Stories from Langley

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