Books like The main enemy by Milt Bearden

A biography of Oleg Gordievsky, the Soviet double‑agent who, while working undercover in the KGB, supplied MI6 with critical intelligence that accelerated the collapse of the Cold War.

Henry Crumpton, a former CIA counterterrorism officer, recounts his covert operations against al Qaeda and the Taliban, detailing the agency’s strategic shift in the Afghanistan war and its impact on U.S. national security.

A nonfiction account of U.S. CIA espionage tactics during the Cold War, revealing the agency’s techniques and countermeasures against the Soviet KGB.

“[The United States’ goal in Angola] was not to keep out the Cubans and Soviets but to make their imperial efforts as costly as possible and to prove that, after Vietnam. we were still capable of response, however insane. It is this story that has been told, and in impressive and convincing detail, by John Stockweli, the former chief of the CIA’s Angola task force.’ His hook should not he missed. Since strategic thought survives by ignoring experience, it has a highly professional interest in avoiding accounts such as this. By the same token, all who are alarmed about the tendency toward such strategic thinking should strongly welcome Mr. Stockwell’s book.” —John Kenneth Gaibraith. New York Review of Books In Search of Enemies is much more than the story of the only war to be found when the CIA sought to recoup its prestige after the Vietnam debacle. Though no American troops were committed to Angola, only “advisors,” many millions were spent, many thousands died, and many lies were told to the American people, in waging a war without purpose to American vital interests and without hope of victory. In Search of Enemies is unique in its wealth of detail about CIA operations and convincing in its argument that the clandestine services of the CIA should be abolished. John Stockwell, who lived in Africa for ten of his early years, is a graduate of the University of Texas and an alumnus of the U.S. Marine Corps. After twelve years as a CIA officer, he resigned from the agency on April I. 1977

An investigative look at the George W. Bush years, exposing CIA and Defense Department actions, domestic surveillance, executive abuses, and how national security agencies operated behind the scenes.

A candid look at the CIA's founding purpose, early successes, and enduring challenges of rivalry, mismanagement, and Soviet infiltrations over five decades of U.S. intelligence.

Flight from Dallas presents factual documentation of the experience of Robert G. Vinson, an Air Force Sergeant with a crypto-security clearance. In 1963 Sergeant Vinson was working for the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). On November 22 he personally and accidentally became involved in an activity connected with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The involvement of elements of the CIA are clearly set forth including the forced transfer of Vinson to a secret CIA base in Nevada called Site (Area) 51. Compelled to remain silent due to a secrecy agreement, Vinson went public after the passage of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) Act in 1993. Finding it impossible to obtain assistance from government agencies including the FBI and Department of Justice, this book is his story.

The Venona secret US army project of the 1940's was a monumental achievement in this history of American code breaking and one of the America's most closely guarded secrets. This book exposes the greatest domestic counter-espionage operation that has ever been launched against the Soviet Union.