The Real CIA
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The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA
by:
Joby Warrick
4.11 avg rating — 3,889 ratings 
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The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
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Jefferson Morley
3.93 avg rating — 1,090 ratings 5. 
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
by:
Steve Coll
4.31 avg rating — 18,331 ratings 6. 
Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History 3.87 avg rating — 14,311 ratings
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See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
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Robert B. Baer
3.94 avg rating — 5,163 ratings 8. 
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
by:
David Talbot
4.35 avg rating — 7,419 ratings 9. 
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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
by:
Annie Jacobsen
4.14 avg rating — 9,249 ratings 12. 
The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA
by:
Ted Gup
4.01 avg rating — 1,075 ratings 13. 
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of our Times
by:
George Crile
4.01 avg rating — 9,615 ratings 17. 
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 18. 
The Wizards Of Langley: Inside The CIA's Directorate Of Science And Technology 3.57 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools & Operations That Helped Win the Cold War 3.99 avg rating — 443 ratings
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Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda
by:
Robert Wallace
3.86 avg rating — 1,377 ratings 20. 
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 
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None So Blind: A Personal Failure Account of the Intelligence in Vietnam
by:
George W. Allen
4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings 23. 
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
by:
Tom O'Neill
4.04 avg rating — 32,213 ratings 
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Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
by:
Gary Berntsen
3.97 avg rating — 1,802 ratings 27. 
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The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA & Mind Control
by:
John D. Marks
4.09 avg rating — 667 ratings 30. 
First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan
by:
Gary Schroen
4.05 avg rating — 1,841 ratings 30. 
A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency
by:
Richard Helms
3.74 avg rating — 217 ratings 32. 
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 32. 
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
by:
James Bamford
3.90 avg rating — 409 ratings 
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Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992 4.03 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Spies and Commandos: How America Lost the Secret War in North Vietnam 3.79 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA
by:
John Rizzo
3.74 avg rating — 791 ratings 
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American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate and Beyond
by:
E. Howard Hunt
3.54 avg rating — 138 ratings 42. 
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A Great Place To Have A War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA 3.90 avg rating — 757 ratings
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Operation Ajax: The Story of the CIA Coup that Remade the Middle East
by:
Mike de Seve
4.39 avg rating — 188 ratings 47. 
Dulles: A Biography of Eleanor, Allen & John Foster Dulles & Their Family Network
by:
Leonard Mosley
3.78 avg rating — 41 ratings 47. 
A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments 4.09 avg rating — 168 ratings
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The Albanian Operation of the CIA and MI6, 1949-1953: Conversations with Participants in a Venture Betrayed
by:
Nicholas Bethell
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East
by:
Hugh Wilford
3.82 avg rating — 229 ratings 53. 
Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed
by:
Sandra Grimes
3.74 avg rating — 958 ratings 54. 
Slow Burn: The Rise and Bitter Fall of American Intelligence in Vietnam
by:
Orrin DeForest
4.06 avg rating — 31 ratings 
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Feet to the Fire: CIA Covert Operations in Indonesia, 1957-1958 (Special Warfare Series) 4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage
by:
Philip Taubman
3.84 avg rating — 135 ratings 58. 
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
by:
Mark Mazzetti
3.85 avg rating — 3,932 ratings 59. 
Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism
by:
Billy Waugh
4.15 avg rating — 1,543 ratings 59. 
TRANCE-formation of America: The True Life Story of a CIA Mind Control Slave
by:
Cathy O'Brien
4.08 avg rating — 1,060 ratings 
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Partners at the Creation: The Men Behind Postwar Germany's Defense and Intelligence Establishments 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Secret Team: The CIA & its Allies in Control of the United States & the World 3.99 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda
by:
Thomas Powers
3.61 avg rating — 118 ratings 
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Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945 to 1990
by:
Linda Hunt
3.88 avg rating — 43 ratings 
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Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate
by:
Jefferson Morley
4.01 avg rating — 255 ratings 69. 
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Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man
by:
Dalton Fury
4.06 avg rating — 3,001 ratings 73. 
The Paperclip Conspiracy: The Hunt for the Nazi Scientists
by:
Tom Bower
3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings 
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Explosive Secrets of Covert CIA Companies
by:
Rodney Stich
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 79. 
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Defrauding America: Encyclopedia of Secret Operations by the Cia, Dea, and Other Covert Agencies
by:
Rodney Stich
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings 
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Raiders of the China Coast: CIA Covert Operations During the Korean War (Special Warfare Series)
by:
Frank Holober
3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings 83. 
Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master On The Fundamentals Of Intelligence Gathering For A Free World
by:
Allen W. Dulles
3.77 avg rating — 907 ratings 83. 
Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insider s Account of the Politics of Intelligence 3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings
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War of Numbers: An Intelligence Memoir of the Vietnam War's Uncounted Enemy
by:
Sam Adams
4.10 avg rating — 92 ratings 
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Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
by:
Robert B. Baer
3.92 avg rating — 1,880 ratings 87. 
Castro's Secrets: Cuban Intelligence, The CIA, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
by:
Brian Latell
3.81 avg rating — 150 ratings 87. 
Molehunt: The Secret Search for Traitors That Shattered the CIA
by:
David Wise
3.69 avg rating — 80 ratings 
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MKULTRA: The CIA's Top Secret Program in Human Experimentation and Behavior Modification
by:
George Andrews
4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings 92. 
The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story
by:
Robert B. Baer
3.49 avg rating — 2,408 ratings 92. 
Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia, and the Failure of America's War on Terror
by:
Bob Graham
3.92 avg rating — 115 ratings 92. 
The Castro Obsession: U.s. Covert Operations Against Cuba, 1959-1965
by:
Don Bohning
2.93 avg rating — 15 ratings 
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The Project Mkultra Compendium: The CIA's Program Of Research In Behavioral Modification
by:
Stephen Foster
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 98. 
Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA
by:
Jefferson Morley
3.86 avg rating — 107 ratings