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...
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...
Intelligence and National Security. — 2000. — Vol. 15, No. 1. — p. 169-176. In 1998 the National Security Agency (NSA) declassified and released to the public a small collection of documents relating to its work during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This release is noteworthy for two reasons. Although NSA has in recent years adopted a more liberal policy with regards to...
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...
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...
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,...
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...