Shane, Scott. "Coming in From the Cold, Ex-Spies Tell It All." New York Times, 15 Mar. 2005. [http://www.nytimes.com] Shane, Scott. "Coming in From the Cold, Ex-Spies Tell It All." New York Times, 15 Mar. 2005. [http://www.nytimes.com]
"These days, more and more American spies who come in from the cold go right back out, on book tours.... [A] swelling library of increasingly candid C.I.A. memoirs reflects a striking cultural change at the agency.... J. Ransom Clark ... says the breakthrough for spy-and-tell books came in 1997 with the autobiography of a legendary operations officer, Duane R. Clarridge.... [T]he recent books paint a strikingly detailed cumulative picture of the craft of espionage.... The authors explain the use of aliases and disguises, methods for shaking off surveillance teams and the myriad ways a cover identity may crumble. They describe how foreign agents are spotted, wooed and won.... 'At the risk of 100 percent hypocrisy, I think it's a bad trend,' said [Robert] Baer, the bestselling C.I.A. memoirist [See No Evil (2002)], of the growing shelf of exposés."
Wark, Wesley K. "Struggle in the Spy House: Memoirs of U.S. Intelligence." In Political Memoir: Essays on the Politics of Memory, ed. George Egerton. Newbury Park, Ilford, Essex: Frank Cass, 1994.
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