Introduction
Part 1. The Directorate of Intelligence
1. Do Your Brother a Favor: Apply to the CIA
Elizabeth Arens
2. Reflections from an Analytical Change Agent: Twenty-Seven Years and Counting
A currently serving DA officer
3. What’s a Librarian Do at the CIA?
Peggy Tuten
4. More of What a Librarian Does at the CIA
Kim Condas
5. Getting to Do What I Was Meant to Do
Robert Kresge
6. We’re Not in Kansas—er, Missouri—Anymore!
Mary O’Sullivan
7. My Thirty Years in Scientific and Weapons Intelligence at the CIA
Julian Nall
8. The Pathway of a Life Unnoticed
Michael Douglas Smith
9. The DI Toolkit—Don’t Leave Home without It
Janet M. Stiegler
Part 2. Directorate of Operations Tales
10. A Nightmare Come True
Elinor Houghton Kelly
11. How Hoosier Basketball and Spying Came Together in Moscow during the Cold War
Gene Arthur Coyle
12. How Intelligence Saved the Pope
Terrence L. Williams
13. Flirting with the Directorate of Intelligence: A Directorate of Operations Officer’s Short Story
Bob Phillipson
14. Soldier, Sailor, Artist, Spy
Chip Beck
15. Terminating an Asset
Doug Patteson
Part 3. Cross-Directorate Careers
16. The Rocky but Interesting Road of Intelligence-Policy Relations
Paul R. Pillar
17. Cement, Speeches, Terrorism, and Stray Cats
Susan Hasler
18. Rock Star or CIA Officer
Kathy Thomas
19. An Accidental Career of Consequence
Jeff J. Johnson
20. Developing a Better Understanding of the Personal Dimensions of Working at the CIA
Hector J. Escobar III
21. Beginnings
Lester Paldy
Part 4. The Directorate of Support
22. My Career as a CIA Logistics Professional, 1986–2013
James R. Pasqualini
23. Black Programs and Services
Robert M. Blansfield
Part 5. Remembering Our Fallen Colleagues
24. The CIA Book of Honor
Doug Patteson
25. Camp Chapman
Doug Patteson
Part 6. Getting Ready for the Future
26. Prince and the Revolution: The Reengineering of Open-Source Intelligence Collection
Doug Naquin
27. Bell Ringers!
Elinor Houghton Kelly
28. Ode to New CIA Retirees
Ed Mickolus
Writing Life after the CIA: Books by CIA Alumni
Contributors
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