Spies Among Us

On the heels of the list on diplomats.  My association was that diplomats find information overtly; spies find information covertly.  Most of my reading on the covert world started close to the fall of the Soviet Union.  Since then, my reading on the covert world has slacked off.    
  
1.  The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Agency, James Bamford (1982).   Bought used. 






2.  Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief, Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa (1987).  Written by the former head of Romanian intelligence who defected.  Inside account of all the horrors of the Ceausescus' power run amok.  Bought new. 







3.  KGB: Inside Story, Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky (1990).   A history that came out of the archives of the KGB.  Bought new. 



4.  Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer, Peter Wright (1987).  Former UK MI5 Director experiences from the 1930s to the end of the Cold War.  The British Government attempted to stop its publication.  Bought new.


  


5.  A Man Called Intrepid: The Secret War/The Authentic Account of the most significant diplomacy and decisive intelligence operations of WWII, William Stevenson (1976).    A classic of modern spy history.  Bought used.