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Date: 01-Jan-91 00:37
From: Don Allen
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Subj: CIA/Spook list

I saw this the other day and grabbed it off UseNet. It's a list of
CIA/Spook books that you folks might enjoy reading.

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There are two lists here, the first is ordered by author (most of the
time.)  A second abbreviated list follows and is ordered by title.
These are books related to the intelligence world, the CIA, KGB, NSA,
MI5, MI6, etc...  I have read most of these books, for some I have
a brief description here, for a few I have longer book reviews.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions or information
you may have on these books.  I would be especially interested
in hearing about which ones are more works of disinformation by
the agencies rather than telling expose's.

--Hiram

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1.   On The Run
Philip Agee
Lyle Stuart Inc.,  New Jersey
Copyright (c) 1987
408 total pages, 8 pages photographs, 390 pages text, 10 page index

        Agee's description of how he left the CIA, why he did so, and
        the account of the subsequent chase as the CIA attempted to
        call him to account for the damage he did to the Agency with
        "CIA Diary" and other publishing activites he continued while
        living in Europe.

2.   Inside The Company - CIA Diary
Philip Agee
Bantam Books, Inc. Toronto, New York, London
Copyright (c) 1975
660 total pages, 618 pages text, 41 pages appendix

        Agee's ground breaking book describing the day to day
        activities of a CIA officer (Agee) in South America.  Often
        boring in the endless details of mundane activities of
        propaganda excercises and political control of the governments
        in the countries where Agee worked.  As in Stockwell's case,
        Agee was a 12 year veteran of CIA service, leaving the service
        in 1969 thoroughly disillusioned with how he observed the CIA
        working to destroy democracy.  Agee pioneered the practice of
        naming names in his one person attempt to attack the CIA.  For
        this he was of course labeled a traitor and hounded by the CIA
        continuously to this day.  (Described in his book "On the Run").
        Recently, Agee has been able to legally enter the United
        States and has joined the lecture circuit in the same manner
        as Stockwell.

3.   Dirty Work - The CIA in Western Europe
A collection of essays edited by Philip Agee and Louis Wolf
Dorset Press, New York
Copyright (c) 1978
319 total pages

4.   White Paper Whitewash - Interviews with Philip Agee
Interviews with Philip Agee, edited by Warner Poelchau
Deep Cover Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1981
214 total pages, 101 pages text, 5 page forward, 103 pages appendix

        Page    -       Heading
        ----            -------
        iii     -       Contents
        iv      -       Acknowledgments
        v       -       Editor's Foreword
        1       -       Introduction
        7       -       Recent Fals Documents from the United States
                        Embassy in Iran
        28      -       Cases of False Documentation and False Press Stories
                        Prepared by the CIA
        42      -       The American Institute for Free Labor Development
                        as a CIA Front
        55      -       The CIA and Political Repression in Latin America
        75      -       Critique of State Department White Paper on El
Salvador
        101     -       text ends
        A1      -       Text of U.S. State Department White Paper on El
Salvador
                        23 February, 1981 - 87 pages
        B1      -       Dissent Paper on El Salvador and Central America
                        11/6/80 - critics of U.S. Policy in Central America
                        statement, from the NSC, DOS, DOD and CIA

5.   La Penca: On Trial in Costa Rica - The CIA vs. The Press
Edited by Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey
Editorial Porvenir, San Jose, Costa Rica
Copyright (c) 1988
155 total pages

        This is the transcript testimony at the Libel trial of
        John Hull vs. Avirgan-Honey on May 22, 23, 1986 at
        the First Penal Court of San Jose, Costa Rica.
        John Hull charged them with Libel in their report
        on the 30 May 1984 bombing at La Penca, Nicaragua.
        The court ruled in favor of Avirgan and Honey.
        John Hull at this moment, November 1990, is on the ten
        most wanted list of Interpol, wanted in connection with
        the bombing by Costa Rican authorities.  He was in the
        United States until recently, but present whereabouts
        are unknown, suspected in Central or South America.

6.   The Puzzle Palace - Inside the National Security Agency, America's most
        secret Intelligence Organization
James Bamford
Penguin Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1982
655 total pages, 518 text, 4 page appendix, 82 pages notes, 12 pages
glossary,
        28 page index

7.   KGB - The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents
John Barron
Bantam Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1974
640 total pages, 16 pages introduction, preface, 456 pages text,
        106 pages appendices, 24 pages notes, 4 pages acknowledgments,
        10 page bibliography, 39 page index

8.   Secret Contenders - The Myth of Cold War Counterintelligence
Melvin Beck, introduction by Thomas Powers
Sheridan Square Publications, Inc. New York
Copyright (c) 1984
183 total pages, 14 page introduction, 152 pages text, 6 page index

9.   The CIA, a forgotten history
William Blum
Zed Books Ltd, London
Copyright (c) 1986
428 total pages, 344 pages text, 78 pages notes and appendix, 6 page index

        An accounting of CIA operations in more than 50 countries
        since the founding of the CIA in 1947.  An excellent companion
        to Kwitny's Endless Enemies.

10.  Operation Mind Control - Our Secret Government's War Against Its Own
People
Walter H. Bowart
Dell Publishing, New York
Copyright (c) 1978
317 total pages, 266 pages text, 8 pages appendix, 4 pages notes,
        14 pages Bibliography, 6 page index

        Published only once in this paperback form.  Similar too,
        but different conclusion to "The Manchurian Candidate"
        by John Marks.

11.  Inside The Shadow Government
The Christic Institute
The Christic Institute, Washington D.C.
Copyright (c) 1988
248 total pages, 200 pages text, 27 pages appendices, 6 page bibliography,
        4 page index

        This is the Declaration of Plaintiffs' Counsel filed by
        The Christic Institute in U.S. District Court, Miami,
        Flordia on 31 March 1988.  It outlines the case against
        29 defendants in Avirgan-Honey vs. Hull et al concerning
        the bombing at La Penca, Nicaragua, 30 May 1984.  At the
        moment, November 1990, the case remains on Appeal in the
        Atlanta District court.

12.  Out Of Control - The Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret War
        in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug
Connection
Leslie Cockburn
Atlantic Monthley Press, New York
Copyright (c) 1987
300 total pages, 254 pages text, 34 pages notes, no contents or index
although
        zeroxed copies of an 8 page index exist, with contents.

        So far this book has only been published this one time.  This
        story is the result of Cockburn's investigations for CBS news
        and parts also show up in her Public Broadcast System special:
        "Drugs, Guns, and the CIA"

13.  Men Of Zeal - A Candid Inside Story of the Iran-Contra Hearings
Senators William S. Cohen and George J. Mitchell
Viking Press, New York
Copyright (c) 1988
382 total pages, 312 pages text, 23 pages notes, 14 page index,
        32 pages chronologies and other notes

14.  Slow Burn - The Rise and Bitter Fall of American Intelligence in
Vietnam
Orrin DeForest and David Chanoff
Simon and Schuster, New York
Copyright (c) 1990
294 total pages, 258 pages text, glossary, 14 page index

15.  Assassination On Embassy Row - The Shocking Story of the
        Letelier-Moffitt Murders
John Dinges & Saul Landau
McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York
Copyright (c) 1980
412 total pages, 398 pages text, 14 page index

16.  Story of a Russian Spy - Handbook for Spies
Alexander Foote
Hillman Periodicals, Inc. New York
Copyright (c) 1949
192 total pages, no contents, no notes, no index, no introductions, nothing
        but 192 pages of text.

        From the back cover:
        "I was for three vital years of the war a member and, to a large
        extent, controller of the Russian spy net in Switzerland which
        was working against Germany . . . I was a key link in a network
        whose lines reached into the heart of the German high command
        itself..."
        With these words, Alexander Foote, a British subject now working
        in a Government in London, opens his astounding true story of
        Soviet espionage.  Without covering up the facts or preaching
        he tells how a Russian spy works, what he looks like, how he
        lives, and what his aims are.  An important and exciting book.

17.  The Death Merchant - The Rise and Fall of Edwin P. Wilson
Joseph C. Goulden with Alexander W. Raffio
Simon and Schuster, New York
Copyright (c) 1984
477 total pages, 430 pages text, 7 pages appendix, 6 pages sources and
        acknowledgements, 17 page index

18.  I was an NKVD Agent - A Top Soviet Spy Tells His Story
Anatoli Granovsky
Western Islands Publishers, Belmont, Massachusetts
Copyright (c) ????
281 total pages

19.  In Contempt of Congress
Edited by Joy Hackel and Daniel Siegel - prefaces by Senators Tom Harkin and
        George McGovern
Institute for Policy Studies, Washington D.C.
Copyright (c) 1985
136 total pages, 8 page appendix

        Part 1.  A Citizens' Guide to the Contra Scandal
        Part 2.  The Reagan Record On Central America:  The First Term
1981-1984
                a.  Nicaragua
                b.  El Salvador
                c.  Honduras
                d.  Guatemala
        Appendix:  Possible violations of Law

        This book is a two column format.  One column is the public stated
        position of the Reagan-Bush Administration.  The second column
        is publically available evidence to the contrary, whether it be the
        administration itself in moments of candor before congressional
        committees, or other sources.

20.  The Target Is Destroyed - What really happened to flight 007 & what
        America knew about it
Seymour M. Hersh
Vintage Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1986
412 total pages, 357 pages text, 20 pages notes, 2 pages acknowledgments,
        11 page index, 20 pages introductions

21.  The General Was a Spy - The Truth About General Gehlen and His Spy Ring
Heinz Hoehne & Hermann Zolling - translated from the German by Richard Barry
        Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper and preface to the American
edition
        by Andrew Tully
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., New York
Copyright (c) 1971
408 total pages, 32 pages photographs, 296 pages text, 39 pages appendix,
        24 pages notes, 6 page bibliography, 11 page index

 23.  Guts and Glory - The Rise and Fall of Oliver North Ben Bradlee, Jr.
Donald I. Fine, Inc., New York Copyright (c) 1988 596 total pages, 24 pages
photographs, 559 pages text, 2 pages notes,     10 page index

24.  The Second Oldest Profession - Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century
Phillip Knightley Penguin Books, New York Copyright (c) 1986 462 total pages,
393 pages text, 12 pages notes, 9 pages selected bibliography, 12 page index,
16 pages photographs
        Knightley is the espionage expert consultant to the London Times and
the BBC.  This book is an excellent summary of the spy      agencies of
England, Russia and America during the 1900's.  An accounting of their
successes, their failures and their     boasted successes.

25.  The Great Heroin Coup - Drugs, Intelligence, & International Fascism
Henrik Krueger, translated from the original German by Jerry Meldon foreword
by Peter Dale Scott South End Press, Box 68 Astor Station, Boston MA 02123
Copyright (c) 1980 240 total pages, notes at the end of each chapter, index
        Probing into the netherworld of narcotics, espionage, and
international terrorism.  In so doing, Krueger uncovers the     alliances
between the Mafia, right wing extremists,       neo-Fascist OAS veterans in
France, and Miami-based Cuban   exiles.  Concerns the story of Nixon's war on
heroin and of        whether that war's elimination of the French Connection
was  dictated by cance, by Mafia penetration of the White House and     the
CIA, or by Nixon's desire to help old friends in Florida.

26.  The Crimes of Patriots - A true tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA
Jonathan Kwitny Penguin Books - New York, London, Australia, Canada, New
Zealand Copyright (c) 1987 424 total pages, 400 pages text, notes in text,
index
        The collapse of the Nugan-Hand international bank in Australia
provides the opportunity to examine how the CIA handles its international
banking.  From the records that were produced     during the court trials in
Australia in the early eighties, a      most interesting story is laid out
that shows the connection     of the CIA with international drug-trafficking
and arms         dealing.  Many characters from the so-called "Secret Team"
     appear in the official record described here, Thomas CLines,  Theodore
Shackley, General Richard V. Secord, Rafael "Chi-Chi"        Quintero, and
others.

27.  Endless Enemies - The Making of an Unfriendly World Jonathan Kwitny
Penguin Books - New York, London, Australia, Canada, New Zealand Copyright
(c) 1984 434 total pages, 419 pages text, 15 pages index
        Kwitny clearly shows how American interventionist activities abroad
have consistently undermined our foreign policy goals.   Attempts by the
government and by giant corporations to     manipulate the economies of
developing nations, military and        political blunders in many parts of
the world, and tremendous       (often inexplicable) expenditures of lives
and money seem to       have succeeded only in driving Third World nations
toward  corruption and communism.  Thoroughly documented.  The first hardback
edition is complete, later paperback editions have     Chapter 10 heavily
censored concerning the CIA's involvement       in the coup in Iran 19
August, 1953, because of legal action        pending in federal court,
Manhattan, alleging copyright   infringement (involving attributed quotations
from an      unpublished source) and libel.

28.  Acid Dreams - The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion Martin A. Lee and
Bruce Shlain Grove Press, New York Copyright (c) 1985 343 pages, 294 pages
text, 25 pages notes, 10 page bibliography, 13 page index

29.  The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks
Dell Publishing Co., New York Copyright (c) 1974 365 total pages, 325 pages
text, 40 pages appendix and index
        And yet another disillusioned CIA veteran with accounts of      how
the CIA operates, concentrating on the bureaucratic structure.  Marchetti
worked for the CIA for 14 years, rising to the  office of executive assistant
ot the deputy director.  By   Federal Court order, the authors were required
to submit the     manuscript of the book to the CIA for review prior to
 publication.  Under the terms of the court ruling, the CIA ordered the
deletion of 339 passages of varying length.         Later, following demands
to the CIA by legal counsel for the   authors - and the commencement of
litigation by the publisher     and the authors against the CIA challenging
the censorship  involved - all but 168 of these deletions were reinstated.
    Later court cases cleared another 25 passages for publication.

30.  The Search For "The Manchurian Candidate" - The CIA and Mind Control,
the     Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences John Marks, introduction by
Thomas Powers Dell Publishing, New York Copyright (c) 1979 264 total pages,
230 pages text, 18 pages notes, 15 page index

31.  The Iran-Contra Connection - Secret Teams and Covert Operations    in
the Reagan Era Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, Jane Hunter South End
Press, 116 St. Botolph Street, Boston MA 02115 Copyright (c) 1987 313 total
pages, 233 pages text, 70 pages notes, 14 page index
        A study of the roots of contemporary U.S. covert activity in    the
history of the past two decades.  Covers the details of         CIA and
extra-CIA operations including drug-trafficking,        gun-running,
government-toppling, and assassination.  The    authors argue that the
Iran-Contra scandal is not merely a     plan gone awry, but a consistent
outgrowth of a long tradition   of covert U.S. activities.  From the Bay of
Pigs invasion   teams to the NSC organizational team; from the CIA and the
World Anti-Communist League to the Israeli connection and       State
Department.

32.  Deadly Deceits - My 25 Years in the CIA Ralph W. McGehee Sheridan Square
Publications, New York Copyright (c) 1983 243 total pages, 195 pages text, 8
page appendix, 7 page source list,      4 page glossary, 16 page index

33.  The Underground Empire - Where Crime and Governments Embrace James Mills
Dell Publishing Co., Inc., New York COpyright (c) 1986 1202 total pages, 1170
pages text, 12 pages of reproduced documents,       19 page index

34.  The Secret Government - The Constitution In Crisis Bill Moyers Seven
Locks Press, Cabin John, Maryland Copyright (c) 1988 148 total pages
        This is basically the transcript of the Public Broadcast System
program by the same name.

35.  The Chronology - The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret
Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras The National Security Archive
Warner Books, New York Copyright (c) 1987 712 total pages, 8 pages
photographs, 657 pages text, 7 page glossary,   12 page index, 26 pages
appendices, sources
        Covering the time from January 1980 thru April 8, 1987,         a
daily diary of the Iran-Contra activities.

36.  Piercing The Reich - The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American Secret
Agents during World War II Joseph E. Persico Ballantine Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1979 504 Total pages, 24 pages photographs, 423 pages text, 12
page bibliography,     21 page index

37.  The Man Who Kept the Secrets - Richard Helms and the CIA Thomas Powers
Alfred A. Knopf, New York Copyright (c) 1979 456 total pages, 356 pages text,
76 pages notes, 4 page bibliography,      16 page index

38.  Dirty Work 2 - The CIA in Africa Ellen Ray, William Schaap, Karl Van
Meter, Louis Wolf Lyle Stuart Inc., Secaucus, N.J. Copyright (c) 1979 540
total pages
        A collection of essays on various activities in Africa by       the
CIA.  Included is Louis Wolf's second "Who's Who"       of the CIA with 700
biographies on CIA employees that       work or have worked recently in
Africa.  This listing is        200 pages in itself.

39.  The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia Alfred W. McCoy with Cathleen
B. Read and Leonard P. Adams II Harper & Row, Publishers - New York,
Evanston, San Francisco, London Copyright (c) 1972 464 total pages, 385 pages
text, 79 pages notes, glossary, index     Paperback editions have a few more
notes.
        A classic study of the connection between the CIA       and the world
heroin trade.  Includes an excellent      summary of the history of heroin
and its connections      with the colonial powers of the middle east and
the far east.  Introduces the connection between the CIA and    the Sicilian
and Corscian Mafia.  Follows the movement of the       heroin trade from the
middle east to the far east during     France's Indochina war following WW
II.  Details the   complicity of our Vietnamese allies and their involvement
in    the heroin trade of the 1960's, resulting in the heroin  epidemic in
the U.S. towards the end of the 1960's.  The CIA attempted to prevent the
publication of this book.  Today it    is a rare book on the used book
market, fetching as much as       $60 when a bookstore can find it.  Can be
found in libraries.        Highly recommended.

40.  Air America
Christopher Robbins
Avon Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1979
328 total pages, 303 pages text, 2 page acknowledgments, 3 pages notes,
        2 page bibliography, 8 page index
        According to Alexander Cockburn in a review of the movie:
        "Air America" 13 September, 1990, the first edition of
        this book in 1979 is different than the second edition
        in 1988, with CIA drug references toned down.

41.  The Sovereign State of ITT
Anthony Sampson
Fawcett Crest Books, Greenwich, Connecticut
Copyright (c) 1973
335 pages, 300 pages text, 6 page chronology, 5 pages notes, 10 page index
        4 pages notes on sources

42.  BLOWBACK - America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold
War
Christopher Simpson
Collier Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1988
414 total pages, 16 pages photographs, 290 pages text, 66 pages notes,
        12 pages bibliography, 14 pages archival sources, 15 pages index

43.  OSS - The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency
R. Harris Smith
University of California Press, Berkeley, California
Copyright (c) 1972
470 total pages, 387 pages text, 34 pages notes, 16 page bibliography,
        12 pages acknowledgments, preface, contents

44.  Decent Interval - An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told
        by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam
Frank Snepp
Vintage Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1977
603 total pages, 580 pages text, 8 page index

45.  In Search of Enemies - A CIA Story
John Stockwell
W. W. Norton & Company, London and New York
Copyright (c) 1978
285 total pages, 254 pages text, notes in text, appendix, index
        John Stockwell, former CIA agent, describes his involvement in
        the Angola war of 1975-76.  Stockwell was Chief of the CIA
        Angola Task Force.  He describes the incredible ineptness of
        the CIA bureaucracy and its constant bungling of the Angola
        situation.  If most of the CIA covert wars are carried out
        in the same manner as this mess, it is no wonder that they
        always lose and leave corrupt murderous dictators in the
        aftermath.  After 12 years as a CIA officer, Stockwell
        resigned from the Agency on April 1, 1977 and has since
        continued to lecture on the problems that CIA activities cause
        for U.S. foreign policy.  The CIA successfully litigated
        against Stockwell and continues to receive all royalities that
        this book generates.

46.  The Hidden History of the Korean War
I.F. Stone
Monthly Review Press, New York
Copyright (c) 1952
384 total pages, 348 pages text, 4 page appendix, 11 page reference list,
        5 page index
        A collection of Stone's journalistic writings during the War.
        Generally regarded as an accurate depiction of the darker side
        of the Korean War.

47.  Journey Into Madness - The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control
        and Medical Abuse
Gordon Thomas
Bantam Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1989
387 total pages, 353 pages text, 14 pages notes, 8 pages sources,
        one page select Bibliography, 10 page index

48.  CIA - The Inside Story
Andrew Tully
Fawcett World Library, New York
Copyright (c) 1962
224 total pages, 217 pages text, 7 page index
        One of the earliest public descriptions of CIA activities.
        Quite a bit of promotion for the CIA, often glorifying CIA
        activities in places such as Iran and Guatemala.  Neverless, a
        valuable early look at the CIA.

49.  Veil: the Secret Wars of the CIA
Bob Woodward
Simon and Schuster
Copyright (c) 1987
543 total pages, 485 pages text, 2 page Central American Covert-Action
        Chronology, 3 pages acknowledgments, 30 page index, 16 pages
        photographs
        Focusing on the tenure of Director of Central Intelligence
        William J. Casey, 28 January, 1981 thru 29 January 1987

50.  Spy Catcher
Peter Wright, with Paul Greengrass
Dell Publishing, New York
Copyright (c) 1987
481 total pages, 3 page glossary, 12 page index, 9 page preface, no contents
51.  Bay of Pigs - The Untold Story
Peter Wyden
Simon and Schuster, New York
Copyright (c) 1979
384 total pages, 32 pages photographs, 327 pages text,
        3 page bibliographical notes, 8 pages notes, 10 page index
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