http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#spies <ul> <li>Rob Johnston, <cite>Analytic Culture in the U.S. Intelligence Community: An Ethnographic Study</cite> <li>Daniel Patrick Moynihan, <cite>Secrecy: The American Experience</cite> ["Secrecy is for losers."] <li><cite>Studies in Intelligence</cite> [Journal of the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence. Declassified articles <a href="http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies.html">available online</a>, including a <a href="http://www.cia.gov/csi/kent_csi/Home.htm">huge archive</a> of older, scanned stuff, much of it fascinating.] </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Sissela Bok, <cite>Secrecy</cite> <li>William Burrows, <cite>Deep Black: Space Espionage</cite> <li>Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, <cite>The CIA and American Democracy</cite> <li>Stephen Knott, <cite>Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency</cite> <li>T. G. Mahnken, <cite>Uncovering Ways of War: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918--1941</cite> <li>Michael Miller, <cite>Shanghai on the Metro: Spies, Intrigue, and the French Between the Wars</cite> [<a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6350.html">Blurb</a>] <li>Thomas Powers, <cite>Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda</cite> <li>John Prados, <cite>Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA</cite> <li>Jeffrey Richelson, <cite>A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century</cite> <li>Edward A. Shils, <cite>The Torment of Secrecy: The Background and Consequences of American Security Policies</cite> <li>Hugh Wilford, <cite>The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America</cite> [<a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WILMIG.html">Blurb</a>] </ul>