Query: Books about intelligence agencies and also social sciences but not the Military
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Unending Game
The Defence of the Realm
By Way of Deception
Gideon's Spies
Every Spy a Prince
The Enemy Within (Milne book)
The Spy Chronicles
Operation X (book)
Catch and Kill
Death of a Dissident
The New Nobility
R.N. Kao: Gentleman Spymaster
Deep Black (1986 book)
Special Tasks
Evidence from documents: The Unending Game: Books about intelligence agencies and also social sciences but not the Military: a 2018 book by Vikram Sood, former head of India's foreign intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW). According to Sood his book is not a memoir but a beginner’s guide in intelligence and espionage.
also social sciences: The book covers the history and problems associated with espionage, its analysis and actions that are taken based on the information. It covers the workings of international intelligence agencies including the meddling of the KGB and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Indian politics.
The Defence of the Realm: an authorised history of the British Security Service (MI5), written by historian Christopher Andrew. Andrew was commissioned in December 2002 to write the history for MI5's 100th anniversary in 2009, and was given "virtually unrestricted access" to much of MI5's files, as well as "no restriction" on whatever conclusions he decided to draw from them. The book reported, amongst other things, that MI5 kept a file (under a pseudonym) on Prime Minister Harold Wilson (as revealed by Peter Wright decades before in ''Spycatcher''), as well as noting how many of Wilson's MP's were spying for the Soviet bloc. The book's title was derived from MI5's Latin motto, ''Regnum Defende''.
By Way of Deception: The book starts with Ostrovsky's service in the Israeli Defense Forces. After taking psychological and other preliminary tests, he rejects a potential job as a Mossad assassin but accepts a trainee katsa position.
Gideon's Spies: Books about intelligence agencies: '''''Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad''''' is a 1999 book by Welsh author Gordon Thomas on the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service.
and also social sciences but not the Military: In the book the author claimed that – eight months before Kenneth Starr had ever heard of Monica Lewinsky – the Israelis had about thirty hours of recorded tapes of President Bill Clinton talking intimately with her. It is also written that Tel Aviv was keeping these tapes either for blackmail or to defend its mole in White House, whose code name was "Mega." Daniel Pipes also criticized the book as inaccurate.
Every Spy a Prince: s a 1990 book by Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman on the history of the Israeli intelligence community.
The Enemy Within (Milne book): The book investigates the circumstances surrounding the UK miners' strike (1984–1985) and the involvement of intelligence services in destroying the miners and the lengths the police, intelligence services and government went to in subverting public opinion.
The Spy Chronicles: '''''The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace''''' is a 2018 book in the format of a dialogue between two intelligence chiefs of India and Pakistan, AS Dulat and Asad Durrani, and moderated by Aditya Sinha.
Operation X (book): '''''Operation X: The Untold Story of India's Covert Naval War in East Pakistan''''' is a book co-authored by M.N.R. Samant and Sandeep Unnithan. It is the first known documentation of Indian Navy's Directorate of Naval Intelligence's Operation X, which was undertaken in 1971 during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
Catch and Kill: Farrow argues that Weinstein was able to use Black Cube, a private Israeli intelligence service, to successfully pressure executives at NBC News to kill the story there, leading him to take it to ''The New Yorker'', where it was published and helped spark the international #MeToo movement exposing sexual abuse, mostly of women, in many industries.
Death of a Dissident: '''''Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB''''
The New Nobility: '''''The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB'
R.N. Kao: Gentleman Spymaster: The National Security Advisor of India, Ajit Doval, has written the foreword of the book.
Deep Black (1986 book): ''"Deep Black"'' recounts the United States' clandestine Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) program from its inception at the start of the Cold War up to the mid-1980s.
Special Tasks: Spymaster''''' is the autobiography of Pavel Sudoplatov, who was a member of the intelligence services of the Soviet Union