Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Intelligence (Most)
Substantially updated 11 August 2011
A fraction–the most relevant, from Intelligence (Government/Secret) (333). Adds DHS and NGA. Integrates all reviews on intelligence since original list created in 2008. Adds new sections on JFK Assassination, Fabrication of the Cold War Threat, and Secrecy as Pathology. Brings in anthropological intelligence books. Does not include Information Operations, Information Society, or
- Intelligence (Collective & Quantum) (100)
- Intelligence (Commercial) (78)
- Intelligence (Extra-Terrestrial) (19)
- Intelligence (Public) (226)
- Intelligence (Wealth of Networks) (63)
Intelligence (Lack Of)
All
Review: Anthropologists in the Public Sphere–Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power
Review: A Pretext for War–9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies
Review: A World of Secrets–The Uses and Limits of Intelligence
Review: Blood Money–Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq
Review: Bombs, Bugs, Drugs, and Thugs–Intelligence and America’s Quest for Security
Review: Breakdown–How America’s Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
Review: Burundi on the Brink 1993-95–A UN Special Envoy Reflects on Preventive Diplomacy
Review: Counterterrorism and Open Source Intelligence
Review: Daydream Believers–How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power
Review: Endless War–Middle-Eastern Islam vs. Western Civilization
Review: Enemies of Intelligence–Knowledge and Power in American National Security
Review: Fixing Intelligence–For a More Secure America
Review: Flawed by Design–The Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC
Review (Guest): Government of the Shadows–Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty (Paperback)
Review: How We Missed the Story–Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban and the Hijacking of Afghanistan
Review: Imperial Secrets–Remapping the Mind of Empire
Review: Informing Statecraft–Intelligence for a New Century
Review: Intelligence–From Secrets to Policy
Review: Intelligence and Statecraft–The Use and Limits of Intelligence in International Society
Review: Intelligence in War–Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda
Review: Intelligence Power in Peace and War
Review: Intelligence Services in the Information Age
Review: Keeping U.S. Intelligence Effective — The Need for a Revolution in Intelligence Affairs
Review: Killing Hope–U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II-Updated Through 2003
Review: Looking For Trouble–Adventures in a Broken World
Review: Long Strange Journey–An Intelligence Memoir
Review: National Insecurity–U.S. Intelligence After the Cold War
Review: New Spies–Exploring the Frontiers of Espionage
Review: No More Secrets – Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence
Review (Retired Reader): Obama’s Wars
Review: Piercing the Veil of Secrecy–Litigation Against U.S. Intelligence
Review: Roosevelt’s Secret War–FDR and World War II Espionage
Review: Secrecy and Democracy–The CIA in Transition
Review: Seeing the Invisible–National Security Intelligence in an Uncertain Age
Review: Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
Review: Spies for Hire–The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing
Review: Spy Wars–Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games
Review: Spying Blind–The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11
Review: State of Denial–Bush at War Part III
Review: Strategic Intelligence [Five Volumes] (Intelligence and the Quest for Security) (v. 1-5)
Review: Strategic Intelligence for American National Security: (Paperback with new afterword)
Review: Strategic Intelligence–Windows into a Secret World
Review: The Arab Revolt and the Imperialist Counterattack
Review: The Future of American Intelligence
Review (Guest): The Psychopath Test — A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Review (Guest): The Shell Game (Fiction/Non-Fiction)
Review: The Threat on the Horizon
Review: The Way of the World–A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
Review: Treachery–How America’s Friends and Foes Are Secretly Arming Our Enemies (Hardcover)
Review: Twenty-first Century Intelligence
Review: Turmoil and Triumph My Years As Secretary of State (Hardcover)
Review: U.S. Intelligence at the Crossroads–Agendas for Reform
Review: VICE–Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency
Review: Waging Modern War–Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat
Review: War in a Time of Peace–Bush, Clinton, and the Generals
Review: Wars of Blood and Faith–The Conflicts That Will Shape the 21st Century
Review: Why Secret Intelligence Fails
Review: Winning Modern Wars–Iraq, Terrorism, and the American Empire
Abandonment of Prisoners of War in Viet-Nam
Review: An Enormous Crime–The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia
Review (Guest): Kiss the Boys Goodbye–How the United States Betrayed its Own POWs in Vietnam
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Review: JFK and the Unspeakable–Why He Died & Why It Matters
Review: JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy
Review: Legacy of Secrecy–The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination
Review: Tears of Autumn–A Paul Christopher Novel
Fabrication of the Cold War Threat
Review: Prophets of War–Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex
Review: Why Leaders Lie–The Truth About Lying in International Politics
Secrecy & Reform
2000 ON INTELLIGENCE: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World
2002 THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: Personal, Public, & Political
2003 PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future
2006 IJIC 19/1 Intelligence Affairs: Evolution, Revolution, or Reactionary Collapse?”
2006 THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest
2006 INFORMATION OPERATIONS: All Information, All Languages, All the Time
2008 COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace
2010 INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability
2012 Manifesto for Truth: Expanding the Open Source Revolution (Evolver Editions, July 2012)
Review: A Season of Inquiry–The Senate Intelligence Investigation
Review: Best Truth–Intelligence in the Information Age
Review: Fixing Intelligence–For a More Secure America
Review: Fixing the Spy Machine–Preparing American Intelligence for the Twenty-First Century
Review: Nation of Secrets–The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life
Review (Guest): No More Secrets – Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence
Review: Power/Knowledge–Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
Review: Real-World Intelligence
Review: Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy
Review: Secrecy–The American Experience
Review: Secret Agencies–U.S. Intelligence in a Hostile World
Review: Secrets–A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
Review: Sharing the Secrets–Open Source Intelligence and the War on Drugs
Review: Transforming U.S. Intelligence (Paperback)
Review: U.S. Intelligence at the Crossroads–Agendas for Reform
Review: Why Secret Intelligence Fails
CIA
2007 IJIC 20/1 Foreign Liaison and Intelligence Reform: Still in Denial
2008 IJIC 21/3 The Open Source Program: Missing in Action
Reference: Global Outlook Special on False Flag Operations
Review: Analyzing Intelligence: Origins, Obstacles, and Innovations
Review: Assessing the Tradecraft of Intelligence Analysis
Review: Allen Dulles–Master of Spies
Review: A Look over My Shoulder–A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency
Review: A SPY FOR ALL SEASONS–My Life In The CIA
Review: At the Center of the Storm–My Years at the CIA
Review: Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA
Review: Burn Before Reading–Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence (Hardcover)
Review: Casey–The Lives and Secrets of William J. Casey: From the OSS to the CIA
Review: Cash on Delivery–CIA Special Operations During the Secret War in Laos
Review: Charlie Wilson’s War–The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
Review: Class 11–Inside the CIA’s First Post-9/11 Spy Class
Review: Comrade Kryuchkov’s Instructions–Top Secret Files on KGB Foreign Operations, 1975-1985
Review: Creating the Secret State–The Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1943-1947
Review: Dark Alliance–The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
Review: Denial and Deception–An Insider’s View of the CIA from Iran-Contra to 9/11
Review: Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards–U.S. Covert Action and Counterintelligence
Review: Edward Lansdale’s Cold War (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War) (Paperback)
Review (Guest): Failure of Intelligence–The Decline and Fall of the CIA
Review: First In–An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan
Review: Improving CIA Analytic Performance–Four Papers by Jack Davis
Review: In Search of Enemies–A CIA Story
Review: Informing Statecraft–Intelligence for a New Century
Review: INSIDE THE COMPANY–CIA DIARY
Review: Intelligence Analysis – Behavioral and Social Scientific Foundations
Review: Legacy of Ashes–The History of the CIA
Review: None So Blind–A Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam
Review: Searching for Everardo–A Story of Love, War, and the CIA in Guatemala
Review: Secret History–The CIA’s Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954
Review: See No Evil–The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA’s War on Terrorism
Review: Slow Burn–The Rise and Bitter Fall of American Intelligence in Vietnam
Review: Spymaster–My Life in the CIA
Review: State of War–The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration (Hardcover)
Review: Strategic intelligence for American world policy (Unknown Binding)
Review: The Agency And The Hill–The CIA’s Relationship With Congress, 1946-2004
Review: The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence
Review: The CIA in Iran–The 1953 Coup and the Origins of the US-Iran Divide
Review: The Craft of Intelligence
Review: The First Directorate–My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West
Review: The Human Factor–Inside the CIA’s Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture
Review: The Main Enemy–The Inside Story of the CIA’s Final Showdown with the KGB
Review: The Secrets War–The Office of Strategic Services in World War II
Review: The Very Best Men–Four Who Dared–The Early Years of the CIA
Review: The World Was Going Our Way–The KGB and the Battle for the Third World (v. 2) (Hardcover)
Review: Tower of Secrets–A Real Life Spy Thriller
Review: Secrecy and Democracy–The CIA in Transition
Review: Without Cloak or Dagger –The truth about the new espionage
Review: Who the Hell Are We Fighting?–The Story of Sam Adams and the Vietnam Intelligence Wars
DHS
2009 Homeland Security Today: Vet with a Vision
Review: Blue Frontier–Dispatches from America’s Ocean Wilderness
Review: The End of America–Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
Review: Willful Neglect–The Dangerous Illusion of Homeland Security
DIA
Review (DVD): Green Zone (2010)
Review (DVD): The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
Review/Reference: Black World Books by Trevor Paglen
Review: Blank Check–The Pentagon’s Black Budget
Review: Blind Into Baghdad–America’s War in Iraq
Review: Chinese Intelligence Operations
Review: Defense Policy Choices for the Bush Administration 2001 – 2005
Review (Preliminary): Drugs and Contemporary Warfare
Review: Fiasco–The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Hardcover)
Review: Firepower In Limited War
Reference: Fixing Intel–A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan
Review: Grand Theft Pentagon–Tales of Corruption and Profiteering in the War on Terror
Review: Intelligence and the War in Bosnia–1992-1995 (Perspectives on Intelligence History)
Review: Killing Pablo–The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw
Review: Long Strange Journey–An Intelligence Memoir
Review: On the Psychology of Military Incompetence
Review: Peacekeeping Intelligence–Emerging Concepts for the Future (Hardcover)
Review: Peacekeeping Intelligence New Players, Extended Boundaries
Review: Silent Steel–The Mysterious Death of the Nuclear Attack Sub USS Scorpion
Review: Soldier Spies–Israeli Military Intelligence
Review: The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
Review: The Jasons–The Secret History of Science’s Postwar Elite
Review: The Tet Offensive–Intelligence Failure in War
Review: The Warning Solution–Intelligent Analysis in the Age of Information Overload
Review: Triumph Forsaken–The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (v. 1)
Review: Very Special Intelligence
Review: War and Anti-War–Making Sense of Today’s Global Chaos
Review: War and Decision–Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
Review: Winning the Long War: Retaking the Offensive against Radical Islam
FBI
An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King
Review DVD: Breach (Widescreen Edition)
Review: By Way of Deception –The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer
Review: Friendly Spies–How America’s Allies Are Using Economic Espionage to Steal Our Secrets
Review: Inside–A Top G-Man Exposes Spies, Lies, and Bureaucratic Bungling in the FBI
Review: Merchants of Treason–America’s Secrets for Sale
Review: Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy–The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul
Review: Traitors Among Us–Inside the Spy Catcher’s World
Review: The Unlikely Spy (Fiction)
Review: War by Other Means–Economic Espionage in America
NGA
Review: GIS for Decision Support and Public Policy Making
NRO
Review: Deep Black–Space Espionage and National Security
Review: Lifting the Fog of War
NSA
Review: Body of Secrets–Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
Review: The Shadow Factory–The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
Review: The Secret Sentry–The Untold History of the National Security Agency
Review (Guest): THE WATCHERS–The Rise of America’s Surveillance State
