Books like The Mighty Wurlitzer by Hugh Wilford

A definitive, document‑rich history of the CIA, revealing why presidents and CIA leaders have struggled to grasp global realities and how repeated failures have threatened U.S. national security.

A Question of Torture charts the CIA’s fifty‑year development of psychological interrogation techniques, tracing their spread from Vietnam to Iran, Central America, and the post‑9/11 era, and arguing that coerced information is unreliable and harmful to America’s legal and international reputation.

James Jesus Angleton, CIA spymaster and powerful unelected official, wielded hidden influence from WWII through the Cold War, overseeing MKULTRA, surveillance of Americans, and the hunt for Soviet moles, while engaging in controversial political and intelligence actions.

"The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, along with some less famous perpetrators who managed to sneak in and who eventually were exposed by Nazi hunters. But the truth is much worse, and has been covered up for decades: the CIA and FBI brought thousands of perpetrators to America as possible assets against their new Cold War enemies. When the Justice Department finally investigated and learned the truth, the results were classified and buried. Using the dramatic story of one former perpetrator who settled in New Jersey, conned the CIA into hiring him, and begged for the agency's support when his wartime identity emerged, Eric Lichtblau tells the full, shocking story of how America became a refuge for hundreds of postwar Nazis"--

John Foster Dulles and his brother Allen Dulles, key figures in U.S. foreign policy and CIA leadership during the early Cold War, are examined in a joint biography.

The CIA's hidden manual of magic and deception: How the agency taught its agents to use sleight of hand for espionage and covert operations during the Cold War.

A sweeping history of the CIA, tracing its evolution from founding to present and examining controversial covert actions and the rise of secret prisons and torture in the post‑9/11 era.

An expose of CIA operations and the fight against government censorship, detailing 168 mandated deletions and the agency’s legal battle to suppress the book.