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• Need to Know Reader Recomended Further Reading
  Author Woody Evans, in his recent article Online Strategic Intelligence: Five Companies to Consider [Online, the Leading Magazine for Information Professionals. 31.3 (May/June 2007) : 26-29.] evaluates the Stratfor Geopolitical Intelligence Report
  http://www.stratfor.com
  
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• Other Links to a Suggested Reading
  Suggested Reading List of Intelligence Literature
  This is a short bibliography of intelligence literature and the Central Intelligence Agency, with links to a few articles and books.
  https://www.cia.gov/library/intelligence-literature/index.html
  
  Reports:
  https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/index.html
  
  Reports include:
  General Reports,
  https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/index.html
  Recurring Reports
  https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/archived-reports-1/index.html
  Other Government Reports
  https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/related-links.html
  CIA and other Government reports related to intelligence
  https://www.cia.gov/library/related-links.html
  
  
• Kent Center Occasional Papers
  Kent Center Occasional Papers, published by the Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis at CIA University, are declassified papers on theory, doctrine, and practice of intelligence analysis.
  
  https://www.cia.gov/library/kent-center-occasional-papers/index.html
  
  
• Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Electronic Reading Room
  Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Electronic Reading Room includes limited public access to CIA previously released electronic information and documents.
  http://www.foia.cia.gov/
  
  The CIA recently released two significant collections of historical documents:
  The Family Jewels consists of almost 700 pages of responses from CIA employees to a 1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger asking them to report activities they thought might be inconsistent with the Agency's charter.
  The CAESAR-POLO-ESAU papers, consists of 147 documents and 11,000 pages of in-depth analysis and research from 1953 to 1973. The CAESAR and POLO papers studied Soviet and Chinese leadership hierarchies, respectively, and the ESAU papers were developed by analysts to inform CIA assessments on Sino-Soviet relations.
  
  
• CIA Museum
  CIA Museum link takes you to an online exhibit created by the CIA Museum, the preeminent national archive for the collection, preservation, documentation and exhibition of intelligence artifacts, culture, and history.
  https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/cia-museum/index.html
  
  Take the CIA Museum virtual tour
  https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/cia-museum/cia-museum-tour/index.html
  
  
• Center for the Study of Intelligence
  Center for the Study of Intelligence provides access to current issues of Studies in Intelligence plus an index of declassified articles from CIA's 50-year old professional journal, Studies in Intelligence.
  https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/index-of-declassified-articles/index.html
  
  These articles and book reviews were declassified by the CIA, and are available for review and reproduction at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland, as part of the Records of the Central Intelligence Agency, Record Group 263.
  
  The Index of Declassified Articles is searchable by author or by title
  https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/index-of-declassified-articles/index.html
  
  The Index of Declassified Book Reviews is also searchable by author or by title
  https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/index-of-declassified-articles/index-of-declassified-book-reviews-by-author.html
  
  To obtain additional information about ordering copies, please contact the Archives II Reference Branch, National Archives, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 2740-0002 or call (301) 713-7250.
  
  Some of the more interesting, in my humble opinion Books and Monographs include:
  Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
  https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/oss/index.htm
  
  Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
  https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/Cuban%20Missile%20Crisis1962.pdf
  
  Central Intelligence: Origin and Evolution
  https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/Origin_and_Evolution.pdf
  
  Finally, the US Intelligence Sites provides links to other members of the US Intelligence Community.
  https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/us-intelligence-sites.html
  
  
• CIA Library Publications
  The CIA Library https://www.cia.gov/library/ includes many well known Publications
  
  The World Factbook
  https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
  
  World Leaders
  https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/world-leaders-1/index.html
  
  CIA Maps & Publications
  https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/cia-maps-publications/index.html
  
  
  Lesser known, but most frequented online publications include:
  Intelligence in the Civil War
  https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/additional-publications/civil-war/index.html
  
  Corona Between the Sun and the Earth
  https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/additional-publications/corona-between-the-sun-and-the-earth/index.html
  
  Heroin Movement Worldwide
  https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/additional-publications/heroin-movement-worldwide/index.html
  
  In-Q-Tel
  https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/additional-publications/in-q-tel/index.html
  
  
• Need to Know: July 2007: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Library
  The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an independent US Government agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior US policy makers. You may love them, you may fear them, but you have to admit that (especially) lately, they do provide access to some significant historical documents.
  
  https://www.cia.gov/
  
• June 2007: CyberWar: Information Security
  A variety of individuals and groups are involved in Information Warfare attacks. The best known are probably hackers, who usually working alone, and hactivists, who often work as a group to promote a cause. In addition, national governments, terrorist groups, and criminal organizations perpetuate scams, phish for money, write viruses, and floods our email boxes with spam. Information Warfare experts don't necessarily agree on when and where the attacks will take place, or about the severity of the attack. Attacks are carried out in a wide variety of ways including spamming, spoofing, phishing, hacking, denial of service or distributed denial of service, jamming, network flooding, pinging, theft of information or service, viruses, trojan horses, worms, and logic bombs.
  
  Information Security Resources
  
  Dorothy Denning's Links
  Dr. Dorothy E. Denning, author of Information warfare and security (New York: ACM Press ; Reading, Ma. : Addison-Wesley, c1999), Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, and Director of the Georgetown Institute for Information Assurance, maintains an extensive set of links on her web page.
  
  Infosecwriters.com
  The Information Security Writers group (Infosec Writers) maintains a library of Internet source relating to information security issues and topics.
  
  Computer Security
  Links to Computer Security organizations maintained by the Oklahoma State University Library, Government Documents Department.
  
  Cybersecurity Library
  Stanford Unive