Full Collection
This collection chronicles the history, operations, & covert activities of the Central Intelligence Agency & America's intelligence apparatus. From Cold War coups & assassinations to drug trafficking, mind control experiments, & the rise of the national security state. These are investigative histories and exposés that reveal the CIA's role in shaping global politics, overthrowing governments, partnering with organized crime, & operating beyond congressional oversight & democratic accountability.
The archive features David Talbot's The Devil's Chessboard on CIA Director Allen Dulles and the rise of America's secret government, Tim Weiner's Pulitzer Prize-winning Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA chronicling decades of intelligence failures & covert operations, & Peter Dale Scott's Deep Politics and the Death of JFK examining the agency's connections to the Kennedy assassination. You'll find Gary Webb's Dark Alliance exposing the CIA-Contra-crack cocaine connection, Whitney Webb's two-volume One Nation Under Blackmail tracing intelligence-crime networks from the Cold War to Jeffrey Epstein, Stephen Kinzer's investigations of CIA coups in Iran (All the Shah's Men) & the Congo (The Lumumba Plot), & Susan Williams's White Malice on the covert recolonization of Africa. The collection also includes exposés of MKUltra mind control experiments, Laurel Canyon counterculture operations, Watergate's intelligence connections, & the CIA's partnerships with the mafia & drug traffickers.
From regime change operations in Iran, Guatemala, & the Congo to domestic surveillance & political assassinations, from MKUltra's human experimentation to the crack epidemic & blackmail networks, this collection provides essential scholarship on the CIA's seven decades of covert action. These are foundational texts for understanding the intelligence community's role in American foreign policy, the deep state's influence on domestic politics, & the operations that continue to shape global affairs beyond public scrutiny.
