Studies in Intelligence 67, No. 1 (Extracts, March 2023)

Reviews: Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf (March 2023)

Compiled and reviewed by Hayden Peake and others.

Intelligence and Policy: Covert Action

The Third Option: Covert Action and American Foreign Policy, by Loch K. Johnson

History

Covert Legions: U.S. Army Intelligence in Germany, 1944–1949, by Thomas Boghardt

Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison, by Ben Macintyre

Sidney Reilly: Master Spy, by Benny Morris, and The Greatest Spy: The True Story of the Secret Agent Who Inspired James Bond 007, by John Harte

The Venlo Sting: MI6’s Deadly Fiasco, by Norman Ridley

The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp, by Simon Parkin (Reviewed by J. E. Leonardson.)

Intelligence Abroad

Canadian Military Intelligence: Operations and Evolution from the October Crisis to the War in Afghanistan, by David A. Charters

The Handbook of Asian Intelligence Cultures, by Ryan Shaffer (ed.)

Memoir

Spy Daughter, Queer Girl: A Memoir In Search of Truth and Acceptance in a Family of Secrets, by Leslie Absher

The Yank: A True Story of a Former US Marine in the Irish Republican Army, by John Crawley (Reviewed by Joseph Gartin.)

Fiction

The Able Archers: Based On Real Events, by Brian J. Morra (Reviewed by Graham Alexander.)

The Bucharest Dossier: A Novel, by William Maz (Reviewed by Graham Alexander.)

The Wayward Spy—A Novel, by Susan Ouellette (Reviewed by Mike R.)

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