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Fair game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House
By Valerie Plame Wilson. 2007
Valerie Plame Wilson's account of her career focuses on events surrounding her exposure as a CIA agent after her husband…
contradicted President Bush on whether Iraq sought uranium from Africa. Reporter Laura Rozen's afterword provides information that is lost in the CIA's extensive redaction. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2007Southern lady, Yankee spy: the true story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union agent in the heart of the Confederacy
By Elizabeth R. Varon. 2003
Scholar's biography of Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew (1818-1900), whose Virginia roots conflicted with her strong antislavery beliefs. Drawing on…
her diaries and other historical sources, chronicles her contributions to the Union cause: comforting and sneaking messages to northern prisoners, aiding and sheltering escapees, providing intelligence, and assisting emancipation efforts. 2003Agent Zigzag: a true story of Nazi espionage, love, and betrayal
By Ben Macintyre. 2007
Author recounts the exploits of career criminal Eddie Chapman, who trained as a German spy after the Nazis released him…
from a British jail on the isle of Jersey. Describes how Chapman became a double agent for MI5 and successfully fooled his Axis handlers throughout the war. 2007The gold of Exodus: the discovery of the true Mount Sinai
By Howard Blum. 1998
Describes how, in the late 1980s, Larry Williams, a self-made millionaire, and Bob Cornuke, an ex-policeman, discovered what they believed…
to be Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia. Recalls drawing the attention of both Saudi and Israeli agents when the site was revealed to be a top-secret Saudi military installation. 1998Blowing up Russia: the secret plot to bring back KGB terror : acts of terror, abductions, and contract killings organized by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation
By Yuri Felshtinsky, I︠U︡riĭ Felʹshtinskiĭ, Alexander Litvineko, Geoffrey Samuel Andrews. 2007
Litvinenko, a former government security agent, and historian Felshtinsky allege that the Russian government sponsored campaigns in the 1990s to…
fabricate terrorist attacks, launch the Chechen wars, and bolster president Vladimir Putin's rise to power. Documents the repercussions of the authors' claims, including Litvinenko's fatal 2006 poisoning. 2007The lives of Agnes Smedley
By Ruth Price. 2005
Biography of political activist Agnes Smedley (1892-1950), an emancipated American woman accused of being a Soviet spy. Discusses Smedley's passionate…
idealism and her participation in crucial world issues: India's independence, birth control, women's rights, and China's communist revolution. Covers both her personal and public lives. 2005Spies: the secret agents who changed the course of history
By Ernest Volkman. 1994
Biographies of nearly fifty people involved in espionage in the twentieth century, including moles, spymasters, defectors, and others. Covers Kim…
Philby, Dusko Popov--the real James Bond--Markus Wolf, Mata Hari, and K'ang Sheng as well as writers with undercover experience: Ian Fleming, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, and W. Somerset Maugham. 1994First in: an insider's account of how the CIA spearheaded the war on terror in Afghanistan
By Gary C. Schroen. 2005
First-person account from experienced CIA operative who, after the 2001 terrorists attacks, led a team to join Afghanistan's Northern Alliance…
against the Taliban. Provides background on both U.S. and Soviet Union involvement there. Describes tribal councils, a classic cavalry charge, and the aftermath of war. 2005Without precedent: the inside story of the 9/11 Commission
By Lee H. Hamilton, Thomas H. Kean, Benjamin D. Rhodes. 2006
Chairman Kean and vice-chairman Hamilton of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, which published The 9/11…
Commission Report (RC 58238), describe their investigation of the government's failure to prevent the September 11, 2001, tragedy. They detail obstacles they encountered and make recommendations for reform. 2006Nightmare in Wichita: the hunt for the BTK strangler
By Robert Beattie. 2005
Lawyer chronicles the more-than-three-decade search for the self-named serial killer BTK (bind, torture, kill), who terrorized Wichita, Kansas, residents. Begins…
with the 1974 discovery of the first-known victims, summarizes the murderer's media correspondence, and follows the case through the 2005 arrest of Dennis Rader. Violence. Bestseller. 2005Blowing my cover: my life as a C.I.A. spy
By Lindsay Moran. 2005
Former CIA employee details her brief career, claiming that training, sexism, and boring field work led her to resign and…
seek a more rewarding life. Includes anecdotes about lying to friends for five years for "cover," spying in Macedonia, and failing to find love. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2005The silent war: the Cold War battle beneath the sea
By John Pina Craven, John P Craven. 2001
Firsthand recollections of submarine-based espionage and nuclear deterrence from former chief civilian scientist of the U.S. Navy's Special Projects Office.…
Author recounts clandestine operations including Polaris missile activities and pursuit of the rogue Soviet sub that inspired Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October (DB 21513). 2001Rothstein: the life, times, and murder of the criminal genius who fixed the 1919 World Series
By David Pietrusza. 2003
Baseball historian's biography of notorious Jazz Age drug kingpin, bootlegger, casino operator, and labor-union racketeer Arnold Rothstein, the "king of…
Manhattan gamblers." Examines Rothstein's connections to Tammany politicians and crooked cops, and implicates sports figures involved with Rothstein in the 1919 World Series fix. Reconstructs Rothstein's 1928 murder. 2003The saboteurs: the Nazi raid on America
By Michael Dobbs. 2004
Washington Post reporter describes Operation Pastorius, the first German sabotage mission to reach U.S. shores. Having researched FBI archives, the…
author describes Hitler's 1942 plan to cripple American defense industries. Discusses saboteurs' background and training; their FBI capture, trial, and execution; and precedents set for handling terrorists. 2004The main enemy: the inside story of the CIA's final showdown with the KGB
By Milt Bearden, Milton Bearden, James Risen. 2003
CIA insider and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist chronicle the major espionage engagements of the CIA and KGB from 1985 to the…
collapse of the Soviet Union. Drawing on interviews with both Russian and U.S. agents, Bearden and Risen reveal clandestine operations from the perspective of the spies who carried them out. Strong language. 2003A pretext for war: 9/11, Iraq, and the abuse of America's intelligence agencies
By James Bamford. 2004
Author of Body of Secrets (DB 52277) examines the September 11, 2001, hijackings using insider interviews. Claims CIA inadequacy in…
the Middle East and blames the Bush administration for insistence on war with Iraq. Posits that the Palestinian cause ignites Arab rage against the United States. 2004Operatives, spies and saboteurs: the unknown story of the men and women of World War II's OSS
By Patrick K. O'Donnell, Patrick K O'Donnell, Patrick K. O`Donnell. 2004
Military historian and author of Into the Rising Sun (DB 55697) reveals the covert WWII operations of the Office of…
Strategic Services, precursor of the Central Intelligence Agency. Portrays Allied agents and their unorthodox missions, which included demolishing infrastructure, organizing resistance movements, and obtaining intelligence often behind enemy lines. 2004Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Washington Post managing editor Steve Coll describes how the United States became embroiled in the affairs…
of Afghanistan from 1979 to 2001. Chronicles the efforts to control the country by CIA spies, the former Soviet Union, local warlords, and Arab leaders. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2004A look over my shoulder: a life in the Central Intelligence Agency
By William Hood, Richard Helms. 2003
Posthumous memoir by former director of Central Intelligence (1966-1973) chronicles his thirty years of service, beginning with his 1942 naval…
training. Helms's agency career in the world of covert action, espionage, and Cold War operations includes President Nixon's attempts to involve the CIA in the Watergate cover-up. Foreword by Henry Kissinger. 2003Charlie Wilson's war: the extraordinary story of the largest covert operation in history
By George Crile. 2003
Sixty Minutes producer relates the CIA's secret war in Afghanistan in the 1980s to prevent a Soviet takeover. Describes the…
efforts of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson and agency operative Gust Avrakotos to arm Islamic fundamentalist guerrillas who ultimately defeat the Russians--and later form the Taliban. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2003