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Bibliography

Bibliography

Books

Andrew, Christopher and David Dilks, eds., The Missing Dimension: Governments and Intelligence Communities in the Twentieth Century. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1984.

Andrew, Christopher, For the President’s Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

Ambrose, Stephen E., Ike’s Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1981.

Bamford, James, The Puzzle Palace: A Report on NSA, America’s Most Secret Agency. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982.

Bohn, Michael K., Nerve Center: Inside the White House Situation Room. Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 2003.

Bush, George, All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings. New York: Scribner, 1999.

Cahn, Anne, Killing Détente: The Right Attacks the CIA. University Park: Pennsylavania State University Press, 1998.

Clifford, Clark, with Richard Holbrooke, Counsel to the President: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 1991.

Cline, Ray S., Secrets, Spies and Scholars. Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1976.

———. The CIA under Reagan, Bush & Casey. Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1981.

Colby, William and Peter Forbath, Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.

Cole, Alice C., Alfred Goldberg, Samuel A.Tucker, and Rudolph A. Winnacker, eds., The Department of Defense: Documents on Establishment and Organization, 1944–1978. Washington, DC: Office of the Secretary of Defense Historical Office, GPO, 1978.

Cradock, Percy, Know Your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World. London, UK: John Murray, 2002.

Darling, Arthur B., with introductions by Bruce D. Berkowitz and Allan E. Goodman. The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government, to 1950. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990.

Dulles, Allen, The Craft of Intelligence. Harper & Row, New York, 1963. Westport, CT: Reprinted by Greenwood Press, 1977.

Grose, Peter, Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

Haines, Gerald K. and Robert E. Leggett, eds., Watching the Bear: Essays on CIA’s Analysis of the Soviet Union. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 2003.

Helms, Richard, with William Hood, A Look over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency. New York: Random House, 2003.

Johnson, Loch K., America’s Secret Power: The CIA in a Democratic Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Johnson, Lyndon Baines, The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963–1969. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.

Karalekas, Anne, History of the Central Intelligence Agency, in Leary, William M., ed., The Central Intelligence Agency: History and Documents. University: The University of Alabama Press, 1984.

Katz, Barry M., Foreign Intelligence: Research and Analysis in the Office of Strategic Services, 1942–1945. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.

Kent, Sherman, Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1949.

Kessler, Ronald, Inside the CIA: Revealing the Secrets of the World’s Most Powerful Spy Agency. New York: Pocket Books, 1992.

Kirkpatrick, Lyman B., Jr., The Real CIA. New York: MacMillan, 1968.

Laqueur, Walter, A World of Secrets: The Uses and Limits of Intelligence. New York: Basic Books, Inc., A Twentieth Century Fund Book, 1985.

Marchetti, Victor and John D. Marks, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. New York: A Dell Book (third Dell edition), 1989. Copyright 1974, 1980.

Masterman, J. C., The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1972.

May, Ernest R., ed., Knowing One’s Enemies: Intelligence Assessment before the Two World Wars. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.

Meilinger, Phillip S., Hoyt S. Vandenberg: The Life of a General. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.

Millis, Walter, ed. with the collaboration of E. S. Duffield, The Forrestal Diaries. New York: Viking Press, 1951.

Montague, Ludwell Lee, with an introduction by Bruce D. Berkowitz and Allan E. Goodman, Gen. Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence: October 1950–February 1953. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.

Odom, William E., Fixing Intelligence: For a More Secure America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.

Perry, Mark, Eclipse: The Last Days of the CIA. New York: William Morrow, 1992.

Perry, Robert L., Management of the National Reconnaissance Program, 1960–1965. Foreword by R. Cargill Hall, NRO Historian, August 1999. Preface by Robert L. Perry, The RAND Corporation, January 1969. Washington, DC: National Reconnaissance Office, 1999.

Powers, Thomas, The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms & the CIA. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

Prados, John, Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Quinn, Lt. Gen. William W., “Buffalo Bill,” Buffalo Bill Remembers: Truth and Courage. Fowlerville, MI: Wilderness Adventure Books, 1991.

Ranelagh, John, The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.

Ransom, Harry Howe, Central Intelligence and National Security. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965. Third printing, copyright 1958.

———. The Intelligence Establishment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970.

Rudgers, David F., Creating the Secret State: The Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1943–1947. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.

Smith, Russell Jack, The Unknown CIA: My Three Decades with the Agency. Washington, DC: Pergammon-Brassey’s International Defense Publishers, Inc., 1989.

Srodes, James, Allen Dulles: Master of Spies. Washington, DC: Regnery, 1999.

Strong, Maj. Gen. Sir Kenneth Strong, K.B.E., C.B., Intelligence at the Top: The Recollections of an Intelligence Officer. London: Cassell & Co., Ltd, 1968.

Taubman, Philip, Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America’s Space Espionage. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003.

Treverton, Gregory F., Reshaping National Intelligence in an Age of Information. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Truman, Harry S., Memoirs by Harry S. Truman: vol. II, Years of Trial and Hope. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956.

Troy, Thomas F., Donovan and the CIA: A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1981, second printing, 1984.

———. Wild Bill and Intrepid: Donovan, Stephenson, and the Origin of CIA. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.

Turner, Stansfield, Secrecy and Democracy: The CIA in Transition. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

US Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), 1945–1950, Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment, editors C. Thomas Thorne, Jr., and David S. Patterson, general editor Glenn W. LaFantasie. Department of State Publication 10316, Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs. Washington, DC: GPO, 1996.

Walters, Vernon A., Silent Missions. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978.

Warner, Michael, ed., CIA Cold War Records: The CIA under Harry Truman. Washington, DC: CIA History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 1994.

———. Central Intelligence: Origin and Evolution. Washington, DC: CIA History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 2001.

Weber, Ralph E., ed., Spymasters: Ten CIA Officers in Their Own Words. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1999.

Winterbotham, F. W., The Ultra Secret. New York: Dell, 1974.

Wohlstetter, Roberta, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1962.

Woodward, Bob, The Commanders. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.

———. Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.

 

Studies

Eberstadt, Ferdinand, Unification of the War and Navy Departments and Postwar Organization for National Security: Report to James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy. US Senate, Committee on Naval Affairs, 79th Congress, 1st Session. The “Eberstadt Report.” Washington, DC: GPO, 1945.

Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, 79th Congress, 2nd Session, Washington, DC: GPO, 1946.

The Central Intelligence Agency and National Organization for Intelligence: A Report to the National Security Council. The “Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report.” 1 January 1949.

Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, Task Force Report on National Security Organization, Appendix G. The “Eberstadt Report” of the Hoover Commission. 13 January 1949.

Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, A Report to the Congress, Intelligence Activities. The “Clark Report” of the “Second” Hoover Commission. May 1955.

Joint Study Group Report on Foreign Intelligence Activities of the United States. The “Kirkpatrick Report.” 15 December 1960.

Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy: June, 1975. The “Murphy Commission Report.” Main report, chapter 7, “Intelligence.” Appendices, volume 7, Appendix U: “Intelligence Functions Analyses.” Washington, DC: GPO, 1975.

US Congress, Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States, Report to the President by the Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States. The “Rockefeller Commission Report.” Washington, DC: GPO, June 1975.

American Intelligence: A Framework for the Future. The “Taylor Report,” an internal CIA Study Group report for DCI William Colby. 13 October 1975.

US Congress, House of Representatives, 94th Congress, 2nd Session, Select Committee on Intelligence. Recommendations of the Final Report of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, H. Rept. 94-833, 11 February 1976. The “Pike Committee Report.” Published also in the Village Voice, February 1976, and in CIA: The Pike Report. Nottingham, England: Spokesman Books, 1977.

US Congress, Senate, 94th Congress, 2nd Session, Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with respect to Intelligence Activities, Foreign and Military Intelligence, Final Report, vol. I, S. Rept. 94-755, 26 April 1976. The “Church Committee Report.”

Commission on the Roles and Missions of the United States Intelligence Community, Preparing for the 21st Century: An Appraisal of US Intelligence. The “Aspin-Brown Commission Report.” Washington, DC: GPO, 1996.

IC21: Intelligence Community in the 21st Century. Staff Study, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, House of Representatives, 104th Congress, 2nd Session. Washington, DC: GPO, 1996.

Making Intelligence Smarter: The Future of U.S. Intelligence, Report of an Independent Task Force. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1996.

In from the Cold: The Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on the Future of U.S. Intelligence. Report and background papers by Allan E. Goodman, Gregory F. Treverton, and Philip Zelikow. New York: Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1996.

United States Commission on National Security/21st Century, Road Map for National Security: Imperative for Change, Washington, DC: GPO 2001.

The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Washington, DC: GPO, 2004.

Report of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. Washington, DC: GPO, 2005.

 

Interviews

Gordon Adams, 26 February 2003, Washington, DC

Helene Boatner, 3 January 2000, Herndon, VA

Charles Briggs, 1 February 2002, Herndon, VA

Joan Dempsey, 25 October 2004, Washington, DC

John Deutch, 25 January 2005, Belmont, MA (by telephone)

George M. Elsey, 6 July 2004, Washington, DC (by telephone)

Fritz Ermarth, 25 February 2003, Washington, DC

Robert Gates, 3 December 2004, College Station, TX (by telephone)

Gen. Andrew Goodpaster, USA (ret.), 14 March 2000, Washington, DC

Keith Hansen, 25 June 2003, Herndon, VA

Richard L. Haver, 4 May 2000, Herndon, VA (by telephone)

Lt. Gen. Edward Heinz, USAF (ret.), 10 March 2003, Herndon, VA

Thomas L. Hughes, 5 February 2001, Chevy Chase, MD

Fred Hutchinson, 29 November 2001 and 23 April 2003, Herndon, VA

Larry Kindsvater, 18 March 2003, McLean, VA

Richard Krueger, 10 February 2003, Herndon, VA

William Kvetkas, 14 February 2002, Fort Meade, MD

Donald C. Latham, 8 April 2004, Rosslyn, VA

Bruce Lowe, 23 January 2002, Winchester, VA

John McMahon, 21 July 2000, Los Altos, CA

John Morrison, 13 February 2002, Fort Meade, MD

William E. Odom, 9 April 2004, Washington, DC

Paul Pillar, 4 March 2003, McLean, VA

Thomas Reckford, 5 December 2001, Washington, DC

Eileen Roach-Smith, 16 May 2002, Herndon, VA

James Schlesinger, 15 October 2004, McLean, VA

Howard Schue, 29 April 2002, Tysons Corner, VA

James M. Simon, 15 April 2004, Washington, DC

Mark Sullivan, 5 November 2002, Herndon, VA

George Thibault, 18 February 2002, Tysons Corner, VA

Maj. Gen. Jack E. Thomas, USAF (ret.), 16 June 2000, Arlington, VA

Adm. Stansfield Turner, USN (ret.), 20 April 2004, Washington, DC

William H. Webster, 23 November 2004, Washington, DC

Lt. Gen. Norman Wood, USAF (ret.), 3 March 2003, Herndon, VA

R. James Woolsey, 7 June and 29 June 2000, Washington, DC


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