The CIA: A Reading List

The following is a selection of books available in the Circulating Collection
of the Brooklyn Campus Library.
For additional titles, please check LIUCAT.


The American agent : my life in the CIA
by Richard L. Holm
UB271.U52 H65 2003

Book of honor : covert lives and classified deaths at the CIA
by Ted Gup
UB271.U5 G87 2000

Challenging the secret government : the post-Watergate investigations of the CIA and FBI
by Kathryn S. Olmsted
JK468.I6 O45 1996

CIA, Inc. : espionage and the craft of business intelligence
by F. W. Rustmann,  Jr.
HD38.7 .R87 2002

Cloak and dollar : a history of American secret intelligence
by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
JK468.I6 J4543 2002

The cultural cold war : the CIA and the world of arts and letters
by Frances Stonor Saunders
E169.12 .S285 2000

Denial and deception : an insider's view of the CIA from Iran-contra to 9/11
by Melissa Boyle Mahle
JK468.I6 M34 2004

Ghost wars :
The secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001
by Steve Coll
DS371.2 .C63 2004

Intelligence wars : American secret history from Hitler to al-Qaeda
by Thomas Powers
JK468.I6 P678 2002

Irreparable harm :
A firsthand account of how one agent took on the CIA in an epic battle over secrecy and free speech
by Frank Snepp
KF228.S559 S65 1999

Killing hope : U.S. military and CIA interventions since World War II
by William Blum
JK468.I6 B59 2004

The politics of truth :
Inside the lies that led to war and betrayed my wife's CIA identity, a diplomat's memoir
by Joseph C. Wilson
JK468.E7 W55 2004

The secret history of the CIA
by Joseph John Trento
JK468.I6 T68 2001

Sellout : Aldrich Ames and the corruption of the CIA
by James Adams
JK468.I6 A65 1995

A spy's journey : a CIA memoir
by Floyd L. Paseman
JK468.I6 P37 2004

Spymaster : my life in the CIA
by Theodore Shackley and Richard A. Finney
JK468.I6 S26 2005


Compiled by J. Suda 7/05