My CIA
Subtitle: memories of a secret career
By: by Christopher David Costanzo
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9781490498430
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: United States; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Biography; Intelligence officers
Description: Primary source document.

Contains primary source material.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Preparation and background; title: Joining up; title: Cover and security; title: Intelligence 101; title: Espionage 101; title: More espionage; title: A branch trainee; title: Desk officer; title: Intimations of a severe problem; title: My own personal disillusionment; title: An evil legacy; title: I get an overseas assignment; title: My first operational tour; title: When you have to operate; title: Back at headquarters; title: Mentalities; title: Administration and support; title: Recruiting agents; title: Go forth and recruit!; title: Effluvia and the cover dilemma; title: Agents; title: The good old days and the bad new days; title: After effluvia; title: Pettiness, jealousy, and teltaps; title: Resignation and reconsideration; title: Things start to change; title: Personnel policy; title: Some lingering evils; title: Sitting on the promotion boards; title: Things get better; title: A clandestine station; title: Working with allies - Foreign leaders and the CIA; title: High-level agents; title: The routine and the critical; title: Spy gear and technical services; title: Big-time clandestinity; title: Slouching towards mediocrity; title: The siege from within; title: The siege from without; title: When all is said and done.