{"id":8739,"date":"2015-10-14T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=8739"},"modified":"2015-10-14T11:00:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T16:00:13","slug":"suggested-reading-some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/14\/suggested-reading-some-of-my-favorite-non-fiction-espionage\/","title":{"rendered":"Suggested Reading: Some of my Favorite Non-Fiction Espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have been getting emails lately requesting I list what books I have in my Library. It is no secret I am a huge book worm, so I felt obliged to share some titles with you based on subject.\u00a0Today we will focus on one of my favorite subjects: Espionage and Intelligence, next month maybe World War Two?<\/p>\n

I also will tell you in advance, that some of these titles cross-reference into another subject, for example, Ghost Wars<\/strong> <\/em>by Steve Coll is not only a Great History of the CIA in Afghanistan in the early years, but also a great book for studying AQ, Terrorism and 9\/11. \u00a0All The Shah’s Men<\/strong><\/em> by Steven Kinzer is again, a Great History of the infancy of the CIA in the 50’s but also a wonderful resource in understanding how our Foreign Policy regarding Iran has been molded over the years.<\/p>\n

So, in no particular Order, Here they are:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Craft of Intelligence by Allen Dulles<\/li>\n
  2. The Art of Intelligence by Henry Crumpton<\/li>\n
  3. Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner<\/li>\n
  4. The Very Best Men by Evan Thomas<\/li>\n
  5. All the Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer<\/li>\n
  6. The Good Spy by Kai Bird<\/li>\n
  7. Company Man by John Rizzo<\/li>\n
  8. A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre<\/li>\n
  9. The Zhivago Affair by Peter Finn<\/li>\n
  10. The Great War of Our Time by Michael Morell<\/li>\n
  11. Agent Storm by Morten Storm<\/li>\n
  12. Safe for Democracy by John Prados<\/li>\n
  13. Body of Secrets by James Bamford<\/li>\n
  14. Shadow Warrior by Randall B. Woods<\/li>\n
  15. Ike’s Spies by Stephen E. Ambrose<\/li>\n
  16. Ghost Wars by Steve Coll<\/li>\n
  17. See no Evil by Robert Baer<\/li>\n
  18. Argo by Antonio Mendez<\/li>\n
  19. The Sword and the Shield by Christopher Andrew<\/li>\n
  20. The World was Going our Way by Christopher Andrew<\/li>\n
  21. The New Spymasters by Stephen Grey<\/li>\n
  22. The Billion Dollar Spy by David Hoffman<\/li>\n
  23. The Spy’s Son by Brian Denson<\/li>\n
  24. The Main Enemy by Milton Bearden<\/li>\n
  25. Fallout by Catherine Collins<\/li>\n
  26. The Nuclear Jihadist by Douglas Frantz<\/li>\n
  27. First In by Gary Schroen<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Remember Knowledge is Power, So Stay Informed, Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I have been getting emails lately requesting I list what books I have in my Library. It is no secret I am a huge book worm, so I felt obliged to share some titles with you based on subject.\u00a0Today we will focus on one of my favorite subjects: Espionage and Intelligence, next month maybe World…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1427,1725],"tags":[2524,2525,2526,2527],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}