Introduction Part 1: Speaking Truth to Power: CIA Intelligence Analysts Getting In: Why Join the Directorate of Intelligence? 1. Careers in Intelligence Analysis Volko F. Ruhnke 2. The Best Speech I Ever Gave, the Best Thing I Ever Wrote Martin Petersen Briefing the President 3. Working with Words and Enjoying the View John Hollister Hedley 4. Never Boring, Often Meaningful, and Almost Fun Henry Appelbaum 5. Briefing Presidential Candidates John Helgerson Monitoring Soviet Military Capabilities 6. The Soviets Go on the LAMM Michael D.
Flint and Boyd Sutton 7. Making the World Safe through SAFE Michael D. Flint 8. Getting the Facts Right Tony Williams Winning the Cold War 9. An Economist''s Look at the Soviet Union, and Beyond Robert E. Leggett 10. Two of the "Coolest" Things I Did Working for the CIA Robert Blackwell 11. A Cold War CIA Analyst Remembers Anne Campbell Gruner A Wealth of Options 12.
Reminiscences of a Checkered Past Nicholas Starr 13. Reflections on an Eclectic CIA Career Alan More 14. A Geographer Looks Back at 50 Years with the CIA Will Rogers 15. An "Out-of-Body Experience": Seeing the DI with New Eyes Jon Nowick 16. Peasant at the Creation: The Agency''s First Terrorism Analyst and Beyond Edward Mickolus Dealing with The Rest of the World 17. Satellite Imagery and the Afghan Task Force Tom Sheridan 18. Slideshow Jeri DiGiulio 19. Meanwhile, in Asia .
Merrily Baird Part 2: Heroes Behind the Heroes: CIA Support Officers A Quick Look at Oversight 20. On Planet Congress Martin Petersen 21. In Support, You Never Know Where You Might End Up--and What You Might Learn along the Way Dan King 22. What Is a Promise Worth? Dan King 23. An Adventure in the Far East Robert A. Morgan Jr. 24. First Tour Adventures: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Missionary Hugh S.
Pettis 25. Out of the Barn, Into the Beltway Hazel Harrison 26. Ed and a Secretary: How I Ended Up at the CIA Martin Petersen 27. Traveling with the President Frank Ryan 28. KH601 Richard Irwin A Hero''s Story 29. Our Man in Havana''s Jails: Temporary Duty Assignment in Hell Walter E. Szuminski A Word from Our Predecessors 30. Operation Oshima John Behling And from the Next Generation 31.
The Other Side of the CIA: My Life as a CIA Analyst Gregor S. Vision, Mission, and Values Statement of the Central Intelligence Agency Suggested Reading Contributors.