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Studies in Intelligence 69, No. 1 (Extracts, March 2025)

Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf, March 2025

Reviews by Hayden Peake with a contribution from John Ehrman

Hayden Peake has been the IO Bookshelf reviewer and compiler since 2002. John Ehrman has been contributing individual reviews and additions to bookshelf for more than two decades as well.

Titles reviewed in March 2025 edition of IO Bookshelf

The federal Bureau of Investigation Before Hoover:
Volume II, the fBI and American Neutrality, 1914–1917
By Heribert von Feilitzsch and Charles H. Harris III (Henselstone Verlag, 2024) 436 pages.

The Hidden Cost of Freedom: The Untold Story of the CIA’s Secret Funding System, 1941–1962 By Brad L. Fisher (University Press of Kansas, 2024) 341 pages.

Policing Show Business: J. Edgar Hoover, the Hollywood Blacklist, and Cold War Movies By Francis MacDonnell (University Press of Kansas, 2024) 308 pages.

Soviet and Nazi Defectors: Counter-Intelligence in WW2, The Cold War By Nigel West (Frontline Books, 2024) 264 pages.

Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence: A Concise History By Steven R. Ward (Georgetown University Press, 2024) 197 pages.

Pakistan’s ISI: A Concise History of the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate By Julian Richards (Georgetown University Press, 2024) 185 pages.

Roots of Counterterrorism: Contemporary Wisdom from Dutch Intelligence By Constant Willem Hijzen (Oxford University Press, 2024) 399 pages.

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