Allen W. Dulles

The Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World (2006)

The best way to understand a subject is often to read about how it started and this book is about the founding of the CIA in the early 1950s by the original director.This is probably the best introduction to the intelligence world that I've read so far, beyond maybe John Le Carre's fictional nove...