Cassidy's
Run : The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas
by David Wise
David Wise has written three spy novels and a number of nonfiction
books about U.S. intelligence and espionage, and in Cassidy's Run he vividly
merges both genres to create a true story that reads like a thriller. In
1959, Joseph Cassidy was an ordinary army sergeant with no training in
intelligence or espionage when he was handpicked by the FBI to operate
as a double agent. He spent the next 20 years passing U.S.-approved information
to the Soviets about chemical and biological weapons and U.S. troop movements.
Dubbed Operation Shocker, some of the information he passed involved an
experimental, unstable nerve gas that U.S. scientists believed could not
be used. This assumption proved to be a high-stakes gamble since much accurate
information was mixed with the false in order to lend credence to the charade.
U.S. intelligence may never know whether the information they gave the
Soviets actually spurred on Russian chemical weapons development. Part
of the objective of the operation was to uncover the Soviets' spy network,
and in this respect it was successful, eventually flushing out 10 agents
living in the United States. Throughout his time as a double agent, only
Cassidy's wife knew of his activities--even his children were unaware--allowing
him to retire quietly in Florida with his friends and relatives none the
wiser. Cassidy's Run is a fascinating tale of cold-war intrigue publicly
unknown until now. --Linda Killian - Amazon.com
Paperback from Random House
|
| |
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert
Operation in History
by George Crile
Listed under Charlie Wilson's War
CIA
Catalog of Clandestine Weapons, Tools, and Gadgets
by John Minnery
Paperback - 116 pages (October 1992)
Barricade Books; ISBN: 0942637690
Special Order
The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History
by Peter Kornbluh
Listed under Iran-Contra Affair
Code Breaking : A History and Exploration
by Rudolf Kippenhahn
Listed under Codebreakers
Gentleman
Spy : The Life of Allen Dulles
by Peter Grose
Paperback (November )
Univ. of Massachusetts Press; ISBN: 1558490442
Killing
Hope : U. S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
by William Blum
Paperback - 457 pages
Common Courage Pr; ISBN: 1567510523
The
Main Enemy : The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
by James Risen, Milton Bearden
Hardcover from Random House
The
Master of Disguise : My Secret Life in the CIA
by Antonio J. Mendez
Paperback from Perennial
Presidents'
Secret Wars : CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations from World War II Through
the Persian Gulf (Elephant Paperbacks)
by John Prados
Paperback Revised edition (April )
Ivan R Dee, Inc.; ISBN: 1566631084
The
Puzzle Palace : A Report on America's Most Secret Agency
by James Bamford
(Paperback - September 1983)
Secret
Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage
by Philip Taubman
Hardcover from Simon & Schuster
The
Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold: The Secret Life of FBI Double Agent Robert
Hanssen
by Adrian Havill
While the term double agent implies contradiction, Adrian Havill's
portrait of spymaster Robert Hanssen reveals a man truly driven by opposing
demons. Hanssen was a consummate loner, "Walter Mitty squared," yet he
approached the Soviets himself in quest of the thrill-filled life of a
double agent. A staunch conservative and strict Catholic, he took money
from communists--to give diamonds and Mercedes to strippers on one hand,
and to send his six children to expensive Catholic schools on the other.
Havill, a seasoned chronicler of criminals and celebrities, creates a taut
and troubling portrait of a disturbed man who compromised the security
of a nation. He also gives an inside look into the oft-inept FBI, the National
Security Agency's futuristic surveillance systems, and the spy-versus-spy
world of Russian intelligence. --Lesley Reed - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 352 pages
St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0312287828; (September 25,
)
Spy
Hunter : Inside the FBI Investigation of the Walker Espionage Case
by Robert W. Hunter, Lynn Dean Hunter
Hardcover - 240 pages
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557503494
Spymasters
: Ten CIA Officers in Their Own Words
by Ralph Edward Weber (Editor)
Paperback - 400 pages (November )
Scholarly Resources; ISBN: 0842027157
Inside
CIA's Private World: Declassified Articles from the Agency's Internal Journal,
1955-1992
by H. Bradford Westerfield
In 32 essays originally written for the Central Intelligence Agency's
internal journal, Studies in Intelligence, authors, most of whom are CIA
agents, talk shop. These recently declassified articles, written between
1955 and 1992, provide an offbeat internal history of CIA operations. Some
delve into arcane areas of tradecraft, and could be considered essential
reading for historians as well as spy buffs: CIA operatives detail secret
operations, offer practical how-to advice, and critique themselves and
their work. Amazon.com
Paperback from Yale Univ Pr
|
| |
The CIA's Greatest Hits (The Real Story Series)
by Mark Zepezauer, Arthur Naiman (Editor)
Paperback - 96 pages
Odonian Pr; ISBN: 1878825305
Out of print - Try Used
Books
