This is a personal list made using different resources in order to create a curated compilation of the best/recommended books for those interested in Intelligence and CounterIntelligence history, reports and events from WWII - Today
- "For the President's Eyes Only-Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush". New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995.
- "The CIA: Reality vs Myth--The Evolution of the Agency from Roosevelt to Reagan"(Revised edition of The CIA under Reagan, Bush and Casey). Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1982.
- "The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government to 1950". State College: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990.
- "Directors of Central Intelligence as Leaders of the U.S. Intelligence Community — 1946-2005" Washington, DC: Center for The Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 2005.
- "The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives" New York: Random House, 2000
- "The Central Intelligence Agency: History and Documents." New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
- "The CIA At War: Inside the Secret Campaign Against Terror" New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003
- "The Office of Strategic Services: America's First Intelligence Agency" Washington, D.C.: CIA History Staff , Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2000.
- "Inside the CIA's Private World: Declassified Articles from the Agency's Internal Journal", 1955-1992. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.
- "Donovan and the CIA: A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency". Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1981.
- "On the Front Lines of the Cold War: Documents on the Intelligence War in Berlin, 1946-1961". Washington, D.C.: CIA History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1999.
- "The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA". New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.
- "Honorable Treachery: A History of Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA". New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.
- "The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB". New York: Basic Books, 1999
- "The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB Battle For the Third World". New York: Basic Books, 2005
- "The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Final Showdown with the KGB". New York: Random House, 2003
- "Partners At The Creation: The Men Behind Postwar Germany's Defense and Intelligence Establishments". Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2004.
- "A Short Course in the Secret War". New York: Dell Books, 1988.
- "Mole". New York: W. W. Norton, 1987.
- "Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War". New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 19
- "CIA's Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage, and Covert Action". Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1988.
- "The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War". New York: Scribner's, 1992.
- "A Secret Life: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country". New York: Public Affairs, 2004.
- "Feet to the Fire: CIA Covert Operations in Indonesia, 1957-1958". Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999
- "The CIA’s Secret War in Tibet". Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2002.
- "Executive Secrets: Covert Action and the Presidency". Lexington, KY: 2004.
- "Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards: U.S. Covert Action and Counterintelligence". Washington: Brassey's, 1996.
- "Raiders of the China Coast: CIA Covert Operations During the Korean War (Special Warfare Series)".Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999.
- "Facing Reality: From World Federalism to the CIA". New York: Harper & Row, 1980.
- "Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA". Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006.
- "Countercoup: The Struggle for the Control of Iran". New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1979.
- "Clinton's Secret Wars: The Evolution of a Commander in Chief". New York: St. Martin's Press, 2009.
- "Operation Hotel California: The Clandestine War Inside Iraq". Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2009.
- "Confessions of a Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames". New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1997.
- "Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad: How To Be A Counterintelligence Officer". Bethesda, MD: Stone Trail; Press, 1987
- "The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage". London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.
- "Wilderness of Mirrors" New York: Bantam Books, Inc. 1980.
- "The Spy Who Got Away: The Inside Story of Edward Lee Howard, the CIA Agent Who Betrayed His Country's Secrets and Escaped to Moscow". New York: Random House, 1988.
- "Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI’s Robert Hanssen Betrayed America". New York: Random House, 2002.
- "CIA Special Weapons and Equipment: Spy Devices of the Cold War". New York: Sterling Publishing, 1993.
- "Eye in the Sky: The Story of the Corona Spy Satellites". Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.
- "Deep Black: Space Espionage and National Security". New York: Random House, 1986.
- "CORONA: America's First Satellite Program. [18.4MB*]" Washington, DC: CIA History Staff, 1995.
- "Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage". New York: Public Affairs, 1998.
- "Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage". New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003.
- "Ultimate Spy". London & New York: Dorling Kindersley, Ltd., 2002 (2nd ed).
- "Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis". New York: Random House, 1990
- "The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency". Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1982.
- "Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century". New York: Doubleday, 2001
- "The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Authorized Edition". New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004;
- "Forecasting Terrorism: Indications of Proven Analytic Techniques". Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press: 2004.
- "1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI – The Untold Story". New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
- "First In: An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan". New York: Ballantine Books, 2005.
- "Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror". Washington, DC: Brassey's Inc., 2004.
- "Terrorism and Democracy". Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991
- "Al Qaeda in Europe: The New Battleground of International Jihad". Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2006
- "War of Numbers: An Intelligence Memoir".South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth Press, 1994.
- "New Frontiers of Intelligence Analysis: Shared Threats, Diverse Perspectives, New Communities". Washington, DC: Sherman Kent School, Central Intelligence Agency, 2005.
- "At Cold War's End: U.S. Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991". Washington, D.C.: Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1999
- "CIA and the Vietnam Policymakers: Three Episodes 1962-1968". Washington, D.C.: History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1998.
- "Analyzing Intelligence: Origins, Obstacles, and Innovations". Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2008
- "CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Union 1947-1991". Washington, D.C.: CIA History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2001.
- "Getting to Know the President: CIA Briefings of Presidential Candidates, 1952-1992". Washington, DC: Center for Study of Intelligence, CIA, 1995.
- "Psychology of Intelligence Analysis". Washington, D.C.: Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2000
- "Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy". Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966.
- "Assessing the Soviet Threat: The Early Cold War Years". Washington, D.C. : Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1997
- "Intentions and Capabilities: Estimates on Soviet Strategic Forces, 1950-1983". [PDF 43MB*] Washington, D.C.: History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1996.
- "Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: Collected Essays". Washington, D.C.: History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1996.
- "Best Truth: Intelligence in the Information Age". New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000
- "The Future of American Intelligence". Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2005
- "KGB, The Inside Story of its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev". New York: Harper Collins, 1990.
- "Strategic Intelligence: Windows Into a Secret World—An Anthology". Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Company, 2004
- "A World of Secrets: The Uses and Limits of Intelligence". New York: Basic Books, 1985.
- "Wedge: The Secret War Between the FBI and CIA". New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
- "Transforming Intelligence". Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005.
- "he Central Intelligence Agency: Security under Scrutiny". Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006
- "Spy Book:The Encyclopedia of Espionage. New York: Random House, 2004
- "Dark Territory: The secret history of cyber war". Fred Kaplan New York 2016
- "@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex". Shane Harris 2014
- "Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the launch of the World's First Digital Weapon". Kim Zetter. New York 2014
- "Data and Goliath: The hidden battles to collect your data and control your world". Bruce Scheneider. New York 2015
- "The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage". New York 1989
- "From CIA to APT: An Introduction to Cyber Security". 2017