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Counterintelligence Books

IMPORTANT READING for today's threat:

Required Reading List for Counterintelligence, Counterterrorism, Intelligence and Security Professionals in National Security and Homeland Security MORE

Intelligence & Espionage Books at Amazon

The Old Book Company of McLean. A very large collection of counterintelligence books. In McLean, VA, near the Giant on Old Chain Bridge Road.

Counterintelligence Book Reviews

Book Reviews of Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes:

Jeffrey T. Richelson's book review. The Executive Director of International Spy Museum calls this the definitive review of the book

CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence book review [pdf]

Former MI6 Director Richard Dearlove's review of the book

Two book reviews by LTC Christopher Bailey, USA: Last of the Cold War Spies and Spying from Space

In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Security Clearance Hearing--Reviewed by CI Centre Professor Nigel West

Ultimate Spy--CI Centre Professor Hayden Peake reviews this book by Keith Melton

See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism--CI Centre Professor Hayden Peake reviews this book by former CIA case officer Robert Baer

Espionage: An Encyclopedia of Spies and Secrets by Richard M. Bennett

--CI Centre Professor Hayden Peake reviews this book

--CI Centre Nigel West reviews this book

Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence--CI Centre Professor Hayden Peake reviews this book by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed American History--CI Centre Professor Hayden Peake reviews this book by Jerrold L. Schecter and Leona P. Schecter

Body of Secrets--CI Centre Professor Hayden Peake reviews this book about NSA by James Bamford

The Sword and the Shield--CI Centre Guest Lecturer Paul Redmond reviews Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin's book

The VENONA Progeny--CI Centre Professor Hayden Peake reviews the books that have been written about the VENONA project

Of Moles and Molehunters--Late CI Centre Professor Cleve Cram reviews counterintelligence books

CI Books

Intelligence & Espionage Books at Amazon

Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency: From the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century by James Bamford; the book's website

Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II by Stephen Budiansky; Read an excerpt

Political Will and Personal Belief: The Decline and Fall of Soviet Communism by Paul Hollander The author writes about CI Centre Professor Oleg Kalugin in chapter 6 of this book

Fortitude: The D-Day Deception Campaign by Roger Hesketh with introduction by CI Centre Professor Nigel West

On Intelligence: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World by Robert David Steele

Spies' Wives by Karen L. Chiao, Mariellen B. O'Brien

The Hunting Horse: The Truth Behind the Jonathan Pollard Spy Case by Elliot Goldenberg, Alan M. Dershowitz, Read an excerpt

Through the Eyes of the Enemy : Russia's Highest Ranking Military Defector Reveals Why Russia Is More Dangerous Than Ever by Stanislav Lunev and Ira Winkler

Breaking the Codes: Australia's KGB Network, 1944-1950 by Desmond Ball, David Horner

The Cicero Spy Affair: German Access to British Secrets in World War II (Perspectives on Intelligence History) by Richard Wires

Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Grose Read an excerpt

Breakdown: How the Secret of the Atomic Bomb Was Stolen by Richard Melzer

Undermining the Kremlin: America's Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947-1956 by Gregory Mitrovich

Creating the Secret State: The Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1943-1947 By David Rudgers

Intelligence and the War Against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service by Richard J. Aldrich

Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police by John O. Koehler, read the first chapter

Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness--A Soviet Spymaster by Pavel Sudoplatov, Leona P. Schecter (Contributor), Anatoli Sudoplatov

My Five Cambridge Friends : Burgess, MacLean, Philby, Blunt, and Cairncross by Their KGB Controller by Yuri Modin

Hitler's Japanese Confidant: General Oshima Hiroshi and MAGIC Intelligence, 1941-1945 by Carl Boyd, Peter Paret

Shadows Dancing : Japanese Espionage Against the West 1939-1945 by Tony Matthews

British Security Coordination: The Secret History of British Intelligence in the Americas, 1940-1945 by William Samuel Stephenson (Editor), Nigel West (Introduction)

Hitler's Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II by David A. Kahn

The Labyrinth : Memoirs of Walter Schellenberg, Hitler's Chief of Counterintelligence by Walter Schellenberg, Louis Hagen (Translator), Alan Bullock (Introduction)

Case by Case: A U.S. Army Counterintelligence Agent in World War II by I. B. Melchior

The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh Read an excerpt

The CIA Insider's Dictionary of US and Foreign Intelligence, Counterintelligence & Tradecraft by Leo D. Carl

Secret War in Shanghai by Bernard Wasserstein Read an excerpt

Spies and Commandos: How America Lost the Secret War in North Vietnam by Kenneth J. Conboy, Dale Andrade, Read an excerpt

Recent CI Books

Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia’s Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War by Pete Earley (author of recommended books on the Ames and Walker spy cases)

Sergei Tretyakov: In His Own Words

From 1997 to 2000, a man known as "Comrade J" was the highest-ranking operative in the SVR-the successor agency to the KGB-in the United States. He directed all Russian spy action in New York City, and personally oversaw every covert operation against the United States and its allies in the United Nations. He recruited spies, planted agents, penetrated security, manipulated intelligence, and influenced American policy, all under the direct leadership of Boris Yeltsin and then Vladimir Putin. He was a legend in the SVR, the man who kept the secrets.

Then in 2000, he defected-and it turned out he had one more secret. For the previous two years, he had also been a double agent for the FBI: "By far the most important Russian spy that our side has had in decades." He has never granted a public interview. The FBI and CIA have refused to answer all media questions about him. He has remained in hiding. He has never revealed his secrets . . . Until now.

Top U.N. Nuclear Watchdog a Russian Spy, Defector Says in New Book

......Earley describes in the book how the CIA and FBI introduced him to Tretyakov in a hotel room at the Ritz Tyson’s Corner, near the Washington Beltway, with the idea that they do a book together. Other than that, Earley says, the CIA and FBI had no role in the book, other than vouching for the Russian’s credibility.

........(Congressional Quarterly, 19 Jan 08)

True Believer: Inside the Investigation and Capture of Ana Montes, Cuba's Master Spy by Scott Carmichael

More Info on Montes Case

Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent by Larry Berman

Enemies: How America's Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets--and How We Let It Happen by Bill Gertz

Mortal Crimes: The Greatest Theft in History: Soviet Penetration of the Manhattan Project by CI Centre Professor Nigel West

Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring by Alexander Rose

The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence by Ray Batvinis

Ret. FBI Supervisory Special Agent Ray Batvinis gave a talk at the CI Centre on 30 March 2007 on his new book: "The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence".

More information about the book

Spy Handler: The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames

By Victor Cherkashin with Gregory Feifer

A Secret Life: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country by Benjamin Weiser

Retired senior CIA ops officer Milt Bearden and New York Times intelligence reporter James Risen have written an excellent book about the battles between the CIA and KGB called The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB. You'll get an inside look at CIA and KGB operations and how the different cases affected each other and affected history. Review of book by espionage author David Wise in the LA Times: Of moles and men

Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Its Soul for Saudi Crude by retired CIA Ops Officer Robert Baer, author of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism

Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War by CI Centre Professors Jonna Mendez and Tony Mendez

Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11 by Bill Gertz

The Liberty Incident: The 1967 Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship by A. Jay Cristol

Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed American History by Jerrold L. Schecter and Leona P. Schecter. Authors add documents recently obtained in Russia and information from original interviews to cast new light on the reasons for the attack on Pearl Harbor, atomic espionage, Alger Hiss, McCarthyism, and the Rosenberg case, among others. Read a Review

The Red Dancer: The Life and Times of Mata Hari by Richard Skinner

CIA SpyMaster By Clarence Ashley, Len McCoy

See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War Against Terrorism by Robert Baer. Baer was a case officer in the Directorate of Operations for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1976 to 1997. He served in places such as Iraq, Dushanbe, Rabat, Beirut, Khartoum, and New Delhi, and received the Career Intelligence Medal in 1997.

DENIAL AND DECEPTION

The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War by Thaddeus Holt

Other books about WW2 Deception:

Bodyguard of Lies: The Extraordinary True Story Behind D-Day by Anthony Cave Brown

Fortitude: The D-Day Deception Campaign by Roger Hesketh

The Double-Cross System: The Incredible True Story of How Nazi Spies Were Turned into Double Agents by J.C. Masterman

The Man Who Never Was: World War II's Boldest Counterintelligence Operation by Ewen Montagu

Secret Soldiers: The Story of World War II's Heroic Army of Deception by Philip Gerard

Deception in War: The Art of the Bluff, the Value of Deceit, and the Most Thrilling Episodes of Cunning in Military History, from the Trojan Horse to the Gulf War by Jon Latimer

Deceptions of World War II by William B. Breuer

Strategic Deception in the Second World War by Michael Howard

Agent 146: The True Story of a Nazi Spy in America

by by Erich Gimpel, Charles Whiting

The Spy Who Seduced America: Sex, Lies, and Betrayal in the Heat of the Cold War by Marcia Mitchell and Thomas Mitchell. The story of Judy Coplon, a Department of Justice employee and NKVD agent codename SIMA. The authors started off on opposite ends-one thinking she was innocent and the other believing she was guilty-before they discovered the truth about Coplon.

Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller by Gregg Herken

Targeted by the CIA: An Intelligence Professional Speaks Out on the Scandal That Turned the CIA Upside Down by Peter Karlow. Karlow was a highly decorated OSS and CIA officer who was wrongly accused of being a mole by James Angleton. Karlow was later cleared with the help of the late CIA officer Cleve Cram (a CI Centre professor) and CIA Director Bill Casey.

Grant's Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox by William B. Feis

The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology by Jeffrey Richelson

The Man Behind the Rosenbergs by Alexander Feklisov and Sergei Kostin

Books by CI Centre Professors

Oleg Kalugin

CI Centre Professor Oleg Kalugin is the author of the book, "Goodbye Lubyanka in Russia and a version in the West of this became The First Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West in the US. For those of you looking for this out-of-print book, we are working on getting it reprinted. Please join our mailing list to be be notified when it is available or check back at this website.

Nigel West

CI Centre Professor Nigel West is the author of the books:

The Third Secret

Venona: The Greatest Secret of the Cold War

Crown Jewels

Spy! (with Richard Deacon)

MI5: British Security Service Operations 1909-45

MI6: British Secret Intelligence Service Operations 1909-45

A Matter of Trust: MI5 Operations 1945-1972

A Thread of Deceit: Espionage Myths of World War II

The Branch: A History of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch

Operation Garbo: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Double Agent of World War II

GCHQ: The Secret Wireless War, 1900-86

The Friends: Britain's Postwar Secret Intelligence Operations

Molehunt: The Hunt for the Soviet Spy inside MI5

Games of Intelligence: The Classified Conflict of International Espionage

Seven Spies Who Changed the World

Secret War: The Story of SOE

The Faber Book of Espionage

The Illegals

The Faber Book of Treachery

The Secret War for the Falklands

Counterfeit Spies

The Blue List

Cuban Bluff

Murder in the Commons

Murder in the Lords

Ray Wannall

CI Centre Professor Ray Wannall is the author of the book, The Real Edgar J. Hoover for the Record.

Cleve Cram reviewed counterintelligence books:

Of Moles and Molehunters

The Real War Against America by Brett Kingstone

Kingstone tells the true story of the company he founded, Super Vision International, and its struggle against Chinese economic espionage which stole designs, equipment and profits.

Historical Dictionary of Cold War Counterintelligence by CI Centre Professor Nigel West

The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin

Engineering Communism : How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley by Steven T. Usdin

How the Cold War Began : The Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies by Amy Knight

The Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy by Judith Pearson Story of OSS Virginia Hall

The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race by Priscilla McMillan

The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov by Joshua Rubenstein (editor)

Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence (Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, No. 1) by CI Centre Professor Nigel West

The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy by David M. Barrett

Wild Rose: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy by Ann Blackman

Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage by Stephen Budiansky

In Denial: Historians, Communism & Espionage (Paperback) by John Haynes and Harvey Klehr

The Literary Spy: The Ultimate Source for Quotations on Espionage & Intelligence

By Charles E. Lathrop

Ultimate Spy by CI Centre Professor Keith Melton. Foreword by Richard Helms and Markus Wolf

New book by CI Centre Professor Keith Melton:

The Spy's Guide: Office Espionage

Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency

By W. Thomas Smith, Jr.

A Death in Washington: Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin Terror by Gary Kerns; foreword by CI Centre Professor Nigel West. Walter Krivitsky was the first high-ranking KGB agent to defect to the West, warning about Stalin’s regime of terror as early as the late 1930s. It was a decision that would cost him his life. In February, 1941, Krivitisky was found dead in the Bellevue Hotel (now The George Hotel) in Washington, DC. Killed by a bullet to the head, his death was officially ruled a “suicide.” Gary Kern’s new book draws on never-before used facts from declassified US and British documents to reveal details about the Soviet Spy Master who tried, and failed, to escape Stalin’s iron grasp.

ROBERT HANSSEN