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BIOGRAPHIES, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS

“There is properly no history; only biography.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

The majority of this section’s listing is comprised of personal and professional histories of intelligence officers and leaders – whether operational, analytical, or staff, political or non-political. Without question, you’ll find more bias in the section than in any others, although in many cases, you’ll appreciate the “warts and all” treatment. Nonetheless, we believe you’ll find that any bias will be more than offset by the contributing threads to the tapestry of intelligence.

We’ve sought to include a diverse set of actors and countries in an attempt to accommodate such varying points of view as exist today; similarly, in an attempt to demonstrate the different national and cultural styles that relate to the application of intelligence principles. To a certain extent, this will be an extension of the desire in Section I to provide additional context.

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  • Baer, Robert, See No Evil: The true story of a ground soldier in the CIA’s war on terrorism. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001.
  • Bancroft, Mary. Autobiography of a Spy. New York: Morrow, 1983.
  • Blitzer, Wolf. Terrority of Lies: The Exclusive Story of Jonathan Jay Pollard: The American Who Spied On His Country For Israel and How he was Betrayed. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1989.
  • Brown, Anthony Cave. The Last Hero, Wild Bill Donovan. New York: Random House, 1982.
  • Carlson, John Roy. Under Cover. Philadelphia, PA: The Blakiston Company, 1943.
  • Chambers, Whittaker. Witness. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1969.
  • Clark, Ronald William. The Man Who Broke Purple: A Life of the World's Greatest Cryptographer, Colonel William F. Friedman. Boston: Little, Brown, 1977.
  • Clarridge, Duane R. with Digby Diehl. A Spy for All Seasons: My Life in the CIA. New York: Scribner, 1997.
  • Colby, William and Peter Forbath. Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA. New York: Simon Schuster, 1978.
  • Cook, John L. The Advisor: The Phoenix Program in Vietnam. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 1997.
  • Copeland, Miles. Beyond Cloak and Dagger: Inside the CIA. New York: Pinnacle Books, 1974.
  • Corn, David. Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA Crusades. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.
  • Currey, Cecil. Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet American. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.
  • Daniloff, Nicholas. Two Lives, One Russia: The True Story of One American's Harrowing and Illuminating Experience as a Pawn of the KGB. New York: Avon Books, 1990.
  • Dolgun, Alexander, Patrick Watson. Alexander Dolgun’s Story: An American in the Gulag. New York: Ballantine Books, 1975.
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  • Doyle, David W. True Men and Traitors: From the OSS to the CIA, My Life in the Shadows. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2001.
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  • Gup, Ted. The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA. New York: Doubleday, 2000.
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  • Howarth, David. We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 1955/1999.
  • Ignatius, David. Agents of Innocence. New York: W. W. Norton, 1987.
  • Johnson, William. R. Thwarting Enemies At Home and Abroad: How To Be A Counterintelligence Officer. Bethesda, MD: Stone Trail Press, 1987.
  • Kahn, David. The Reader of Gentleman's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.
  • Kalugin, Oleg. The First Directorate: My 32 years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
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  • Kern, Gary, introduction by Nigel West. A Death in Washington: Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin Terror. New York: Enigma Books, 2003.
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  • Littell, Robert. The Czech Black Book. New York: Avon Books, 1969.
  • Lovell, Mary S. Cast No Shadow: The Life of the American Spy Who Changed the Course of World War II. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.
  • Lunev, Stanlislav with Ira Winkler. Through The Eyes of the Enemy: Russia’s Highest Ranking Military Defector Reveals Why Russia Is More Dangerous Than Ever. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1998.
  • Macdonald, Bill. The True ‘INTREPID’: Sir William Stephenson and the Unknown Agents. Surrey, British Columbia, Canada: Timberholme Books Ltd., 1998.
  • Mangold, Tom. Cold Warrior James Jesus Angleton: The CIA’s Master Spy Hunter. London: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1991.
  • MacDonald, Elizabeth P. Undercover Girl. New York: Macmillan, 1947.
  • Marchetti, Victor and John D. Marks. The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. London: Jonathan Cape, 1974.
  • McIntosh, Elizabeth P. Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998
  • Mendez, Antonio J. with Malcolm McConnell. The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA. New York: William Morrow Company, Inc., 1999.
  • Montague, Ludwell Lee. General Walter BedeIl Smith As Director of Central Intelligence: October 1950 - February 1953. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.
  • Morgan,Ted. A Covert life—Jay Lovestone: Communist Anti-Communist and Spymaster. New York: Random House, 1999.
  • Mr. X (with Henderson, Bruce E. and Cyr CC), Double Eagle: The Autobiography of a Polish Spy who Defected to the West, New York: Random House,1979.
  • Murphy, David E., Segei A. Kondrashev, George Bailey. Battle Ground Berlin: CIA vs KGB in the Cold War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.
  • Nechiporenko, Colonel Oleg Maximovich. Passport To Assassination: The Never-Before Told Story of Lee Harvey Oswald by the KGB Colonel Who Knew Him. New York: Birch Lane Press, 1993.
  • Newman, Bernard I.O., Ed Evans. Spy and Counter-Spy: Bernard Newman’s Story of the British Secret Service. London: Robert Hale & Company, 1970.
  • Pacepa, Ion Mihai. Red Horizons: Chronicles Of A Communist Spy Chief. Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 1987.
  • Persico, Joseph E. Casey: From the OSS to the CIA. New York: Viking Penguin, 1990.
  • Philby, Kim. My Silent War. New York: Grove Press Inc., 1968.
  • Phillips, David Atlee. The Night Watch: 25 Years of Peculiar Service. New York: Atheneum, 1977.
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  • Pujol, Juan and Nigel West. Operation GARBO: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Double Agent of World War II. New York: Random House, 1985.
  • Roosevelt, Archie. For Lust of Knowing: Memoirs of an Intelligence Officer. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1988.
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  • Smith, Larry, Introduction by General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. Beyond Glory: Medal of Honor Heroes in Their Own Words – Extraordinary Stories of Courage from World War II to Vietnam. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.
  • Smith, R. Jack. The Unknown CIA: My Three Decades with the Agency. Washington, DC: Pergamon-Brassey’s, 1989.
  • Snepp, Frank. Decent Interval: An Insider’s Account of Saigon’s Indecent End Told by the CIA’s Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam. New York: Random House, 1977.
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  • Sullivan, William C. The Bureau: My Thirty Years in Hoover’s FBI. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979.
  • Sumaida, Hussein with Carole Jerome. Circle of Fear: A Renegade’s Journey From The Mossad To The Iraqi Secret Service. Toronto, Canada: Stoddart Publishing Company, 1991.
  • Summers, Anthony and Stephen Dorril. Honeytrap: The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward. London: Weidenfeld and Nicoloson, 1987.
  • Official And Confidential: The Secret Life Of J. Edgar Hoover. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1993.
  • Suvorov, Victor. The Aquarium: The Career and Defection of a Soviet Military Spy. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985.
  • Tanenhaus, Sam. Whittaker Chambers: A Biography. New York: Random House, 1997.
  • Thomas, Evan. The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
  • Trepper, Leopold. The Great Game: Memoirs of the Spy Hitler Couldn’t Silence. McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1977 - English Edition, original edition in French, 1904.
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  • Wheelwright, Julie. The Fatal Lover: Mata Hari and the Myth of Women in Intelligence. London: Collins & Brown, 1992.
  • Whiteside, Thomas. An Agent in Place. New York: Random House, 1989.
  • Wise, David. The Spy Who Got Away. New York: Avon Books, 1988.
  • Wolf, Markus with Anne McElvoy. Man Without A Face: The Autobiography of Communism’s Greatest Spymaster. New York: Times Books, 1997.
  • Wynne, Greville. Contact on Gorky Street. New York: Atheneum, 1968.
  • Yardley, Herbert 0. The American Black Chamber. NY: Ballantine, 1981.
  • Zacharias, Ellis M. Secret Missions: The Story of an Intelligence Officer. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1946.
  • Persico, Joseph E. Casey - From the OSS to the CIA. New York: Viking Penguin. 1990.
  • Dawidoff, Nicholas. Catcher Was A Spy, The - The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.
  • Moon, Thomas N. and Carl F. Eifler. The Deadliest Colonel. New York: Vintage Press, 1975.
  • Bank, Aaron. From OSS to Green Berets - The Birth of Special Forces. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1992.
  • Wilkinson, Peter and Joan B. Astley. Gubbins and SOE. London: Leo Cooper, 1993.




 

 

 

 

 

 

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