Simon Willmetts is an associate professor of intelligence studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University. He is the author of In Secrecy's Shadow: The OSS and CIA in Hollywood Cinema, 1941–1979.Constant Hijzen is the historical adviser at the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) and is a research fellow in intelligence and security at Leiden University. He is the author of Roots of Counterterrorism: Contemporary Wisdom from Dutch Intelligence.

Exceptionally well organized and presented, "Spies, Culture, and Society: Coming in from the Cold" is a unique and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, and college/university library Political Intelligence Gathering/Military History collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction, Simon WillmettsPart I: Intelligence and the Politics of Fiction1. Security's Fictions: Speculative Narrative and the Imagination of the State, Timothy Melley2. Taking Fiction Seriously: Spies, Secrecy, and Democracy, Pauline Blistène3. The CIA and Hollywood, Tricia Jenkins and Simon Willmetts4. An Interview with German Spy Novelist Titus Müller, Constant HijzenPart II: Intelligence, Secrecy, and Paranoia5. Trust No One: An Intellectual and Cultural History of US Deep State Conspiracy Theories, Kathryn Olmsted6. The Perfidious and Invisible Enemy: Narratives of the Dutch Covert Sphere in the 1960s, Constant Hijzen7. An Interview with Swedish Psychological Defense Practitioners Björn Palmertz and Per Thunholm, Simon WillmettsPart III: Journalism and State Secrecy8. A Culture Collapses?: Spies, Unsecrecy, and the American Press since 9/11, Richard J. Aldrich9. An Interview with National Security Reporter James Risen, Constant Hijzen and Simon WillmettsPart IV: Intelligence Mentalities10. Imperial Boomerang: Domestic CIA Operations during the Cold War, Hugh Wilford11. Cord Meyer: A Gray Man of the CIA, Jonathan NashelConclusion: Spies and Society, the Cultural Politics of Espionage, Constant HijzenList of Contributors 297Index 303

Simon Willmetts is an associate professor of intelligence studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University. He is the author of In Secrecy's Shadow: The OSS and CIA in Hollywood Cinema, 1941–1979.Constant Hijzen is the historical adviser at the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) and is a research fellow in intelligence and security at Leiden University. He is the author of Roots of Counterterrorism: Contemporary Wisdom from Dutch Intelligence.

Exceptionally well organized and presented, "Spies, Culture, and Society: Coming in from the Cold" is a unique and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, and college/university library Political Intelligence Gathering/Military History collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction, Simon WillmettsPart I: Intelligence and the Politics of Fiction1. Security's Fictions: Speculative Narrative and the Imagination of the State, Timothy Melley2. Taking Fiction Seriously: Spies, Secrecy, and Democracy, Pauline Blistène3. The CIA and Hollywood, Tricia Jenkins and Simon Willmetts4. An Interview with German Spy Novelist Titus Müller, Constant HijzenPart II: Intelligence, Secrecy, and Paranoia5. Trust No One: An Intellectual and Cultural History of US Deep State Conspiracy Theories, Kathryn Olmsted6. The Perfidious and Invisible Enemy: Narratives of the Dutch Covert Sphere in the 1960s, Constant Hijzen7. An Interview with Swedish Psychological Defense Practitioners Björn Palmertz and Per Thunholm, Simon WillmettsPart III: Journalism and State Secrecy8. A Culture Collapses?: Spies, Unsecrecy, and the American Press since 9/11, Richard J. Aldrich9. An Interview with National Security Reporter James Risen, Constant Hijzen and Simon WillmettsPart IV: Intelligence Mentalities10. Imperial Boomerang: Domestic CIA Operations during the Cold War, Hugh Wilford11. Cord Meyer: A Gray Man of the CIA, Jonathan NashelConclusion: Spies and Society, the Cultural Politics of Espionage, Constant HijzenList of Contributors 297Index 303