Hayden B. Peake

Hayden B. Peake is the curator of the CIA Historical Intelligence Collection and previously served as a professor with the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies (CI Centre).

Peake is one of the world's leading experts on the literature of intelligence.

He retired from Army military intelligence in 1977 to join the CIA where he served on the Intelligence Community Staff and in the Directorate of Science & Technology and the Directorate of Operations. In 1986 he left the CIA to pursue his Ph.D. at Georgetown University. He did his undergraduate (BS) and graduate studies (MS) in photographic science at the Rochester Institute of Technology and his graduate work (MA) in international relations at Georgetown University.

Peake is the author of the The Reader's Guide to Intelligence Periodicals and The Annotated Bibliography of Intelligence Literature (second edition 1996). He also wrote the 90 page Afterword to the reissue of Elizabeth Bentley's Out of Bondage: The Story of Elizabeth Bentley (Ballantine, 1988), and in 1994 contributed to and edited with Samuel Halpern, a Festschrift, In the Name of Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Walter Pforzheimer.

Peake's first study of "Soviet Espionage and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)," appeared in "America Unbound: World War II and the Making of a Superpower," edited by Warren F. Kimball. He has published articles on intelligence and counterintelligence in the CIA journal, Studies in Intelligence and the private scholarly journals "International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence" and "Intelligence and National Security." He is also a regular contributor to the "American Intelligence Journal" (AIJ).

In addition, Peake serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, and the AIJ. He has recently co-authored the memoirs of Rufina Philby, The Private Life of Kim Philby: The Moscow Years (New York: Fromm International, 2000; Paperback edition 2004). He revised the Joint Military Intelligence College annotated bibliography of intelligence books and articles and wrote Encyclopedia of Treason and Treachery: Famous Cases of the Guilty and the Innocent (2003 for ABC-Clio with Nigel West.

Peake also serves as an adjunct professor at the Joint Military Intelligence College in Washington, DC.

CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence
CIA Intelligence Literature: Suggested Reading List
Hayden Peake published articles
New York Times review of "The Private Life of Kim Philby," read the first chapter of the book