General
Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy, 7th Edition
Mark Lowenthal (2016)
Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence
Abram N. Shulsky and Gary J. Schmitt (2002)
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges
Roger Z. George and Robert D. Kline (2006)
Recent History and Counterterrorism
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2011
Steve Coll (2004)
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaida and the Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright (2007)
88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary
Robert L. Grenier (2015)
Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Michael V. Hayden (2016)
The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in the Age of Lies
Michael V. Hayden (2018)
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA
George Tenet (2007)
Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA
John Rizzo (2014)
The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service
Henry A. Crumpton (2012)
The Great War of Our Time: The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism -- From Al Qa'ida to ISIS
Michael Morrell and Bill Harlow (2015)
Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism
Tim Naftali (2005)
Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
James Clapper and Trey Brown (2018)
Terror and Consent: The Wars of the Twenty-first Century
Phillip Bobbitt (2009)
Intelligence Failure and Analysis
Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision
Roberta Wohlstetter (1962)
Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security
Richard K. Betts (2007)
Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War
Robert Jervis (2010)
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t
Nate Silver (2012)
The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
Richards J. Heuer, Jr. (2007)
Structure, Reform, and Oversight
Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC
Amy Zegart (1999)
Blinking Red: Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11
Michael Allen (2013)
Intelligence and National Security in American Society
LBJ Policy Research Project, Report #189 (2016)
Spy Watching: Intelligence Accountability in the United States
Loch K. Johnson (2017)
Espionage, Counterintelligence, and Ethics
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
David E. Hoffman (2015)
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
Kai Bird (2014)
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Ben Macintyre (2014)
Spying in America: Espionage from the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Cold War
Michael Sulick (2012)
American Spies: Espionage Against the United State from the Cold War to the Present
Michael Sulick (2013)
Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games
Tennent H. Bagley (2007)
Spies, Patriots, and Traitors: American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War
Kenneth A. Daigler (2014)
Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying
James Olson (2006)
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
Ben Macintyre (2012)
Cyber, Military, and Technical Intelligence
@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
Shane Harris (2012)
The Admirals’ Advantage: U.S. Navy Operational Intelligence in World War II and the Cold War
Christopher Ford and David Rosenberg (2005)
Covert Action
Charlie Wilson’s War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
George Crile (2003)
Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency
Stephen F. Knott (1996)
Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and the Surprising Use of American Power
David E. Sanger (2012)
Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987
Bob Woodward (1987)
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA. Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 11, 2001
Steve Coll (2011)
Fallout: The True Story of the CIA's Secret War on Nuclear Trafficking
Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz (2014)
History
For the President’s Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush
Christopher Andrew (1995)
The Very Best Men: The Daring Early Years of the CIA
Evan Thomas (1995)
Honorable Treachery: A History of U.S. Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA
G. J. A. O’Toole (2014)
The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s Presidents from Kennedy to Obama
David Priess (2016)
Cloak and Gown: Scholars in America’s Secret War
Robin W. Winks (1987)
Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II
Stephen Budiansky (2000)
The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
Frances Stoner Saunders (2013)
Foreign Services
Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel’s Secret Wars, 2nd Edition
Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman (2014)
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin (1999)
KGB: The Inside Story of its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev
Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky (1991)
STASI: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police
John O. Koehler (1999)
The File: A Personal History
Timothy Garton Ash (1997)
The Secret History of MI-6
Keith Jeffrey (2010)
Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI-5
Christopher Andrew (2009)