George Allen, NONE SO BLIND: a Personal Account of Intelligence Failure in Vietnam (Ivan R

Updated 12 April 2003

Core Readings in Intelligence Reform

George Allen, NONE SO BLIND: A Personal Account of Intelligence Failure in Vietnam (Ivan R. Dee, 2001), 296 pages. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1566633877/ossnet-20

Robert Baer, SEE NO EVIL: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism (Crown, 2002), 284 pages. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0609609874/ossnet-20

Bruce Berkowitz and Allen Goodman, BEST TRUTH: Intelligence in the Information Age, (Yale, 2000), 224 pages. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300080115/ossnet-20

Robert Gates, From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War (Simon & Schuster, 1996), 608 pages www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684810816/ossnet-20

Bill Gertz, BREAKDOWN: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11 (Regnery Publishing, 202), 273 pages. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0895261480/ossnet-20

Roy Godson, Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards: U.S. Covert Action & Counterintelligence (Transaction Press, 2001), 338 pages. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0765806991/ossnet-20

Stuart Herrington, Traitors Among Us: Inside the Spy Catchers World (Presidio, 1999), 384 pages. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0891416773/ossnet-20

Arthur Hulnick, Fixing the Spy Machine: Preparing American Intelligence for the 21st Century (Praeger Publishing, 2000), 248 pages. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0275966534/ossnet-20

Loch Johnson, Bombs, Bugs, Drugs, and Thugs: Intelligence and America's Quest for Security, (New York University Press, 2000), 288 pages. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814742521/ossnet-20

Jong, Ben de, Wies Platje, and Robert David Steele, PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future (OSS, 2003), to be on Amazon in mid-May 2003.

Michael Levine, DEEP COVER: The Inside Story of How DEA Infighting, Incompetence and Subterfuge Lost Us the Biggest Battle of the Drug War (Delacorte, 1990) www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595092640/ossnet-20

William E. Odom, FIXING INTELLIGENCE For a More Secure America (Yale, 2003), 230 pages www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300099762/ossnet-20

Mark Riebling, WEDGE: The Secret War Between the FBI and the CIA (Knoph, 1994), 563 pages. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679414711/ossnet-20

Robert D. Steele, THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: Personal, Public, & Political (OSS International Press, 2002), 438 pages. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0971566119/ossnet-20

Robert D. Steele, ON INTELLIGENCE: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World (OSS International Press, 2000), 495 pages. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0971566100/ossnet-20

Gregory D. Treverton, Reshaping National Intelligence for an Age of Information, (Cambridge University Press, 2001), 282 pages. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/052158096X/ossnet-20

Trulock, Notra, Code Name KINDRED SPIRIT: Inside the Chinese Nuclear Espionage Scandal (Encounter Books, 2003), www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1893554511/ossnet-20

Amy Zegart, Flawed by Design: the Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC (Stanford University Press, 2000), 342 pages. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/080474131X/ossnet-20