The origins of the U.S. Intelligence Community and along the way some good insights on the craft of intelligence.

A detailed work on an essential aspect of the art and craft of intelligence analysis: target modeling.

This is a highly technical and very detailed, but very good book. Not for the faint hearted.

Another insight into the world of intelligence analysis and the politcal pressures tha toften distort good analysis.

Probably the best of Judge Posner's books on intelligence reform. An outsider looks at the impact and intent of reforming the U.S. Intelligence Community.

A very good look at the broad aspects of intelligence reform and some good information on current intellgience processes.

Despite its title this book really provides a good deal of excellent information on how the U.S. intelligence system actually works.

This discussion of the counter-productive CIA-FBI rivalry provides some excellent insights into the cultural differences between intellgience and law enformcement agencies.

This is a rather disjointed personal narrative, but provides some very interesting examples of how CIA conducts the business of intellgience.

A good illustration of how a pro-active COS operates and the conducts those clandestine activities covered under the generic term 'tradecraft'.

This is an outstanding book on the often forgotten concept of strategic intelligence. It provides an absolutley modern and unique viw of the business of inteligence.

This book offers plausable and objective explinations for the inability of the U.S. Intelligence System to adapt to the Post-cold War era and why it is so prone to intelligence filures.

This is arguably the best book available on the essentials of intelligence production. It provides a basic, but accurate, description of intelligence production from collection through dissemination.

A reasonable argument that excessive secrecy by CIA, the FBI and the IC in general not only protects sources and methods, but also conceals ill-legal or dubiously legal activities as well as severely hampering effective analysis. Robert D Steele, a serious commentator on intelligence issues has made this argument repeatedly in a series of original books available on Amazon.com.

An excellent account of what has been wrong with the analytic processes at CIA by an author who was there for 34 years.

A critique of CIA from a unique perspective. Provides a useful distinction between espionage and intellgience.