Stories from Langley : a glimpse inside the CIA / edited and with an introduction by Edward Mickolus.

Publication:

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

Format/Description:

Book
xviii, 387 pages ; 24 cm

Subjects:

United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Officials and employees -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History -- Anecdotes.
Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
Spies -- United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
Intelligence service -- United States -- Anecdotes.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Employees.
Intelligence officers.
Intelligence service.
Spies.
United States.

Form/Genre:

Anecdotes.
Biography -- Anecdotes.
History.

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:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contributor:

Mickolus, Edward F., editor of compilation.

ISBN:

9781612346885 (cloth : alk. paper)
161234688X (cloth : alk. paper)
9781612346892 (pdf)

OCLC:

881146242

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