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Ike's
Spies : Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment, by Stephen E.
Ambrose
The
Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the Cia's Final Showdown With the KGB,
by Milton Bearden, James Risen
By
Any Means Necessary : America's Secret Air War in the Cold War, by
William E. Burrows. A well deserved accounting of the long and often brutal
fight to collect intelligence data by direct aerial reconnaissance.
Extraordinary reading.
The Codebreakers : Comprehensive History of Secret Communication,
Ancient Times to the Internet, by David Kahn
Operation
Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain, by Peter Grose.
An informative book which chronicles the failed attempt to "roll back" the Iron
Curtain soon after the end of World War Two. Some of the best parts include
those sections which expose the depressing incompetence and naivete of some
U.S. officials as they attempted to create an intelligence network from scratch
while attempting to confront a successful Russian espionage network whose
traditions dated back hundreds of years.
Between
Silk and Cyanide : A Codemaker's War 1941-1945, by Leo Marks
Undermining
the Kremlin : America's Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947-1956,
by Gregory Mitrovich from the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs.
Journey
to Peking: A Secret Agent in Wartime China, by Dan C. Pinck
Creating
the Secret State : The Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency,
1943-1947, by David F. Rudgers. A highly rated history of the early days of
the CIA, with great relevance on today's world.
The
Code Book : The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum
Cryptography, by Simon Singh
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Secret History of British
Intelligence in the Americas
by William Stephenson of British Security
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