Recent Spy Cases
General
- Allen, Thomas B., and Norman Polmar. Merchants of Treason: America's Secrets for Sale. New York: Delacorte, 1988.
- Andrew, Christopher, and Vasili Mitrokhin. The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West. London: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 1999.
- Kessler, Ronald. Spy vs. Spy: Stalking Soviet Spies in America. New York: Scribner's, 1988.
- Mangold, Tom. Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton: The CIA’s Master Spy Hunter. Simon and Schuster, 1991.
- Martin, David C. Wilderness of Mirrors. Harper & Row, 1980.
- West, Nigel. The Illegals: The Double Lives of the Cold War's Most Secret Agents. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993.
- West, Nigel, and Oleg Tsarev. The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives. London: HarperCollins, 1998.
- Wise, David. Molehunt: The Secret Search For Traitors That Shattered the CIA. Random House, Inc., 1992.
Aldrich Ames
- Adams, James. Sellout: Aldrich Ames and the Corruption of the CIA. New York: Viking, 1995.
- Earley, Pete. Confessions of a Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1996.
- Maas, Peter. Killer Spy: The Inside Story of the FBI’s Pursuit and Capture of Aldrich Ames, America’s Deadliest Spy. New York: Warner Books, 1995.
- Weiner, Tim, David Johnston, and Neil A. Lewis. Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy. New York: Random House, 1995.
- Wise, David. Nightmover: How Aldrich Ames sold the CIA to the KGB for $4.6 Million. New York: Harper Collins, 1995.
- See also interviews with Ames at: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-21/aldrich1.html and http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/spies/interviews/ames/; and documents on the Ames case at: http://www.loyola.edu/dept/politics/intel.html.
Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton
- Lindsey, Robert. The Falcon and the Snowman. A True Story of Friendship and Espionage. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.
- Lindsey, Robert. The Flight of the Falcon. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983.
Robert Hanssen
- Havill, Adrian. The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold: The Secret Life of FBI Double Agent Robert Hanssen. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001.
- Powell, Bill. Treason: How a Russian Spy Led an American Journalist to a U.S. Double Agent. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
- Schiller, Lawrence. Into the Mirror: The Life of Master Spy Robert P. Hanssen. New York: Harper Collins, 2002.
- Shannon, Elaine, and Ann Blackman. The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Damaging FBI Agent in U.S. History. Boston: Little, Brown, 2002.
- Vise, David A. The Bureau and the Mole: The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, The Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002.
- Wise, David. Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America. New York: Random House, 2002.
- See also information on Hanssen at the FBI web site: http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/hanssen/hanssen.htm#anchor26782; further documents at: http://www.cicentre.com/Documents/DOC_Hanssen_1.htm; and extensive news coverage on the case at: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/hanssen/.
Oleg Penkovsky
- Penkovsky, Oleg Vladamirovich. The Penkovsky Papers. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1965.
- Schecter, Jerrold L. and Peter A. Deriabin. The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992.
- Wynne, Greville. The Man from Moscow: The Story of Wynne and Penkovsky. London: Hutchinson, 1967.
Jonathan Pollard
- Goldenberg, Elliot. The Hunting Horse: The Truth Behind the Jonathan Pollard Spy Case. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2000.
- Rabinove, Samuel. The Pollard Case Revisited. New York: The American Jewish Committee, Institute of Human Relations, 1992.
Vitaly Yurchenko
- Kessler, Ronald. Escape from the CIA: How the CIA Won and Lost the Most Important KGB Spy Ever To Defect to the U.S. New York: Pocket Books, 1991.
John Walker
- Allen, Thomas B., and Norman Polmar. Merchants of Treason: America's Secrets for Sale. New York: Delacorte, 1988.
- Barron, John. Breaking the Ring: The Bizarre Case of the Walker Family Spy Ring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
- Blum, Howard. I Pledge Allegiance… The True Story of the Walkers: An American Spy Family. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
- Earley, Pete. Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring. New York: Bantam Books, 1988.
- Hunter, Robert W., and Lynn Dean Hunter. Spy Hunter: Inside the FBI Investigation of the Walker Espionage Case. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1999.
- Kneece, Jack. Family Treason: The Walker Spy Case. Briar Cliff Manor, NY: Stein & Day, 1986.
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