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Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri. The CIA and American Democracy. Yale University Press, 1998. History of the CIA from 1947 to the Iran-Contra Affair.

Risen, James. State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. Free Press, 2006. The book that revealed the secret surveillance program of the National Security Agency also discusses the CIA’s secret prisons and the suppression of intelligence that cast doubt on whether Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Rudgers, David F. Creating the Secret State: The Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1943-1947. University Press of Kansas, 2000. A thorough, balanced, and insightful study of the CIA's early years.

Westerfield, H. Bradford. Inside the CIA's Private World: Declassified Articles from the Agency's Internal Journal, 1955-1992. Yale University Press, 1995. Articles provide insight into the CIA's methods of gathering intelligence, analyzing data, and interpreting photographs.

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Andrew, Christopher. For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush. HarperPerennial, 1996. How the presidency both transformed and was transformed by the workings of U.S. intelligence.

Bamford, James. Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency. Rev. ed. Penguin, 1999. History of the National Security Agency.

Johnson, Loch K. Secret Agencies: U.S. Intelligence in a Hostile World. Yale University Press, 1998. Examines the national security intelligence system of the United States.

Melton, H. Keith. The Ultimate Spy Book. DK Publishing, 1996. Illustrated look at international espionage.

Miller, Nathan. Spying for America: The Hidden History of U.S. Intelligence. 2nd ed. Marlowe, 1997. An overview of American covert operations since the American Revolution.

Polmar, Norman, and Thomas B. Allen. Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage. Rev. ed. Random House, 1998. Alphabetical entries on spies and various aspects of espionage.

Taubman, Philip. Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage. Simon & Schuster, 2003. Chronicles the development of aerial and satellite reconaissance.

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