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The stereotype in US #intelligence intelligence is that officers on the operations write autobiographies while analysts write journal articles. But there are a few analysts who have written autobiographies or been the subject of biographies. #twitterstorians 1/x
So we are starting a thread of autobiographies and biographies of intelligence analysts. We want your help to fill out the list. Extra points if you tweet about non-American analysts who have been the subject of a book. 2/x
The most recent one we know of is @smcarls1’s “In the Dark of War: A CIA Officer's Inside Account of the U.S. Evacuation from Libya.” @MarkSZaidEsq 3/ https://www.amazon.com/s?k=carlson+in+the+dark+of+war&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
Last year saw the long-awaited “The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, Hunting Terrorists and Challenging the White House” by @nadabakos. 4/ https://www.amazon.com/Targeter-Life-Hunt-Godfather-ISIS/dp/0316260479/ref=sr_1_1?crid=46CP80Q644CR&dchild=1&keywords=nada+bakos&qid=1597181733&sprefix=Nada+Bakos%2Caps%2C139&sr=8-1
Sam Adams, famous for his role in the controversy over Viet Cong order of battle, wrote “War of Numbers: An Intelligence Memoir of the Vietnam War's Uncounted Enemy.” 5/ https://www.amazon.com/War-Numbers-Intelligence-Sam-Adams/dp/1883642469
Sam Adams was also the subject of a biography by Michal Hiam, “Who the Hell Are We Fighting?: The Story of Sam Adams and the Vietnam Intelligence Wars.” 6/ https://www.amazon.com/Who-Hell-Are-Fighting-Intelligence/dp/B01FGN8NU4/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1HDW1MLL0HBI4&dchild=1&keywords=who+the+hell+are+we+fighting&qid=1597183258&s=books&sprefix=who+the+hell+are+%2Cstripbooks%2C155&sr=1-1
@PGEddington was a very rare imagery analyst to publish a memoir, “Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir.” He worked at NPIC and played a part in the Gulf War Syndrome controversy. 7/ https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-Memoir/dp/1600475418/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=patrick+eddington&qid=1598371649&s=books&sr=1-2
Among senior folks…Sherman Kent of Office of National Estimates fame wrote an autobiography that he self-published entitled “Reminiscences of a Varied Life: An Autobiography.” It’s virtually impossible to find except through interlibrary loan. 8/ https://www.amazon.com/Reminiscences-varied-life-Sherman-Kent/dp/B0006DJLUQ
Bob Gates, who made his way up through the Directorate of Intelligence @CIA to become DCI. He wrote “From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War.” 9/ https://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Ultimate-Insiders-Story-Presidents/dp/1416543368/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=gates+from+the+shadows&qid=1598377617&s=books&sr=1-1
Former DDCI Richard Kerr, who also made his way up through the analytic ranks, has a short biography out recently, 10/ https://www.amazon.com/Unclassified-Life-Before-During-After/dp/1950544109/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=richard+kerr&qid=1598371348&s=books&sr=1-1
William Langer and Raymond Garthoff, who both served in the Office of National Estimates for brief periods, touch on their CIA service briefly in their respective memoirs. 11/
Do you have other additions to this lists? 12/12
A late addition from us: Maurice Halperin, who headed Latin America analysis in the OSS in #WWII and was briefly @StateDept post-war was the subject of Don Kirschner's "Cold War Exile: The Unclosed Case of Maurice Halperin." https://www.amazon.com/Cold-War-Exile-Unclosed-Halperin/dp/0826209890
Maurice Halperin was--accurately it turns out--accused by Elizabeth Bentley of being a Soviet spy.
Two more, both of OSS R&A analysts. Brian Urquhart's "Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey," 1993. https://www.amazon.com/Ralph-Bunche-American-Brian-Urquhart/dp/0393318591/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=ralph+bunche&qid=1598728823&sr=8-1
And Richard Aldous' "Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian," 2017 about Arthur Schlesinger. https://www.amazon.com/Schlesinger-Imperial-Historian-Richard-Aldous/dp/0393244709/ref=sr_1_7?crid=1V4TEHT5AHC43&dchild=1&keywords=arthur+schlesinger&qid=1598728894&s=books&sprefix=arthur+schlesinger%2Caps%2C156&sr=1-7
