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Book Review

Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA

by William Colby and Peter Forbath, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1978, 493 pp., £5.95 (hardback), ISBN 009134820 X

Received 13 Feb 2024, Accepted 01 Mar 2024, Published online: 12 Mar 2024
 

 

Notes

1 See Richard J. Aldrich and Jules Gaspard, ‘Secrecy, Spooks and Ghosts: Memoirs and Contested Memory’, Journal of American Studies, 55:3 (July 2021), pp. 551–575; Christopher Moran, Company Confessions: Secrets, Memoirs and the CIA (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2015).

2 William Colby and Peter Forbath, Honourable Men: My Life in the CIA (New York: Simon Shuster, 1978) p.391; Martin Edwin Andersen, ‘How Late DCI William Colby Saved the CIA, and What That Can Teach Us Today’, Just Security (2020), https://www.justsecurity.org/68065/how-late-dci-william-colby-saved-the-cia-and-what-that-can-teach-us-today/

3 Colby and Forbath, Honourable Men: My Life in the CIA, p. 328.

4 See: Frank Leith Jones and Genevieve Lester, ‘DCI William Colby and the Constitution: Moral Leadership in the “Year of Intelligence”’, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (2023), https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2023.2234079.

5 Colby and Forbath, Honourable Men, p.328.

6 Michael Spicer and Larry Terry, ‘Legitimacy History and Logic: Public Administration and the Constitution’, Public Administration Review, 5:3(1993) p.239.

7 John A. Rohr, ‘Bureaucratic Morality in the United States’ International Science Review, 9: 3 (1988) p.178.

8 Colby and Forbath, Honourable Men, p.459.

9 Frank Smist, Congress Overseas the United States Intelligence Community (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994) p.61.

10 Richard Helms and William Hood, A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency (New York: Random House, 2003), p.429.

11 Colby and Forbath, Honourable Men, p.466.

13 Colby and Forbath, Honourable Men, p.461.

14 Ibid., p.464.

15 Amy B. Zegart, Spying Blind: The CIA, The FBI and the Origins of 9/1 (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2007) Ch.4 p.6, Ch.5 p.3.

16 Colby and Forbath, Honourable Men, pp.463, 464.

17 Ibid, p.87.

18 Zegart, Spying Blind, Ch.1 p.1, Ch.2 pp.1,3.

19 Colby and Forbath, Honourable Men, p.245; Loch K. Johnson ‘James Angleton and The Church Committee’, Journal of Cold War Studies, 15”4 (2013) p.131.

20 Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, ‘The Historiography of the CIA’, The History Journal, 23:2 (1980), pp. 489–496.

21 Colby and Forbath, Honourable Men, p.454.

22 Ibid. p.398.

23 Richard Aldrich and Jules Gaspard, ‘Secrecy, Spooks and Ghosts: Memoirs and Contested Memory at the CIA’, Journal of American Studies, Vol. 55 No. 3 (2020) p.552 and; Allen W. Dulles, The Craft of Intelligence (New York: Harper & Row, 1963).

24 Colby and Forbath, Honourable Men: My Life in the CIA, pp. 215, 216,463.

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