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==Bibliography==
* Arbel, David, and  Ran Edelist. ''Western Intelligence and the Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1980-1990: Ten Years That Did Not Shake the World'' (2003) [http://www.questia.com/read/108511611?title=Western%20Intelligence%20and%20the%20Collapse%20of%20the%20Soviet%20Union%2c%201980-1990%3a%20%20Ten%20Years%20That%20Did%20Not%20Shake%20the%20World online edition]  
* Arbel, David, and  Ran Edelist. ''Western Intelligence and the Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1980-1990: Ten Years That Did Not Shake the World'' (2003) [http://www.questia.com/read/108511611?title=Western%20Intelligence%20and%20the%20Collapse%20of%20the%20Soviet%20Union%2c%201980-1990%3a%20%20Ten%20Years%20That%20Did%20Not%20Shake%20the%20World online edition]  
* Barrett, David M.  ''The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy.'' (2005). 542 pp.   
* Barrett, David M.  ''The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy.'' (2005). 542 pp.   
* Central Intelligence Agency. ''A Compendium of Analytic Tradecraft Notes'' (1997) http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cia/tradecraft_notes/contents.htm. The basic training guide for CIA analysts.
* Coll, Steve.  ''Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.'' (2004) 695 pp.  [http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Wars-Afghanistan-Invasion-September/dp/0143034669/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210940048&sr=1-4 excerpt and text search]
* Coll, Steve.  ''Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.'' (2004) 695 pp.  [http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Wars-Afghanistan-Invasion-September/dp/0143034669/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210940048&sr=1-4 excerpt and text search]
* Conboy, Kenneth and Morrison, James.  ''The CIA's Secret War in Tibet.'' (2002). 301 pp.  Covers the entire history of CIA support for armed Tibetan opposition to Chinese rule: from the seizure of Lhasa in August 1951 and subsequent flight of the Dalai Lama, to the rout of the last Tibetan guerrilla redoubt by the Royal Nepalese Army in 1974. It is a record of almost unmitigated failure. [http://www.amazon.com/CIAs-Secret-War-Tibet/dp/0700611592/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210940048&sr=1-10 excerpt and text search]
* Conboy, Kenneth and Morrison, James.  ''The CIA's Secret War in Tibet.'' (2002). 301 pp.  Covers the entire history of CIA support for armed Tibetan opposition to Chinese rule: from the seizure of Lhasa in August 1951 and subsequent flight of the Dalai Lama, to the rout of the last Tibetan guerrilla redoubt by the Royal Nepalese Army in 1974. It is a record of almost unmitigated failure. [http://www.amazon.com/CIAs-Secret-War-Tibet/dp/0700611592/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210940048&sr=1-10 excerpt and text search]
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* Grant, Zalin.  ''Facing the Phoenix: The CIA and the Political Defeat of the United States in Vietnam.'' (1991). 395 pp.   
* Grant, Zalin.  ''Facing the Phoenix: The CIA and the Political Defeat of the United States in Vietnam.'' (1991). 395 pp.   
* Haines, Gerald K. "An Emerging New Field of Study: U.S. Intelligence." ''Diplomatic History,'' June 2004, Vol. 28 Issue 3, p441-449, in [[EBSCO]]
* Haines, Gerald K. "An Emerging New Field of Study: U.S. Intelligence." ''Diplomatic History,'' June 2004, Vol. 28 Issue 3, p441-449, in [[EBSCO]]
* Hall, Roger.  ''You're Stepping on my Cloak and Dagger.'' W. W. Norton & Co.(1957). A humorous but informative narrative of the training and operations of an OSS officer. Hall was under William Colby's command in Norwegian field operations.
* Heuer, Richards J. Jr. ''Psychology of Intelligence Analysis''. (1999) http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/psych%2Dintel/. Updated version of the work of the CIA's original thinker about the process and pitfalls of intelligence analysis.
* Higgins, Trumbull.  ''The Perfect Failure: Kennedy, Eisenhower, and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs.'' (1987). 224 pp.  [http://www.questia.com/read/105410511?title=The%20Perfect%20Failure%3a%20%20Kennedy%2c%20Eisenhower%2c%20and%20the%20CIA%20at%20the%20Bay%20of%20Pigs online edition]
* Higgins, Trumbull.  ''The Perfect Failure: Kennedy, Eisenhower, and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs.'' (1987). 224 pp.  [http://www.questia.com/read/105410511?title=The%20Perfect%20Failure%3a%20%20Kennedy%2c%20Eisenhower%2c%20and%20the%20CIA%20at%20the%20Bay%20of%20Pigs online edition]
* Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri and Andrew, Christopher, eds.  ''Eternal Vigilance? 50 Years of the CIA.'' (1997). 246 pp.  
* Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri and Andrew, Christopher, eds.  ''Eternal Vigilance? 50 Years of the CIA.'' (1997). 246 pp.  
* Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri.  ''The CIA and American Democracy.'' (1989). 338 pp  
* Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri.  ''The CIA and American Democracy.'' (1989). 338 pp  
* Johnston, Rob. ''Analytic Culture in the US Intelligence Community: An Ethnographic Study.'' (2005) https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/analytic-culture-in-the-u-s-intelligence-community/full_title_page.htm
* Kent, Sherman. ''Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy.'' (1947) (2000 reprint)). Seminal work on CIA intelligence analysis, especially the estimative process.
* Kessler, Ronald. ''The CIA at War: Inside the Secret Campaign Against Terror,''  (2003), 496 pp [http://www.amazon.com/CIA-War-Inside-Campaign-Against/dp/0312319320/ref=sid_dp_dp excerpt and text search]
* Kessler, Ronald. ''The CIA at War: Inside the Secret Campaign Against Terror,''  (2003), 496 pp [http://www.amazon.com/CIA-War-Inside-Campaign-Against/dp/0312319320/ref=sid_dp_dp excerpt and text search]
* Moyar, Mark.  ''Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: The CIA's Secret Campaign to Destroy the Viet Cong.'' (1997). 416 pp  
* Moyar, Mark.  ''Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: The CIA's Secret Campaign to Destroy the Viet Cong.'' (1997). 416 pp  
* Olmsted, Kathryn S.  ''Challenging the Secret Government: The Post-Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI.'' (1996). 255 pp. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=5001364299 online edition]
* Olmsted, Kathryn S.  ''Challenging the Secret Government: The Post-Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI.'' (1996). 255 pp. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=5001364299 online edition]
* OSS Assessment Staff.  ''Assessment of Men, Selection of Personnel for the Office of Strategic Servicesk'' Rinehart and Company, Inc.(1948).  Solid source for the basis of CIA personnel selection and training.
*  Pisani, Sallie.  ''The CIA and the Marshall Plan.'' (1991). 188 pp.   
*  Pisani, Sallie.  ''The CIA and the Marshall Plan.'' (1991). 188 pp.   
* Powers, Thomas. ''Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda'' (2004)  [http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Wars-American-Al-Qaeda-Collections/dp/1590170989/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210939963&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Powers, Thomas. ''Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda'' (2004)  [http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Wars-American-Al-Qaeda-Collections/dp/1590170989/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210939963&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Powers, Thomas.  ''The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA.'' (1979). 393 pp.   
* Powers, Thomas.  ''The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA.'' (1979). 393 pp.   
* Prados, John.  ''Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby.'' (2003). 380 pp.  [http://www.questia.com/read/103547153?title=Lost%20Crusader%3a%20The%20Secret%20Wars%20of%20CIA%20Director%20William%20Colby online edition]
* Prados, John.  ''Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby.'' (2003). 380 pp.  [http://www.questia.com/read/103547153?title=Lost%20Crusader%3a%20The%20Secret%20Wars%20of%20CIA%20Director%20William%20Colby online edition]
* Prados, John.  ''Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA.'' (2006). 696 pp  
* Prados, John.  ''Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA.'' (2006). 696 pp  
* Prouty, L. Fletcher. ''The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World.'' (1973). Prouty was a Defense Department support officer for CIA activities. While he goes into questionable conspiracy theories about the CIA-centric "Secret Team" running the world, he is an excellent reference on covert logistics and the CIA proprietary airlines.
* Ranelagh, John.  ''The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA. From Wild Bill Donovan to William Casey.'' (1986). 847 pp  
* Ranelagh, John.  ''The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA. From Wild Bill Donovan to William Casey.'' (1986). 847 pp  
* Richelson, Jeffrey T.  ''The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology.'' (2001). 386 pp.
* Richelson, Jeffrey T.  ''The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology.'' (2001). 386 pp.
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* Trahair, Richard C. S. ''Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations'' (2004) [http://www.questia.com/SM.qst?act=adv&contributors=Richard%20C.%20S.%20Trahair&dcontributors=Richard%20C.%20S.%20Trahair online edition]  
* Trahair, Richard C. S. ''Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations'' (2004) [http://www.questia.com/SM.qst?act=adv&contributors=Richard%20C.%20S.%20Trahair&dcontributors=Richard%20C.%20S.%20Trahair online edition]  
* Troy, Thomas F.  ''Wild Bill and Intrepid: Donovan, Stephenson, and the Origin of CIA.'' (1996). 259 pp.   
* Troy, Thomas F.  ''Wild Bill and Intrepid: Donovan, Stephenson, and the Origin of CIA.'' (1996). 259 pp.   
* Woodward. Bob. ''Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987'' (2005)  
* Wise, David. ''Molehunt: The Secret Search for Traitors That Shattered the CIA''. (1992). Source on James Jesus Angleton's searches inside the CIA, and on the Golitsyn-Nosenko controversy.
* [[Bob Woodward|Woodward, Bob]]. ''Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987'' (2005)  
* Zegart, Amy B.  ''Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC.'' (1999). 317 pp. [http://www.questia.com/read/35536329?title=Flawed%20by%20Design%3a%20The%20Evolution%20of%20the%20CIA%2c%20JCS%2c%20and%20NSC online edition]
* Zegart, Amy B.  ''Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC.'' (1999). 317 pp. [http://www.questia.com/read/35536329?title=Flawed%20by%20Design%3a%20The%20Evolution%20of%20the%20CIA%2c%20JCS%2c%20and%20NSC online edition]
    
    

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Bibliography

  • Arbel, David, and Ran Edelist. Western Intelligence and the Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1980-1990: Ten Years That Did Not Shake the World (2003) online edition
  • Barrett, David M. The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy. (2005). 542 pp.
  • Central Intelligence Agency. A Compendium of Analytic Tradecraft Notes (1997) http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cia/tradecraft_notes/contents.htm. The basic training guide for CIA analysts.
  • Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. (2004) 695 pp. excerpt and text search
  • Conboy, Kenneth and Morrison, James. The CIA's Secret War in Tibet. (2002). 301 pp. Covers the entire history of CIA support for armed Tibetan opposition to Chinese rule: from the seizure of Lhasa in August 1951 and subsequent flight of the Dalai Lama, to the rout of the last Tibetan guerrilla redoubt by the Royal Nepalese Army in 1974. It is a record of almost unmitigated failure. excerpt and text search
  • Cullather, Nick. Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954. (1999). 142 pp. online edition
  • Darling, Arthur B. The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government, to 1950 (1990) online edition
  • Firth, Noel E. and Noren, James H. Soviet Defense Spending: A History of CIA Estimates, 1950-1990. (1998). 291 pp. online edition
  • Grant, Zalin. Facing the Phoenix: The CIA and the Political Defeat of the United States in Vietnam. (1991). 395 pp.
  • Haines, Gerald K. "An Emerging New Field of Study: U.S. Intelligence." Diplomatic History, June 2004, Vol. 28 Issue 3, p441-449, in EBSCO
  • Hall, Roger. You're Stepping on my Cloak and Dagger. W. W. Norton & Co.(1957). A humorous but informative narrative of the training and operations of an OSS officer. Hall was under William Colby's command in Norwegian field operations.
  • Heuer, Richards J. Jr. Psychology of Intelligence Analysis. (1999) http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/psych%2Dintel/. Updated version of the work of the CIA's original thinker about the process and pitfalls of intelligence analysis.
  • Higgins, Trumbull. The Perfect Failure: Kennedy, Eisenhower, and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs. (1987). 224 pp. online edition
  • Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri and Andrew, Christopher, eds. Eternal Vigilance? 50 Years of the CIA. (1997). 246 pp.
  • Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri. The CIA and American Democracy. (1989). 338 pp
  • Johnston, Rob. Analytic Culture in the US Intelligence Community: An Ethnographic Study. (2005) https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/analytic-culture-in-the-u-s-intelligence-community/full_title_page.htm
  • Kent, Sherman. Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy. (1947) (2000 reprint)). Seminal work on CIA intelligence analysis, especially the estimative process.
  • Kessler, Ronald. The CIA at War: Inside the Secret Campaign Against Terror, (2003), 496 pp excerpt and text search
  • Moyar, Mark. Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: The CIA's Secret Campaign to Destroy the Viet Cong. (1997). 416 pp
  • Olmsted, Kathryn S. Challenging the Secret Government: The Post-Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI. (1996). 255 pp. online edition
  • OSS Assessment Staff. Assessment of Men, Selection of Personnel for the Office of Strategic Servicesk Rinehart and Company, Inc.(1948). Solid source for the basis of CIA personnel selection and training.
  • Pisani, Sallie. The CIA and the Marshall Plan. (1991). 188 pp.
  • Powers, Thomas. Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda (2004) excerpt and text search
  • Powers, Thomas. The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA. (1979). 393 pp.
  • Prados, John. Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby. (2003). 380 pp. online edition
  • Prados, John. Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA. (2006). 696 pp
  • Prouty, L. Fletcher. The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World. (1973). Prouty was a Defense Department support officer for CIA activities. While he goes into questionable conspiracy theories about the CIA-centric "Secret Team" running the world, he is an excellent reference on covert logistics and the CIA proprietary airlines.
  • Ranelagh, John. The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA. From Wild Bill Donovan to William Casey. (1986). 847 pp
  • Richelson, Jeffrey T. The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology. (2001). 386 pp.
  • Richelson, Jeffrey T. The U.S. Intelligence Community (1999) online edition
  • Rositzke, Harry. The CIA's Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage, and Covert Action (1988) 290 pp. online edition
  • Russell, Richard L. Sharpening Strategic Intelligence: Why the CIA Gets It Wrong and What Needs to Be Done to Get It Right. (2007). 232 pp.
  • Saunders, Francis Stonor. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. (2000). 509 pp.
  • Scott-Smith, Giles. The Politics of Apolitical Culture: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and Post-War American Hegemony. (2002). 233 pp.
  • Taubman, Philip. Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage. (2003). 441 pp
  • Thomas, Evan. The Very Best Men. Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA. (1995). 427 pp.
  • Trahair, Richard C. S. Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations (2004) online edition
  • Troy, Thomas F. Wild Bill and Intrepid: Donovan, Stephenson, and the Origin of CIA. (1996). 259 pp.
  • Wise, David. Molehunt: The Secret Search for Traitors That Shattered the CIA. (1992). Source on James Jesus Angleton's searches inside the CIA, and on the Golitsyn-Nosenko controversy.
  • Woodward, Bob. Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 (2005)
  • Zegart, Amy B. Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC. (1999). 317 pp. online edition

Primary sources and memoirs

  • Gates, Robert. From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War, (1997).
  • McAuliffe, Mary S., ed. CIA Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. (1992). 376 pp.
  • Murphy, David E.; Kondrashev, Sergei A.; and Bailey, George. Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War. (1997). 530 pp. brings together personal recollections from CIA and KGB officers, and previously unpublished documents.
  • Turner, Stansfield. Secrecy and Democracy: The CIA in Transition. (1985). 304 pp.
  • Westerfield, H. Bradford, ed. Inside CIA's Private World: Declassified Articles from the Agency's Internal Journal, 1955-1992. (1995). 489 pp.
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