CIA's Recommended Reading List on Opposing Viewpoints about
Intelligence

Background reading for considering opposing viewpoints about
intelligence operations and the use of intelligence.

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Opposing Viewpoints

Victor L. Marchetti and John D. Marks

THE CIA AND THE CULT OF INTELLIGENCE.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

Marchetti served in the Agency for 14 years.  His book attacks the
Clandestine Service and covert operations.  Writing before the
Church and Pike committees congressional investigations of CIA, the
authors argue for tighter congressional oversight of the CIA and
attack much of the secrecy involved in the Agency's work.



Frank Snepp 

DECENT INTERVAL:  AN INSIDER'S ACCOUNT of SAIGON'S INDECENT END.

New York: Random House, 1977.

Snepp was an Agency intelligence analyst in Saigon at the close of
the Vietnam war.  He blames much of the chaos and disorder of those
last days on the CIA's Chief of Station, the US Ambassador to
Vietnam, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and President Ford.



John Stockwell.

IN SEARCH OF ENEMIES: A CIA STORY.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 1978.

Stockwell was a former Agency case officer in Africa.  His book
argues that covert action operations are not essential for American
national security and describes what he considers "scandalous,
absurd operations."



Joseph B. Smith

PORTRAIT OF A COLD WARRIOR.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1976.

The author, a former Agency officer, describes his operational
experiences in East Asia and the Western Hemisphere.

