By Scott W. Carmichael
The story of Ana Montes, one of DIA's premier analysts who was working for the Cubans the entire time (16 years) and had the highest clearances.
Led by RADM Tom Brooks (Ret.) and ISCM Dave Mattingly (Ret.), NIP has constructed a list of books (fiction and non-fiction) which are considered to be “classics” in each of the intelligence disciplines.
The beginnings of this list are included below. The object is to list two or three of the best books in each discipline, and we anticipate that the list will undoubtedly change over time as the readership suggests books that they consider better than the ones on the current list.
By Scott W. Carmichael
The story of Ana Montes, one of DIA's premier analysts who was working for the Cubans the entire time (16 years) and had the highest clearances.
By Sandy Grimes
This book details how the very patient work of two CIA women finally uncovered Aldrich Ames.
By Pete Early
This is the story of John Walker and his spy ring -- one of the most serious penetrations of the U.S. Navy.
By Ron Olive
Jonathan Pollard, an intelligence analyst working in the U.S. Naval Investigative Service's Anti-Terrorist Alert Center, systematically stole highly sensitive secrets from almost every major intelligence agency in the United States. In just eighteen months he sold more than one million pages of classified material to Israel. No other spy in U.S. history has stolen so many secrets, so highly classified, in such a short period of time. Author Ronald Olive was in charge of counterintelligence in the Washington office of the Naval Investigative Service that investigated Pollard and garnered the confession that led to his arrest in 1985 and eventual life sentence. His book reveals details of Pollard's confession, his interaction with the author when suspicion was mounting, and countless other details never before made public. Olive points to mistaken assumptions and leadership failures that allowed Pollard to ransack America's defense intelligence long after he should have been caught.