1 UNCLASSIFIED SUGGESTED READINGS HISTORY OF INTELLIGENCE AND HISTORY OF CIA This list of suggested readings was compiled by CIA's History Staff. It does not pretend to be comprehensive, but contains a sampling ofthose books and journal articles that History Staff thinks best cover the subject. "Best" is subjective; some books appear ·because they are the only ones on the subject. · Bibliographies Blackstock, Paul W., and FrankL. Schaf, Jr. Intelligence, Espionage, Counterespionage and Covert Operations: A Guide to Information Sources . Detroit, MI: Gale, 1978. Calder, James D., comp. Intelligence, Espionage, and Related Topics: An Annotated Bibliography ofSerial Journal and Magazine Scholarship, 1844-1998 . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. Cline, Marjorie W., Carla E. Christiansen, and Judith M. Fontaine. Scholar's Guide . to Intelligence Literature: Bibliography ofthe Russell J. Bowen Collection . Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1983. Bibliography of the collection at Georgetown University. Constantinides, George C. Intelligence and Espionage: An Annotated Bibliography . Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1983. Lowenthal, Mark M. The US Intelligence Community: An Annotated Bibliography New York: Garland Publishing, 1994. Peake, Hayden B. The Reader's Guide to Intelligence Periodicals. Washington, D.C.: NIBC Press, 1992. Peterson, Neal H. American Intelligence, 1775-1990: A Bibliographical Guide Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 1992. Pforzheimer, Walter, ed. Bibliography ofIntelligence Literature: A Critical and Annotated Bibliography of Open Source Intelligence Literature . 8th ed. Washington, DC: Defense Intelligence College, 1985. Princk, Dan C., et al. Stalking the History of the Office ofStrategic Services: An OSS Bibliography. Boston: OSS/Donovan Press, 2000. Sexton, Donal J. Signals Intelligence in World War II Westport CT: Greenwood 1 UNCLASSIFIED 1 UNCLASSIFIED Press, 1996. Smith, Myron J. The Secret Wars: A Guide to Sources in English . Vol. I: Intelligence, Propaganda and Psychological Warfare, Resistance Movements, and Secret Operations; Vol. II: Intelligence, Propaganda and Psychological Warfare, Covert Operations,. 1945-1980; Vol. III: International Terrorism, 1968-80. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1980-81. Document Collections Benson, Robert Louis and Michael Warner, eds. VENONA: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957. Washington, DC: National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency, 1996. Fischer, Ben B., ed. At Cold War's End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991. Washington, D.C.: CIA History Staff, Center for the Study oflntelligence, 1999. Johnson, Loch K., editor. The Central Intelligence Agency: History and Documents. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989 . .Koch, Scott. Selected Estimates on the Soviet Union, 1950-1959 . Washington, DC: CIA History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1993. Kuhns, Woodrow J., ed. Assessing the Soviet Threat: The Early Cold War Years. Washington, b.C.: CIA History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1997. Leary, William M., editor. The Central Intelligence Agency: History and Documents Tuscaloosa, AL: University ofAlabama Press, 1984. McAuliffe, MaryS. CIA Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Washington, D.C.: CIA History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1992. Steury, Donald P ., ed. Intentions and Capabilities: Estimates on Soviet Strategic Forces, 1950-1983. Washington, D.C.: CIA History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1996. On the Front Lines of the Cold War: Documents on the Intelligence War in Berlin, 1946-1961. Washington, D.C.: Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1998. Warner, MichaelS., ed. Central Intelligence: Origin and Evolution . Washington, DC: CIA History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2001. 2 UNCLASSIFIED 2 UNCLASSIFIED Encyclopedias Carl, Leo D. The CIA Insider's Dictionary of US and Foreign Intelligence, Counterintelligence & Tradecraft. Washington, DC: NIBC Press, 1996. Mahoney, Harry Thayer and Marjorie Locke Mahoney. Biographical Dictionary of Espionage. London: San Francisco: Austin and Winfield, 1998. Minnick, Wendell L. Spies and Provocateurs: A World-wide Encyclopedia of Persons Conducting Espionage and Covert Action, 1946-1991 . Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1992. Nash, Jay Robert. Spies: A Narrative Encyclopedia ofDirty Deeds & Double Dealing from Biblical Times to Today. New York: M. Evans and Company, 1997. Somewhat sensational and many factual errors require cautious use. However, there are some entries and topics unique to this volume. Newton, David E. Encyclopedia of Cryptology . Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 1997. O'Toole, G.J.A. The Encyclopedia ofAmerican Intelligence and Espionage. New York: Facts on File, 1988. An indispensable reference work. Palmar, Norman and Thomas B. Allen. Spy Book: The Encyclopedia ofEspionage . New York: Random House, 1997. Also indispensable. Smith, W. Thomas. Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency. New York: Checkmark Books, 2003. -watson, Bruce W. United States Intelligence: An Encyclopedia . New York: Garland Publishers, 1990. Historiography Cram, Cleveland C. OfMoles and Molehunters: A Review of Counterintelligence Literature, 1977-92. Washington: Center for the Study ofintelligence, 1992. Ferris, John. "Coming in from the Cold War: The Historiography of American Intelligence, 1945-1990." Diplomatic History, 19:4 (Winter 1995), 87-115. Essay reviewing the major books on American intelligence history and the schools of thought they represent. Petersen, Neal H. "Intelligence Literature of the Cold War," Studies in Intelligence, 3 UNCLASSIFIED 3 UNCLASSIFIED 32:4 (Winter 1988), 63-72. Overviews of the Philosophy and Practice of Intelligence Dulles, Allen. The Craft ofIntelligence. New York: Harper and Row, 1963. Felix, Christopher (pseud.). A Short Course in the Secret War . Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1992. Revised version of classic tradecraft manual/memoir by James McCargar, an Army CIC officer after World War II. Ford, Harold P. Estimative Intelligence. The Purposes and Problems ofNational Intelligence Estimating. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993. Gannon, James. Stealing Secrets, Telling Lies: How Spies and Codebreakers Helped Shape the Twentieth Century. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2001. Holt, Pat M. Secret Intelligence and Public Policy:· A Dilemma ofDemocracy Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1995. Kahn, David. "An Historical Theory of Intelligence," Intelligence and National Security, 16:3 (Autumn 2001), 79-92. Kendall, Willmore. "The Functions of Intelligence," World Politics, 1 (July 1949), 540-552. Takes the view opposite of Sherman Kent's. Kent, Sherman. Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy : Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1949, 1966. The seminal work by the future chairman of CIA's Board ofNational Estimates. Laqueur, Walter. A World ofSecrets: The Uses and Limits ofIntelligence . New York: Basic Books, 1985. Lloyd, Mark. The Guinness Book ofEspionage. New York: Da Capo Press, 1994. Lowenthal, Mark M. Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy . Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1999 . Owen, David. Hidden Secrets: A Complete History ofEspionage and the Technology Used to Support It. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2002. Powers, Thomas. Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda. New York: New York Review of Books Press, 2003. A collection ofthe author's always incisive book reviews and essays. Shulsky, Abram N. Silent Warfare: Understanding the World ofIntelligence 4 UNCLASSIFIED 4 UNCLASSIFIED Washington, DC: Brassey's 1991 Steury, Donald P., ed. Sherman Kent and the Board ofNational Estimates. Washington, DC: CIA History Staff, 1994. A collection of Kent's writings with an introductory essay by a historian on CIA's History Staff. Warner, Michael. "Wanted: A Definition of 'Intelligence'," Studies in Intelligence, 46:3 (2002), pp. 15-22. Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Topics Austin, N.J.E.; and N.B. Rankov. Exploratio: Military and Political Intelligence in the Roman World from the Second Punic War to the Battle ofAdrianople. London: Routledge, 199 5. Backscheider, Paula R. "Daniel Defoe and Early Modem Intelligence." Intelligence and National Security, 11 (January 1966), 1-21. Douglas, Hugh. Jacobite Spy Wars: Moles, Rogues, and Treachery . New York: Sutton Publishing, 2000. The "black arts" as practiced in 17th century England. Dvomik, Francis. Origins ofIntelligence Services: The Ancient Near East, Persia, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, the Arab Muslim Empires, the Mongol Empire, China, Muscovy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1974. Fritz, Paul. The English Ministers and Jacobitism Between the Rebellions of 1715 and 1745. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1975. Reconstruction of espionage in high places. Haynes, Alan. Invisible Power: The Elizabethan Secret Services, 1570-1603. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Maffeo, Steven E. Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age ofNelson Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2000. Marshall, Alan. Intelligence and Espionage in the Reign of Charles IL 1660-1685 London: Cmnbridge University Press, 1994. Nicholl, Charles. The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe. London: Jonathan Cape, 1992. Plowden, Alison. The Elizabethan Secret Service. London: Harvester/Wheatsheaf, 1991. 5 UNCLASSIFIED 5 UNCLASSIFIED Sheldon, Rose Mary. "Hannibal's Spies." International Journal ofIntelligence and Counterintelligence,