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Intelligence Studies

Studies in Intelligence 68, No. 4 (Special Media Reviews, December 2024)

Editor’s note: This December we are publishing two editions of Studies. This edition, Studies 68. No. 4, is entirely devoted to media reviews offered us since our September issue. Soon to follow will be Studies 68, No. 5, an issue entirely devoted to remembrances of the passage of the Intelligence and Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act in October 2004 and its early implementation. This "Review Special" will only be available to readers digitally. No. 5 will be digitally posted and printed and delivered as usual.

Contents

The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire and Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin and the New Fight for the Future of Russia — Reviewed by John Ehrman

The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis — Reviewed by Shelby Robertson

The Melting Point: High Command and War in the
21st Century
— Reviewed by Alissa M.

Nuclear War: A Scenario — Reviewed by Michael Ard

Covert City: The Cold War and the Making of Miami — Reviewed by Alissa M.

Intelligence in Democratic Transitions: A
Comparative Analysis of Portugal, Greece, and Spain
—Reviewed by Anthony Sutton

Keishicho koan sosakan: supai hanta no shirarezaru riaru [Public Security Investigators of the Metropolitan Police] — Reviewed by Stephen Mercado

Spymaster: The Memoirs of Gordon M. Stewart, CIA Station Chief in Cold War Germany — Reviewed by Duncan P. Bare

CODE NAME: SPIKE : The Dawn of the Cold War, CIA & U.S. Army Special Forces — Reviewed by Kevin McCall

Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of
Agent A12 and the Solving of the Holocaust Code
— Reviewed by Edward L.

The Bulldog Detective: William J. Flynn and America’s First War Against the Mafia, Spies, and Terrorists — Reviewed by Heribert von Feilitzsch

The Singularity (A Novel) — Reviewed by Joseph Gartin

Intelligence Officer’s Bookshelf — Compiled and written by Hayden Peake and others

Media Reviewed during 2024 in Studies in Intelligence

Download PDF of complete Review Special Issue (64 pages)

Reviewers

Graham Alexander is the penname of a CIA operations officer.

Michael Ard is a retired CIA officer.

Duncan P. Bare is a NARA archives technician who has written on intelligence during the period described in this memoir.

John Ehrman is a retired Directorate of Analysis officer and frequent contributor to Studies.

Joseph Gartin is Managing Editor of Studies in Intelligence.

Edward L. is a Department of Defense analyst.

Resolute Lee is the pen name of an officer in the ODNI.

Kevin McCall is a former Marine and US Army paratrooper. He is now a member of CIA’s History Staff.

Stephen Mercado is a retired CIA open-source officer and frequent contributor to Studies.

Alissa M. is a CIA intelligence analyst specializing in Iranian foreign policy.

Hayden Peake served in CIA’s Directorates of Operations and Science and Technology. He has contributed to the Intelligence Officer’s Bookshelf since 2002.

David Robarge is the chief of CIA’s History Staff.

Shelby Robertson is a team chief in the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Department of Energy.

JR Seeger is a retired CIA operations officer and frequent contirbutor.

Anthony Sutton is an analyst in the Strategic Futures Group of the National Intelligence Council.

Heribert von Feilitzsch is author of The Secret War Council book series and co-author of The federal Bureau of Investigation before Hoover.