Dr Huw Dylan is a Lecturer in Intelligence and International Security at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, where he leads the MA programme in Intelligence and International Security. He is also and a visiting Associate Professor at the Norwegian Defence Intelligence School. His book, Defence Intelligence and the Cold War, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Dr. David Gioe is Associate Professor of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point. As an intelligence practitioner, he spent over 15 years working in the U.S. intelligence community, beginning with an appointment in 2001 as a Presidential Management Fellow in the FBI National Security Division. He then served as an analyst in the CIA Counterterrorist Center before earning field certification as a CIA operations officer. He served multiple overseas tours as a case officer. He has published in The National Interest, World Politics Review, and has co-edited a volume on the Cuban Missile Crisis with Christopher Andrew and Len Scott (Routledge, 2014). Michael S. Goodman is Professor of Intelligence and International Affairs in the Department of War Studies, King's College London and Visiting Professor at the Norwegian Defence Intelligence School. He has published widely in the field of intelligence history, including most recently The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Volume I: From the Approach of the Second World War to the Suez Crisis (Routledge, 2015), which was chosen as one of The Spectator’s books of the year. He is series editor for Intelligence and Security for Hurst/Columbia University Press; and for Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare for Edinburgh University Press; and is a member of the editorial boards for five journals. He is currently on secondment to the Cabinet Office where he is the Official Historian of the Joint Intelligence Committee.

An important and authoritative documentary history of the Central Intelligence Agency’s most significant operations and activities since its inception in 1947 … This compilation is a valuable primary reference resource for analysts on intelligence issues.

• Foreword by Michael MorellList of documentsIntroductionIntelligence for an American Century: Creating the CIAThe Berlin Tunnel: A ‘Gangster Act’The development of CIA covert actionThe CIA and the USSR: The Challenge of Understanding the Soviet ThreatAnglo-American Intelligence Liaison and the Outbreak of the Korean WarCIA and the Bomber and Missile GapThe CIA and Cuba: The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile CrisisThe CIA in VietnamThe CIA and Arms ControlCounter-Intelligence and Yuri Nosenko1975: The Year of the ‘Intelligence Wars’Watching KhomeiniThe CIA and the Soviet Invasion of AfghanistanMartial Law in PolandAble Archer and the NATO War ScareThe Soviet Leadership and Kremlinology in the 1980sThe CIA and the Persian Gulf War of 1991Aldrich AmesThe System was Blinking Red: The Peace Dividend and the Road to 9/11Reckoning and Redemption: The 9/11 Commission, the Director of National Intelligence, and CIA at WarIraq and WMDThe Terrorist Hunters Become Political Quarry: The CIA and Rendition, Detention and InterrogationInnovation at CIA: From Sputnik to Silicon Valley and VENONA to Vault 7Entering the Electoral Fray: CIA and Russian Meddling in the 2016 ElectionFlying Blind? CIA and the Trump AdministrationBibliography