Intelligence Bibliography
Every day we received inquiries from our students, clients, researchers and many others who ask about the literature of the intelligence field. What would you recommend as a good book or two on such and such aspect of intelligence operations. Our answer is a slightly annotated Intelligence Bibliography. By that, we mean that our annotation is little more than a set of evaluations and recommendations, based on a five star or less ranking. The texts themselves are drawn from our student/faculty library at our Training Centre in Alexandria, VA as well as some of our faculty’s personal libraries. It’s updated fairly regularly as more literature is added to the field. Should you have any recommendations – and perhaps even some ratings of your own, we’d be pleased to hear from you. |
- Traitors, Spies, Patriots, Assorted Ruffians and Rascals
- Biographies, Autobiographies and Memoirs
- Intelligence Operations
- Counterintelligence
- Special Operations, Covert Action and Intelligence Related Paramilitary Activities
- Military Intelligence
- Interrogation, including Prisoner of War, Code of Conduct and Escape Literature
- Terrorism/Counter terrorism/Criminal Linkages
- Intelligence Analysis
- Business Intelligence
- Technical Intelligence
- Intelligence References
Rating Guide
Highly useful, well-organized, readable, accurate, valuable, important contribution.
Moderately Useful, relatively few, minor inaccuracies, misstatements or unfounded conclusions.
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Useful, minor to significant inaccuracies, questionable objectivity or reliability.
Marginally useful, inaccurate, biased to the point of lost objectivity, unnecessarily dramatic, or unrealistic.
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Not useful, far too many errors of fact or substance, prone to exaggeration or bias.
