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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,201 ratings — published 2007
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,660 ratings — published 2004
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,159 ratings — published 1999
Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,874 ratings — published 2003
The Art of Intelligence (Audio CD)
by (shelved 48 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,282 ratings — published 2012
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.89 — 380,426 ratings — published 1984
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,196 ratings — published 1985
Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master On The Fundamentals Of Intelligence Gathering For A Free World (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.75 — 947 ratings — published 1962
On Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,005 ratings — published 2004
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.25 — 845,471 ratings — published 1966
The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,347 ratings — published 1982
Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.90 — 699 ratings — published 1999
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.85 — 21,733 ratings — published 2014
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.97 — 827 ratings — published 2018
Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,838 ratings — published 2001
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.06 — 140,433 ratings — published 1995
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,557 ratings — published 2022
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,154 ratings — published 2021
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.52 — 97,036 ratings — published 2018
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,564 ratings — published 2018
Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.94 — 239 ratings — published 2003
The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,580 ratings — published 2018
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,647 ratings — published 2015
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,591 ratings — published 1994
Digital Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.71 — 673,986 ratings — published 1998
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.46 — 5,930 ratings — published 2023
The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)
by (shelved 25 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.23 — 467 ratings — published 2015
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.31 — 8,093 ratings — published 2019
Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,177 ratings — published 2009
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.12 — 393,354 ratings — published 1984
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,271 ratings — published 2002
Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,406 ratings — published 2018
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,135 ratings — published 2015
Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.88 — 53,481 ratings — published 2003
Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan, #5; Jack Ryan Universe, #6)
by (shelved 22 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.15 — 145,969 ratings — published 1989
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.28 — 54,045 ratings — published 1979
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,607 ratings — published 2020
Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.31 — 288 ratings — published 2010
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,697 ratings — published 2018
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,322 ratings — published 2014
Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.86 — 214 ratings — published 2010
Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,714 ratings — published 1999
Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,420 ratings — published 2008
Spook Country (Blue Ant, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.73 — 21,657 ratings — published 2007
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,341 ratings — published 2014
Frames Of Mind: The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,817 ratings — published 1983
Out of My Mind (Out of My Mind, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.34 — 194,726 ratings — published 2010
Analyzing Intelligence: Origins, Obstacles, and Innovations (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.83 — 190 ratings — published 2008
How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.61 — 869 ratings — published
By Way of Deception: The Making of a Mossad Officer (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,183 ratings — published 1990
“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
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“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
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