Stories from Langley : a glimpse inside the CIA /

Applicants to the Central Intelligence Agency often asked Edward Mickolus what they might expect in a career there. Mickolus, a former CIA intelligence officer whose duties also included recruiting and public affairs, never had a simple answer. If applicants were considering a life in the National C...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mickolus, Edward F, Mickolus, Edward F. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : Potomac Books, An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2014
[Lincoln] : [2014]
[Place of publication not identified] : [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Careers in intelligence analysis / Volko F. Ruhnke
  • The best speech I ever gave, the best thing I ever wrote / Martin Petersen
  • Working with words and enjoying the view / John Hollister Hedley
  • Never boring, often meaningful, and almost fun / Henry Appelbaum
  • Briefing presidential candidates / John Helgerson
  • The Soviets go on the LAMM / Michael D. Flint and Boyd Sutton
  • Making the world safe through SAFE / Michael D. Flint
  • Getting the facts right / Tony Williams
  • An economist's look at the Soviet Union, and beyond / Robert E. Leggett
  • Two of the "coolest" things I did working for the CIA / Robert Blackwell
  • A cold war CIA analyst remembers / Anne Campbell Gruner
  • Reminiscences of a checkered past / Nicholas Starr
  • Reflections on an eclectic CIA career / Alan More
  • A geographer looks back at 50 years with the CIA / Will Rogers
  • An "out-of-body experience" : seeing the DI with new eyes / Jon Nowick
  • Peasant at the creation : the agency's first terrorism analyst and beyond / Edward Mickolus
  • Satellite imagery and the Afghan Task Force / Tom Sheridan
  • Slideshow / Jeri DiGiulio
  • Meanwhile, in Asia... / Merrily Baird
  • On planet Congress / Martin Petersen
  • In support, you never know where you might end up and what you might learn along the way / Dan King
  • What is a promise worth? / Dan King
  • An adventure in the Far East / Robert A. Morgan Jr
  • First tour adventures : the mysterious case of the missing missionary / Hugh S. Pettis
  • Out of the barn, into the beltway / Hazel Harrison
  • Ed and a secretary : how I ended up at the CIa / Martin Petersen
  • Traveling with the president / Frank Ryan
  • Kh601 / Richard Irwin
  • Our man in Havana's jails : temporary duty assignment in Hell / Walter E. Szuminski
  • Operation Oshima / John Behling
  • The other side of the CIA : my life as a CIA analyst / Gregor S
  • Careers in intelligence analysis / Volko F. Ruhnke
  • The best speech I ever gave, the best thing I ever wrote / Martin Petersen
  • Working with words and enjoying the view / John Hollister Hedley
  • Never boring, often meaningful, and almost fun / Henry Appelbaum
  • Briefing presidential candidates / John Helgerson
  • The Soviets go on the LAMM / Michael D. Flint and Boyd Sutton
  • Making the world safe through SAFE / Michael D. Flint
  • Getting the facts right / Tony Williams
  • An economists look at the Soviet Union, and beyond / Robert E. Leggett
  • Two of the coolest things I did working for the CIA / Robert Blackwell
  • A cold war CIA analyst remembers / Anne Campbell Gruner
  • Reminiscences of a checkered past / Nicholas Starr
  • Reflections on an eclectic CIA career / Alan More
  • A geographer looks back at 50 years with the CIA / Will Rogers
  • An out-of-body experience : seeing the DI with new eyes / Jon Nowick
  • Peasant at the creation : the agencys first terrorism analyst and beyond / Edward Mickolus
  • Satellite imagery and the Afghan Task Force / Tom Sheridan
  • Slideshow / Jeri DiGiulio
  • Meanwhile, in Asia ... / Merrily Baird
  • On planet Congress / Martin Petersen
  • In support, you never know where you might end up and what you might learn along the way / Dan King
  • What is a promise worth? / Dan King
  • An adventure in the Far East / Robert A. Morgan Jr
  • First tour adventures : the mysterious case of the missing missionary / Hugh S. Pettis
  • Out of the barn, into the beltway / Hazel Harrison
  • Ed and a secretary : how I ended up at the CIa / Martin Petersen
  • Traveling with the president / Frank Ryan
  • Kh601 / Richard Irwin
  • Our man in Havanas jails : temporary duty assignment in Hell / Walter E. Szuminski
  • Operation Oshima / John Behling
  • The other side of the CIA : my life as a CIA analyst / Gregor S