S. special forces in military actions in Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia and looks at special operations and modern guerrilla warfare techniques. Though engaged in the United States' longest and most controversial military action, the Green Berets rose above the fray to establish an awesome reputation based...
Palgrave Pivot, 2018. — 80 p. Following up on Donna Starr-Deelen's previous book Presidential Policies on Terrorism: From Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama (Palgrave, 2014), this book compares and contrasts the approach of the Obama administration with the Trump administration regarding national security and counter-terrorism. It provides an overview of counter-terrorism in the...
Pegasus Books, 2021. — 288 p. After spending more than twenty-years years as a Special Agent with the FBI, Kathy Stearman recounts the global experiences that shaped her life—and the mixed feelings that she now holds about the sacrifices she had to make to survive in a man's world. When former FBI Agent Kathy Stearman read in the New York Times that sixteen women were suing the...
OSS International Press, 2004. — 125 p. Open source intelligence, or OSINT, is unclassified information that has been deliberately discovered, discriminated, distilled and disseminated to a select audience in order to address a specific question. It provides a very robust foundation for other intelligence disciplines. When applied in a systematic fashion, OSINT products can...
Arcadia Publishing, 2018. — 208 p. A retired Michigan FBI special agent recounts some of his biggest cases, including Jimmy Hoffa, the Detroit mob, and numerous grisly homicides. Across the Mitten and through the Upper Peninsula, the Wolverine State has witnessed some thrilling and historic federal cases. In Detroit, FBI agents took point investigating the kidnapping (and safe...
Casemate Publishing, 2017. — 383 p. The previously untold story of a Cold War spy unit, 'one of the best examples of applied unconventional warfare in special operations history' (Small Wars Journal).It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two US Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of...
Bold Type Books, 2019. — 272 p. The powerful story of a CIA whistleblower and political prisoner who refused to give up on his American dream. In 2015, Jeffrey Sterling was sentenced to prison, convicted of violating the Espionage Act. Sterling, it is now clear, was another victim of our government's draconian crackdown on alleged leakers and whistleblowers. Sterling grew up in...
Pen and Sword Military, 2013. — 336 p. The Rangers’ mission was clear. They were to lead the assault on Omaha Beach and break out inland. Simultaneously, other Ranger units would scale the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc to destroy the ostensibly huge gun battery there and thus protect the invasion fleet from being targeted. But was the Pointe du Hoc mission actually necessary? Why did...
History Staff Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1996. — 498 p. The document in this volume--a selection of 41 National Intelligence Estimates on Soviet strategic capabilities and intentions from the 1950s until 1958--pertain to the US Intelligence Community's performance of its most critical mission during the Cold War. Our purpose in producing this volume is simply to make...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 352 p. Philip Agee’s story is the stuff of a John le Carré novel―perilous and thrilling adventures around the globe. He joined the CIA as a young idealist, becoming an operations officer in hopes of seeing the world and safeguarding his country. He was the consummate intelligence insider, thoroughly entrenched in the shadow world. But in...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 352 p. Philip Agee’s story is the stuff of a John le Carré novel―perilous and thrilling adventures around the globe. He joined the CIA as a young idealist, becoming an operations officer in hopes of seeing the world and safeguarding his country. He was the consummate intelligence insider, thoroughly entrenched in the shadow world. But in...
Penguin Press, 2019. — 382 p. From bestselling author James Stewart, the definitive story of the war between President Trump and America's principal law enforcement agencies, answering the questions that the Mueller report couldn't – or wouldn't. When Trump fired James Comey, he triggered the appointment of Robert Mueller as an independent special counsel and caused the FBI to...
Western Press, 2001. — 770 p. Defrauding America is a detailed and documented description of various forms of criminal activities involving people in a literal secret government, operating like Trojan horses, inflicting enormous harm upon the people and the United States. It is written by a former government agent with input from many other government insiders, former drug...
Silverpeak Enterprises, 2005. — 663 p. This is a true story of an FBI agent and former highly decorated Vietnam pilot who discovered corruption involving the CIA and White House politicians. He was ordered to cover up for the federal crimes, and when he sought to circumvent the obstruction of justibe by contacting members of Congress, the power of the Justice Department was...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 100 p. Early on Sunday, 7 December 1941, the air and naval forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet at anchor in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) recorded the day as "a date which will live in infamy" in his speech to a joint session of Congress. Subsequent investigations and histories...
South End Press, 1999. — 212 p. Ex-CIA agent John Stockwell analyzes the CIA and other institutional forces shaping U.S. domestic and foreign policy. There aren't any incredible revelations in the book; but it does give a really well-rounded explanation of events, and how the CIA operates in general. John R. Stockwell is an American former CIA officer who became a critic of...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014. — 320 p. Morten Storm was an unlikely Jihadi. A six-foot-one red-haired Dane, Storm spent his teens in and out of trouble. A book about the Prophet Mohammed prompted his conversion to Islam, and Storm sought purpose in a community of believers. He attended a militant madrasah in Yemen, named his son Osama, and became close friends with Anwar...
University Press of Kansas, 2002. — 286 p. Any serious study of the Vietnam War would be less than complete without accounting for the CIA's role in that conflict-a role that increased dramatically after the Tet offensive in 1968. We know most of the details of military engagement in Vietnam, given its greater visibility, but until recently clandestine operations have remained...
Ebury Publishing, 2012. — 1182 p. Product Description for nearly fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover held great power in the United States. The creator of the FBI and its Director until his death, he played a role in nearly every major tragedy and scandal in America during the twentieth century.Hoover was lauded when he died as an American hero. Anthony Summers' controversial bestseller,...
Casemate Publishers, 2021. — 239 р. The first full account of the crucial work done at Fort Hunt, Virginia during World War II, where the highest-level German prisoners were interrogated, and captured documents analyzed. Now a green open space enjoyed by residents, Fort Hunt, Virginia, about 15 miles south of Washington, DC. was the site of one of the highest-level, clandestine...
Boston: South and Press, 1995. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0-89608-502-3: ISBN: 0-89608-501-5 From the '50s to the '70s in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, Swearingen records his participation in campaigns against Communists and Moslems, Weathermen, Black Panthers and other organizations.eaders interesteed in domestic repression or U.S. history more generally will find invaluable...
Ballantine Books, 2010. — 528 p. In 1995, after receiving a tip from an informant that a new drug called Ecstasy was being pushed in Manhattan’s nightclubs, DEA agent Robert Gagne embarked on a mission to unravel one of the world’s most lucrative drug-trafficking networks. Chemical Cowboys tracks Gagne as he infiltrates New York’s club scene, uncovering a multimillion-dollar...
Viking Press, 1974. — 180 p. The spirit of Watergate can be perceived and captured through the life and the time of one single man -- most of whose life was spent enveloped in the anonymity of undercover intelligence work, but who suddenly burst upon the national scene as the personification of all the painful things symbolized by Watergate. He is E. Howard Hunt, Jr., sentenced...
Potomac Books, 2012. — 363 p. From literary journalist Sara Mansfield Taber comes a deep and wondrous memoir of her exotic childhood as the daughter of a covert CIA agent. As Taber leads us on a tour through the countries to which her father is assigned, we track two parallel stories those of young Sara and her intelligence officer father.
Regnery History, 2020. — 338 p. An elite special platoon of Marine Scout-Snipers, Lieutenant Frank Tachovsky’s “40 Thieves” were chosen for their willingness to defy rules and beat all-comers. When two Marines got into a fight, the loser ended up in the infirmary, the winner in the brig. Tachovsky wanted the winner on his team—a brush with military law was a recommendation....
University Press of Mississippi, 2008. — 302 p. During World War I, in the period of the Red Scare, and throughout the Great Depression, the army's domestic spy agency mounted an extensive surveillance campaign focused on civilians and groups deemed subversive. Negative Intelligence traces the fascinating and astonishing story of military espionage on the home front. Created by...
Westend, 2017. — 608 S. "Alle, die sich bisher über Verschwörungstheorien lustig gemacht haben, dürften ihre Meinung nach der Lektüre dieses Buches ändern." BOSTON GLOBE David Talbort liefert mit seiner packend erzählten Biografie über den langjährigen CIA Direktor Allen Dulles nicht nur einen realen Spionage-Thriller. Sein internationaler Bestseller führt uns auf die dunkle...
Westend, 2017. — 608 S. "Alle, die sich bisher über Verschwörungstheorien lustig gemacht haben, dürften ihre Meinung nach der Lektüre dieses Buches ändern." BOSTON GLOBE David Talbort liefert mit seiner packend erzählten Biografie über den langjährigen CIA Direktor Allen Dulles nicht nur einen realen Spionage-Thriller. Sein internationaler Bestseller führt uns auf die dunkle...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2015. — 640 p. Based on explosive new evidence, bestselling author David Talbot tells America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on revelatory new materials - including exclusive interviews with the children of prominent CIA...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. — 320 p. The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War: one American aviator, who knew our most important secrets, crashed behind enemy lines and was sought by the entire North Vietnamese and Russian military machines. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese partner had to sneak past them all to...
Diversion Books, 2014. — 103 p. In 1942, the Brooklyn-born Erickson was a millionaire oil mogul who volunteered for a dangerous mission inside the Third Reich: locating the top-secret synthetic oil plants that kept the German war machine running. To fool the Nazis, Erickson played the role of a collaborator. He hung a portrait of Hitler in his apartment and “disowned” his...
Lume Books, 2020. — 392 p. At 12.16am on Wednesday, June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded in the kitchen service pantry of the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. He had just won the California Primary, an important victory in his quest for nomination as the Democratic Party’s candidate in the US Presidential election late that year. A little over 24...
National Lawyers Guild, 1980. — 110 p. This collection of FBI documents and newspaper stories is designed as a FBI fought against revolutionary and native nationality groups in USA.
Write Life Publishing, 2021. — 295 p. Her father was a man cloaked in mystery, a man of contradiction. James M. Eichelberger was a writer, philosopher, decorated WWII intelligence officer, CIA Agent, and oil industry consultant who died a penniless alcoholic. After he left her family in Beirut, Lebanon when she was six years old, Anne E. Tazewell only saw her father seven times...
Harper Collins, 2007. — 549 p. In the whirlwind of accusations and recriminations that emerged in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq war, one man's vital testimony has been conspicuously absent. Candid and gripping, At the Center of the Storm recounts George Tenet's time at the Central Intelligence Agency, a revealing look at the inner workings of the most important intelligence...
Diversion Books, 2013. — 181 p. The NSA's extensive surveillance program has riveted America as the public questions the threats to their privacy. As reported by The Washington Post, NSA SECRETS delves into the shadowy world of information gathering, and exposes how data about you is being gathered every day. From his earliest encrypted exchanges with reporters, Edward Snowden...
Temple University Press, 2011. — 232 p. Theoharis (Chasing Spies), emeritus professor of history at Marquette University, surveys a pattern of FBI abuse of power stretching back to WWII in this extensively documented and passionately argued case for a national debate over the issue of domestic intelligence gathering. Drawing on decades of research into FBI records, often obtained...
Ivan R. Dee, 1993. — 228 p. Documents uncovered from the late FBI director's secret files reveal for the first time the shocking extent of FBI activities in collecting and using derogatory information about prominent Americans and political groups. Historian Athan Theoharis charges that Hoover was an "indirect blackmailer," exploiting the FBI's resources to serve the political...
Regnery Publishing, 2010. — 268 p. White House speechwriter Marc Thiessen was locked in a secure room and given access to the most sensitive intelligence when he was tasked to write President George W. Bush’s 2006 speech explaining the CIA’s interrogation program and why Congress should authorize it. Few know more about these CIA operations than Thiessen, and in his new book,...
Little, Brown and Company, 2012. — 432 p. Evan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust. Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean War. Yet while Eisenhower was quickly viewed by many as a doddering lightweight, behind the bland smile...
Simon and Schuster, 1996. — 435 p. Evan Thomas recreates the personal drama of four figures who risked everything to keep America out of war. They were Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes and Desmond FitzGerald. Within the inner circles of Washington, at the high point of American power in the world, they planned and acted to contain the Soviet threat - by stealth and...
Simon and Schuster, 2012. — 470 p. The Very Best Men is the story of the CIA's early days as told through the careers of four glamorous, daring, and idealistic men who ran covert operations for the government from the end of World War II to Vietnam. Evan Thomas re-creates the personal dramas and sometimes tragic lives of Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes, and Desmond...
Bantam, 1989. — 388 p. Gordon Thomas exposes the hidden and very ugly story of the CIA's massive programs to modify human behavior. As shocking as his book is the full picture is much worse than he has portrayed here. Much of the mind control philosophy and many of the technics came right out of Nazi Germany. The so-called Nazi "scientists" and their Fascist brethren in the...
Octavo Editions, 2010. — 400 p. Germ warfare? Secret mind control programs? New tell-all to be featured prominently in a National Geographic television special recounts the CIA's dirtiest deeds from insiders who have been there. In the late summer of 2001, prolific and best-selling British author Gordon Thomas received five CD-ROM disks, containing some 22,000 documents...
New South Books, 2021. — 368 p. Behind the Magic Curtain: Secrets, Spies, and Unsung White Allies of Birmingham’s Civil Rights Days is a remarkable look at a historic city enmeshed in racial tensions, revealing untold or forgotten stories of secret deals, law enforcement intrigue, and courage alongside pivotal events that would sweep change across the nation. Birmingham,...
University Press of Kentucky, 1995. — 264 p. William A. Tidwell establishes the existence of a Confederate Secret Service and clarifies the Confederate decision making process to show the role played by Jefferson Davis in clandestine operations. While the book focuses on the Confederate Secret Service's involvement with the Lincoln assassination, the information presented has...
Crown Publishing Group, 2007. — 416 p. Some have called it the CIA’s greatest covert operation of all time. It is an intelligence war conducted behind the scenes, aimed at confusing, misleading, and ultimately defeating the enemy. The goal is nothing less than toppling the regime in power. A network of agents has been planted at key crossroads of power, stealing secrets,...
Naval Institute Press, 2017. — 280 p. OSS Operation Black Mail is the story of a remarkable woman who fought World War II on the front lines of psychological warfare. Elizabeth P. McIntosh spent eighteen life-changing months serving in the Office of Strategic Services in what has been called the "forgotten theater," China-Burma-India, where she met and worked with people as...
Casemate, 2013. — 288 p. When the American Revolution began, the colonial troops had little hope of matching His Majesty’s highly trained, experienced British and German legions in confrontational battle. Indeed, Washington’s army suffered defeat after defeat in the first few years of the war, fighting bravely but mainly trading space for time. However, the Americans did have a...
Springer International Publishing, 2019. — 160 p. This book examines why the U.S. counterinsurgency campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed and presents a solution for future counterinsurgency campaigns that was developed and tested in Afghanistan in the hope that it will spark a conversation that will shape the next counterinsurgency war to U.S. advantage. The author...
Smithsonian, 2014. — 182 p. Air-dropping agents deep behind enemy lines in clandestine night missions during the Korean War, commanding secret flights into Tibet in 1960 to support the anticommunist guerilla uprising, participating in plans for the 1962 Bay of Pigs invasion—even before the escalation of the Vietnam War, Brigadier General Harry C. “Heinie” Aderholt worked at the...
I.B. Tauris, 1987. — 295 p. In the last 30 years the United States has spent billions of dollars on “secret” intervention throughout the world. These covert actions - few of which have remained secret for long - include everything from propaganda and infiltration of political parties to clandestine arms sales and full-blown paramilitary operations. This book is the first to...
Rand Corp, 2008. — 125 p. — ISBN 978-0-8330-4501-0. Terrorism remains prominent on the national agenda, and whether the country’s prevention efforts match the threat we face stands central in policy debate. One element of this debate is questioning whether the United States, like some other countries, needs a dedicated domestic intelligence agency. Congress directed that the...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022. — 245 p. Initiated in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, have the reforms of the US intelligence enterprise served their purpose? What have been the results of the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and a reorganized FBI? Have they helped to reduce blind spots...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022. — 288 p. How is it that the FBI, a domestic intelligence agency, operates beyond the US borders? What role does the bureau play in emerging democracies? In what ways does it contribute to US diplomacy and global security? Darren Tromblay tackles these intriguing questions to assess the FBI's presence abroad, revealing the inextricable nature of...
CRC Press, 2015. — 440 p. Much has been written about U.S. intelligence operations. However, intelligence, as it is conducted in the U.S. domestic environment, has usually been treated in a fractured and sensationalistic manner. This book dispassionately assesses the U.S. domestically oriented intelligence enterprise by first examining its individual components and then showing...
Praeger, 1981. — 589 p. In 1975 Tom Troy completed his monograph, Donovan and the CIA, written as a "very limited" two-volume edition (originally marked SECRET), which provided a history of the formation of the CIA. In this treatise, Troy traces the prewar years (1920s to 1941) including the establishment of the COI (Coordinator of Information), the evolution and activities of...
Casemate, 2018. — 592 p. The vital role of the military all-source intelligence in the eastern theater of operations during the U.S. Civil War is told through the biography of its creator, George H. Sharpe. Renowned historian Peter Tsouras contends that this creation under Sharpe’s leadership was the combat multiplier that ultimately allowed the Union to be victorious. Sharpe is...
Second Edition. — Columbia University Press, 2020. — 376 p. In this book, two national-security experts put the exploits of America’s special operation forces in historical and strategic context. David Tucker and Christopher J. Lamb offer an incisive overview of America’s turbulent experience with special operations. Starting with in-depth interviews with special operators, the...
2nd edition. — N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 2020. — 376 p. In this book, two national-security experts put the exploits of America’s special operation forces in historical and strategic context. David Tucker and Christopher J. Lamb offer an incisive overview of America’s turbulent experience with special operations. Starting with in-depth interviews with special operators,...
Continuum, 2012. — 280 p. Illuminating the Dark Arts of War is a comprehensive survey of the threats posed by terrorism, sabotage and subversion to the security of the United States. By looking at how these threats connect and what their limitations are, the book calls into question the belief that the United States is now facing unprecedented and unmanageable threats to its...
Haymarket Books, 2012. — 107 p. Following the failures of the Iraq and Afghan wars, as well as military lite” methods and counterinsurgency, the Pentagon is pioneering a new brand of global warfare predicated on special ops, drones, spy games, civilian soldiers, and cyberwarfare. It may sound like a safer, saner war-fighting. In reality, it will prove anything but, as Turse's...
William Morrow, 2014. — 384 p. Lawrence of Arabia meets Sebastian Junger’s War in this unique, poignantly dramatic true story of heroism and heartbreak in Afghanistan, written by a veteran war correspondent—one of the most remarkable stories of love and war ever told. Army Special Forces Major Jim Gant changed the face of America’s war effort in Afghanistan. A decorated Green...
Routledge, 2021. — 176 p. This book analyses the US drone attacks against terrorists in Pakistan to assess whether the ‘pre-emptive’ use of combat drones to kill terrorists is ever legally justified. Exploring the doctrinal discourse of pre-emption vis-à-vis the US drone attacks against terrorists in Pakistan, the book shows that the debate surrounding this discourse...
Michigan State University Press, 2020. — 310 p. The second Red Scare was a charade orchestrated by a tyrant with the express goal of undermining the New Deal—so argues Stephen M. Underhill in this hard-hitting analysis of J. Edgar Hoover’s rhetorical agency. Drawing on Classification 94, a vast trove of recently declassified records that documents the longtime FBI director’s...
US Marine Corps Press, 1977. — 119 p. Special Marine Corps Units of World War II" is a brief narrative of experimental special purpose units organized by the Marine Corps for World War II. It is published for the information of those interested in the special units and the events in which they participated. During World War II, a variety of new and experimental units were...
Editorial Capitán San Luis, 2002. — 270 p. Puede afirmarse que la Revolución Cubana del Primero de Enero de 1959 es el hecho político más trascendental de la historia latinoamericana y caribeña en el siglo XX. En épica hazaña la nación cubana llevó a cabo la insurrección armada victoriosa contra una dictadura impuesta desde los centros de poder de los Estados Unidos. El enclave...
Clarity Press, 2016. — 446 p. This book provides insight into the paradigmatic approaches evolved by CIA decades ago in Vietnam which remain operational practices today in Afghanistan, El Salvador, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine and elsewhere. While researching Phoenix program in Vietnam, Valentine learned that the CIA allowed opium and heroin to flow from its secret bases in...
Open Road Media, 2014. — 486 p. A shocking exposé of the covert CIA program of widespread torture, rape, and murder of civilians during America's war in Vietnam, with a new introduction by the author. In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, America's Central Intelligence Agency secretly initiated a sweeping program of kidnap, torture, and assassination devised to destabilize...
Verso, 2006. — 572 p. The Strength of the Wolf is the first complete history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), which existed from 1930 until its wrenching termination in 1968. The most successful federal law enforcement agency ever, the FBN was populated by some of the most amazing characters in American history, many of whom the author interviewed for this book....
Book Baby, 2020. — 138 p. Deliberate Discomfort follows the journey of Jason Van Camp as a new Green Beret commander taking over a team of combat-hardened Special Forces veterans. This true story tells firsthand the intense, traumatic battles these warriors fought and won, sharing lessons learned from their incredible backgrounds. A cadre of scientists further break down each...
Edinburgh University Press, 2019. — 281 p. In the 21st century, more than any other time, US agencies have relied on contractors to conduct core intelligence functions. This book charts the swell of intelligence outsourcing in the context of American political culture and considers what this means for the relationship between the state, its national security apparatus and...
Oxford University Press, 1993. — 270 p. In the past three decades, the United States government has used special operations repeatedly in an effort to achieve key foreign policy objectives, such as in the overthrow of Fidel Castro in Cuba and the rescuing of American hostages in Iran. Many of these secret missions carried out by highly trained commando forces have failed. In...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 332 p. Northern sympathizer in the Confederate capital, daring spymaster, postwar politician: Elizabeth Van Lew was one of the most remarkable figures in American history, a woman who defied the conventions of the nineteenth-century South. In Southern Lady, Yankee Spy, historian Elizabeth Varon provides a gripping, richly researched account of the...
Lyons Press, 2006. — 192 p. Nineteen months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR sent twelve "vice consuls" to Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia on a secret mission. Their objective? To prepare the groundwork for what eventually became Operation TORCH, the Allied invasion of North Africa that repelled the Nazis and also enabled the liberation of Italy. This spy network included...
Skyhorse, 2018. — 532 p. Pan Am at War chronicles the airline's historic role in advancing aviation and serving America's secret national interest before and during World War II. From its inception, Pan American Airways operated as the "wings of democracy," spanning six continents and placing the country at the leading edge of international aviation. At the same time, it was...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. — 232 p. Antonio Veciana fought on the front lines of the CIA’s decades-long secret war to destroy Fidel Castro, the bearded bogeyman who haunted America’s Cold War dreams. It was a time of swirling intrigue, involving US spies with license to kill, Mafia hit men, ruthless Cuban exilesand the leaders in the crosshairs of all this dark plotting, Fidel...
Ediciones Encuentro, 2020. — 277 p. En la España de los años sesenta del siglo pasado, escritores e intelectuales de distintas procedencias convergieron bajos las siglas del Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura (CLC), entidad alentada por organizaciones estadounidenses dedicadas a la promoción cultural. En torno a este grupo tendrá lugar una serie de encuentros privados e...
Dey Street Books, 2017. — 246 p. A former special operations member takes us inside America’s covert drone war in this headline-making, never-before-told account for fans of Zero Dark Thirty and Lone Survivor, told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal writer and filled with eye-opening and sure to be controversial details. For nearly a decade Brett Velicovich was at...
Knopf, 2023. — 575 p. In 1984, Michael Vickers took charge of the CIA’s secret war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. After inheriting a strategy aimed at imposing costs on the Soviets for their invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, Vickers transformed the covert campaign into an all-out effort to help the Afghan resistance win their war. More than any other American, he was...
Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2019. — 223 p. During its 15 years (from 1967) of existence, OSR played a key role in providing in-depth military analysis and current intelligence reporting to senior policymakers on a variety of national security issues. These included the strategic military threats posed by the Soviet Bloc and Communist China, arms control measures and...
Editions Aden, 2007. — 272 p. Voici, détaillés dans ces pages, les fréquentations douteuses, les financements honteux, les hargnes sélectives, les indulgences infondées, les tentatives de dissimulations, les manipulations des chiffres, les mensonges réitérés de Reporters sans frontières, le tout au service d''une cause sans rapport avec les objectifs affichés. Observons son...
New York - London - Toronto - Sydney - Auckland, Dell Publishing Group Inc., 1989. — 266 p. — ISBN: 0-385-24590-4. "The necessity of procuring good Intelligence is apparent/' George Washington wrote to a friend in 1777, "& need not be further urged—All that Remains for me to add is, that you keep the whole matter as secret as possible. For upon Secrecy, Success depends in Most...
Chelsea House Publications, 2007. — 105 p. After a brief chapter discussing how intelligence gathering was performed in the American Revolution and Civil War, this book in The U.S. Government: How It Works series chronicles how the Central Intelligence Agency evolved from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), created during World War II to collect and analyze intelligence, as...
Chelsea House, 2009. — 112 p. The stories of the men and women who served as spies in the Civil War offer a fascinating glimpse into the strong passions that divided a nation. Many were otherwise 'ordinary' Americans who had received no special training in intelligence gathering, but simply listened and watched what was going on around them and then passed that information on...
Chelsea House Publications, 2007. — 104 p. — (U.S. Government: How It Works). The Federal Bureau of Investigation, known as FBI, began its history as a small team of 34 Secret Service investigators who were borrowed from the Treasury Department. This work explores the bureau from its beginnings onwards, reviews the tools and techniques used to solve crimes, and explains what a...
St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2020. — 272 p. The Unexpected Spy is the riveting story of Walder's tenure in the CIA and, later, the FBI. In high-security, steel-walled rooms in Virginia, Walder watched al-Qaeda members with drones as President Bush looked over her shoulder and CIA Director George Tenet brought her donuts. She tracked chemical terrorists and searched the world...
William Morrow, 2014. — 304 p. In this unforgettable memoir, the Navy SEALs’ most trusted translator—a man who is credited with saving countless American lives and became a legend in the special-ops community—tells his inspiring story for the first time. As the insurgency in Iraq intensified following the American invasion, U.S. Navy SEALs were called upon to root terrorists...
New York: Dutton, 2008. — 458 p. “Stuffed with stories about chemical taggants, forged documents, physical and psychological disguises, software beacons that reveal the location of a cell phone or a laptop, about long-range surveillance cameras and ivory letter-opening knives, this extraordinary, detailed, accurate book tells more about what spies really do, the risks they run,...
Simon and Schuster, 2015. — 592 p. The author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Wild Bill Donovan, tells the story of four OSS warriors of World War II. All four later led the CIA. They are the most famous and controversial directors the CIA has ever had—Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey. Disciples is the story of these dynamic agents and their...
Free Press, 2011. — 480 р. He was one of America’s most exciting and secretive generals—the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. A mythic figure whose legacy is still intensely debated, “Wild Bill” Donovan was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country’s first national intelligence agency) and the father of today’s CIA. Donovan introduced the...
Regnery Publishing, 2024. — 256 p. Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains by J. Michael Waller recounts the dramatic story of the rise and Cold War heroics of the FBI and the American intelligence apparatus followed by its unfortunate slide into Marxist-influenced Deep State dysfunction as Big Intel became Bad Intel. How the Left...
Abrams, 2021. — 50 р. Decode the story of Elizabeth Friedman, the cryptologist who took down gangsters and Nazi spies. In this picture book biography, young readers will learn all about Elizabeth Friedman (1892-1980), a brilliant American code breaker who smashed Nazi spy rings, took down gangsters, and created the CIA's first cryptology unit. Her story came to light when her...
Washington: Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2005. — 52 p. The publication of The 9/11 Commission Report, the war in Iraq, and subsequent negotiation of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 have provoked the most intense debate over the future of American intelligence since the end of World War II. For observers of this national discussion--as well...
CIA History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence. Central Intelligence Agency. Washington, DC, 2001. — 24 p. Michael Warner of the CIA History Staff in the Center for the Study of Intelligence has compiled a set of key declassified laws, executive orders, NSCIDs, DCIDs, and policy documents guiding the role and growth of the central intelligence function from 1945 to 2000....
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011. — 273 p. A stunning narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian who penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highest reaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war on terror. In December 2009, a group of the CIA's top terrorist hunters gathered at a base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Khalil...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2012. — 191 p. When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six—a secret unit made up of the finest soldiers in the country, if not the world. This is the dramatic tale of how Howard Wasdin overcame a tough childhood to live his dream and enter the exciting and dangerous world of Navy SEALS and...
Editora Seoman, 2015. — 416 p. O SEAL TEAM SIX (ST6) é uma unidade "clandestina", encarregada de ações antiterrorismo, resgate de reféns e neutralização de insurreições. Até recentemente, sua existência foi mantida sob estrito sigilo, entretanto, ao matar Osama bin Laden, os efetivos envolvidos na operação foram expostos ao foco das atenções mundiais. Neste livro, Howard...
Editorial Crítica, 2012. — 325 p. Cada año se presentan un millar de aspirantes a ingresar en las filas de los Navy Seals norteamericanos, de los que solo unos 200 son admitidos. Tras años de un duro entrenamiento, un pequeño número de los mejores se integrarán en el "Seal Team Six", el cuerpo secreto de élite creado en 1980, tras el fracaso del rescate de los rehenes...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2014. — 320 p. A gripping insider's look at the post-9/11 CIA In the weeks following the attacks of 9/11, the Central Intelligence Agency received over 150,000 resumes from people wanting to serve their nation. T.J. Waters became one of more than a hundred students admitted into the CIA's Clandestine Service to become Class 11, the first post- 9/11...
Harper Collins, 2011. — 224 p. Billy Waugh has lurked in the shadows and on the periphery of many of the most significant events of the past half-century on active duty with U.S. Army Special Forces and the CIA fighting enemies of the United States. In Hunting the Jackal, this legendary warrior reveals the extraordinary events of his life and career, offering a point-by-point...
Penguin Group, 2015. — 272 p. Among Heroes Here are the true stories behind the remarkable valor and abiding humanity of those "sheepdogs ("as they call themselves) who protect us from the wolves of the world. Of Matt "Axe "Axelson, who perished on the Lone Survivor mission in Afghanistan. Of Chris Campbell, Heath Robinson, and JT Tumilson, who were among the thirty-eight...
St. Martin's Publishing, 2015. — 228 р. Brandon Webb's experiences in the world's most elite sniper corps are the stuff of legend. From his grueling years of training in Naval Special Operations to his combat tours in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, The Making of a Navy SEAL provides a rare and riveting look at the inner workings of the U.S. military through the eyes of a...
St. Martin’s Press, 2012. — 400 p. Brandon Webb's experiences in the world's most elite sniper corps are the stuff of legend. From his grueling years of training in Naval Special Operations to his combat tours in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, The Red Circle provides a rare and riveting look at the inner workings of the U.S. military through the eyes of a covert operations...
Seven Stories Press, 2003. — 592 p. Gary Webb was American investigative journalist, Pulitzer prize winner. He examined origins of the crack cocaine trade in Los Angeles and claimed that members of the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua had played a major role in creating the trade, using cocaine profits to support their struggle. He also suggested that the Contras may...
Seven Stories Press, 2003. — 592 p. Gary Webb was American investigative journalist, Pulitzer prize winner. He examined origins of the crack cocaine trade in Los Angeles and claimed that members of the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua had played a major role in creating the trade, using cocaine profits to support their struggle. He also suggested that the Contras may...
Independently Publishing, 2020. — 86 p. An incredible but true tale of intrigue and espionage - J Edgar Hoover's G-Man is entrusted with 68,000 critical, mystery files. Are these the Nazi PaperClip scientists that the CIA so badly want to bring into key positions in the US Defense industry? Hoover then make Thomas O'Loughlin his eyes and ears at the Joint Chiefs Of Staff to try...
Hellgate Press, 2011. — 224 p. Italy, July 1944. The unendurable insult to Italy's inherently genial way of life brought about by Hitler's storm-troopers and Mussolini's Fascist toadies was both taking its toll on the people of Italy and creating a fledgling underground Resistance movement whose heroic ranks would soon swell to nearly 200,000 brave men and women. Author Leon...
Knopf, 2017. — 496 p. Based on exclusive interviews with senior Pentagon officials and previously unseen declassified documents, this is the definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency--the Pentagon secretive agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly sixty years. Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency’s...
Random House; First Edition edition (February 14, 2012), 560 pages National bestseller. Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. We think of the FBI as America’s police force. But secret intelligence is the Bureau’s first and...
Random House; First Edition edition (February 14, 2012), 560 pages National bestseller. Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. We think of the FBI as America’s police force. But secret intelligence is the Bureau’s first and...
Random House; First Edition edition (February 14, 2012), 560 pages National bestseller. Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. We think of the FBI as America’s police force. But secret intelligence is the Bureau’s first and...
Random House Publishing Group, 2012. — 537 p. Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. We think of the FBI as America’s police force. But secret intelligence is the Bureau’s first and foremost mission. The FBI’s secret...
Doubleday, 2007. — 735 p.
Is the Central Intelligence Agency a bulwark of freedom against dangerous foes, or a malevolent conspiracy to spread American imperialism? A little of both, according to this absorbing study, but, the author concludes, it is mainly a reservoir of incompetence and delusions that serves no one's interests well. Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2013. — 208 p. Harold Weisberg's first volume in the Whitewash series dissected the Warren Report and its failure to confront evidence of conspiracy in the JFK assassination. Now, he shows how the agencies of the investigation—the FBI, the Secret Service, the Dallas police, and the lawyers who worked for the Commission—made this possible by often corrupting...
Berkley Hardcover, 2013. — 320 p. The hunt for Ernesto Che” Guevera was one of the first successful U.S. Special Forces missions in history. Using government reports and documents, as well as eyewitness accounts, Hunting Che tells the untold story of how the infamous revolutionary was captureda mission later duplicated in Afghanistan and Iraq. As one of the architects of the...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 528 p. The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post–Cold War present. The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and beyond, there were efforts to control the spread of nuclear information...
The Kent State University Press, 2021. — 228 p. — ISBN 978-1606354254. Thomas Riha vanished on March 15, 1969, sparking a mystery that lives on 50 years later. A native of Prague, Czechoslovakia, Riha was a popular teacher at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a handsome man, with thick, graying hair and a wry smile. After his disappearance, the FBI and the CIA told...
Yale University Press, 2005. — 512 р. For forty years the Central Intelligence Agency has published an in-house journal, Studies in Intelligence, for CIA eyes only. Now the agency has declassified much of this material. This engrossing book, which presents the most interesting articles from the journal, provides revealing insights into CIA strategies and into events in which...
Manitou Communications, 2014. — 325 p. Beginning at age thirteen, Karen Wetmore was subjected to horrific treatment in Vermont State Hospital and related facilities. Through years of investigative journalism, and numerous Freedom of Information Act requests, she was able do document that she was a victim of secret CIA mind control experiments as an adolescent, and of sexual...
Scribner, 2020. — 400 p. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, a remarkable, behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to run the world’s most powerful intelligence agency, and how the CIA is often a crucial counterforce against presidents threatening to overstep the powers of their office. Only eleven men and one woman are alive today who have made the...
OR Books, 2017. — 336 p. When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. The story continues to unfold, with the reputations of some of America’s best-loved literary figures—including Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, and Richard Wright—tarnished as their...
Thomas Nelson, 2020. — 336 p. On April 3, 1996, a team of FBI agents closed in on an isolated cabin in remote Montana, marking the end of the longest and most expensive investigation in FBI history. The cabin's lone inhabitant was a former mathematics prodigy and wunderkind professor who had abandoned society decades earlier. Few people knew his name, Theodore Kaczynski, but...
Pegasus Books, 2022. — 336 р. A legal analyst for NPR, NBC, and CNN, delves into the facts surrounding what has been called the “worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history”: the case of Robert Hanssen—a Russian spy who was embedded in the FBI for two decades. As a federal prosecutor and the daughter of an FBI agent, Wiehl has an inside perspective. She brings her experience...
Thomas Nelson, 2020. — 336 p. On April 3, 1996, a team of FBI agents closed in on an isolated cabin in remote Montana, marking the end of the longest and most expensive investigation in FBI history. The cabin's lone inhabitant was a former mathematics prodigy and wunderkind professor who had abandoned society decades earlier. Few people knew his name, Theodore Kaczynski, but...
Regnery Publishing, 2014. — 321 p. He was the most controversial American general in World War II--and also one of the most successful, courageous, and audacious. As a postwar administrator of defeated Germany, he sounded alarm bells about the dangers of Soviet encroachment into Europe. Politically, he was a lightning rod--an outspoken conservative who continually embarrassed...
Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2010. — 95 p. CIA at War is meant, above all, to be a window into the people and culture of an organization critical to America’s security. While many details of its activities are, of necessity, kept from the public at large, the operations of this Agency are carefully overseen inside our government, oversight that is absolutely crucial to...
Chantilly: The Teaching Company, 2019. — 255 p. There's a fundamental tension buried within the heart of the CIA's mission to protect the American people: between democratic accountability and the inherent need for secrecy. Ultimately, it's US citizens who bear the responsibility of staying informed about what the CIA has done and continues to do. In these 24 engrossing lectures,...
Basic Books, 2024. — 349 p. The CIA - An Imperial History by Hugh Wilford is a superb new history of American intelligence. In it a celebrated historian uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America’s covert global empire. As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created...
Basic Books, 2024. — 384 p. The CIA - An Imperial History by Hugh Wilford is a superb new history of American intelligence. In it a celebrated historian uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America’s covert global empire. As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created...
Basic Books, 2024. — 384 p. The CIA - An Imperial History by Hugh Wilford is a superb new history of American intelligence. In it a celebrated historian uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America’s covert global empire. As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created...
Basic Books, 2024. — 384 p. The CIA - An Imperial History by Hugh Wilford is a superb new history of American intelligence. In it a celebrated historian uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America’s covert global empire. As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created...
Basic Books, 2024. — 384 p. The CIA - An Imperial History by Hugh Wilford is a superb new history of American intelligence. In it a celebrated historian uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America’s covert global empire. As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created...
Harvard University Press, 2008. — 375 p. In 1967 the magazine Ramparts ran an expose revealing that the Central Intelligence Agency had been secretly funding and managing a wide range of citizen front groups intended to counter communist influence around the world. In addition to embarrassing prominent individuals caught up, wittingly or unwittingly, in the secret superpower...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 342 p Wilford provides the first comprehensive account of the clandestine relationship between the CIA and its front organizations. Using an unprecedented wealth of sources, he traces the rise and fall of America's Cold War front network from its origins in the 1940s to its Third World expansion during the 1950s and ultimate collapse in the...
Jerri Williams Books, 2019. — 228 p. How much do you really know about the FBI? Do you know who the FBI is? Do you know what the FBI does? This manual debunks FBI myths and misconceptions for those who read, watch, and write crime dramas about the FBI or have always wanted to be a Special Agent. Like most people, you've probably learned about the FBI from popular...
AK Press, 2013. — 350 p. Together, the writers sound a sobering warning: the American government is an iron fist in a velvet glove whose purpose remains preserving the status quo and enriching the rich. Counterinsurgency has existed as the state's implicit strategy for a generation, and increasingly this strategy is becoming explicit. In this chilling collection of sociological...
PublicAffairs, 2016. — 432 p. — ISBN: 978-1610396547 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1610396554 (ebook). In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomb—and to make sure nobody saw them doing it. Albert Einstein told President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 that the...
Perseus Books, 2021. — 688 p. In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a public show of political strength and purpose. Led by the charismatic Kwame Nkrumah, who had just won Ghana’s independence, his determined call for Pan-Africanism was heeded by young, idealistic leaders across the continent and...
St. Martin's Press, 2015. — 320 p. Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible mission: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a city deemed “all but lost.” In gripping firsthand accounts of heroism, tragic loss, and hard-won victories in SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser, they learned that leadership―at...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2015. — 355 p. — ISBN 9781466874961. Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible mission: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a city deemed “all but lost.” In gripping firsthand accounts of heroism, tragic loss, and hard-won victories in SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser,...
Edinburgh University Press, 2016. — 320 p. Drawing on extensive archival research, In Secrecy's Shadow explores the revolution in the relationship between Hollywood and the secret state, from unwavering trust and cooperation to extreme scepticism and paranoia.
Rowman and Littlefield, 2004. — 304 p. The First War on Terrorism examines the response of the Reagan Administration to the political violence it confronted during the 1980s. David C. Wills takes the reader inside the negotiations over how to respond to terrorist acts and shows how the Reagan Administration's decision making process was a crucial obstacle to formulating a...
Penguin Books, 2011. — 288 p. The invention of the atomic bomb was a triumph of official secrecy and military discipline-the project was covertly funded at the behest of the president and, despite its massive scale, never discovered by Congress or the press. This concealment was perhaps to be expected in wartime, but Wills persuasively argues that the Manhattan Project then...
McFarland, 2012. — 368 p. American naval hero and Confederate secret agent James Dunwoody Bulloch was widely considered the Confederacy’s most dangerous man in Europe. As head of the South’s covert shipbuilding and logistics program overseas during the American Civil War, Bulloch acquired a staggering 49 warships, blockade runners, and tenders; built “invulnerable” ocean-going...
Sapere Books, 2022. — 344 p. An astounding assessment of the invaluable role of U.S. and Allied codebreakers in the sprawling naval war against Japan. Essential reading for fans of Liza Mundy, Ian W. Toll, and James D. Hornfischer. How did the allies intercept, decipher, and analyse Japanese secret messages through the course of World War Two? And perhaps more importantly, how...
St. Martin's Press, 2021. — 292 p. From Beau Wise and Tom Sileo comes Three Wise Men, an incredible memoir of family, service and sacrifice by a Marine who lost both his brothers in combat--becoming the only "Sole Survivor" during the war in Afghanistan. Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, three brothers by blood became brothers in arms when each volunteered to defend their...
Messidor/Temps Actuels, 1982. — 434 p. Avec David Wise, c’est dans les coulisses des services spéciaux nord-américains que nous pénétrons… Les « services spéciaux » au sens le plus large du terme : pas seulement la CIA ou le FBI, mais aussi l'état-major du Président, l’entourage de l’Attorney General le service de lutte contre la fraude fiscale, etc. Une demi-douzaine de chefs...
Random House, 1992. — 345 p. Details the obsessive internal spy hunt reminiscent of the McCarthy era lead by CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton after he was lead astray by former KGB officer Anatoly Golitsin. When Soviet intelligence officer Anatoly Golitsin defected to the West in 1961, he hinted strongly that a long-range penetration agent was active within...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 417 p. Sudden Justice explores the secretive history of the United States' use of armed drones and their key role not only on today's battlefields, but also in a covert targeted killing project that has let to the deaths of thousands. Days after 9/11, a CIA Predator in Afghanistan executed the world's first lethal drone strike. The Agency's role...
Basic Books, 2013. — 576 p. World War II commando, Cold War spy, and CIA director under presidents Nixon and Ford, William Egan Colby played a critical role in some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. A quintessential member of the greatest generation, Colby embodied the moral and strategic ambiguities of the postwar world, and first confronted many of the...
Other Press, 2011. — 399 p. The world watched with fear in November 1979, when Iranian students infiltrated and occupied the American embassy in Tehran. The Americans were caught entirely by surprise, and what began as a swift and seemingly short-lived takeover evolved into a crisis that would see fifty four embassy personnel held hostage, most for 444 days. As Tehran exploded in...
Storyteller Books, 2021. — 118 p. Marine Raiders were special operations forces established during the Pacific campaign to conduct amphibious light infantry warfare. "Edson's" Raiders of 1st Marine Raider Battalion and "Carlson's" Raiders of 2nd Marine Raider Battalion were the first US special operations forces to form and see combat during World War II. Despite the original...
Ballantine Books, 2011. — 304 p. It used to be said that the night belonged to Charlie. But that wasn't true where SEALs patrolled. For six months in 1970, fourteen men in Juliett Platoon of the Navy's SEAL Team One--including the author--carried out over a hundred missions in the Mekong Delta without a single platoon fatality. Their primary mission: kidnap enemy...
Fideli Publishing, 2018. — 288 p. When shots rang out in Dallas on November 22, 1963, U.S. Secret Service Agent Rufus W. Youngblood immediately lunged over the seat of the vice president's car and bravely used his body to shield Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Faced with the unknown, Youngblood maintained this protective position as they sped toward Parkland Hospital....
Naval Institute Press, 2011. — 288 p. Maochun Yu tells the story of the intelligence activities of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in China during World War II. Drawing on recently released classified materials from the U.S. National Archives and on previously unopened Chinese documents, Yu reveals the immense and complex challenges the agency and its director, General...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 224 p. An instant bestseller when it was first published in 1946, this memoir recounts the author's nearly forty years of service in naval intelligence, beginning in 1908. One of the first to venture into the realm of psychological warfare, Ellis Zacharias was awarded the Legion of Merit with two gold stars for his contributions. Among the...
Hachette Books, 2006. — 454 p. In an attempt to stop the legendary Barbary Pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, William Eaton set out on a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli. The operation was sanctioned by President Thomas Jefferson, who at the last moment grew wary of "intermeddling" in a foreign government and sent Eaton off without...
Hachette Books, 2006. — 454 p. In an attempt to stop the legendary Barbary Pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, William Eaton set out on a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli. The operation was sanctioned by President Thomas Jefferson, who at the last moment grew wary of "intermeddling" in a foreign government and sent Eaton off without proper...
Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 368 p. Written by one of the world's leading experts on D-Day, Smashing Hitler's Guns is a ground-breaking new history of the legendary Rangers' attack on Pointe-du-Hoc. The Ranger attack on the German gun batteries at Pointe-du-Hoc in the early morning hours of D-Day is the stuff of legend. The gun batteries were strategically positioned between the...
Hoover Institution Press, 2011. — 144 p. Amy Zegart examines the weaknesses of US intelligence oversight and why those deficiencies have persisted, despite the unprecedented importance of intelligence in today's environment. She argues that many of the biggest oversight problems lie with Congress—the institution, not the parties or personalities—showing how Congress has...
Stanford University Press, 2000. — 336 p. In this provocative and thoughtful book, Amy Zegart challenges the conventional belief that national security agencies work reasonably well to serve the national interest as they were designed to do. Using a new institutionalist approach, Zegart asks what forces shaped the initial design of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Joint...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 425 p. A riveting account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America’s leading intelligence experts. Spying has never been more ubiquitous―or less understood. The world is drowning in spy movies, TV shows, and novels, but universities offer more courses on rock and roll than on the CIA and there are more congressional experts on...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 424 p. A riveting account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America’s leading intelligence experts. Spying has never been more ubiquitous―or less understood. The world is drowning in spy movies, TV shows, and novels, but universities offer more courses on rock and roll than on the CIA and there are more congressional experts on...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 425 p. A riveting account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America’s leading intelligence experts. Spying has never been more ubiquitous―or less understood. The world is drowning in spy movies, TV shows, and novels, but universities offer more courses on rock and roll than on the CIA and there are more congressional experts on...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 336 p. In this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. Until now, those failures have been attributed largely to individual mistakes. But Zegart shows how and why the intelligence system itself left us vulnerable. Zegart argues that after the Cold War ended,...
Praeger Publishers, 1995. — 256 p. This book provides the first documented description of the genesis and institutionalization of America's nuclear surveillance system. It traces the development of covert technical methods for assessing the nuclear capability of foreign powers from the introduction of these techniques in World War II to 1949, when they were successfully...
Thomas Nelson, 2016. — 224 р. In recent years, the world has learned just what is required to bravely serve America through the navy's most elite SEAL Team. Now, for the first time, we hear from their commander. For more than half a decade, Ryan Zinke was a commander at the most elite SEAL unit. A 23-year veteran of the US Navy SEALs, Zinke is a decorated officer and earned two...
McFarland, 2011. — 254 p. Former CIA Personnel Director F.W.M. Janney once wrote, ""It is absolutely essential that the Agency have available to it the greatest single source of expertise: the American academic community."" To this end, the Central Intelligence Agency has poured tens of millions of dollars into universities to influence research and enlist students and faculty...
2-е изд., исправл. — М.: Международные отношения, 2020. — 537 с. По отзывам многих специалистов и прессы, это одна из наиболее обстоятельных и близких к истине работ начала 2000-х гг. по истории разведки. Ее авторы – кадровый разведчик, в последние годы его карьеры руководитель Советского / Восточноевропейского отдела ЦРУ, и известный журналист, освещающий в «Нью-Йорк таймс»...
2-е изд., исправл. — М.: Международные отношения, 2020. — 537 с. По отзывам многих специалистов и прессы, это одна из наиболее обстоятельных и близких к истине работ начала 2000-х гг. по истории разведки. Ее авторы – кадровый разведчик, в последние годы его карьеры руководитель Советского / Восточноевропейского отдела ЦРУ, и известный журналист, освещающий в «Нью-Йорк таймс»...
2-е изд., испр. — М.: Международные отношения, 2020. — 528 с. — (Секретные миссии) — ISBN 978-5-7133-1634-1. По отзывам многих специалистов и прессы, это одна из наиболее обстоятельных и близких к истине работ начала 2000-х гг. по истории разведки. Ее авторы – кадровый разведчик, в последние годы его карьеры руководитель Советского / Восточноевропейского отдела ЦРУ, и известный...
2-е изд., испр. — М.: Международные отношения, 2020. — 528 с. — (Секретные миссии) — ISBN 978-5-7133-1634-1. По отзывам многих специалистов и прессы, это одна из наиболее обстоятельных и близких к истине работ начала 2000-х гг. по истории разведки. Ее авторы – кадровый разведчик, в последние годы его карьеры руководитель Советского / Восточноевропейского отдела ЦРУ, и известный...
2-е изд., испр. — М.: Международные отношения, 2020. — 528 с. — (Секретные миссии) — ISBN 978-5-7133-1634-1. По отзывам многих специалистов и прессы, это одна из наиболее обстоятельных и близких к истине работ начала 2000-х гг. по истории разведки. Ее авторы – кадровый разведчик, в последние годы его карьеры руководитель Советского / Восточноевропейского отдела ЦРУ, и известный...
М.: Правда, 1988. — 368 с. Известный венгерский журналист знакомит читателя со многими изощренными средствами, применяемыми агентами ЦРУ при совершении политических диверсий, методами получения секретной информации, организации космического шпионажа и т.д. Ценность книги, которую венгерская газета "Непсабадшаг" назвала "настоящим политическим детективом", заключается в том, что...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2013. — 479 с. — ISBN 978-5-227-04455-6. Провокационная, весьма поучительная и чрезвычайно интересная книга лауреата Пулитцеровской премии Тима Вейнера посвящена 60-летней истории ЦРУ. В основу исследования легли тысячи архивных документов, интервью с действующими агентами, ветеранами и бывшими руководителями главного американского шпионского ведомства. Автор...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2013. — 479 с. — ISBN 978-5-227-04455-6. Провокационная, весьма поучительная и чрезвычайно интересная книга лауреата Пулитцеровской премии Тима Вейнера посвящена 60-летней истории ЦРУ. В основу исследования легли тысячи архивных документов, интервью с действующими агентами, ветеранами и бывшими руководителями главного американского шпионского ведомства. Автор...
Москва: Родина, 2023. — 170 с. — (Документальный триллер). — ISBN 978-5-00180-981-4. Перед вами — классическая книга о деятельности ЦРУ. Её автор в 1950–1970-е годы был агентом испанских и американских спецслужб. Служил в Доминиканской республике, в различных странах Латинской Америки, во Франции. Его разоблачения «конторы» и по сей день поражают воображение: коррупция,...
Москва: Родина, 2023. — 170 с. — (Документальный триллер). — ISBN 978-5-00180-981-4. Перед вами — классическая книга о деятельности ЦРУ. Её автор в 1950–1970-е годы был агентом испанских и американских спецслужб. Служил в Доминиканской республике, в различных странах Латинской Америки, во Франции. Его разоблачения «конторы» и по сей день поражают воображение: коррупция,...
Москва: Родина, 2023. — 170 с. — (Документальный триллер). — ISBN 978-5-00180-981-4. Перед вами — классическая книга о деятельности ЦРУ. Её автор в 1950–1970-е годы был агентом испанских и американских спецслужб. Служил в Доминиканской республике, в различных странах Латинской Америки, во Франции. Его разоблачения «конторы» и по сей день поражают воображение: коррупция,...
Харків: Фоліо, 2021. — 256 с. — ISBN 978-966-03-9764-4. Перед вами переклад нової книги легенди ЦРУ, яка вийшла в Америці у березні 2021 року. Мета автора — дати об'єктивне уявлення про взаємини між США та Росією (і не лише між ними) й про особливості розвідки й контррозвідки двох супердержав. На основі власного аналізу успіхів і невдач ЦРУ за останні майже 75 років та таємних...
Харків: Фоліо, 2021. — 256 с. — ISBN 978-966-03-9764-4. Перед вами переклад нової книги легенди ЦРУ, яка вийшла в Америці у березні 2021 року. Мета автора — дати об'єктивне уявлення про взаємини між США та Росією (і не лише між ними) й про особливості розвідки й контррозвідки двох супердержав. На основі власного аналізу успіхів і невдач ЦРУ за останні майже 75 років та таємних...
М.: Воениздат, 1938. — 291 с. Работа американской разведки мало освещена в нашей литературе, и это увеличивает целесообразность появления книги Джонсона на русском языке. К тому же многочисленные факты, которые приводит автор, в корне разрушают легенду, охотно распространявшуюся некоторыми государственными деятелями США, особенно до мировой войны, о том, что Соединенные Штаты...
М.: Воениздат, 1938. — 291 с.
Работа американской разведки мало освещена в нашей литературе, и это увеличивает целесообразность появления книги Джонсона на русском языке. К тому же многочисленные факты, которые приводит автор, в корне разрушают легенду, охотно распространявшуюся некоторыми государственными деятелями США, особенно до мировой войны, о том, что Соединенные Штаты...
ЛитРес: Самиздат, 2016 . — 461 с. В представленной на суд читателей книге раскрываются особенности исторического развития специальных служб США, показан процесс формирования и развития единой организационной общности, включающей все ведущие специальные службы Соединенных Штатов и известной нам под названием «разведывательное сообщество США». Помимо освещения общего исторического...
ЛитРес: Самиздат, 2016 . — 461 с. В представленной на суд читателей книге раскрываются особенности исторического развития специальных служб США, показан процесс формирования и развития единой организационной общности, включающей все ведущие специальные службы Соединенных Штатов и известной нам под названием «разведывательное сообщество США». Помимо освещения общего исторического...
Учебное пособие. — Под ред. Горбатенко А. М. — Москва: Научно-издательский отдел Высшей Краснознаменной Школы Комитета Государственной Безопасности при Совете Министров СССР имени Ф. Э. Дзержинского, 1969. — 184 с. Важную роль в активизации борьбы с подрывной деятельностью американской разведки играет ее изучение. В настоящем учебном пособии раскрываются характерные черты...
М.: Вече, 2002. — 384 с. Вся вторая половина XX века прошла под знаком противостояния двух сверхдержав — СССР и США. Они конкурировали всюду — на земле, в небесах и на море, в политике, геополитике, экономике. Причем явная конкуренция сопровождалась не менее упорным и ожесточенным тайным противостоянием. Истории Центрального Разведывательного Управления — одной из самых мощных...
М.: Институт внешнеполитических исследований и инициатив; Кучково поле, 2014. — 480 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9950-0343-4. Холодная война номинально закончилась в 1991 году, но Соединенные Штаты с распадом Советского Союза не только не прекратили военные и скрытые вмешательства в мире, но и значительно активизировали их. Книга «Убийство демократии: операции ЦРУ и Пентагона в...
М.: Институт внешнеполитических исследований и инициатив; Кучково поле, 2014. — 482 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9950-0343-4. Холодная война номинально закончилась в 1991 году, но Соединенные Штаты с распадом Советского Союза не только не прекратили военные и скрытые вмешательства в мире, но и значительно активизировали их. Книга «Убийство демократии: операции ЦРУ и Пентагона в...
М.: Институт внешнеполитических исследований и инициатив; Кучково поле, 2014. — 482 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9950-0343-4. Холодная война номинально закончилась в 1991 году, но Соединенные Штаты с распадом Советского Союза не только не прекратили военные и скрытые вмешательства в мире, но и значительно активизировали их. Книга «Убийство демократии: операции ЦРУ и Пентагона в...
М.: Институт внешнеполитических исследований и инициатив; Кучково поле, 2014. — 482 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9950-0343-4. Холодная война номинально закончилась в 1991 году, но Соединенные Штаты с распадом Советского Союза не только не прекратили военные и скрытые вмешательства в мире, но и значительно активизировали их. Книга «Убийство демократии: операции ЦРУ и Пентагона в...
Москва: Вече, 2022. — 272 с. — (Анатомия спецслужб). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8741-5. В ходе операции под кодовым названием «Венона», начавшейся в 1943 году и продолжавшейся почти 40 лет, американские спецслужбы сумели прочесть в общей сложности более трех тысяч шифрованных сообщений, которыми в 1940-е годы Москва обменивалась с советскими дипломатическими и торговыми...
М.: Вече, 2022. — 276 с. — (Анатомия спецслужб). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8741-5. В ходе операции под кодовым названием «Венона», начавшейся в 1943 году и продолжавшейся почти 40 лет, американские спецслужбы сумели прочесть в общей сложности более трех тысяч шифрованных сообщений, которыми в 1940-е годы Москва обменивалась с советскими дипломатическими и торговыми представительствами...
М.: Вече, 2022. — 276 с. — (Анатомия спецслужб) — ISBN: 978-5-4484-8741-5. В ходе операции под кодовым названием «Венона», начавшейся в 1943 году и продолжавшейся почти 40 лет, американские спецслужбы сумели прочесть в общей сложности более трех тысяч шифрованных сообщений, которыми в 1940-е годы Москва обменивалась с советскими дипломатическими и торговыми представительствами...
М.: Вече, 2022. — 276 с. — (Анатомия спецслужб). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8741-5. В ходе операции под кодовым названием «Венона», начавшейся в 1943 году и продолжавшейся почти 40 лет, американские спецслужбы сумели прочесть в общей сложности более трех тысяч шифрованных сообщений, которыми в 1940-е годы Москва обменивалась с советскими дипломатическими и торговыми представительствами...
Минск: Бизнесофсет, 2022. — 251 с. Архивные документы, научная и политическая литература, привлечённая по проблеме «Куропаты», убеждают, что за этим названием скрывается успешно проведённая агентурная операция Центрального разведывательного управления США. В книге раскрываются движущие силы операции, названы поимённо задействованные агенты, раскрыта корыстная основа их...
Минск: Бизнесофсет, 2022. — 251 с. Архивные документы, научная и политическая литература, привлечённая по проблеме «Куропаты», убеждают, что за этим названием скрывается успешно проведённая агентурная операция Центрального разведывательного управления США. В книге раскрываются движущие силы операции, названы поимённо задействованные агенты, раскрыта корыстная основа их...
Минск: Бизнесофсет, 2022. — 251 с. Архивные документы, научная и политическая литература, привлечённая по проблеме «Куропаты», убеждают, что за этим названием скрывается успешно проведённая агентурная операция Центрального разведывательного управления США. В книге раскрываются движущие силы операции, названы поимённо задействованные агенты, раскрыта корыстная основа их...
Москва: Воениздат, 1985. — 244 с. Автор книги — бывший сотрудник Центрального разведывательного управления США рассказывает о подрывной деятельности главного американского шпионского ведомства в странах Юго-Восточной Азии.
Очерк. — Пер. с англ. А.В. Денисова. — М.: Воениздат, 1985. — 244 с. Автор книги — бывший сотрудник Центрального разведывательного управления США рассказывает о подрывной деятельности главного американского шпионского ведомства в странах Юго-Восточной Азии. Предисловие. Введение. Давай! Пошел! Вперед! Япония и Филиппины, или наивные американцы за рубежом. Вашингтон. Жизнь среди...
3-е изд. — М.: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2016. — 470 с. — ISBN 978-5-91671-534-7. В книге представлена история противостояния разведки США и спецслужб ведущих стран мира, и в первую очередь КГБ СССР, сквозь необычную призму — тайную деятельность ученых, инженеров и офицеров Оперативно-технической службы ЦРУ. Авторы, признанные эксперты в области истории разведки и шпионской...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2001. — 473 с.: ил. — (Секретная папка). Герой этой книги Джеймс Джисус Энглтон вошел в историю разведывательного сообщества США как бескомпромиссный охотник за советскими "кротами" на Западе. В 1954 году он создал в ЦРУ управление внешней контрразведки и в течение 20 лет был его бессменным шефом. Вера Энглтона в глобальное агентурное проникновение КГБ и ГРУ...
М.: Мысль, 1978. — 223 с. Книга В. Петрусенко «Тайное становится явным» представляет публицистическое исследование проблем деятельности ЦРУ в средствах массовой информации США и других капиталистических стран. Используя многочисленные факты, которые стали достоянием гласности лишь в последние годы, автор убедительно показывает приемы и методы рыцарей «плаща и кинжала»,...
М.: Родина, 2022. — 310 с. — (Документальный триллер). — ISBN 978-5-00180-635-6. Военная разведка в США родилась в годы обеих так называемых Войн за независимость североамериканских колоний Великобритании в 1776–1783 и 1812–1814 годах. К середине XX века сформировалась своеобразная неформальная организация (или сообщество) специальных служб, включавшая в свой состав от 11 до 17...
М.: Родина, 2022. — 310 с. — (Документальный триллер). — ISBN 978-5-00180-635-6. Военная разведка в США родилась в годы обеих так называемых Войн за независимость североамериканских колоний Великобритании в 1776–1783 и 1812–1814 годах. К середине XX века сформировалась своеобразная неформальная организация (или сообщество) специальных служб, включавшая в свой состав от 11 до 17...
М.: Родина, 2022. — 310 с. — (Документальный триллер). — ISBN 978-5-00180-635-6. Военная разведка в США родилась в годы обеих так называемых Войн за независимость североамериканских колоний Великобритании в 1776–1783 и 1812–1814 годах. К середине XX века сформировалась своеобразная неформальная организация (или сообщество) специальных служб, включавшая в свой состав от 11 до 17...
М.: Родина, 2022. — 336 с. — (Документальный триллер). — ISBN 978-5-00180-635-6. Военная разведка в США родилась в годы обеих так называемых Войн за независимость североамериканских колоний Великобритании в 1776–1783 и 1812–1814 годах. К середине XX века сформировалась своеобразная неформальная организация (или сообщество) специальных служб, включавшая в свой состав от 11 до 17...
М.: Индивидуум Принт, 2023. — 349 с. — ISBN: 978-5-6048006-8-3. Летающие блюдца, большеглазые гуманоиды, ночные похищения и загадочные сигналы из космоса — все это НЛО, предмет жарких споров и безумных верований. Но там, где появились НЛО, следует ждать и людей в черном. Британский писатель и исследователь паранормальных явлений Марк Пилкингтон решил выяснить, чем же занимаются...
М.: Индивидуум Принт, 2023. — 349 с. — ISBN: 978-5-6048006-8-3. Летающие блюдца, большеглазые гуманоиды, ночные похищения и загадочные сигналы из космоса — все это НЛО, предмет жарких споров и безумных верований. Но там, где появились НЛО, следует ждать и людей в черном. Британский писатель и исследователь паранормальных явлений Марк Пилкингтон решил выяснить, чем же занимаются...
М.: Индивидуум Принт, 2023. — 349 с. — ISBN: 978-5-6048006-8-3. Летающие блюдца, большеглазые гуманоиды, ночные похищения и загадочные сигналы из космоса — все это НЛО, предмет жарких споров и безумных верований. Но там, где появились НЛО, следует ждать и людей в черном. Британский писатель и исследователь паранормальных явлений Марк Пилкингтон решил выяснить, чем же занимаются...
Пер. с англ. М.Б. Борисова. — М.: ACT: Астрель, 2007. — 861 с. Книга рассказывает историю одной из самых могущественных спецслужб мира — Федерального бюро расследований — от момента зарождения до наших дней. Автор — бывшие сотрудники ФБР и ученые, занимающиеся историей американских спецслужб. В книге также рассказывается о наиболее крупных и интересных делах и преступлениях, о...
Без автора. — 2-е изд. — М.: Госполитиздат, 1962. — 152 с. : ил. Предисловие. Шпионаж и подрывная деятельность возведены в США на уровень государственной политики. На обломках У-2. 100 000 шпионов. ЦРУ — штаб «тотального шпионажа». Шпионаж, заговоры и диверсии — средства агрессии. Несколько фактов из истории. Крах политики «освобождения». Военный шпионаж на службе агрессивных...
Без автора. — 2-е изд. — М.: Госполитиздат, 1962. — 152 с. : ил. Предисловие. Шпионаж и подрывная деятельность возведены в США на уровень государственной политики. На обломках У-2. 100 000 шпионов. ЦРУ — штаб «тотального шпионажа». Шпионаж, заговоры и диверсии — средства агрессии. Несколько фактов из истории. Крах политики «освобождения». Военный шпионаж на службе агрессивных...
М.: Издание книг ком, 2022. — 256 с., ил. — ISBN 978-5-6048916-4-3. В книге рассказывается о необычном – универсальном – подразделении специального назначения американской морской пехоты – «луизианских тиграх». Это подразделение называется универсальным потому, что объединяет бойцов, способных действовать не только на земле, в воздухе и на воде, но и под водой. Кроме того,...
М.: Эксмо: Яуза, 2010. — 382 с. — (Энциклопедия спецслужб). — ISBN 978-5-699-45021-3.
Являясь на сегодняшний день единственной сверхдержавой, Соединенные Штаты обладают мощной и разветвленной сетью спецслужб. Это не только всем известные ЦРУ и ФБР, но еще и Агентство национальной безопасности, и Разведывательное управление Министерства обороны, и созданное после событий 11...
М.: Эксмо, 2010. – 384 с.
ISBN: 978-5-699-45021-3.
Серия: Энциклопедия спецслужб.
Являясь на сегодняшний день единственной сверхдержавой, Соединенные Штаты обладают мощной и разветвленной сетью спецслужб. Это не только всем известные ЦРУ и ФБР, но еще и Агентство национальной безопасности, и Разведывательное управление Министерства обороны, и созданное после событий 11 сентября...
Сборник материалов. — М.: Воениздат, 1983. — 349 с. В книге публикуются статьи журналистов, ученых и общественных деятелей США и многих стран Западной Европы, в которых разоблачается подрывная и шпионская деятельность Центрального Разведывательного Управления в странах Африканского континента. Используя обширный фактический материал, авторы убедительно показывают, как ЦРУ в...
2-е изд., перераб. и доп. — М.: Горячая линия - Телеком, 2022. — 576 с. — ISBN 978-5-9912-0959-5. Раскрывается исторический опыт сотрудничества американских спецслужб с частными компаниями. Описаны исторические личности и события, произошедшие благодаря поддержке частного сектора. Приведены переводы рассекреченных документов ЦРУ. Книга будет интересна любителям истории...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 375 с. Откровенная история того, как постколониальные движения за независимость Африки систематически подрывались одним государством - США. В 1958 году в Аккре (Гана) на конференции «Руки прочь от Африки» собрались ведущие деятели африканской независимости, чтобы публично продемонстрировать...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 375 с. Откровенная история того, как постколониальные движения за независимость Африки систематически подрывались одним государством - США. В 1958 году в Аккре (Гана) на конференции «Руки прочь от Африки» собрались ведущие деятели африканской независимости, чтобы публично продемонстрировать...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 375 с. Откровенная история того, как постколониальные движения за независимость Африки систематически подрывались одним государством - США. В 1958 году в Аккре (Гана) на конференции «Руки прочь от Африки» собрались ведущие деятели африканской независимости, чтобы публично продемонстрировать...
М.: Политиздат, 1987. — 328 с. В подмосковном лесу найден обыкновенный пенёк, который служил тайником для радиоэлектронного устройства. Кто подбросил его сюда? Следы привели в посольство США в Москве... Это одна из историй, раскрывающих деятельность агентов ЦРУ, прикрывающихся дипломатическим статусом. Читатели книги узнают о том, как с помощью современных технических средств и...
М.: Политиздат, 1987. — 328 с. В подмосковном лесу найден обыкновенный пенёк, который служил тайником для радиоэлектронного устройства. Кто подбросил его сюда? Следы привели в посольство США в Москве... Это одна из историй, раскрывающих деятельность агентов ЦРУ, прикрывающихся дипломатическим статусом. Читатели книги узнают о том, как с помощью современных технических средств и...
М.: Политиздат, 1987. — 328 с. В подмосковном лесу найден обыкновенный пенёк, который служил тайником для радиоэлектронного устройства. Кто подбросил его сюда? Следы привели в посольство США в Москве... Это одна из историй, раскрывающих деятельность агентов ЦРУ, прикрывающихся дипломатическим статусом. Читатели книги узнают о том, как с помощью современных технических средств и...
М.: Политиздат, 1987. — 328 с. В подмосковном лесу найден обыкновенный пенёк, который служил тайником для радиоэлектронного устройства. Кто подбросил его сюда? Следы привели в посольство США в Москве... Это одна из историй, раскрывающих деятельность агентов ЦРУ, прикрывающихся дипломатическим статусом. Читатели книги узнают о том, как с помощью современных технических средств и...
М.: Политиздат, 1987. — 328 с. В подмосковном лесу найден обыкновенный пенёк, который служил тайником для радиоэлектронного устройства. Кто подбросил его сюда? Следы привели в посольство США в Москве... Это одна из историй, раскрывающих деятельность агентов ЦРУ, прикрывающихся дипломатическим статусом. Читатели книги узнают о том, как с помощью современных технических средств и...
М.: Эксмо, 2003. — 464 с.: ил. — (История элитных войск). — ISBN: 5-94661-046-5. В этой книге прослеживается славный путь Корпуса морской пехоты США в войне на Тихом океане в 1941— 1945 гг. Авторы, бывшие непосредственными участниками событий, ярко и живо рассказывают об исключительно трудных десантных операциях, предпринятых морской пехотой в ходе войны с Японией. В работе над...
М.: Политиздат, 1979. — 296 с. Федеральное бюро расследований было создано, согласно официальной формуле, для расследования нарушений законодательства и обеспечения безопасности США. Однако на деле его усилия направлены прежде всего на тотальную слежку за инакомыслящими, преследование прогрессивных организаций, запугивание, провокации, террор. ФБР замешано в самых темных...
Перевод на русский язык А. Шириков. — М.: АСТ, Corpus, 2016. — 370 с. — ISBN 978-5-17-091347-3. Рассказ об Адольфе Толкачеве, самом успешном и ценном агенте Соединенных Штатов в СССР, — это история из эпохи холодной войны. Инженер и конструктор Толкачев не состоял в КПСС, не служил в армии или спецслужбе. Он не стремился к обогащению и не хотел уезжать из страны. Он никогда не...
Перевод с английского О. Кубатько. — М.: Терра–Книжный клуб, 2004. — 957 с. — (Секретные миссии). — ISBN 5-275-00984-4. По признанию автора, громкие истории, связанные со знаменитыми покушениями, а также крупными террористическими акциями (скажем, взрывами, организованными арабскими террористами), изложенные в этой книге, - по большому счету, не столько промахи слабости ФБР,...
Перевод с английского О. Кубатько. — М.: Терра–Книжный клуб, 2004. — 400 с. — (Секретные миссии). — ISBN 5-275-00984-4. По признанию автора, громкие истории, связанные со знаменитыми покушениями, а также крупными террористическими акциями (скажем, взрывами, организованными арабскими террористами), изложенные в этой книге, - по большому счету, не столько промахи слабости ФБР,...
Любительский перевод. — С оригинала: Paris: Le Seuil, 2008. — 350 с. С момента своего создания в 1947 году ЦРУ никогда не прекращало вмешиваться во Францию. В течение шестидесяти лет десятки американских агентов, чаще всего действовавших под официальным прикрытием, проводили бесчисленные тайные операции во Франции, внедряясь, финансируя и манипулируя профсоюзами, политическими...
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