REFERENCES: Core Readings in Intelligence Reform OSS Comment: As Congress and the media realize they have been "had" with respect to political manipulation and fabrication of intelligence leading to the strategically unwise war on Iraq, and the failed transition to peace in both Afghanistan and Iraq (as well as the losing wars on terrorism, drugs, crime, and poverty), there is renewed discussion of the need for a *public* summit on intelligence reform. To aid in that dialog, we are publishing here our updated list of 20 books essential to any discussion of true and sustainable intelligence reform in the US, and a notional one-page agenda for what a one-day agenda for a National Press Club and CSPAN broadcast might look like.

Links:
» George Allen, NONE SO BLIND: A Personal Account of Intelligence Failure in Vietnam (Ivan R. Dee, 2001), 296 pages.
» Robert Baer, SEE NO EVIL: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism (Crown, 2002), 284 pages.
» Bruce Berkowitz and Allen Goodman, BEST TRUTH: Intelligence in the Information Age, (Yale, 2000), 224 pages.
» John Fialka, WAR BY OTHER MEANS: Economic Espionage in America (Norton, 1999), 242 pp.
» Robert Gates, From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War (Simon & Schuster, 1996), 608 pages
» Roy Godson, Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards: U.S. Covert Action & Counterintelligence (Transaction Press, 2001), 338 pages.
» Stuart Herrington, Traitors Among Us: Inside the Spy Catchers World (Presidio, 1999), 384 pages.
» Arthur Hulnick, Fixing the Spy Machine: Preparing American Intelligence for the 21st Century (Praeger Publishing, 2000), 248 pages
» Loch Johnson, Bombs, Bugs, Drugs, and Thugs: Intelligence and America's Quest for Security, (New York University Press, 2000), 288 pages
» Jong, Ben de, Wies Platje, and Robert David Steele, PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future (OSS, 2003), 532 pp.
» Michael Levine, DEEP COVER: The Inside Story of How DEA Infighting, Incompetence and Subterfuge Lost Us the Biggest Battle of the Drug War (Delacorte, 1990)
» William E. Odom, FIXING INTELLIGENCE For a More Secure America (Yale, 2003), 230 pages
» Mark Riebling, WEDGE: The Secret War Between the FBI and the CIA (Knoph, 1994), 563 pages.
» Robert D. Steele, ON INTELLIGENCE: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World (OSS International Press, 2000), 495 pages.
» Robert D. Steele, THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: Personal, Public, & Political (OSS International Press, 2002), 438 pages
» Gregory D. Treverton, Reshaping National Intelligence for an Age of Information, (Cambridge University Press, 2001), 282 pages
» Notra Trulock, Code Name KINDRED SPIRIT: Inside the Chinese Nuclear Espionage Scandal (Encounter Books, 2003)
» Cees Wiebes, Intelligence and the war in Bosnia 1992 – 1995: The role of the intelligence and security services (Lit Verlag London, 2003)
» Amy Zegart, Flawed by Design: the Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC (Stanford University Press, 2000), 342 pages

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