The Real CIA
Top 10 The Real CIA
: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism, Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of our Times, The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government, At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA, From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War, The Art of Intelligence, Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda, Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism, Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President...
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
In his explosive New York Times bestseller, top CIA operative Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides startling evidence of how Washington politics sabotaged the CIA’s efforts to root out the world’s deadliest terrorists, allowing for the rise...
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of our Times
| Author | George Crile |
| ISBN | 0802141242 |
Charlie Wilson's War was a publishing sensation and a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller. In the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of Afghan "freedom fighters" who continued, despite...
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
| Author | David Talbot |
| ISBN | 0062276166 |
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers
America’s greatest untold story: the United...
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA
| Author | George Tenet |
| ISBN | 0061147788 |
In the whirlwind of accusations and recriminations that emerged in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq war, one man's vital testimony has been conspicuously absent. Candid and gripping, At the Center of the Storm recounts George Tenet's time at the Central Intelligence Agency, a revealing look at the inner...
| Author | Robert M. Gates |
| ISBN | 1416543368 |
Bob Gates’ From The Shadows is an interesting book by the former director of the CIA. Gates held numerous posts in the National Security Council and CIA’s analytic directorate. The book has very little “inside baseball” and is much more a history of the times, from the perspective of national...
| Author | Henry A. Crumpton |
| ISBN | 1611760712 |
A legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career while illustrating the growing importance of America's intelligence officers and their secret missions
For a crucial period, Henry Crumpton led the CIA's global covert...
Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda
| Author | Robert Wallace |
| ISBN | 0525949801 |
From two men who know better than anyone how espionage really works, an unprecedented historyaheavily illustrated with neverbefore- seen imagesaof the CIAas most secretive operations and the gadgets that made them possible. It is a world where the intrigue of reality exceeds that of fiction. What...
Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism
| Author | Billy Waugh |
| ISBN | 0060564105 |
For more than half a century, Special Forces and CIA legend Billy Waugh dedicated his life to tracking down and eliminating America's most virulent enemies. Operating from the darkest shadows and most desolate corners of the world, he made his mark in many of the most important operations in the annals...
Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy
| Author | Lindsay Moran |
| ISBN | 0425205622 |
Call me na�ve, but when I was a girl-watching James Bond and devouring Harriet the Spy-all I wanted was to grow up to be a spy. Unlike most kids, I didn't lose my secret-agent aspirations. So as a bright-eyed, idealistic college grad, I sent my resume to the CIA.Getting in was a story in itself. I peed in...
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA & Mind Control
| Author | John D. Marks |
| ISBN | 0393307948 |
A 'Manchurian Candidate' is an unwitting assassin brainwashed and programmed to kill. In this book, former State Department officer John Marks tells the explosive story of the CIA's highly secret program of experiments in mind control. His curiosity first aroused by information on a puzzling suicide....
The Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World
| Author | Allen W. Dulles |
| ISBN | 1592282970 |
If the experts could point to any single book as a source for understanding twentieth-century intelligence, that book would be Allen W. Dulles's The Craft of Intelligence. This classic of spycraft is based on Dulles's incomparable experience as a diplomat, international lawyer, and America's premier...
Like many a thriller, this reconstructed diary begins with the audience knowing that something terrible has happened. We are then transported back in time to the narrator's youth, when a clean-cut, idealistic, all-American, anti-Communist Phillip Agee first joins the CIA. Like Bolero, the books...
A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments
| Author | H.P. Albarelli Jr. |
| ISBN | 0977795373 |
Following nearly a decade of research, this account solves the mysterious death of biochemist Frank Olson, revealing the identities of his murderers in shocking detail. It offers a unique and unprecedented look into the backgrounds of many former CIA, FBI, and Federal Narcotics Bureau officials—including...
