The Family Jewels (49 page)

37
. Frank Snepp,
Decent Interval: A CIA Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam
(New York: Random House, 1978), passim.

38
. For example, Matthew Jones, “Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Harrison E. Salisbury and the CIA: The
New York Times
, Journalistic Integrity, and the End of a Friendship,” paper presented at the conference of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Washington, DC, June 24, 2011.

39
. Duane R. Clarridge with Digby Diehl,
A Spy for All Seasons
(New York: Scribner, 1997), 156.

40
. HPSCI,
The CIA and the Media
, passim.

41
. Carl Bernstein, “The CIA and the Media: How America's Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up,”
Rolling Stone
, October 20, 1977, 55–67.

42
. David Atlee Phillips testimony, HPSCI,
The CIA and the Media
, 68.

43
. Frank Snepp,
Irreparable Harm: A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the CIA in an Epic Battle over Free Speech
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001), 72.

44
. Bob Woodward,
VEIL: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981–1987
(New York: Pocket Books, 1988), 587–588.

45
. Central Intelligence Agency, Regulation HR 7-lc(8) (l) Sections 2(b), (c), issued by Stansfield Turner, November 30, 1977, in HPSCI,
The CIA and the Media
, reprinted pp. 523–524.

46
. CIA, 1961 Covert Action Staff paper, in United States Congress, Senate (94th Cong., 2nd sess.), Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Church Committee),
Final Report: Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence
(Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1976), quoted p. 193.

47
. John Barron,
KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents
(New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1974).

48
. John Barron,
MIG Pilot: The Final Escape of Lieutenant Belenko
(Englewood Cliffs, NJ: McGraw-Hill, 1980).

49
. Conversation with David Martin, March 28, 2012; David C. Martin,
A Wilderness of Mirrors
(New York: Harper & Row, 1980).

50
. Conversation with Edward Epstein, March 28, 2012.

51
. Edward Jay Epstein,
Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald
(New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1978).

52
. Jerrold L. Schecter and Peter Deriabin,
The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War
(New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992).

53
. Evan Thomas,
The Very Best Men/Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995).

54
. Peter Grose,
Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994); and
Operation Rollback: America's Secret War behind the Iron Curtain
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000).

55
. Benjamin Weiser,
A Secret Life: A Polish Colonel, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country
(New York: Public Affairs Press, 2004).

56
. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Massachusetts,
Douglas Valentine v. Central Intelligence Agency
, 92–30025-F. The documents quoted (officials' identities redacted) are a CIA/Publications Review Board (PRB) memorandum for the record of July 31, 1986, a PRB letter of April 7, 1987, a PRB letter (only referred to) of December 24, 1987, a memorandum from the PRB associate legal advisor to Directorate of Operations management staff of April 8, 1988, and an undated note (only referred to) from an employee of the Office of the Inspector General.

CHAPTER 8. PLUGGING THE DIKE

1
. Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks,
The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence
(New York: Knopf, 1974).

2
. Angus Mackenzie,
Secrets: The CIA's War at Home
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 46.

3
. White House, Memorandum, John D. Ehrlichman–Richard M. Nixon, “C.I.A. vs. Marchetti,” May 30, 1972, Richard M. Nixon Library, Nixon Papers, President's Office File, Handwriting File, box 17, folder “President's Handwriting, May 1972.”

4
. CIA, Letter, Richard Helms–John D. Ehrlichman, May 23, 1972, Richard M. Nixon Library, Nixon Papers, President's Office File, Handwriting File, box 17, folder “President's Handwriting, May 1972.”

5
. Philip Agee,
On the Run
(Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1987), quoted p. 36.

6
. Joseph B. Smith,
Portrait of a Cold Warrior
(New York: Ballantine Books, 1981), 412.

7
. Frank Snepp,
Irreparable Harm: A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the CIA in an Epic Battle over Free Speech
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001), 81.

8
. CIA, Memorandum, Stansfield Turner–Zbigniew Brzezinski, October 23, 1978, Jimmy Carter Library (declassified RAC NLC-43-8-4-4-8), CIA CREST series.

9
. CIA, Letter, George V. Lauder–Stansfield Turner, June 30, 1986, CIA Electronic Reading Room, Document 0001356702.pdf (accessed April 15, 2012).

10
. CIA, Public Affairs Office, DCI Weekly Report, March 16, 1984 (declassified October 16, 2008), National Archives and Records Administration, CIA CREST series, job no. RDP86M00886R002700030008-5.

11
. Stansfield Turner,
Secrecy and Democracy: The CIA in Transition
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985), x–xi.

12
. CIA, Letter, George V. Lauder–Gene Cryer, July 9, 1985, CIA Electronic Reading Room, document 0001356720.pdf (accessed April 15, 2012).

13
. CIA, Letter, George V. Lauder–Frank Davies, July 10, 1985, CIA Electronic Reading Room, document 0001356743.pdf (accessed April 15, 2012).

14
. Ibid.

15
. William Hood,
Mole
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1982).

16
. Russell Jack Smith,
The Unknown CIA: My Three Decades with the Agency
(Washington, DC: Pergamon-Brassey's, 1989).

17
. Scott D. Breckinridge,
CIA and the Cold War: A Memoir
(Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993).

18
. Tom Gilligan,
CIA Life: 10,000 Days with the Agency
(Guilford, CT: Foreign Intelligence Press, 1991).

19
. Orrin Deforest and David Chanoff,
Slow Burn
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990).

20
. Richard Bissell with Jonathan E. Lewis and Frances T. Pudlo,
Reflections of a Cold Warrior: From Yalta to the Bay of Pigs
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996).

21
. Miles Copeland,
The Game Player: Confessions of the CIA's Original Political Operative
(London: Aurum Press, 1989), ix.

22
. Duane R. Clarridge,
A Spy for All Seasons: My Life in the CIA
(New York: Scribner, 1997).

23
. John H. Hedley, “Reviewing the Work of CIA Authors: Secrets,
Free Speech, and Fig Leaves,”
Studies in Intelligence
, Spring 1998, 75–83.

24
. CIA, Memorandum, “Publications Review Board Standards” (OIM 00–0359), April 5, 2000, copy in author's files. (It is worth noting that this never-secret set of administrative rules bears the CIA declassification number MORI 1512162 and contains deletions that would supposedly damage national security.)

25
. Richard L. Holm,
The American Agent: My Life in the CIA
(London: St. Ermin's Press, 2003).

26
. Robert Baer,
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
(New York: Crown Books, 2002).

27
. Ted Shackley with Richard A. Finney,
Spymaster: My Life in the CIA
(Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2005).

28
. Frank Holober,
Raiders of the China Coast: CIA Covert Operations during the Korean War
(Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999).

29
. Floyd L. Paseman,
A Spy's Journey: A CIA Memoir
(St. Paul, MN: Zenith Press, 2004).

30
. Stuart Methven,
Laughter in the Shadows: A CIA Memoir
(Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2008).

31
. Larry Devlin,
Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone
(New York: Public Affairs Press, 2007).

32
. David W. Doyle,
True Men and Traitors: From the OSS to the CIA, My Life in the Shadows
(New York: John Wiley's Sons, 2001).

33
. Milt Bearden and James Risen,
The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
(New York: Random House, 2003).

34
. Robert Gates,
From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), 4.

35
. George Tenet with Bill Harlow,
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA
(New York: HarperCollins, 2007).

36
. Richard Helms with William Hood,
A Look over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency
(New York: Random House, 2003), 452.

37
. T. J. Waters,
Class 11: Inside the CIA's First Post-9/11 Spy Class
(New York: Dutton, 2006).

38
. John F. Sullivan,
Gatekeeper: Memoirs of a CIA Polygraph Examiner
(Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2007).

39
. Melissa Boyle Mahle,
Denial and Deception: An Insider View of the CIA from Iran-Contra to 9/11
(New York: Nation Books, 2004), x.

40
. Associated Press, “New Rules to Govern Publications by CIA Officers,”
USA Today
, January 11, 2005.

41
. Antonio and Jonna Mendez with Bruce Henderson,
Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War
(New York: Atria Books, 2002), 282. This book was the sequel to Antonio's
The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA
(with Malcolm McConnell) (New York: William Morrow, 1999). There, too, Mendez was happy with the result.

42
. James M. Olson,
Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying
(Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2006).

43
. Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton with Henry R. Schlesinger,
Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spying from Communism to Al Qaeda
(New York: Dutton, 2008), xix–xxi.

44
. Ishmael Jones,
The Human Factor: Inside the CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture
(New York: Encounter Books, 2008).

45
. U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia,
United States of America v. Ishmael Jones, a pen name
, 1:10cv765 (GBL/TRJ),
Complaint
, July 9, 2010, 7.

46
. Henry A. Crumpton,
The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service
(New York: Penguin Press, 2012), 325.

47
. Gary C. Schroen,
First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan
(New York: Ballantine Books, 2007), xi–xii.

48
. Gary Berntsen with Ralph Pezzullo,
Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, a Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
(New York: Crown Publishers, 2005), ix–x.

49
. John Kiriakou with Michael Ruby,
The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror
(New York: Bantam, 2009), xi.

50
. Glenn L. Carle,
The Interrogator: An Education
(New York: Nation Books, 2011), 291–292.

51
. Valerie Plame Wilson,
Fair Game: How a Top Spy Was Betrayed by Her Own Government
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008).

52
. Steven Lee Myers, “U.S. Envoy Puts Match to Bridges with Iraq Tell-All,”
New York Times
, October 7, 2011. The book is Peter Van Buren,
We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People
(New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2011).

53
. Scott Shane, “C.I.A. Fighting Memoir of 9/11 by F.B.I. Agent,”
New York Times
, August 26, 2011, quoted p. A16.

54
. Ali Soufan with Daniel Freedman,
The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War against al-Qaeda
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2011), xi.

55
. Conversation with Ali Soufan, April 15, 2012.

CHAPTER 9. CIRCLING THE WAGONS

1
. Loch K. Johnson,
A Season of Inquiry: The Senate Intelligence Investigation
(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1985), quoted p. 47.

2
. Stanley Kutler,
Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes
(New York: Free Press, 1997).

3
. CIA, Vernon Walters, Memorandum for the Record, June 28, 1972, in Gerald Gold et al., eds.,
The Watergate Hearings: Break-in and Cover-up
(New York: Bantam Books, 1973), reprinted pp. 786–787.

4
. Ibid., pp. 787–788.

5
. Vernon A. Walters,
Silent Missions
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978), 588–589.

6
. CIA, Memorandum, Richard Helms–Vernon Walters, June 28, 1972, in Robert M. Hathaway and Russell Jack Smith,
Richard Helms as Director of Central Intelligence
(CIA: Center for the Study of Intelligence/History Staff, 1993; declassified July 2006), quoted p. 193.

7
. CIA, Vernon A. Walters, Memorandum for the Record, July 6, 1972, in Gold,
The Watergate Hearings
, reprinted pp. 790–792.