SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Declassified documents

All the CIA’s files on Penkovsky can be found online at http://www.foia.cia.gov.

 

The Berlin Tunnel Operation 1952–1956, Clandestine Services History, 24 June 1968, CIA

‘CIA/DI/ONE National Intelligence Estimate 11-8/1-61, Supplement to NIE 11-8-61, Strength and Deployment of Soviet Long-Range Ballistic Missile Forces’, 21 September 1961

‘FALLEX 62: Report by the Home Office’, May 1963, UK National Archives

‘Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence (Book IV)’, United States Senate (United States Government Printing Office, 1976)

Government War Book, BURLINGTON Manning Orders, Appendix B, First Information Slip, Annex 4, Treasury, UK National Archives

‘Minutes of Soviet party presidium meeting’, 26 May 1961, edited and annotated by Timothy Naftali, translation by Olga Rivkin and Timothy Naftali, Kremlin Decision Making Project, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia

Records of the Cabinet Office, East–West Relations, UK National Archives, CAB 129/105

Records of the Prime Minister’s Office: Correspondence and Papers, 1964–1970, UK National Archives, PREM 13/1791

‘Soviet Tactics in the Berlin Crisis, SNIE 11-10/1-61’, 5 October 1961, CIA

‘Testimony of George Karlin [Yuri Krotkov], Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary’, United States Senate, Ninety-First Congress, 3, 4 and 5 November 1969 (US Government Printing Office, 1970)

US Department of State, Office of the Historian, Foreign Relations of the United States 1961–1963, vol. X, Cuba, January 1961–September 1962

‘US Reaffirms Policy on Prevention of Aggressive Actions by Cuba: Statement by President Kennedy’, 4 September 1962, Department of State Bulletin, vol. 47

Joan and John Bird (eds), CIA Analysis of the Warsaw Pact Forces: The Importance of Clandestine Reporting, 2012, CIA

William Burr (ed.), First Strike Options and the Berlin Crisis, September 1961, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 56, 2001, National Security Archive, George Washington University

Cleveland Cram, Of Moles and Molehunters: A Review of Counterintelligence Literature, 1977–92, Center for the Study of Intelligence, October 1993, CIA

Harold P. Ford, William E. Colby as Director of Central Intelligence, 1973–1976 (CIA, 1993, declassified 2011)

John L. Helgerson, Getting to Know the President: CIA Briefings of Presidential Candidates, 1952–1992, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1996, CIA

Thomas R. Johnson, American Cryptology during the Cold War, Book II: Centralization Wins, 1960–1972, National Security Agency

Leonard F. Parkinson and Logan H. Potter, ‘Closing the Missile Gap’, 28 May 1975, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA

Frank J. Rafalko (ed.), A Counterintelligence Reader, vols I–IV, US National Counterintelligence Executive

Donald P. Steury (ed.), On the Front Lines of the Cold War: Documents on the Intelligence War in Berlin, 1946 to 1961, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1999, CIA

 

Articles and books

Christopher Andrew, Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Penguin, 1987)

Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 (Penguin, 2009)

Christopher Andrew, Richard J. Aldrich, Michael D. Kandiah and Gillian Staerck (eds), ‘The Role of the Intelligence Services in the Second World War’, Institute of Contemporary British History Witness Seminar, 9 November 1994

Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, KGB: The Inside Story of its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev (Sceptre, 1991)

Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (Basic Books, 1999)

Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World (Allen Lane, 2005)

Clarence Ashley, CIA SpyMaster (Pelican Publishing, 2004)

David Atlee Phillips, The Night Watch (Ballantine, 1977)

Tennent H. Bagley, Spy Wars (Yale University Press, 2007)

Tennent H. Bagley and Peter Deriabin, The KGB: Masters of the Soviet Union (Robson, 1990)

Gordon S. Barrass, The Great Cold War (Stanford University Press, 2009)

John Barron, KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents (Bantam, 1974)

Bruce G. Blair, The Logic of Accidental Nuclear War (The Brookings Institution, 1993)

George Blake, No Other Choice (Jonathan Cape, 1990)

James G. Blight, Bruce J. Allyn and David A. Welch, Cuba On The Brink: Castro, The Missile Crisis and the Soviet Collapse (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002)

Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald, British Intelligence and Covert Action (Brandon, 1984)

Genrikh Borovik, The Philby Files: The Secret Life of the Master-Spy – KGB Archives Revealed, ed. Phillip Knightley (Little, Brown, 1994)

Douglas Botting, One Chilly Siberian Morning (Travel Book Club, 1965)

Tom Bower, The Perfect English Spy (Mandarin, 1996)

Gordon Brook-Shepherd, The Storm Birds: Soviet Post-war Defectors (Henry Holt & Company, 1989)

Dino A. Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Random House, 1990)

William F. Buckley Jr., Spytime: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton (Thomson Learning, 2001)

John Cairncross, The Enigma Spy (Century, 1997)

Nigel Calder, Nuclear Nightmares: An Investigation into Possible Wars (BBC, 1980)

John le Carré, The Russia House (Coronet, 1989)

Robert Cecil, A Divided Life: A Biography of Donald Maclean (Coronet, 1990)

Laurence Chang and Peter Kornbluh (eds), The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A National Security Archive Documents Reader (The New Press, 1992)

Victor Cherkashin with Gregory Feifer, Spy Handler (Basic Books, 2005)

Nikolai Chistyakov, Po zakonu i sovesti (By Law and Conscience) (Military Publishing House, Moscow, 1979)

Bob Clarke, The Illustrated Guide to Armageddon: Britain’s Cold War (Amberley, 2009)

Dick Combs, Inside the Soviet Alternate Universe (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008)

Gordon Corera, The Art of Betrayal: Life and Death in the British Secret Service (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011)

Richard Deacon, ‘C’: A Biography of Sir Maurice Oldfield (Futura, 1985)

Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight (Arrow, 2009)

Christopher Dobson and Ronald Payne, The Dictionary of Espionage (Grafton, 1986)

Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service (Touchstone, 2000)

Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (Grafton, 1992)

Robert Dover and Michael S. Goodman (eds), Learning from the Secret Past: Cases in British Intelligence History (Georgetown University Press, 2011)

Eric Downton, Wars Without End (Stoddart, 1987)

Geoffrey Elliott and Harold Shukman, Secret Classrooms (St Ermin’s Press, 2002)

Edward Jay Epstein, Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA (Simon & Schuster, 1989)

Nicholas Faith, A Very Different Country (Sinclair-Stevenson, 2002)

Sebastian Faulks, The Fatal Englishman (Vintage, 1996)

Florence Fitzsimmons Garbler, CIA Wife (Fithian, 1994)

M. R. D. Foot (ed.), Secret Lives (Oxford University Press, 2002)

Mark Frankland, Child of My Time (Chatto & Windus, 1999)

Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, ‘Using KGB Documents: The Scali-Feklisov Channel in the Cuban Missile Crisis’, Cold War International History Project Bulletin, 5 (Spring 1995)

Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy 1958–1964 (W. W. Norton, 1998)

Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary (W. W. Norton, 2007)

Paul Garbler, Wages of Treason (Xlibris, 2004)

Raymond L. Garthoff, Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis (The Brookings Institution, 1987)

Anatoliy Golitsyn, New Lies for Old: The Communist Strategy of Deception and Disinformation (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1984)

‘E. Grieg’ (Evgeni Semenekhin), Da, ya tam rabotal (Yes, I Worked There: Notes of a KGB Officer), (Gaia, 1997)

David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (Ballantine, 1993)

John Limond Hart, The CIA’s Russians (Naval Institute Press, US, 2003)

John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev, Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (Yale University Press, 2010)

Richard Helms with William Hood, A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency (Random House, 2003)

Peter Hennessy, The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945– 2010 (Penguin, 2010)

Seymour Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (HarperCollins, 1998)

Max Holland, ‘The “Photo Gap” that Delayed Discovery of Missiles’, Studies in Intelligence, 49: 4 (2005), CIA

Henry Hurt, Shadrin: The Spy Who Never Came Back (Reader’s Digest Press, 1981)

Keith Jeffery, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909–1949 (Bloomsbury, 2010)

Oleg Kalugin, Spymaster (Basic Books, 2009)

Fred Kaplan, ‘JFK’s First-Strike Plan’, The Atlantic Monthly, October 2001

Bruce Kent, Undiscovered Ends (HarperCollins 1992)

Phillip Knightley, The Second Oldest Profession (Penguin, 1988)

Arthur Krock, Memoirs (Popular Library Eagle Books, 1969)

David F. Krugler, This Is Only a Test: How Washington DC Prepared for Nuclear War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)

Richard Ned Lebow and Janice Gross Stein, We All Lost the Cold War (Princeton University Press, 1995)

Tom Mangold, Cold Warrior (Simon & Schuster, 1991)

David C. Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors (HarperCollins, 1980)

Vojtech Mastny and Malcolm Byrne (eds), A Cardboard Castle? An Inside History of the Warsaw Pact, 1955–1991 (Central European University Press, 2005)

Mary S. McAuliffe (ed.) CIA Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis (CIA, 1992)

Anatoli Maximov, Glavnaya taĭna GRU (The GRU’s Greatest Mystery), (Yauza, 2010)

David Miller, The Cold War: A Military History (John Murray, 1998)

John Miller, All Them Cornfields and Ballet in the Evening (Hodgson Press, 2010)

Malcolm Muggeridge, Like It Was (Collins, 1981)

David Murphy, Sergei A. Kondrashev and George Bailey, Battleground Berlin: CIA vs KGB in the Cold War (Yale University Press, 1997)

Robert F. Ober Jr., Tchaikovsky 19, A Diplomatic Life Behind the Iron Curtain (Xlibris, 2008)

Bruce Page, David Leitch and Phillip Knightley, Philby: The Spy Who Betrayed a Generation (Sphere, 1977)

George Pahomov and Nickolas Lupinin (eds), The Russian Century: A Hundred Years of Russian Lives (University Press of America, 2008)

Oleg Penkovsky, The Penkovsky Papers (Collins, 1965)

Kim Philby, My Silent War (Grafton, 1989)

Rufina Philby with Hayden Peake and Mikhail Lyubimov, The Private Life of Kim Philby: The Moscow Years (St Ermin’s Press, 2003)

Chapman Pincher, Inside Story (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1978)

Chapman Pincher, Their Trade Is Treachery (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1981)

Chapman Pincher, The Secret Offensive (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985)

Chapman Pincher, Treachery (Mainstream, 2011)

Francis Gary Powers with Curt Gentry, Operation Overflight (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970)

Richard Reeves, President Kennedy: Profile of Power (Touchstone, 1994)

Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (Granta Books, 2000)

Jerrold L. Schecter and Peter S. Deriabin, The Spy Who Saved the World (Scribner, 1992)

William F. Scott, ‘The Face of Moscow in the Missile Crisis’, Studies in Intelligence, 37:5 (1994), CIA

Julian Semyonov, TASS Is Authorized to Announce (Avon, 1987)

Victor Sheymov, Tower of Secrets (Harper Spotlight, 1993)

W. Thomas Smith, Jr. (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency (2003, Checkmark)

Pavel and Anatoli Sudoplatov with Jerrold L. Schecter and Leona P. Schecter, Special Tasks (Little, Brown, 1995)

Viktor Suvorov, Aquarium: The Career and Defection of a Soviet Military Spy (Hamish Hamilton, 1985)

William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (W. W. Norton, 2004)

Evan Thomas, ‘A Singular Opportunity: Gaining Access to CIA’s Records’, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Studies in Intelligence, 39: 5 (1996), CIA

Richard C. S. Trahair, Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies and Secret Operations (Greenwood Press, 2004)

Joseph Trento, The Secret History of the CIA (Prima, 2001)

Sergei Tsybov and Nikolai Chistyakov, Front Taynov Voyny (Front of the Secret War), (Military Publishing House, 1968)

Oleg Tumanov, Tumanov: Confessions of a KGB Agent (Edition Q, 1993)

Alex von Tunzelmann, Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder and the Cold War in the Caribbean (Simon & Schuster, 2011)

Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton with Henry Robert Schlesinger, Spycraft (Bantam, 2010)

Michael Warner, ‘Lessons Unlearned: The CIA’s Internal Probe of the Bay of Pigs Affair’, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Studies in Intelligence, 42:5 (Winter 1998–9)

Deborah Welch Larson, Anatomy of Mistrust: U.S.–Soviet Relations during the Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2000)

Nigel West, A Matter of Trust: M.I.5. 1945–72 (Coronet, 1982)

Nigel West, The Friends (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988)

Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev, The Crown Jewels (HarperCollins, 1999)

Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev (eds), Triplex (Yale University Press, 2009)

Mark J. White (ed.), The Kennedys and Cuba: The Declassified Documentary History (Ivan R. Dee, 1999)

David Wise, Molehunt (Random House, 1992)

Peter Wright with Paul Greengrass, Spycatcher (Dell, 1988)

Greville Wynne, The Man from Moscow (Hutchinson, 1967)

Greville Wynne, The Man from Odessa (Granada, 1983)