War of the Spies: The Cold War
Red Scare and McCarthyism
- Acheson, Dean. Present At the Creation: My Years in the State Department. W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1969.
- Barson, Michael. “Better Dead Than Red!”: A Nostalgic Look At the Golden Years of Russiaphobia, Red-Baiting, & Other Commie Madness. Hyperion, 1992.
- Bentley, Elizabeth. Out of Bondage: KGB Target: Washington, D.C. Ivy Books, 1988.
- Bentley, Elizabeth. Out of Bondage: The Story of Elizabeth Bentley. Devin-Adair Company, 1951.
- Bentley, Eric. Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts From Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968. Viking Press, 1971.
- Chambers, Whittaker. Witness. Random House, Inc., 1952.
- Craig, R. Bruce. Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Spy Case. University Press of Kansas, 2004.
- Fariello, Griffin. Red Scare, An Oral History: Memories of the American Inquisition. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1995.
- Hearing before the Committee of Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Volume I, Pages 3851-4515. United States Government Printing Office, 1954.
- Hiss, Alger. Alger Hiss: Recollections of a Life. Henry Holt and Co., Inc., 1988.
- Kessler, Lauren. Clever Girl: Elizabeth Bentley and the Dawn of the McCarthy Era. New York: Harper Collins, 2003.
- Klehr, Harvey, and Ronald Radosh. The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism. University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
- Weinstein, Allen. Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case. Random House, Inc., 1997.
Berlin and the Stasi
- Childs, David, and Richard Popplewell. The Stasi: The East German Intelligence and Security Service. New York: New York University Press, 1996. London: Macmillan, 1996.
- Colitt, Leslie. Spy Master: The Real-Life Karla, His Moles, and the East German Secret Police. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1995.
- Koehler, John O. STASI: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1999.
- Murphy, David, Sergei A. Kondrashev, and Geroge Bailey. Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.
- Stafford, David. Spies Beneath Berlin. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2003.
- Stiller, Werner, and Jefferson Adams. Beyond the Wall: Memoirs of an East and West German Spy. New York: Brassey's, 1992.
- Wolf, Markus, with Anne McElvoy. Man Without a Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster. New York: Times Books, 1997.
- See also: On the Front Lines of the Cold War: Documents on the Intelligence War in Berlin, 1946-1961. ed. Donald P. Steury. Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA, 1999. http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/17240/index.html.
Aerial Surveillance
General
- Brugioni, Dino. Photo Fakery: The History and Techniques of Photographic Deception and Manipulation. Dulles, VA: Brassey's, 1999.
- Brugioni, Dino. From Balloons to Blackbirds: Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Imagery Intelligence: How It Evolved. McLean, VA: Association of Former Intelligence Ofificers, 1993.
- Day, Dwayne A., John M. Logsdon, and Brian Latell, eds. Eye in the Sky: The Story of the Corona Spy Satellites. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.
- Lashmar, Paul. Spy Flights of the Cold War. Stroud, Gloucestershire: A. Sutton, 1996.
- Pedlow, Gregory W. and Donald E. Welzenbach. The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974. Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1998.
- Peebles, Curtis. The Corona Project: America's First Spy Satellites. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
- Powys-Lybbe, Ursula. The Eye of Intelligence. London: W. Kimber, 1983.
Pigeons
- Cothren, Marion Benedict. Cher Ami, the Story of a Carrier Pigeon. Boston, Little, Brown, and Co.: 1934.
- See also the story of Cher Ami at: http://cedarvalley.virtualave.net/articles/wartimebirds/wartime_birds.htm, and http://www.google.com/search?q=cher+ami&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N.
The U-2 Incident
- Beschloss, Michael R. MAYDAY: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.
- Powers, Francis Gary, with Curt Gentry. Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
- Wise, David and Thomas B. Ross. The U-2 Affair. New York: Random House, 1962.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
- Allison, Graham T. and Philip D. Zelikow. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1971.
- Allyn, Bruce J., James G. Blight and David A. Welch, eds. Back to the Brink: Proceedings of the Moscow Conference on the Cuban Missile Crisis, January 27-28, 1989. Cambridge, Mass.: Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1992.
- Blight, James G. and David A. Welch, eds. Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis. London; Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1998.
- Blight, James G. and David A. Welch. On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Noonday, 1990.
- Blight, James G. Bruce J. Allyn, and David A. Welch. Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.
- Brugioni, Dino A., and Robert F. McCort, ed. Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Random House, 1991.
- Chang, Laurence and Peter Kornbluh, eds. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A National Security Archive Documents Reader. National Security Archive Documents Reader.
- Fursenko, Aleksandr and Timothy J. Naftali. One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.
- Kennedy, Robert F. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: W.W. Norton, 1969.
- May, Ernest R. and Philip D. Zelikow, eds. The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
- White, Mark J. Missile in Cuba: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the 1962 Crisis. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Inc., 1997.
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