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INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS

Books listed in this section focus more on HUMINT collection operations particularly those involving groups and organization as opposed to individuals. Often, there will involve not only multiple actors, but also multiple operations conducted in varying environs and times. These have been selected and grouped to provide a broader picture of operations undertaken by diverse organization in a variety of countries over time.

As more and more attention is focused on national and international operation, particularly since 2001, the amount of informed opinion and observation is substantially smaller than the sensational portrayals by politicians, activists and media. Thus, an additional value of this section is the opportunity to introduce an air of reality into an overdone topic. This dose of reality has probably been best articulated in a quote from Russell Jack Smith :

“As all of us have observed, the words spy, espionage, and clandestine precipitate a chemical reaction that causes eyes to light up, hearts to quicken, and ears to point forward. The Byzantine, surrealistic confections of John LeCarré and a host of lesser entertainers have exploited a normal human interest in secret shenanigans and have fasted a grossly distorted, frivolous image upon a serious, highly professional activity.”

• Casey, William J. The Secret War Against Hitler. Washington: Regnery Gateway, 1988.
• Cockburn, Alexander and Jeffrey St. Clair. Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press. New York: Verso, 1998.
• Colby, William E. with James McCarger. Lost Victory: A Firsthand Account of America's Sixteen-Year Involvement in Vietnam. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1989.
• Dorril, Stephan. MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations. New York: Free Press, 2000.
• Dulles, Allen. The Craft of Intelligence. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.
• Epstein, Edward J. Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.
• Farago, Ladislas. The Game of the Foxes: The Untold Story of German Espionage in the United States and Great Britain During World War II. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1971.
• Felix, Christopher. A Short Course in the Secret War. New York: Dell Books, 1988. Second edition.
• Fourcade, Marie-Madeleine. Noah’s Ark. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1974.
• Gannon, James. Stealing Secrets, Telling Lies: How Spies and Codebreakers Helped Shape the Twentieth Century. Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 2001.
• Gordievsk, Oleg and Christopher Andrew. KGB, The Inside Story of its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev. New York: Harper Collins, 1990.
• Grose, Peter. Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2000.
• Hart, John Limond. The CIA’s Russians. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2003.
• Hitz, Frederick P. The Great Game: The Myth and Reality of Espionage. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
• Kessler, Ronald. Escape from the CIA. New York: Pocket Books, 1991.
• Kostov, Vladimir. The Bulgarian Umbrella: The Soviet Direction and Operations of the Bulgarian Secret Service In Europe. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, St. Martin’s Press, 1988.
• Lilley, James with Jeffrey Lilley. China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage and Diplomacy. New York: Public Affairs, 2004.
• Manne, Robert. The Petrov Affair: Politics and Espionage. Elmsford, New York: Pergamon Books Limited, 1987.
• Marenches, Count de Alexandre. The Fourth World War: Diplomacy and Espionage in the Age of Terrorism. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1992.
• Orlov, Alexander. The Secret History of Stalin’s Crimes. New York: Random house, 1953.
• O’Toole, George. Honorable Treachery: A History of U.S. Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.
• Owen, David. Hidden Secrets: A Complete History of Espionage and the Technology Used to Support It. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2002.
• Persico, Joseph E. Piercing the Reich: The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American Secret Agents During World War II. New York: Viking Press, 1979.
• Peterson, Neal H., ed. From Hitler’s Doorstep: The Wartime Intelligence Reports of Allen Dulles, 1942-1945. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.
• Prange, Gordon W. with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon. Target Tokyo: The Story of the Sorge Spy Ring. NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1984.
• Rhodes, Richard. Dark Sun The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
• Smith, Michael. New Cloak, Old Dagger. London: Victor Gollancz, 1996.
• Stafford, David. Camp X. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.
• Valentine, Douglas. The Phoenix Program. New York: William Morrow, 1990.
• Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998.
• West, Nigel, Oleg Tsarev. The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives. London: Harper Collins Publishing, 1998.
• Wires, Richard. The Cicero Spy Affair: German Access to British Secrets in World War II. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.
• Woodward, Bob, Veil: The Secret wars of the CIA 1981-1987. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
  
• Marshall, Robert. All the Kings Men - The Truth Behind SOE's Greatest Wartime Disaster. London: William Collins & Sons, 1988.
• Ind, Allison. Allied Intelligence Bureau - Our Secret Weapon in the War Against Japan. New York: Curtis Books, 1958.
• Marquadt-Bigman, Petra. American Planning for Postwar Germany: The Role of Intelligence Research and the Office of Strategic Services.
  Unpublished paper, 1994.
• Olsen, Olaf R. Assignment: Spy. New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1968.
• Cunningham, Cyril. Beaulieu - The Finishing School for Secret Agents 1942-1945. London: Leo Cooper, 1998.
• Dunlop, Richard. Behind Japanese Lines - With the OSS in Burma. New York: Rand McNally, 1979.
• Stafford, David. Camp X. New York: Pocket Books, 1986.
• Winks, Robin W. Cloak & Gown - Scholars in the Secret War 1939-1961. New York: William Morrow, 1987.
• Ford, Corey and Alastair MacBain. Cloak and Dagger: The Secret Story of OSS. New York: Random House, 1945.
• Marcel Ruby. F Section SOE - The Story of the Buckmaster Network. London: Leo Cooper, 1985.
• Haldane, R. A. The Hidden War London: Robert Hale, 1978.
• Dourlein, Pieter. Inside North Pole - A Secret Agent's Story. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books (reprint), 1953.
• Cookridge, E. H. Inside SOE - The Story of Special Operations in Western Europe 1940-1945. London: Arthur Baker, 1966.
• Giskies, H. J. London Calling North Pole. New York: Bantam Books, 1953.
• Breuer, William B. MacArthur's Undercover War - Spies, Saboteurs, Guerrillas, and Secret Missions. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1995.
• Pickersgill, Frank and George H. Ford. Making of A Secret Agent, The - Letters of 1934-1943. (ed.). Toronto, CAN:
  McClelland and Stewart, 1978.
• Montagu, Ewan. The Man Who Never Was. New York: Bantam Books, 1953.
• Tickell, Jerrard. Moon Squadron. London: Allan Wingate, 1956.
• Persico, Joseph E. Piercing the Reich - The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American Secret Agents During World War II. New York: Ballantine Books, 1979.
• Garlinski, Josef. Poland, SOE and the Allies. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1969.
• Seth, Ronald. A Spy Has No Friends. New York: Ballantine Books, 1972.