“What are the best books about the CSI?” We looked at 255 of the top CSI books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
As a companion to our Best FBI Books article, below you can find the top 255 books about the CSI. The top 15 books, all appearing on 3 or more lists, are ranked below with images, descriptions, and links. The remaining 200+ titles, as well as the articles we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
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With a thrilling narrative that sheds much light on recent events, this national bestseller brings to life the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that ousted the country’s elected prime minister, ushered in a quarter-century of brutal rule under the Shah, and stimulated the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and anti-Americanism in the Middle East. Selected as one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and The Economist, it now features a new preface by the author on the folly of attacking Iran.
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“While America held its breath in the days immediately following 9/11, a small but determined group of CIA agents covertly began to change history. This is the riveting first-person account of the treacherous top-secret mission inside Afghanistan to set the stage for the defeat of the Taliban and launch the war on terror.
As thrilling as any novel, First In is a uniquely intimate look at a mission that began the U.S. retaliation against terrorism–and reclaimed the country of Afghanistan for its people.”
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With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.
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Revelatory and groundbreaking, The Art of Intelligence will change the way people view the CIA, domestic and foreign intelligence, and international terrorism. Henry A. “Hank” Crumpton, a twenty-four-year veteran of the CIA’s Clandestine Service, offers a thrilling account that delivers profound lessons about what it means to serve as an honorable spy. From CIA recruiting missions in Africa to pioneering new programs like the UAV Predator, from running post–9/11 missions in Afghanistan to heading up all clandestine CIA operations in the United States, Crumpton chronicles his role—in the battlefield and in the Oval Office—in transforming the way America wages war and sheds light on issues of domestic espionage.
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“The Very Best Men is the story of the CIA’s early days as told through the careers of four glamorous, daring, and idealistic men who ran covert operations for the government from the end of World War II to Vietnam. Evan Thomas re-creates the personal dramas and sometimes tragic lives of Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes, and Desmond FitzGerald, who risked everything to contain the Soviet threat.
Within the inner circles of Washington, they were regarded as the best and the brightest. They planned and acted to keep the country out of war—by stealth and “political action” and to do by cunning and sleight of hand what great armies could not, must not be allowed to do. In the end, they were too idealistic and too honorable, and were unsuited for the dark, duplicitous life of spying. Their hubris and naïveté led them astray, producing both sensational coups and spectacular blunders like the Bay of Pigs and the failed assassination attempts on foreign leaders in the early 1960s. Thomas draws on the CIA’s own secret histories, to which he has had exclusive access, as well as extensive interviews, to bring to life a crucial piece of American history.”
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“The most momentous change in American warfare over the past decade has taken place away from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, in the corners of the world where large armies can’t go. The Way of the Knife is the untold story of that shadow war: a campaign that has blurred the lines between soldiers and spies and lowered the bar for waging war across the globe. America has pursued its enemies with killer drones and special operations troops; trained privateers for assassination missions and used them to set up clandestine spying networks; and relied on mercurial dictators, untrustworthy foreign intelligence services, and proxy armies.
This new approach to war has been embraced by Washington as a lower risk, lower cost alternative to the messy wars of occupation and has been championed as a clean and surgical way of conflict. But the knife has created enemies just as it has killed them. It has fomented resentments among allies, fueled instability, and created new weapons unbound by the normal rules of accountability during wartime.”
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“At the dawn of the Cold War, the world’s most important intelligence agencies―the Soviet KGB, the American CIA, and the British MI6―appeared to have clear-cut roles and a sense of rising importance in their respective countries. But when Kim Philby, head of MI6’s Russian division and arguably the twenty-first century’s greatest spy, was revealed to be a Russian mole along with British government heavyweights Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, everything in the Western intelligence world turned upside down.
Here is the true story of how the American James Bond―the colorful, foulmouthed, pistol-packing, alcoholic ex-FBI agent William “King” Harvey―put the finger on Philby; how James Jesus Angleton, the chain-smoking poet of Yale University and the CIA’s supposed “master spy” in charge of counterintelligence, began his descent into a paranoid wilderness of mirrors upon learning of family friend Kim Philby’s ultimate betrayal; and the devastating consequences of the loss of MI6 prestige and the CIA’s subsequent self-defeating witch hunts.
Every revelation, every stranger-than-fiction twist and turn is all the more intriguing as truths become lies and unlikely scenarios are revealed as reality. With impeccable sourcing and the use of thousands of pages of declassified research, David C. Martin’s Wilderness of Mirrors is widely recognized as a masterpiece of intelligence literature.”
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“A Look over My Shoulder begins with President Nixon’s attempt to embroil the Central Intelligence Agency, of which Richard Helms was then the director, in the Watergate cover-up. Helms then recalls his education in Switzerland and Germany and at Williams College; his early career as a foreign correspondent in Berlin, during which he once lunched with Hitler; and his return to newspaper work in the United States. Helms served on the German desk at OSS headquarters in London; subsequently, he was assigned to Allen Dulles’s Berlin office in postwar Germany.
On his return to Washington, Helms assumed responsibility for the OSS carryover operations in Germany, Austria, and Eastern Europe. He remained in this post until the Central Intelligence Agency was formed in 1947. At CIA, Helms served in many positions, ultimately becoming the organization’s director from 1966 to 1973. He was appointed ambassador to Iran later that year and retired from government service in January 1977. It was often thought that Richard Helms, who served longer in the Central Intelligence Agency than anyone else, would never tell his story, but here it is–revealing, news-making, and with candid assessments of the controversies and triumphs of a remarkable career.”
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“In the whirlwind of accusations and recriminations that emerged in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq war, one man’s vital testimony has been conspicuously absent. Candid and gripping, At the Center of the Storm recounts George Tenet’s time at the Central Intelligence Agency, a revealing look at the inner workings of the most important intelligence organization in the world during the most challenging times in recent history. With unparalleled access to both the highest echelons of government and raw intelligence from the field, Tenet illuminates the CIA’s painstaking attempts to prepare the country against new and deadly threats, disentangles the interlocking events that led to 9/11, and offers explosive new information on the deliberations and strategies that culminated in the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Beginning with his appointment as Director of Central Intelligence in 1997, Tenet unfolds the momentous events that led to 9/11 as he saw and experienced them: his declaration of war on al-Qa’ida; the CIA’s covert operations inside Afghanistan; the worldwide operational plan to fight terrorists; his warnings of imminent attacks against American interests to White House officials in the summer of 2001; and the plan for a coordinated and devastating counterattack against al-Qa’ida laid down just six days after the attacks.”
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From a former director of the CIA, and one who served on the White House staffs of four presidents, this is the inside story of America’s and the agency’s roles in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
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“On the morning of September 11, 2001, the world witnessed the terrible result of that intelligence failure with the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the wake of those attacks, Americans were left wondering how such an obviously long-term, globally coordinated plot could have escaped detection by the CIA and taken the nation by surprise. Robert Baer was not surprised. A twenty-one-year veteran of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations who had left the agency in 1997, Baer observed firsthand how an increasingly bureaucratic CIA lost its way in the post–cold war world and refused to adequately acknowledge and neutralize the growing threat of Islamic fundamentalist terror in the Middle East and elsewhere.
A throwback to the days when CIA operatives got results by getting their hands dirty and running covert operations, Baer spent his career chasing down leads on suspected terrorists in the world’s most volatile hot spots. As he and his agents risked their lives gathering intelligence, he watched as the CIA reduced drastically its operations overseas, failed to put in place people who knew local languages and customs, and rewarded workers who knew how to play the political games of the agency’s suburban Washington headquarters but not how to recruit agents on the ground.
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To what extent did America’s best intelligence analysts grasp the rising thread of Islamist radicalism? Who tried to stop bin Laden and why did they fail? Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll recounts the history of the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks. Based on scrupulous research and firsthand accounts by key government, intelligence, and military personnel both foreign and American, Ghost Wars details the secret history of the CIA’s role in Afghanistan (including its covert operations against Soviet troops from 1979 to 1989), the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of bin Laden, and the failed efforts by U.S. forces to find and assassinate bin Laden in Afghanistan.
| # | Book | Author | Lists |
| (Titles Appear On 2 Lists Each) | |||
| 16 | A Secret Life: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country | Benjamin Weiser | CIA 1 |
| CIA 2 | |||
| 17 | A Spy for All Seasons: My Life in the CIA | Duane R. Clarridge and Digby Diehl | Biostat |
| CIA 2 | |||
| 18 | A Spy’s Journey: A CIA Memoir | Floyd L. Paseman | CIA 1 |
| CIA 2 | |||
| 19 | Age of Secrets | Gerald Bellett | Ranker |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 20 | Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War | David E. Murphy, Sergei A. Kondrashev, and George Bailey | Ranker |
| CIA 2 | |||
| 21 | Casey | Joseph E. Persico | CIA 2 |
| CIA 1 | |||
| 22 | Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton: The CIA’s Master Spy Hunter. | Tom Mangold | Goodreads 2 |
| CIA 2 | |||
| 23 | Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis | Dino A. Brugioni | The Washington Post |
| CIA 2 | |||
| 24 | For the President’s Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush | Christopher Andrew | CIA 2 |
| CIA 1 | |||
| 25 | Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles | Peter Grose | CIA 1 |
| CIA 2 | |||
| 26 | Inside Cia’s Private World: Declassified Articles from the Agency’s Internal Journal, 1955-1992 | H. Bradford Westerfield | Biostat |
| CIA 2 | |||
| 27 | Killing Hope | William Blum | Ranker |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 28 | Overthrow | Stephen Kinzer | Ranker |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 29 | Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA | John Prados | CIA 1 |
| CIA 2 | |||
| 30 | Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden History of America’s Space Espionage | Philip Taubman | CIA 1 |
| CIA 2 | |||
| 31 | Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs from Communism to al-Qaeda | Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton | CIA 1 |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 32 | State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration | James Risen | Wikipedia |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 33 | The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives | Ted Gup | Goodreads 2 |
| CIA 2 | |||
| 34 | The CIA and September 11 | Ranker | |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 35 | The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 | Lawrence Wright | Bustle |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 36 | The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA | Antonio J. Mendez | Goodreads 2 |
| CIA 2 | |||
| 37 | The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA | Joby Warrick | Goodreads |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 38 | The Way of the World | Ron Suskind | Ranker |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 39 | Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 | Bob Woodward | Biostat |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 40 | Wedge: The Secret War Between the FBI and CIA | Mark Riebling | Biostat |
| CIA 2 | |||
| (Titles Appear On 1 List Each) | |||
| 41 | 1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI – The Untold Story | Peter Lance | CIA 2 |
| 42 | 50 Years of the U-2: The Complete Illustrated History of the “Dragon Lady” | Chris Pocock | CIA 2 |
| 43 | A Life In Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE | Sarah Helm | CIA 2 |
| 44 | A Short Course in the Secret War. | Christopher Felix [pseudonym for James McCarger] | CIA 2 |
| 45 | A Wanted Man | Lee Child | Goodreads 2 |
| 46 | A World of Secrets: The Uses and Limits of Intelligence. | Walter Laqueur | CIA 2 |
| 47 | Acid Dreams | Wikipedia | |
| 48 | Act of Treason | Vince Flynn | Goodreads 2 |
| 49 | Adrenaline | Jeff Abbott | Goodreads 2 |
| 50 | Al Qaeda in Europe: The New Battleground of International Jihad | Lorenzo Vidino with a Foreword by Steven Emerson | CIA 2 |
| 51 | All the Old Knives | Olen Steinhauer | Goodreads 2 |
| 52 | All the Queen’s Men | Linda Howard | Goodreads 2 |
| 53 | America’s Secret Power: The CIA in a Democratic Society | Loch Johnson | Biostat |
| 54 | American Assassin | Vince Flynn | Goodreads 2 |
| 55 | American Intelligence, 1775-1990: A Bibliographical Guide | Neal H. Petersen | CIA 2 |
| 56 | Analyzing Intelligence: Origins, Obstacles, and Innovations. | Roger Z. George and James B. Bruce, eds. | CIA 2 |
| 57 | Archangel. | David Robarge | CIA 2 |
| 58 | Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History | Antonio J. Mendez | Goodreads 2 |
| 59 | Assessing the Soviet Threat: The Early Cold War Years. | Woodrow J. Kuhns | CIA 2 |
| 60 | At Cold War’s End: U.S. Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991. | Ben B. Fischer | CIA 2 |
| 61 | Autobiography of a Spy. | Mary Bancroft | CIA 2 |
| 62 | Best Truth: Intelligence in the Information Age | Bruce D. Berkowitz and Allen E. Goodman | CIA 2 |
| 63 | Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War. | P.K. Rose | CIA 2 |
| 64 | Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army | Jeremy Scahill | Bustle |
| 65 | Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage. | Sherry Sontag | CIA 2 |
| 66 | Blond Ghost | David Corn | Biostat |
| 67 | Bloodmoney: A Novel of Espionage | David Ignatius | Goodreads 2 |
| 68 | Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy and Other Misadventures | Lindsay Moran | Ranker |
| 69 | Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century | James Bamford | CIA 2 |
| 70 | Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence | Stansfield Turner | Ranker |
| 71 | Cast No Shadow: The Life of the American Spy Who Changed the Course of World War II. | Mary S. Lovell | CIA 2 |
| 72 | 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 | George Crile | Goodreads 2 |
| 73 | China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage and Diplomacy. | James Lilley with Jeffrey Lilley | CIA 2 |
| 74 | CIA and the Vietnam Policymakers: Three Episodes 1962-1968. | Harold P. Ford | CIA 2 |
| 75 | CIA Life: 10,000 Days with the Agency. | Tom Gilligan | CIA 2 |
| 76 | CIA Special Weapons and Equipment: Spy Devices of the Cold War. | H. Keith Melton | CIA 2 |
| 77 | CIA Spymaster | Clarence Ashley | CIA 2 |
| 78 | CIA Targets Fidel: Secret 1967 CIA Inspector General’s Report on Plots to Assassinate Fidel Castro | Biostat | |
| 79 | CIA’s Analysis of the Soviet Union 1947-1991. | Gerald K. Haines and Robert E. Leggett, eds. | CIA 2 |
| 80 | CIA’s Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage, and Covert Action. | Harry A. Rositzke | CIA 2 |
| 81 | Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed | Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille | CIA 1 |
| 82 | Clinton’s Secret Wars: The Evolution of a Commander in Chief. | Richard Sale | CIA 2 |
| 83 | Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961. | Robin Winks | CIA 2 |
| 84 | Confessions of a Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames. | Pete Earley | CIA 2 |
| 85 | Consent to Kill | Vince Flynn | Goodreads 2 |
| 86 | CORONA: America’s First Satellite Program. [18.4MB*] | Kevin Ruffner, ed. | CIA 2 |
| 87 | Countercoup: The Struggle for the Control of Iran. | Kermit Roosevelt | CIA 2 |
| 88 | CovertAction Quarterly | Wikipedia | |
| 89 | Creating the Secret State: The Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1943-1947 | David F. Rudgers | Ranker |
| 90 | Cries of the Eagle | Michael E. Nathanson | Goodreads |
| 91 | Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War | Bob Drogin | Ranker |
| 92 | Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion | Gary Webb | Goodreads 2 |
| 93 | Deep Black: Space Espionage and National Security. | William Burrows | CIA 2 |
| 94 | Denial and Deception: An Insider’s View of the CIA from Iran-Contra to 9/11 | Melissa Boyle Mahle | CIA 2 |
| 95 | Directors of Central Intelligence as Leaders of the U.S. Intelligence Community — 1946-2005 | Douglas F. Garthoff | CIA 2 |
| 96 | Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards: U.S. Covert Action and Counterintelligence. | Roy Godson | CIA 2 |
| 97 | Donovan and the CIA: A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency. | Thomas F. Troy | CIA 2 |
| 98 | Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 2 volumes | Rodney P. Carlisle, (ed.) | CIA 2 |
| 99 | Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency | Wikipedia | |
| 100 | Enigma: The Battle for the Code. | Hugh Sebag-Montefiore | CIA 2 |
| 101 | Executive Power | Vince Flynn | Goodreads 2 |
| 102 | Executive Secrets: Covert Action and the Presidency | William J. Daugherty | CIA 2 |
| 103 | Extreme Measures | Vince Flynn | Goodreads 2 |
| 104 | Eye in the Sky: The Story of the Corona Spy Satellites. | Dwayne Day, John M. Logsdon, and Brian Latell, eds., | CIA 2 |
| 105 | Facing Reality: From World Federalism to the CIA. | Cord Meyer | CIA 2 |
| 106 | Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal | Valerie Plame Wilson | Goodreads 2 |
| 107 | Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying. | James Olson | CIA 2 |
| 108 | Feet to the Fire: CIA Covert Operations in Indonesia, 1957-1958. | Kenneth J. Conboy | CIA 2 |
| 109 | Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War. | Tammy M. Proctor | CIA 2 |
| 110 | Fixing Hell: An Army Psychologist Confronts Abu Ghraib | Col. Larry C. James | Bustle |
| 111 | Forecasting Terrorism: Indications of Proven Analytic Techniques | Sundri Khalsa | CIA 2 |
| 112 | Foreign Intelligence: Research and Analysis in the Office of Strategic Services 1942-1945. | Barry M. Katz | CIA 2 |
| 113 | Foreign Relations of the United States, 1945-1950, Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment. | United States Department of State | CIA 2 |
| 114 | General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence. | Ludwell Lee Montague | CIA 2 |
| 115 | Generation Kill | Evan Wright | Bustle |
| 116 | Getting to Know the President: CIA Briefings of Presidential Candidates, 1952-1992. | John Helgerson | CIA 2 |
| 117 | Good Hunting | Jack Devine and Vernon Loeb | CIA 1 |
| 118 | Grant’s Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox. | Willam B. Feis | CIA 2 |
| 119 | Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives | José A. Rodríguez Jr. | Goodreads |
| 120 | Harlot’s Ghost | Norman Mailer | Ranker |
| 121 | Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA | William E. Colby with Peter Forbath | CIA 1 |
| 122 | Honorable Treachery: A History of Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA. | G. J. A. O’Toole | CIA 2 |
| 123 | I Heard You Were Going on Jihad | Mitchell Gray | Goodreads |
| 124 | Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror. | Michael Scheur | CIA 2 |
| 125 | In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir | Wikipedia | |
| 126 | Inside the Cia: Revealing the Secrets of the World’s Most Powerful Spy Agency | Ronald Kessler | Biostat |
| 127 | Inside the Company: CIA Diary | Philip Agee | Biostat |
| 128 | Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda | Omar Nasiri | Goodreads |
| 129 | Intel Wars: The Secret History of the Fight Against Terror | Matthew M. Aid | Goodreads |
| 130 | Intelligence and Espionage: An Analytical Bibliography | George Constantinides | CIA 2 |
| 131 | Intelligence in the War for Independence. | David Robarge | CIA 2 |
| 132 | Intelligence Wars: American Secret History From Hitler to Al-Qaeda | Boston Globe | |
| 133 | Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy. | Mark M. Lowenthal | CIA 2 |
| 134 | Intentions and Capabilities: Estimates on Soviet Strategic Forces, 1950-1983. [PDF 43MB*] | Donald P. Steury, ed. | CIA 2 |
| 135 | Ishmael Jones | Wikipedia | |
| 136 | Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account | the CIA’s Key Field Commander | Goodreads |
| 137 | KGB, The Inside Story of its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev. | Oleg Gordievsky and Christopher Andrew | CIA 2 |
| 138 | Kill Shot | Vince Flynn | Goodreads 2 |
| 139 | Knowing Your Friends: Intelligence Inside Alliances and Coalitions from 1914 to the Cold War (Cass Series-Studies in Intelligence). | Martin S. Alexander | CIA 2 |
| 140 | Lindsay Moran | Wikipedia | |
| 141 | Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby. | John Prados | CIA 2 |
| 142 | Man Without a Face: The Autobiography of Communism’s Great Spymaster. | Markus Wolf | CIA 2 |
| 143 | Mayday: Eisenhower, Khruschev and the U-2 Affair. | Michael R. Beschloss | CIA 2 |
| 144 | Memorial Day | Vince Flynn | Goodreads 2 |
| 145 | Mole. | William Hood | CIA 2 |
| 146 | New Frontiers of Intelligence Analysis: Shared Threats, Diverse Perspectives, New Communities | Carol Dumaine and L. Sergio Germani (eds.) | CIA 2 |
| 147 | Official reports by the U.S. Government on the CIA | Wikipedia | |
| 148 | On the Front Lines of the Cold War: Documents on the Intelligence War in Berlin, 1946-1961. | Donald P. Steury | CIA 2 |
| 149 | Operation Hotel California: The Clandestine War Inside Iraq. | Mike Tucker and Charles “Sam” Faddis | CIA 2 |
| 150 | Our First Line of Defense, Presidential Reflections. | Scott Koch and Brian D. Fila | CIA 2 |
| 151 | Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA | Jefferson Morley | Ranker |
| 152 | Partners At The Creation: The Men Behind Postwar Germany’s Defense and Intelligence Establishments. | James H. Critchfield | CIA 2 |
| 153 | Predators: The CIA’s Drone War on al Qaeda | Brian Glyn Williams | Goodreads |
| 154 | Presidents’ Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations from World War II Through the Persian Gulf | John Prados | Biostat |
| 155 | Protect and Defend | Vince Flynn | Goodreads 2 |
| 156 | Psychology of Intelligence Analysis. | Richards J. Heuer, Jr. | CIA 2 |
| 157 | Pursuit of Honor | Vince Flynn | Goodreads 2 |
| 158 | Raiders of the China Coast: CIA Covert Operations During the Korean War (Special Warfare Series). | Frank Holober | CIA 2 |
| 159 | Red Sparrow | Jason Matthews | Goodreads 2 |
| 160 | Reflections of a Cold Warrior: From Yalta to the Bay of Pigs | Richard M. Bissell, Jr. | Ranker |
| 161 | Robert Baer | Wikipedia | |
| 162 | Secrecy and Democracy–The CIA in Transition. | Stansfield Turner | CIA 2 |
| 163 | Secret Warriors: Inside the Covert Military Operations of the Reagan Era | Steven Emerson | Biostat |
| 164 | Separation of Power | Vince Flynn | Goodreads 2 |
| 165 | Shadow Warrior | Felix Rodriguez | Biostat |
| 166 | Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: Collected Essays. | Donald P. Steury, ed. | CIA 2 |
| 167 | Simple Genius | David Baldacci | Goodreads 2 |
| 168 | Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS. | Elizabeth P. McIntosh | CIA 2 |
| 169 | Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed. | Ben R. Rich with Leo Janos | CIA 2 |
| 170 | Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy | Elizabeth R. Varon | CIA 2 |
| 171 | Spy Book:The Encyclopedia of Espionage | Norman Polmar | CIA 2 |
| 172 | Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer | Victor Cherkashin with Gregory Feifer | CIA 2 |
| 173 | Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI’s Robert Hanssen Betrayed America. | David Wise | CIA 2 |
| 174 | Spymaster: My 32 years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West. | Oleg Kalugin | CIA 2 |
| 175 | Spymasters: Ten CIA Officers in Their Own Words. | Ralph Edward Weber, ed. | CIA 2 |
| 176 | Stalin’s Secret War: Soviet Counterintelligence Against the Nazis, 1941-1945. | Robert W. Stephan | CIA 2 |
| 177 | Stalking the History of the Office of Strategic Services: An OSS Bibliography. | Dan C. Pinck, Geoffrey M.T. Jones, and Charles T. Pinck | CIA 2 |
| 178 | Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy. | Sherman Kent | CIA 2 |
| 179 | Strategic Intelligence: Windows Into a Secret World—An Anthology | Loch Johnson and James Wirtz (eds.) | CIA 2 |
| 180 | Term Limits | Vince Flynn | Goodreads 2 |
| 181 | Terrorism and Democracy | Stansfield Turner | CIA 2 |
| 182 | The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Authorized Edition | Thomas H. Kean, Chair | CIA 2 |
| 183 | The Agency and the Hill: CIA’s Relations with Congress, 1946-2004. | Britt Snider | CIA 2 |
| 184 | The American Agent: My Life in the CIA. | Richard L. Holm | CIA 2 |
| 185 | The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda | Ali Soufan | Bustle |
| 186 | The Black Tulip: A Novel of War in Afghanistan | Milton Bearden | Ranker |
| 187 | The Bourne Identity | Robert Ludlum | Goodreads 2 |
| 188 | The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government to 1950. | Arthur Darling | CIA 2 |
| 189 | The Central Intelligence Agency: History and Documents. | Loch K. Johnson | CIA 2 |
| 190 | The Central Intelligence Agency: History and Documents. | William M. Leary, ed. | CIA 2 |
| 191 | The Central Intelligence Agency: Security under Scrutiny | Athan Theoharis, Richard Immerman, Loch Johnson, Kathryn Olmsted, and John Prados | CIA 2 |
| 192 | The CIA and American Democracy | Rhodri Jeffreys | Biostat |
| 193 | The CIA And Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy | David M. Barrett | CIA 2 |
| 194 | The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974. | Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach | CIA 2 |
| 195 | The CIA At War: Inside the Secret Campaign Against Terror. | Ronald Kessler | CIA 2 |
| 196 | The CIA Under Harry Truman | Michael Warner, ed. | CIA 2 |
| 197 | The CIA: Reality vs Myth–The Evolution of the Agency from Roosevelt to Reagan, | Ray Cline | CIA 2 |
| 198 | The CIA’s Secret War in Tibet. | Kenneth J. Conboy and James Morrison | CIA 2 |
| 199 | The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography. | Simon Singh | CIA 2 |
| 200 | The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction: Report to the President of the United States | The Honorable Laurence H. Silberman and The Honorable Charles S. Robb (co-chairmen). | CIA 2 |
| 201 | The Company | Robert Littell | Goodreads 2 |
| 202 | The Craft of Intelligence. | Allen Dulles | CIA 2 |
| 203 | The Craft We Chose: My Life in the CIA | Boston Globe | |
| 204 | The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters | Frances Stonor Saunders | Ranker |
| 205 | The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War. | Thaddeus Holt | CIA 2 |
| 206 | The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government | David Talbot | Goodreads 2 |
| 207 | The Encyclopedia of American Intelligence and Espionage | G. J. A. O’Toole | CIA 2 |
| 208 | The Expats | Chris Pavone | Goodreads 2 |
| 209 | The Faithful Spy | Alex Berenson | Goodreads 2 |
| 210 | The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage. | Robert Lindsey | CIA 2 |
| 211 | The Final Months of the War with Japan: Signals Intelligence, U.S. Invasion Planning, and the A-Bomb Decision. | Douglas J. MacEachin | CIA 2 |
| 212 | The Fourth World War: Diplomacy and Espionage in the Age of Terrorism. | Count de Alexandre Marenches | CIA 2 |
| 213 | The Future of American Intelligence | Peter Berkowitz (ed.) | CIA 2 |
| 214 | The Great Game: The Myth and Reality of Espionage. | Frederick P. Hitz | CIA 2 |
| 215 | The Great War of Our Time: The CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism–From al Qa’ida to ISIS | Michael Morell | Goodreads |
| 216 | The Hit | David Baldacci | Goodreads 2 |
| 217 | The Last Man | Vince Flynn | Goodreads 2 |
| 218 | The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days | Karen Greenberg | Bustle |
| 219 | The Literary Spy: The Ultimate Source for Quotations on Espionage and Intelligence | Charles E. Lathrop | CIA 2 |
| 220 | The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Final Showdown with the KGB | Milt Bearden and James Risen | CIA 2 |
| 221 | The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America | Hugh Wilford | Ranker |
| 222 | The Night Watch: 25 Years of Peculiar Service. | David Atlee Phillips | CIA 2 |
| 223 | The Office of Strategic Services: America’s First Intelligence Agency. | Michael Warner | CIA 2 |
| 224 | The Pinochet File | Wikipedia | |
| 225 | The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia | Wikipedia | |
| 226 | The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America’s Most Secret Agency. | James Bamford | CIA 2 |
| 227 | The Reader of Gentleman’s Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking. | David Kahn | CIA 2 |
| 228 | The Secret Agent | Francine Mathews | Ranker |
| 229 | The Secret War for the Union. | Edwin C. Fishel | CIA 2 |
| 230 | The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program | Senate Select Committee on Intelligence | Goodreads |
| 231 | The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America | James Bamford | Goodreads 2 |
| 232 | The Spy Who Got Away: The Inside Story of Edward Lee Howard, the CIA Agent Who Betrayed His Country’s Secrets and Escaped to Moscow. | David Wise | CIA 2 |
| 233 | The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War. | Jerrold L. Schechter and Peter Deriabin | CIA 2 |
| 234 | The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. | Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin | CIA 2 |
| 235 | The Third Option | Vince Flynn | Goodreads 2 |
| 236 | The Twilight of Democracy. | Patrick E. Kennon | CIA 2 |
| 237 | The U.S. Intelligence Community | Jeffrey T. Richelson | Biostat |
| 238 | the White House | Goodreads 2 | |
| 239 | The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB Battle For the Third World | Christopher Andrew and Vasli Mitrokhin | CIA 2 |
| 240 | They’ll Call It Treason | Jordon Greene | Goodreads |
| 241 | Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad: How To Be A Counterintelligence Officer | William R. Johnson | CIA 2 |
| 242 | Tracking the Axis Enemy: The Triumph of Anglo-American Naval Intelligence. | Alan Harris Bath | CIA 2 |
| 243 | Transfer of Power | Vince Flynn | Goodreads 2 |
| 244 | Transforming Intelligence | Jennifer Sims and Burton Gerber (eds.) | CIA 2 |
| 245 | Triple Cross: How bin Laden’s Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI–and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him | Peter Lance | Goodreads |
| 246 | Ultimate Spy | H. Keith Melton | CIA 2 |
| 247 | United States Intelligence: An Encyclopedia. | Bruce W. Watson | CIA 2 |
| 248 | Visas for Al Qaedea: CIA Handouts That Rocked The World: An Insider’s View | J. Michael Springmann | Goodreads |
| 249 | War By Other Means: Economic Espionage in America. | John J. Fialka | CIA 2 |
| 250 | War of Numbers: An Intelligence Memoir. | Sam Adams | CIA 2 |
| 251 | Who’s Who in the CIA | Wikipedia | |
| 252 | Widow Spy | Martha Peterson | CIA 1 |
| 253 | Wild Rose: Rose O’Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy. | Ann Blackman | CIA 2 |
| 254 | Wolves At The Door : The True Story of America’s Greatest Female Spy | Judith Pearson | CIA 2 |
| 255 | Women in the Resistance. | Margaret Rossiter | CIA 2 |
| Source | Article |
| Biostat | Books on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency |
| Boston Globe | 8 books about the CIA |
| Bustle | 8 Books to Help You Understand the CIA Torture Report |
| CIA 1 | Read More About the Intelligence Profession |
| CIA 2 | Intelligence Literature: Suggested Reading List |
| Goodreads | The CIA and the War on Terror |
| Goodreads 2 | Popular Cia Books |
| Ranker | The Best Books About the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) |
| The Washington Post | Five Great Books About Spies and the CIA |
| Wikipedia | Category:Books about the Central Intelligence Agency |
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