Intelligence Memoir Puzzle: Truth versus Historical Fiction?

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Notes

1 See Alan Dulles, The Craft of Intelligence (New York: Lyons Press, 2016) and Michael Hayden, Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror (New York: Penguin, 2016).

2 See Lindsay Moran, Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy (New York: Berkley, 2005).

3 Trevor McCrisken and Christopher Moran, “James Bond, Ian Fleming and Intelligence: Breaking down the Boundary Between the ‘Real’ and the ‘Imagined,’” Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 33, No. 6 (2018), pp. 804–821.

4 Stanley A. Renshon, “President Clinton’s Memoirs: Caveat Emptor,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 3 (2005), pp. 608–612.

5 Kevin Casey, “Til Death Do Us Part: Prepublication Review in the Intelligence Community,” Columbia Law Review, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2015), pp. 417–460.

6 Kathryn Olmsted, “Blond Queens, Red Spiders and Neurotic Old Maids: Gender and Espionage in the Early Cold War,” Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 19, No. 1 (2004), pp. 78–94.

7 Aline Countess of Romanones, The Spy Went Dancing (Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 1990); Aline Countess of Romanones, The Spy Word Red (Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 1987); Aline Countess of Romanones, The Spy Wore Silk (Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 1991).

8 Nigel West, Historical Dictionary of Sexpionage (London: Scarecrow, 2009).

9 Ann Banks, “Intrigue in Morocco,” New York Times, 17 March 1991, p. A23.

10 Kathryn Olmsted, “The Truth about Spies,” Diplomatic History, Vol. 35, No. 4 (2011), pp. 137–142.

11 Loftis, The Princess Spy, p. 273.

12 Ibid., p. xvii.

13 Ibid., p. 307.

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Mary Manjikian

Mary Manjikian is Associate Dean and Professor at the Robertson School of Government at Regent University, Virginia. She is a former U.S. Foreign Service Officer who has served in Moscow, Bulgaria, and the Netherlands. She is the author of Gender, Sexuality and Intelligence: The Spy in the Closet (Palgrave, 2020). She also authored two textbooks: Cybersecurity Ethics: An Introduction (Routledge, 2017), and Introduction to Cyber Politics and Policy (Sage, 2019). She is also the coeditor of The Routledge Companion to Global Cybersecurity Strategy (Routledge, 2020). The author can be contacted at [email protected].