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Condition:

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Notes:

Titles are arranged alphabetically by author within three categories.

If two publishing dates are given, the first is the original publication
date and the second is the year of the edition of the book offered for sale.

Abbreviations used include:
DJ = Dust Jacket,HB = Hard Back, LSC = Large Soft Cover, NDJ = No Dust Jacket, SC = Soft Cover

Information about each individual book follows this sequence:

Author
Title/Where Published/Publishing House/Year/Edition/Type/# of Pages/Condition/Description/Price

EAB Book Categories:

JFK Assassination Titles - These titles deal with some aspect of the John F. Kennedy assassination such as possible conspiracy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby or the analysis of evidence in the John F. Kennedy assassination.
Non-Fiction Espionage Titles - These are books about various intelligence agencies during the cold war period. Topics in this section include titles on CIA, FBI, Secret Service and other spy organizations.
Miscellaneous Titles - This is a grab-bag of various related subjects such as Kennedy Government, politics of the 60s, biographies of prominent political figures of the times, and other assassinations, such as MLK and RFK.

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Non-Fiction Espionage Titles

(SOLD) Philip Agee,
Inside the Company: CIA Diary, New York, Stonehill, first Printing, 1975, HB, 640p., DJ=VG, book=E.: CIA Diary is a mid-70s tell-all of CIA Latin American skullduggery by a disillusioned ex-CIA agent. The agency viewed this book with great hostility and, out of fear, the author took up residence overseas. [$12.00]

(SOLD) James Bamford,
The Puzzle Palace:America's Most Secret Agency, Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, 1982, HB, 465p., DJ=G, book=VG.: The NSA is one of the most secret components of the US government. It was created by President Truman in 1952 to collect and analyze communications. It is the agency tasked with code-breaking, intercepting of phone calls and other types of electronic messages that relate in some way to the security of the US. It is much larger than the CIA, but much less well known among the general population. Bamford sheds light on the workings of one of our most mysterious government agencies. [$14.00]

Michael Beschloss,
Mayday:Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U2 Affair, New York, Harper and Row, 1986, HB, 494p., DJ=E, book=E.: On May 1, 1960 a U2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. The pilot, Gary Francis Powers, was captured and put on trial. He was convicted for espionage after he confessed to being a spy for the United States CIA. The US, at first claimed it was a weather mission gone astray, but Eisenhower later confessed that to be a deception and took took the blame.[$12.00]

Walter S. Bowen and Harry Edward Neal,
The United States Secret Service, New York, Popular Library, 1960, 1961, SC, 224p., G.: This is a history of a division of the Treasury Department that not only provides Presidential protection, but also pursues counterfeiters and forgers. This book was written by two men who were career Secret Service agents. The head of the Secret Service at the time, U. E. Baughman, wrote the Foreward to the book. [$5.00]

(SOLD) William Colby and Peter Forbath,
Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1978, 1st Printing, HB, 493p., NDJ, Book=G.: The man who authored this book later became director of Central Intelligence. William Colby (who drowned recently) ran the notorious CIA operation Phoenix that was involved in thousands of assassinations in Vietnam. [$7.00]

Richard Condon,
The Manchurian Candidate, New York, Signet, 1959, 1960, SC, 351p., P.: This was the novel that preceeded the movie of the same name starring Frank Sinatra. The idea is that one of our serviceman is hypno-programmed by the Koreans (during his time as a prisoner in the Korean war) to be the assassin of the President of the United States. After the assassination of JFK, this film was shelved for many years. [$4.00]

(SOLD) Fred Cook,
The Warfare State, New York, MacMillan, 1962, second printing, HB, 376p., DJ=VG, book=E.: One of the great investigative reporters of the cold war period, Fred Cook was unafraid of the Military Industrial Complex. He criticized the Pentagon and it's big-business connection at a time when many would have considered him un-American for doing so. [$12.00]

(SOLD) Fred Cook,
The Warfare State, New York, Collier-MacMillan, 1962, 1964, SC, 382p., VG.: One of the great investigative reporters of the cold war period, Fred Cook was unafraid of the Military Industrial Complex. He criticized the Pentagon and it's big-business connection at a time when many would have considered him un-American for doing so. [$8.00]

(SOLD) Fred Cook,
The FBI Nobody Knows, New York, MacMillan, 1964, 4th printing, HB, 436p., NDJ, G.: One of the great investigative reporters of his time, Fred Cook took on J. Edgar Hoover at a point in time when Hoover was in the middle of his non-investigation of the assassination of JFK. This is a great early expose of the questionable actions of the Director of the FBI. [$4.00]

(SOLD) Fred Cook,
The FBI Nobody Knows, New York, Pyramid Books, 1964, 1965, SC, 414p., F.: Softcover reprint of above [$3.00]

William R. Corson,
The Armies of Ignorance: The Rise of the American Intelligence Empire, New York, The Dial Press/James Wade, 1st printing, 1977, HB, 640p. NDJ, book=G.: This is an excellent book on the history of our spy agencies. It details the development of our cold war spy mentality and describes some of the problems, misbehavior and shortcomings and gives suggestions as to the proper role and behavior American espionage organizations. [$10.00]

(SOLD) Sanche de Gramont,
The Secret War: The Story of International Espionage Since World War II, New York, Putnam, 1962, HB, 515p., DJ=F, book=G.: This book is an exhaustive account of cold war espionage from WWII to the Kennedy Administration. Contains one of the earliest descriptions of the National Security Agency. [$12.00]

Cartha "Deke" DeLoach,
Hoover's FBI: The Inside Story by Hoover's Trusted Lieutenant, Wash., D.C., Regnery, first edition, 1995, HB, 440p., DJ=E, book=E.: This book was written by one of the few living apologists for J. Edgar Hoover. He did some of Hoover's dirtiest work including propaganda operations aimed at destroying the reputation of Martin Luther King. He is one of the lone assassin theory's strongest supporters and treats us to his biased, but interesting insider view of one of America's most corrupt leaders of the 20th century. [$13.00]
Ralph de Toledano,
J. Edgar Hoover: The Man in His Time, New York, Manor Books, 1973, 1974, SC, 384p., F.: This book was released soon after Hoover's death and dealt with certain subjects such as Hoover's alleged homosexuality and surveillance of MLK that had not been exposed in depth at that time. It gives an interesting description of his later deterioration and incompetence. [$6.00]

Michael Dorman,
The Secret Service Story, New York, Dell, 1967, 1968, SC, 253p., G.: Dorman gives us a history of the Secret Service through the years. This includes stories about counterfeiting and also information on assassinations. He has several chapters dealing with various assassinations, including two concerning the murder of JFK. [$5.00]

Curt Gentry,
J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and His Secrets, NY, Norton, 1991, HB, 846p., DJ=G, book=G.: This is one of the better and most extensively researched biographies of America's most notorious secret policemen. Gentry shows us how this corrupt dictator ruled his agency for half a century. He tells us about how Hoover manipulated the Kennedys, helped create McCarthyism and even influenced the Supreme Court. Hoover used intimidation, wiretaps and blackmail to control or ruin his enemies and protect his position as head of the FBI. [$9.00]

(SOLD) William J. Gill,
The Ordeal of Otto Otepka, New Rochelle, NY, Arlington House, 6th Printing, June, 1970, HB, 505p., NDJ, Book=G.: This is the story of a militantly anti-communist official of the state department's office of security. He had problems with the philosopy of detente in the new Kennedy administration in the early 60s. He was ousted from his post because of philosophical differences and claimed he was set up and removed withiut justification because of his right-wing viewpoint. He was involved in intelligence activities and this book includes a very interesting section on Lee Harvey Oswald. [$9.00]

(SOLD) Joseph C. Goulden, w Alexander W. Raffio
The Death Merchant: The Rise and Fall of Edwin P. Wilson, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st printing, 1984, HB, 455p., DJ=F Book=E.: Two authors with intelligence connections tell a complex and disturbing story of CIA and Naval Intelligence agent Edwin Wilson's adventures in illegal arms smuggling, his dealings with Libya's Muamar Quaddafi, the international manhunt for Wilson and his eventual capture and trial. [$11.00]

(SOLD) Morton H. Halpern, Jerry J. Berman, Robert L. Borosage and Christine M. Marwick,
The Lawless State: The Crimes of the U.S. Intelligence Agencies, New York, Penguin, 1976, SC, 328p., F, Discarded Library Copy.: This book is an excellent compilation of cold war intelligence dirty tricks directed at citizens of the US. It was released at a time of great scandal as Congress was revealing all manner of police state tactics employed by the spy agencies. It details shocking accounts when one considers that they were targeted at Americans who were behaving well within their rights as citizens in what was supposed to be free country that's system is built on democratic principles. [$8.00]

Heinz Hohne and Hermann Zolling,
The General Was a Spy: The Truth About General Gehlen 20th Century Superspy Who Served Hitler, the CIA and West Germany, NY, Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1972, First Edition, HB, 347p., discarded library copy, DJ=P, book=P.: General Reinhard Gehlen was Adolph Hitler's spy chief who managed to negotiate his freedom with the allies at the end of World War II. Gehlen was responsible for a vast network of spies throughout the Soviet Union, and therefore was very valuable to the United States as the cold war heated up after the war. He was Headquartered in West Germany, Gehlen served as the eyes and ears of the US until his later downfall, ironically because his organization had been infiltrated by the Soviets. [$7.00]

J. Edgar Hoover,
Masters of Deceit: The Story of Communism in America and How to Fight It, New York, Pocket Books, 1958, 1965, 21st printing, SC, 352p., F.: This was one of many books by Hoover that were concerned with demonizing and exagerating the threat of Communism here in the United States. It may have been ghost written by one of his many "media assets" and was basicallly a propaganda piece that was used to glorify and justify his agenda. The title is an example of the "pot calling the kettle black." [$5.00]

J. Edgar Hoover,
A Study In Communism, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962, 2nd printing, HB, 212p., NDJ, E.: Hoover Study This book is another of his propaganda tirades against the threat of "Commies" in our own country. The truth was, the threat of Communism was greatly exagerated. By that time the FBI had the Communist Party of USA so thoroughly infiltrated that it practically funded and ran CPUSA. [$6.00]

(SOLD) Jim Hougan,
Spooks: The Haunting of America- The Private Use of Secret Agents, NY, Morrow, 1978, First edition, HB, 478p., DJ=P, book=VG.: This is the hardcover edition of a book that is considered by some to be the bible on cold war corporate and political dirty tricks. It shows how the government, organized crime and big business sometimes were, at times, almost indistiguishable from one another in their methods, objectives and even their personnel. [$12.00]

(SOLD) E. Howard Hunt,
Undercover: Memoirs of an American Secret Agent, New York, Berkley, 1974, HB, 338p., DJ=F, book=G.: This is a book that has little to do with the assassination of JFK, even though some have accused him of being one of three tramps arrested after the assasination near the Grassy Knoll. Hunt, in this book, does tell an insider's story, from an understandably, self-serving, prejudiced viewpoint, of many of the operations that were happening in the CIA around the early 60s period. Hunt gives us his version of experiences from world war two, when he was an agent of the OSS, through his anti-Castro Cuban operations and his role in the bungled Watergate incident. [$11.00]

Haynes Johnson with Manuel Artime, Jose Perez San Roman, Erneido Oliva and Enrique Ruiz-Williams,
The Bay of Pigs, New York, Norton, 1964, 1st edition, HB, 368p., DJ=F, B=VG.: This book tells the story of the failed April 1961 invasion of Cuba from the perspective of the anti-Castro Cuban exiles who led the CIA-sponsored brigade. [$11.00]

(SOLD) Ronald Kessler,
Spy vs. Spy: The Shocking True Story of the FBI's Secret War Against Soviet Agents In America, New York, Pocket Books, 1988, 1989, 1st printing, SC, 370p., VG.: FBI/CIA counterintelligence battles with our cold war Communist enemies are described in this book by an author of several non-fiction espionage titles. [$3.00]

Lyman B. Kirkpatrick,
The U.S. Intelligence Community: Foreign Policy and and Domestic Activities, New York, Hill and Wang, 1973, first printing, HB, 212p., DJ=VG, book=VG (signed by previous owner).: An account of the inner workings and structure of United States intelligence agencies from the viewpoint of a former high-ranking official of the CIA. An apologist to some degree for the scandalous behavior that was beginning to be revealed in the early 70s, Kirkpatrick was nonetheless a disgruntled official who could very well have under different circumstances become director of the CIA. [$9.00]

Robert Liston,
The Dangerous World of Spies and Spying, New York, Platt and Munk, 1967, HB, 274p., DJ=VG, book=E.: Liston presents a narrative that describes international spying during the height of the cold war period. In a book seemingly targeted at young readers, Liston tells many of the most famous spy stories, introduces us to the world's spy agencies and talks about defectors, spy gadgets and double agents. [$14.00]

(SOLD) Tom Mangold,
Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton - the CIA's Master Spy, Hunter, New York, Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, 1991, 1992, LSC, 462p., VG.: This is the story of defectors, double agents, triple agents, and a man who destroyed himself and nearly ruined the CIA with his paranoid efforts aimed at exposing traitors within the CIA and other government agencies. [$11.00]

Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks,
The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, New York, Knopf, 1974, 3rd printing, HB, 398p., NDJ, book=G.: This is a book that the CIA fought long and hard to supress. The authors revealed all sorts of dirty tricks-politics and meddling in the internal affairs of foreign countries that only been whispered about. The authors battled for years in court to uncensor sections of the book that the CIA wanted supressed. Sucessive editions filled in blacked-out areas that were ruled by the courts as printable over the objections of CIA attorneys. [$8.00]

Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks,
The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, New York, Dell, 1974, 1975, SC, 397p., G.: This is a book that the CIA fought long and hard to supress. The authors revealed all sorts of dirty tricks-politics and meddling in the internal affairs of foreign countries that only been whispered about. The authors battled for years in court to uncensor sections of the book that the CIA wanted supressed. Sucessive editions filled in blacked-out areas that were ruled by the courts as printable over the objections of CIA attorneys. [$5.00]

John Marks,
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, New York, Times Books, 1979, HB, 242p., DJ=VG, book=VG.: In the early seventies, CIA director Richard Helms ordered the destruction of the CIA's files on their experiments with mind control. Despite this, enough of the history of operation MKULTRA survived for John Marks to peice together a frightening account of US intelligence agencies' experiments with (mostly unsuspecting) US citizens. [$15.00]

(SOLD) David C. Martin,
Wilderness of Mirrors, New York, Ballantine Books, Espionage/Intelligence Library, 1980, 1981, SC, 233p., G.: An outstanding book that tells its story of the world of James Jesus Angleton, the head of counter-intelligence for the CIA and his investigations into possible traitors within the CIA. It includes information on assassinations, defectors and internal power struggles within the CIA. [$7.00]

(SOLD) Dennis V. N. McCarthy, with Philip Smith,
Protecting the President, New York, Morrow, 1985, HB, 221p., DJ=E, book=E.: Ex-secret service agent Dennis McCarthy treats us to a behind-the-scenes look at Presidential security. McCarthy was with the Secret Service for twenty years. He helped protect LBJ, Nixon, Kissenger and Ronald Reagan. He was the agent who forced would-be assassin John Hinckley to the ground after Hinckley's attempt on Reagan in 1981. [$9.00]

Patrick J. McGarvey,
CIA: The Myth and the Madness, New York, Penguin Books, 1972, 1974, SC, 240p., VG.: McGarvey was a veteran of the intelligence community who criticizes the CIA and advocates reform without adapting an extreme position of negativism. In exposing its shortcomings he also acts, to some degreee, as an apologist while encouraging certain types of reform. [$6.00]

(SOLD) Nathan Miller,
Spying For America: The Hidden History of U.S. Intelligence, New York, Dell, 1989, 1990, SC, 580p., G.: The author presents a history of U.S. intelligence operations from revolutionary times through the cold war. [$4.00]

Mosely, Leonard,
Dulles: A biography of Elanor, Allen and John Foster Dulles and Their Family Network, New York, The Dial Press/James Wade, 1978, HB, 530p., DJ=G, book=VG.: The person of most interest in the Dulles family to assassination researchers would be Allen Dulles. Allen was dismissed by JFK as head of the Central Intelligence Agency after the catastrophic Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. He also, in what could certainly be considered a conflict of interest, was a member of the Warren Commission that investigated the JFK assassination. [$7.00]

Norman Ollestad,
Inside the FBI, New York, Lyle Stuart, 1967, HB, 319p., DJ=VG, book=E.: This is one of many, boring books that seem to have as their only purpose the glorification of Hoover and the FBI at a time when Hoover was beginning to come under attack for his increasing incompetence. Ollestad, a former FBI agent, could certainly be classiified as one of Hoover's media propaganda assets. [$5.00]
(SOLD) Victor Ostrovsky,
By Way of Deception, New York, Athenium, 1971, First Edition, HB, 309p., DJ=VG, book=G.: This is a book that explores the world of middle eastern espionage. It's written by a Canadian-born former member of the Israeli intelligence agency known as the Mossad. Ostrovsky, a weapons testing expert was recruited into the Mossad to be in their their elite assassination unit known as the kidon. [$9.00]

(SOLD) Herbert A. Philbrick,
I Led Three Lives, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1952, HB, 323p., No DJ, book=VG.: According to Lee harvey Oswald's brother, the television series that was derived from this book was Lee's favorite show in the 50s. Because this was a story of a man who infiltrated the communists secretly, it has been cited in theorizing that Lee Harvey Oswald was only pretending to be a Marxist and that, in reality, like Philbrick, Oswald was an agent working on behalf of the US government. [$14.00]

(SOLD) David Atlee Phillips,
The Night Watch: 25 Years of Peculiar Service, New York, St Martin's, 1990, HB, 371p., DJ=VG, book=E.: This book, written by a master of propaganda for the CIA details the life and adventures of a spy in the Central Intelligence agency. This man was suspected of being involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy by investigators working for the House Select Committee on Assassinations in the 1970s. [ $15.00 ]

Francis Gary Powers,
Operation Overflight, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, 1966, 5th printing, HB, 375p., DJ=VG, book=VG,: Gary Powers was the pilot of the U2 plane that was shot down over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. He survived. This was his account, surpressed by the CIA for years. In this book, Powers suggests that Lee Harvey Oswald may have had something to do with the downing of his spy-plane. Oswald was, at the time, a defector residing in the Soviet Union who, coincidentally, had been a radar operator on a base where U2 flights originated in the late fifties. [$14.00]

(SOLD) Richard Gid Powers,
Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover, New York, Free Press/Macmillan, 1987, 1st printing, HB, 624p., DJ=VG, book=E.: In this very comprehensive and fascinating account of the corrupt dictator who ran our FBI for almost one half century, we see a disturbing portrait of a man who seemed to stop at nothing to perpetuate his intelligence empire. There is an interesting section on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Powers reveals how Hoover's main objective in the assassination investigation was not to solve the crime, but to protect the FBI (and J. Edgar Hoover's) repuation. [$10.00]

Thomas Powers,
The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA, New York, Knopf, 1979, first edition, HB, 393p., DJ=G, book=VG,: Richard Helms was one of the old guard of the CIA, having served during world war II in the precursor to the CIA, the OSS. He was a covert operations specialist who rose through the operations/plans area of the agency to eventually become Director of Central Intelligence in the mid-late sixties period through the early part of the Watergate scandal. He was the head of the CIA during a very turbulent period (including Vietnam. Helms was responsible for some of the CIA's nastiest programs, some directed at US citizens whose only crime was to voice dissent about the war. He also played a role in the experimentation on innocent Americans with drugs code-named MKULTRA. [$14.00]

(SOLD) L. Fletcher Prouty,
The Secret Team: The CIA and its Allies in Control of the World, New York, Ballantine Books, 1973, 1974, 1st printing, SC, 556p., G.: This is a hard-to-find softcover version of a book by a man who served as the Pentagon's focal point officer in charge of military support for CIA special operations. [$15.00]

Harry Rozitzke,
The CIA's Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage and Covert Action, New York, Reader's Digest, 1977, HB, 286p., DJ=G, Book=VG.: The author, a former intelligence agent himself, describes both the sucesses and the failures of the United States spy agencies. These failures, at times nearly crippled the effectiveness of US intelligence operations during the cold war period. He recommends reforms after taking us through a long description of the workings, strategies and mission of our cold war spy apparatus. [$10.00]

Bradley F. Smith,
The Shadow Warriors: OSS and the Origins of the CIA, New York, Basic Books, 1983, First printing, HB, 507p., DJ=G, Book=F.: The CIA's roots lie in the agency that was responsible for covert espionage activities during World War II. Many of the people who had been involved in special operations and intelligence activities in this organization were absorbed by the CIA upon its creation by Truman in 1947 by means of The National Security Act. Smith gives us an interesting accout of how the leader of the Office of Strategic Services skillfully influenced Truman to create the CIA after dissolving the OSS shortly after the war. In later years, Truman expressed regret at how the CIA had evolved into an operational agency, rather than one solely concerned with gathering and evaluating intelligence information. [9.00]

(SOLD) Frank Snepp,
Decent Interval: An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam, New York, Random House, 1977, 1978, LSC, 590p., VG.: This book gives another critical account of CIA activities in foreign countries by an ex-agent. He describes confusion, chaos, and his own anxiety and guilt as our South Vietnamese allies were abandoned in the closing days of the war. [$7.00]

Stewart Steven,
The Spymasters of Israel, New York, Ballantine Books, 1980, 1982, SC, 400p., G.: While this book qualifies as a cold war espionage book, it deals very briefly with American intelligence and not at all with the JFK assassination. There is an interesting and brief account of the Mossad's failed attempt to assassinate Carlos the Jackal, a notorious terrorist that Israeli wanted stopped at any cost. [$3.00]

John Stockwell,
JFK: In Search of Enemies, NY, Norton, 1978, First edition, LSC, 285p., VG.: The CIA's former chief of their task force in Angola tells all in a book that exposes lies that were told about this anti-communist war that was so similar to the disinformation put forth about Viet Nam. Stockwell presents arguments about why he thinks that clandestine operations of the CIA should be ceased. [$9.00]

(SOLD) Anthony Summers,
Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, New York, Putnam, 1993, 7th printing, HB, 528p., DJ=VG, book=E.: An author of a classic JFK assassination title, Conspiracy, gives us a disturbing portrait of the person who ruled the FBI with an iron fist for almost 50 years. [$10.00]

(SOLD) Athan Theoharis,
Spying on Americans: Political Surveillance from Hoover to the Huston Plan, Phila., PA, Temple University Press, 1992, HB, 331p., discarded library copy, DJ=VG, book=G.: Theoharis explores the history and abuses of the American domestic intelligence system from before WW I to the time the book was released. Since Watergate, and the sensational revelations of domestic spying during the mid seveties, the Congress has curbed the authority of the intelligence agencies to spy on and disrupt political activists in the US. [$14.00]

Andrew Tully,
CIA: The Inside Story, New York, Morrow, 1962, HB, 276p., NDJ, G.: This was a very early book critical of the CIA written by an author who, in 1965, released a book that highly praised the FBI. J. Edgar Hoover resented the very existence of the CIA and felt that foreign intelligence responsibilities should have been part of his empire. This book, critical of CIA at a very early time was probably written at the behest of Hoover. [$5.00]

Andrew Tully,
CIA: The Inside Story, New York, Crest Books, 1962, 1963, 1st printing, SC, 224p., G.: This was a very early book critical of the CIA written by an author who, in 1965, released a book that highly praised the FBI. J. Edgar Hoover resented the very existence of the CIA and felt that foreign intelligence responsibilities should have been part of his empire. This book, critical of CIA at a very early time was probably written at the behest of Hoover. [$4.00]

Andrew Tully,
The Super Spies: More Secret, More Powerful than the CIA, New York, Morrow, 1969, HB, 256p., DJ=VG, book=G.: Again Hoover's personal propaganda asset proves to be a thorn in the side of the FBI's rival intelligence agencies. While it doesn't trash the NSA, (the focus of the book) it does talk about a super-secret agency that would rather not have had so much attention. This is the first extensive account of the Intelligence agency that few still realize is larger than CIA. [$7.00]

Stansfield Turner,
Secrecy and Democracy: The CIA in Transition, Boston, MA, Houghton, Mifflin, HB, 304p., DJ=VG, book=E.: This is a book by one of the few former Directors of Central Intelligence who had an honest agenda of reform when he headed the agency. He was appointed by Jimmy Carter at a time when the CIA was reeling from congressional revelations of wrongdoing. [$6.00]

(RESERVED) Edited by Pat Watters and Steven Gillers,
Investigating the FBI, New York, Ballantine Books, 1973, 1974, 1st Printing, SC, 472p., F.: This is another book that was releaed soon after the death of J. Edgar Hoover. It is an anthology of short articles that offer a mixed bag of criticism of Hoover and the FBI on a variety of subjects. [$3.00]

Neil J. Welch and David W. Marston,
Hoover's FBI, NY, Doubleday, 1984, 1st Edition, HB, 324p., DJ=VG, book=E.: Neil Welch, former Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo office and David Marsten, a former United States Attorney show us an inside veiw of what it's like to be part of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. [$11.00]

Don Whitehead,
The FBI Story, New York, Pocket Books, 1956, 1958, SC, 459p., P.: Hoover had a group of authors that he could count on to write positive portrayals that glorified and justified the agenda of the FBI in the cold war period. This book was endlessly reprinted and despite the author's credentials as a winner of a Pulitzer Prize is certainly biased and one-sided. [$2.00]

Robin W. Winks,
Cloak and Gown - Scholars in the Secret Wars, 1939-1961, New York, Quill Morrow, 1987, 1st printing, LSC, 606p., G.: This book focuses on both persons and events that define the secret, inner working of the Cold War United States intelligence establishment. [$10.00]

David Wise and Thomas B. Ross,
The Espionage Establishment, New York, Random House, 1967, HB, 308p., discarded library copy, DJ=G, book=G.: This book was something of a sequel to their earlier work titled The Invisible Government, released a few years earlier. It takes a somewhat critical look at the U.S. intelligence agencies from the standpoint of their use as an operational arm in carrying out U.S. foreign policy. [$4.00]

David Wise and Thomas B. Ross,
The Invisible Government, New York, Random House, 1964, HB, 375p., DJ=P, book=G, small piece missing from DJ: The description on the cover states, "This startling and disturbing book is the first full, authentic account of America's intelligence and espionage apparatus-an invisible government, with the CIA at its center, that conducts the clandestine policies of the United States in the cold war. Many of the revelations about abuses and secret unaccountability were things that Americans had not been aware of until this book was released. [$11.00]

Bob Woodward,
Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1987, HB, 543p., DJ=G, book=VG.: Bob Woodward, who made his name along with his sometimes co-author Carl Bernstein, by exposing the inner workings of Watergate, takes on William Casey and Iran-Contra. His expose of Reagan's intelligence adventures makes interesting reading but seems to treat Casey and Company with kid gloves. [$4.00]

Wright, Peter with Paul Greengrass,
Spycatcher: The Candid, Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer, New York, Viking, 1987, 11th printing, HB, 392p., DJ=E, book=E.: Wright was one of Britain's top counter-intelligence people during the cold was period. His book was frowned upon by British intelligence at the time of its publication. He tells the inside story of traitors, defectors, assassinations and even a rumored attempt at the removal of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the mid seventies (allegedly instigated by the CIA). [$8.00]

(SOLD) Peter Wright with Paul Greengrass,
Spycatcher: The Candid, Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer, NY, Dell, 1987, 1988, SC, 496p., GG.: Wright was one of Britain's top counter-intelligence people during the cold was period. His book was frowned upon by British intelligence at the time of its publication. He tells the inside story of traitors, defectors, assassinations and even a rumored attempt at the removal of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the mid seventies (allegedly instigated by the CIA). [$4.00]

Peter Wyden,
The Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1979, HB, 352p., DJ=E, Book=E.: This is the story of the failed invasion of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles armed and trained by the United States, as told by a former member of the US Army's Psychological Warfare Division. Wyden draws on documents that had been previously kept secret and interviews with combatants on both sides (including Castro himself) to paint a fascinating picture of one of the darkest chapters in the history of the CIA, the agency responsible for the invasion's ultimate failure. The refusal to provide American air support during the invasion has been advanced by conspiracy theorists as one possible motivation for the assassination of JFK. [9.00]

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