Stories from Langley A Glimpse inside the CIA / edited and with an introduction by Edward Mickolus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mickolus, Edward F., editor of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intelligence service--United States--Anecdotes.

Intelligence service.

Spies--United States--Biography--Anecdotes.

Spies.

Intelligence officers--United States--Biography--Anecdotes.

Intelligence officers.

United States. Central Intelligence Agency--History--Anecdotes.

United States.

United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Officials and employees--Biography--Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : Potomac Books, An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Applicants to the Central Intelligence Agency often asked Edward Mickolus what they might expect in a career there. Mickolus, a former CIA intelligence officer whose duties also included recruiting and public affairs, never had a simple answer. If applicants were considering a life in the National Clandestine Service, the answer was easy. Numerous memoirs show the lives of operations officers collecting secret intelligence overseas, conducting counterintelligence investigations, and running covert action programs. But the CIA isn't only about case officers in far-flung areas of the world, recr

Contents:

Careers in intelligence analysis / Volko F. Ruhnke

The best speech I ever gave, the best thing I ever wrote / Martin Petersen

Working with words and enjoying the view / John Hollister Hedley

Never boring, often meaningful, and almost fun / Henry Appelbaum

Briefing presidential candidates / John Helgerson

The Soviets go on the LAMM / Michael D. Flint and Boyd Sutton

Making the world safe through SAFE / Michael D. Flint

Getting the facts right / Tony Williams

An economist's look at the Soviet Union, and beyond / Robert E. Leggett

Two of the "coolest" things I did working for the CIA / Robert Blackwell

A cold war CIA analyst remembers / Anne Campbell Gruner

Reminiscences of a checkered past / Nicholas Starr

Reflections on an eclectic CIA career / Alan More

A geographer looks back at 50 years with the CIA / Will Rogers

An "out-of-body experience" : seeing the DI with new eyes / Jon Nowick

Peasant at the creation : the agency's first terrorism analyst and beyond / Edward Mickolus

Satellite imagery and the Afghan Task Force / Tom Sheridan

Slideshow / Jeri DiGiulio

Meanwhile, in Asia... / Merrily Baird

On planet Congress / Martin Petersen

In support, you never know where you might end up and what you might learn along the way / Dan King

What is a promise worth? / Dan King

An adventure in the Far East / Robert A. Morgan Jr

First tour adventures : the mysterious case of the missing missionary / Hugh S. Pettis

Out of the barn, into the beltway / Hazel Harrison

Ed and a secretary : how I ended up at the CIa / Martin Petersen

Traveling with the president / Frank Ryan

Kh601 / Richard Irwin

Our man in Havana's jails : temporary duty assignment in Hell / Walter E. Szuminski

Operation Oshima / John Behling

The other side of the CIA : my life as a CIA analyst / Gregor S.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61234-689-8

OCLC:

1175636112