The Intelligence Officer’s Bookshelf
Compiled and Reviewed by Hayden B. Peake
Current
Intelligence for an Age of Terror, Gregory F. Treverton
Of Knowledge and Power: The Complexities Of National Intelligence, Robert Kennedy
Vaults, Mirrors and Masks: Rediscovering U.S. Counterintelligence, Jennifer E. Sims and Burton Gerber (eds.)
General Intelligence
The Real Spy’s Guide to Becoming A Spy, Peter Earnest with Suzanne Harper
Historical
The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israeli’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship, James Scott
My Life As A Spy: One of America’s Most Notorious Spies Finally Tells His Story, John A. Walker, Jr.
Nathan Hale: The Life and Death of America’s First Spy, M. William Phelps
The Spy Who Tried To Stop A War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion, Marcia and Thomas Mitchell
Intelligence Abroad
Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Intelligence, Ephraim Kahana & Muhammad Suwaed
Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas, Paul McGeough
Russian Military Intelligence in the War with Japan, 1904–05: Secret Operations on Land and at Sea, Evgeny Sergeev
SPOOKS: The Unofficial History of MI5, Thomas Hennessey and Claire Thomas
Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-ups—Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain, Chapman Pincher
Current
Gregory F. Treverton, Intelligence for an Age of Terror (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 306 pp., endnotes, index.
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