Central Intelligence Agency
Books
- Under Berlin The Berlin Tunnel, George Blake, and the Cold War's Greatest Intelligence Gamble · Liszt Think
In 1955, American and British intelligence tunneled beneath the Berlin border to tap Soviet military cables, capturing a river of secret conversations.
- The Man Who Hated Paper…um that crossed J. Edgar Hoover’s desk in early 1952 bore the signature of William King Harvey, a former FBI man who had transferred to the Central Intelligence Agency three years earlier. The document itself has not survived in unclassified form, but colleagues who saw it later described its tone as remar…
- A Service in Exile…sh security. The Secret Intelligence Service—MI6 to its American counterparts—faced a dual pressure: the Treasury demanded savings, and the Central Intelligence Agency demanded assurances that no more Soviet agents lurked in the British establishment. Both demands arrived as paper. Both required answers th…
- The Mole in the Garden…relevant. The service needed case officers who could handle a station expanding its operations and deepening cooperation with the American Central Intelligence Agency. The tunnel project was already under discussion. Initial planning meetings had been held at No. 2 Carlton Gardens in London, beginning in…