Introduction
Part 1: Speaking Truth to Power: CIA Intelligence Analysts
Getting In: Why Join the Directorate of Intelligence?
1. Careers in Intelligence Analysis
Volko F. Ruhnke
2. The Best Speech I Ever Gave, the Best Thing I Ever Wrote
Martin Petersen
Briefing the President
3. Working with Words and Enjoying the View
John Hollister Hedley
4. Never Boring, Often Meaningful, and Almost Fun
Henry Appelbaum
5. Briefing Presidential Candidates
John Helgerson
Monitoring Soviet Military Capabilities
6. The Soviets Go on the LAMM
Michael D. Flint and Boyd Sutton
7. Making the World Safe through SAFE
Michael D. Flint
8. Getting the Facts Right
Tony Williams
Winning the Cold War
9. An Economist’s Look at the Soviet Union, and Beyond
Robert E. Leggett
10. Two of the “Coolest” Things I Did Working for the CIA
Robert Blackwell
11. A Cold War CIA Analyst Remembers
Anne Campbell Gruner
A Wealth of Options
12. Reminiscences of a Checkered Past
Nicholas Starr
13. Reflections on an Eclectic CIA Career
Alan More
14. A Geographer Looks Back at 50 Years with the CIA
Will Rogers
15. An “Out-of-Body Experience”: Seeing the DI with New Eyes
Jon Nowick
16. Peasant at the Creation: The Agency’s First Terrorism Analyst and Beyond
Edward Mickolus
Dealing with The Rest of the World
17. Satellite Imagery and the Afghan Task Force
Tom Sheridan
18. Slideshow
Jeri DiGiulio
19. Meanwhile, in Asia . . .
Merrily Baird
Part 2: Heroes Behind the Heroes: CIA Support Officers
A Quick Look at Oversight
20. On Planet Congress
Martin Petersen
21. In Support, You Never Know Where You Might End Up—and What You Might Learn along the Way
Dan King
22. What Is a Promise Worth?
Dan King
23. An Adventure in the Far East
Robert A. Morgan Jr.
24. First Tour Adventures: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Missionary
Hugh S. Pettis
25. Out of the Barn, Into the Beltway
Hazel Harrison
26. Ed and a Secretary: How I Ended Up at the CIA
Martin Petersen
27. Traveling with the President
Frank Ryan
28. KH601
Richard Irwin
A Hero’s Story
29. Our Man in Havana’s Jails: Temporary Duty Assignment in Hell
Walter E. Szuminski
A Word from Our Predecessors
30. Operation Oshima
John Behling
And from the Next Generation
31. The Other Side of the CIA: My Life as a CIA Analyst
Gregor S.
Vision, Mission, and Values Statement of the Central Intelligence Agency
Suggested Reading
Contributors
