CIA: Suggested Reading List
1. 
Spy... for Nobody!: Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence
by:
Basel Saneeb
4.02 avg rating — 65 ratings 
3. 
Spy... for Nobody! Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence
by:
Basel Saneeb
4.02 avg rating — 65 ratings 4. 
The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
by:
Jefferson Morley
3.93 avg rating — 1,091 ratings 
5. 
The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists
by:
Tracy Walder
3.84 avg rating — 6,042 ratings 7. 
The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War
by:
Thaddeus Holt
3.78 avg rating — 95 ratings 
12. 
For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence & the American Presidency from Washington to Bush 3.93 avg rating — 398 ratings
13. 
The Code Book: The Evolution Of Secrecy From Mary, Queen Of Scots To Quantum Cryptography
by:
Simon Singh
4.30 avg rating — 28,489 ratings 14. 
Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961
by:
Robin W. Winks
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings 15. 
The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives
by:
Ted Gup
4.01 avg rating — 1,075 ratings 
16. 
A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency
by:
Richard Helms
3.74 avg rating — 217 ratings 18. 
The Reader Of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking
by:
David Kahn
3.79 avg rating — 33 ratings 19. 
Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer - The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames 3.91 avg rating — 1,017 ratings
21. 
The Man Who Kept The Secrets: Richard Helms And The CIA
by:
Thomas Powers
4.01 avg rating — 150 ratings 
23. 
Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby
by:
John Prados
3.55 avg rating — 29 ratings 24. 
Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton - Cia's Master Spy Hunter
by:
Tom Mangold
3.97 avg rating — 91 ratings 25. 
Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History 3.87 avg rating — 14,312 ratings
25. 
Six Car Lengths Behind an Elephant: Undercover & Overwhelmed as a CIA Wife and Mother
by:
Lillian McCloy
4.13 avg rating — 150 ratings 
29. 
Tracking the Axis Enemy: The Triumph of Anglo-American Naval Intelligence
by:
Alan Harris Bath
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 29. 
Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate
by:
Jefferson Morley
4.01 avg rating — 255 ratings 31. 
Grant's Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox
by:
William B. Feis
3.88 avg rating — 56 ratings 32. 
The Secret War For The Union: The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War
by:
Edwin C. Fishel
3.79 avg rating — 86 ratings 32. 
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
3.91 avg rating — 1,791 ratings 32. 
The Puzzle Palace: A Report on NSA, America's Most Secret Agency
by:
James Bamford
3.90 avg rating — 1,302 ratings 35. 
Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad: How to Be a Counterintelligence Officer 3.86 avg rating — 236 ratings
36. 
Foreign Intelligence: Research and Analysis in the Office of Strategic Services, 1942-1945
by:
Barry M. Katz
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 37. 
The Final Months of the War With Japan: Signals Intelligence, U.S. Invasion Planning, and the A-Bomb Decision. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
39. 
The Civil War: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence
by:
P.K. Rose
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 40. 
Stalin's Secret War: Soviet Counterintelligence against the Nazis, 1941-1945 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings
42. 
The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government, to 1950 2.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
43. 
Directors of Central Intelligence as Leaders of the U.S. Intelligence Community, 1946-2005 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
44. 
The CIA at War: Inside the Secret Campaign Against Terror
by:
Ronald Kessler
3.57 avg rating — 187 ratings 45. 
The Central Intelligence Agency: History and Documents
by:
William M. Leary
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings 46. 
Honorable Treachery: A History of U.S. Intelligence, Espionage & Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA
by:
G.J.A. O'Toole
3.72 avg rating — 58 ratings 
48. 
On the Front Lines of the Cold War: Documents on the Intelligence War in Berlin, 1946-1961
by:
Donald Steury
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 49. 
Donovan and the CIA: A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency
by:
Thomas F. Troy
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 
51. 
The Office of Strategic Services: America's First Intelligence Agency
by:
C.I. Agency
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 52. 
Inside CIA's Private World: Declassified Articles from the Agency`s Internal Journal, 1955-1992 3.71 avg rating — 38 ratings
53. 
CIA Spymaster: The Agency’s Top Case Officer Who Handled Penkovsky And Popov
by:
Clarence Ashley
3.83 avg rating — 53 ratings 54. 
Autobiography of a Spy: Debutante, Writer, Confidante, Secret Agent. The True Story of her Extraordinary Life
by:
Mary Bancroft
3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings 55. 
From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War
by:
Robert M. Gates
3.99 avg rating — 395 ratings 
57. 
China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia
by:
James R. Lilley
3.83 avg rating — 192 ratings 
59. 
Spymaster: My Thirty-two Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West
by:
Oleg Kalugin
4.06 avg rating — 402 ratings 
61. 
General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence, October 1950 - February 1953 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
63. 
Casey: The Lives & Secrets of William J. Casey from the OSS to the CIA 3.88 avg rating — 57 ratings
64. 
65. 
The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared- The Early Years Of The CIA
by:
Evan Thomas
3.83 avg rating — 344 ratings 66. 
68. 
Man Without a Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster
by:
Markus Wolf
3.96 avg rating — 463 ratings 
70. 
Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE New edition by SARAH HELM (2006) Paperback
by:
Sarah Helm
4.09 avg rating — 2,064 ratings 
72. 
Denial and Deception: An Insider's View of the CIA from Iran-Contra to 9/11 (Nation Books) 3.35 avg rating — 91 ratings
74. 
The Wolves At The Door: The True Story Of America's Greatest Female Spy 4.31 avg rating — 4,286 ratings
77. 
Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy 3.96 avg rating — 288 ratings
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79. 
The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage
by:
Robert Lindsey
4.07 avg rating — 2,424 ratings 80. 
Wilderness of Mirrors: Intrigue, Deception, and the Secrets that Destroyed Two of the Cold War's Most Important Agents
by:
David C. Martin
3.92 avg rating — 266 ratings 81. 
The Spy Who Got Away: The Inside Story of Edward Lee Howard, the Man who Betrayed His Country's Secrets and Escaped to Moscow
by:
David Wise
3.73 avg rating — 106 ratings 82. 
Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America
by:
David Wise
4.08 avg rating — 1,394 ratings 83. 
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB 3.94 avg rating — 2,090 ratings
84. 
The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB & the Battle for the Third World 4.09 avg rating — 587 ratings
85. 
The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
by:
Milton Bearden
4.15 avg rating — 1,266 ratings 86. 
Partners at the Creation: The Men Behind Postwar Germany's Defense and Intelligence Establishments 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
87. 
Mole - The True Story of the First Russian Spy to Become an American Counterspy
by:
William Hood
3.92 avg rating — 88 ratings 88. 
89. 
The CIA's Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage and Covert Action liked it 3.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
90. 
The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 45 ratings
91. 
A Secret Life: The Polish Colonel, His Covert Mission, And The Price He Paid To Save His Country
by:
Benjamin Weiser
4.30 avg rating — 335 ratings 92. 
Feet to the Fire: CIA Covert Operations in Indonesia, 1957-1958 (Special Warfare Series) 4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings
95. 
Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards: U.S. Covert Action and Counterintelligence
by:
Roy Godson
3.45 avg rating — 44 ratings 96. 
Raiders of the China Coast: CIA Covert Operations During the Korean War (Special Warfare Series)
by:
Frank Holober
3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings 
100. 
Clinton's Secret Wars: The Evolution of a Commander in Chief
by:
Richard T. Sale
3.10 avg rating — 20 ratings