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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can anyone recommend an accessible book or two that would help someone in their late teens / early 20s understand the modern CIA and/or NSA and the range of roles and groups within these agencies?

Not looking for a history of the CIA or NSA or a moment of time / incident in the past, but rather something more current but still broad enough to get a sense of the range of these agencies. (Obv they’re not all spies trying to recruit assets in foreign countries …. )

Fiction would work, assuming it’s not grounded in reality rather than speculative trash. Thx. [/quote]

After completing my obligatory military service as an officer, I interviewed for an Operations Officer position at the CIA. They asked me to read 2 books that still sit on my shelf. Sleeping with the Devil and Inside the CIA. After reading those 2 books I changed my mind and decided it was not for me.[/quote]

James Bamford, The Puzzle Palace, and Body of Secrets. Both about the NSA. The NSA has reluctantly admitted that these books are decent, although they would have preferred not to have seen them published.

As for the FBI: look at the recent massive biography of J. Edgar Hoover. Not very flattering, but it is an accurate portrayal. One assumes that the abuses documented in that book no longer are practiced. Let's hope so.
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