Reviewed in this edition of IO Bookshelf
All reviews are by Hayden Peake unless otherwise noted.
The CIA Intelligence Analyst: Views From the Inside —Edited by Roger Z. George and Robert Levine
Intelligence Agencies, Technology and Knowledge
Production: Data Processing and In-formation Transfer In Secret Services During the Cold War — Edited by Rüdiger Bergien et al.
Humble Yet Fierce: My Life Behind the Curtain of the CIA — By Katy McQuaid
Indochina Hand: Tales of a CIA Case Officer — By Barry Michael Broman (Reviewed by Graham Alexander)
The CIA: An Imperial History — By Hugh Wilford (Reviewed by JR Seeger)
Mission to Mao: US Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II — By Sara B. Castro
Neither Confirm Nor Deny: How The Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency — By M. Todd Bennett
Tripping On Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science — By Benjamin Breen
The Unvanquished: The Untold Story of Lincoln’s Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby’s Rangers, and the Shadow War That Forged America’s Special Forces
— By Patrick K. O’Donnell (Reviewed by David Welker)
The Factory: The Official History of the Australian Signals Directorate—Volume 1 – 1947 to 1972, Incorporating the History of Australian Signals Intelligence from 1901 to 1947 — By John Fahe
Spies For The Sultan: Ottoman Intelligence in the Great Rivalry With Spain — By Emrah Gürkan
A Reluctant Spy (Fiction) — By David Goodman (Reviewed by John Ehrman)
The Year of the Locust: A Thriller (Fiction) — By Terry Hayes (Reviewed by Resolute Lee)