By Jasper Holmes  
Assigned to the combat intelligence unit in Honolulu from June 1941 until the end of World War II, author W. J. Holmes was an important part of the naval organization that collected, analyzed, and disseminated intelligence information, and his compassionate understanding of the business of intelligence gathering is unique. Here, he not only captures the mood of the period but also gives rare insight into the problems and personalities involved. The reader comes to fully appreciate the painful moral dilemma faced daily by commanders in the Pacific once the Japanese naval codes were broken.

By John Prados
Written in the style of a thriller but solidly based on an array of sources, this study reinterprets the entire sea campaign in the Pacific, using intelligence as the missing key to the Allied success. It examines every aspect of the secret war of intelligence--from radio dispatches and espionage to vital information from prisoners and document translation--showing how U.S. intelligence outsmarted Japan nearly every step of the way. The resulting assessment is a virtual rewriting of history that challenges previous conceptions about the Pacific conflict.

By Elliot Carlson 
Rochefort, Eddie Layton’s good friend,  headed Station Hypo, the U.S. Navy’s signals monitoring and cryptographic intelligence unit at Pearl Harbor responsible for breaking the Japanese navy’s code before the Battle of Midway. The book provides insight to the development of cryptography and Naval Intelligence.  It depicts the bitter fights and jealousies between Washington Navy bureaucrats who opposed Rochefort and forced Rochefort’s removal from Station Hypo and denied him the Distinguished Service Medal recommended by Admiral Nimitz. In capturing the interplay of policy and personality and the role played by politics at the highest levels of the Navy, Carlson reveals a side of the intelligence community seldom seen by outsiders.

Edited by Captain Wyman Packard 
Reprint of this scarce joint 1996 publication by the U.S. Naval Historical Center and the Office of Naval Intelligence. This comprehensive reference work is intended to provide intelligence professionals, scholars, and the general public with a detailed, topical accounting of the long and varied activities of U.S. Naval Intelligence. ill.

by RADM Edward T. Layton
This book is the story of the battle against the Japanese in WWII as told by the Intelligence Officer for ADM Nimitz, LCDR Eddie Layton. The 2019 Midway writers and actors used this book as background and included scenes depicted by Layton in his book.  It’s also the story of the personal and organizational battles between Naval Intelligence and Naval Communications, and as Layton notes in his first chapter, it is the story "of the enduring control for Naval Intelligence, a struggle which is still going on today.” 

by Patrick Beesley
This is the story of the Battle of the Atlantic from the British perspective. It was the British who convinced Admiral King and the US Navy that OPINTEL could support convoy operations to avoid German U-boats. Beesley was the Operations Officer for the Royal Navy’s Operational Intelligence Center which worked closely with the ONI and the US Tenth Fleet in WWII. Beesley's narrative discusses the role of Bletchley Park and Communications or “Special Intelligence”, but his book is all about the importance of integrating all sources of intelligence and working closely and purposively with the Royal Navy’s operational command to provide timely, relevant and predictive intelligence. The book was mandatory reading for the students of the 1980s era OSIS OPINTEL class taught at FITCLANT and the bonus question on the final exam was “why did Patrick Beesley call the book “Very Special Intelligence?”

By Polmar and White 
The authentic story of the attempt to raise the Soviet Golf class SSB in the Pacific. Although it was a CIA operation, ONI played a very major part in the project.

By James D. Hornfischer 
Wolf Melbourne: “Simply one of the best writers of history period, Hornfischer lays bare the human costs of not knowing or underestimating your adversary. Willful or not, ignorance and absence of knowledge of the adversary cost the U.S. Navy greatly in the Guadalcanal campaign of World War Two. Just a few short months after the victory at Midway, the U.S. Navy still did not understand Japanese doctrinal preference and proficiency at nighttime naval warfare and in their superior torpedoes. This led to horrendous losses at the battles of Savo Island and Tassafaronga. These insights into the Japanese adversary were in pre-war intelligence reports but were never filtered into the average tactical commander’s decision making. Naval intelligence professionals should use this history to justify expanding its role and responsibilities in the critical areas of training and planning.”

By Jeffrey M. Moore 
In this book Jeffrey Moore profiles the history and select operations of America's first effective, all source, joint military intelligence agency. Known as JICPOA for Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Areas, the agency's nearly two thousand specialists are credited with giving Admiral Nimitz the intelligence he needed to win the Pacific War. Moore explains how JICPOA evolved and reveals some new facts about the war as he assesses the impact of intelligence on eight amphibious campaigns in the islands of the Central Pacific. He also demonstrates timeless intelligence lessons, faulty versus effective intelligence techniques, and intelligence-operational planning integration--subjects that continue to be pertinent to today's military operations, including the war on terror.

By Brig. Gen. Oscar Koch, USA 
As the chief of intelligence (G2) for General George S. Patton Jr. during World War II, Koch’s journey takes the reader from the African campaign to Sicily, into France during Operation Overlord, and on to Germany’s counteroffensive at the Battle of the Bulge. General Koch codifies combat intelligence techniques “developed and applied” under General Patton’s command for application by future military intelligence professionals who endeavor to read his illuminating work and take his counsel to heart. Read the book review by Lieutenant Junior Grade Jason Arthur Spencer.