Here is a list of the best Cia books, some I have read myself, some that I did research on, and all have great reviews!
- Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (2008)
- The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception (2010)
- The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World (2017)
- The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government (2016)
- Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception (2013)
- The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service (2013)
- The CIA World Factbook Volume 1: Full-Size 2019 Edition: Giant Format, 600+ Pages: The #1 Global Reference, Complete & Unabridged – Vol. 1 of 3, … ~ Gabon (Carlile Intelligence Library) (2019)
- The CIA UFO Papers: 50 Years of Government Secrets and Cover-Ups (MUFON) (2019)
- The Book of Honor : The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives (2001)
- The CIA World Factbook 2019-2020 (2019)
- Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life: A Former CIA Officer Reveals Safety and Survival Techniques to Keep You and Your Family Protected (2016)
- Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA (Random House Large Print) (2019)
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (2008)
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.
The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception (2010)
Magic or spycraft? In 1953, against the backdrop of the Cold War, the CIA initiated a top-secret program, code-named MKULTRA, to counter Soviet mind-control and interrogation techniques.
The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World (2017)
Author of three books on CIA operations, Valentine’s research into CIA activities began when CIA Director William Colby gave him free access to interview CIA officials who had been involved in various aspects of the Phoenix program in South Vietnam. It was a permission Colby was to regret.
The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government (2016)
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers.America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on revelatory new materials—including newly discovered U.S.
Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception (2013)
Three former CIA officers–among the world’s foremost authorities on recognizing deceptive behavior–share their proven techniques for uncovering a lieImagine how different your life would be if you could tell whether someone was lying or telling you the truth.
The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service (2013)
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.
The CIA World Factbook Volume 1: Full-Size 2019 Edition: Giant Format, 600+ Pages: The #1 Global Reference, Complete & Unabridged – Vol. 1 of 3, … ~ Gabon (Carlile Intelligence Library) (2019)
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The CIA UFO Papers: 50 Years of Government Secrets and Cover-Ups (MUFON) (2019)
In autumn 2016 the CIA sent to its website (www.cia.gov/library/readingroom) a cache of electronic files previously released under the Freedom of Information Act but housed at the National Archives.
The Book of Honor : The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives (2001)
In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall into which seventy-one stars are carved-each representing an agent who has died in the line of duty. Official CIA records only name thirty-five of them, however. Undeterred by claims that revealing the identities of these “nameless stars” might compromise national security, Ted Gup sorted through thousands of documents and interviewed over 400 CIA officers in his attempt to bring their long-hidden stories to light.
The CIA World Factbook 2019-2020 (2019)
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, offers complete and up-to-date information on the world's nations. This comprehensive guide is packed with data on the politics, populations, military expenditures, and economics of 2019. For each country, includes: Also included are appendixes with useful abbreviations, international environmental agreements, international organizations and groups, weight and measure conversions, and more.
Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life: A Former CIA Officer Reveals Safety and Survival Techniques to Keep You and Your Family Protected (2016)
When Jason Hanson joined the CIA in 2003, he never imagined that the same tactics he used as a CIA officer for counter intelligence, surveillance, and protecting agency personnel would prove to be essential in every day civilian life.
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA (Random House Large Print) (2019)
Amaryllis Fox was in her last year as an undergraduate at Oxford studying theology and international law when her writing mentor Daniel Pearl was captured and beheaded. Galvanized by this brutality, Fox applied to a master’s program in conflict and terrorism at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, where she created an algorithm that predicted, with uncanny certainty, the likelihood of a terrorist cell arising in any village around the world. At twenty-one, she was recruited by the CIA.
Best Cia Books That Will Hook You
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Black Site: The CIA in the Post-9/11 World
Author(s): Philip Mudd
ID: 2393832, Publisher: Liveright, Year: 30 July 2019, Size: 431 Kb, Format: epub
Transitional (in)Justice and Enforcing the Peace on Palestine
Author(s): Brendan Ciarán Browne
ID: 3654170, Publisher: Palgrave Pivot, Year: 2023, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
Active Inference: Third International Workshop, IWAI 2022, Grenoble, France, September 19, 2022, Revised Selected Papers
Author(s): Christopher L. Buckley, Daniela Cialfi, Pablo Lanillos, Maxwell Ramstead, Noor Sajid, Hideaki Shimazaki, Tim Verbelen
ID: 3682962, Publisher: Springer, Year: 2023, Size: 22 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are truly record-breakers according to Washington Post, others are drafted by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.