Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy

[George W. Maschke]

A new book by former CIA employee Lindsay Moran discusses the author's employment with the Agency and will likely be of interest to those considering a career in the CIA.

Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy (Putnam, 295 pp.) provides an account of the hiring process (including the polygraph), training at Camp Peary ("The Farm"), and work as a case officer under diplomatic cover.

I have not yet read this book, but reviews are available here:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2005-01-12-blowing-my-cover_x.htm

http://www.tampabay.com/aboutbooks/review.cfm?reviewID=110223

An article based on an interview with Lindsay Moran is available here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/01/11/ftwar11.xml

And the transcripts of two interviews are available here:

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/01/11/spy.life/

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/01/09/Perspective/Little_cloak__less_da.shtml

[Ruckover]

I just finished the book.  While I can't speak to the training and the day-in-the-life experiences, I can tell you that my polygraph experience was nearly identical to that described in the book.  

[George W. Maschke]

The first chapter of this book is now available on the website of the New York Times here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/books/chapters/0311books-moran-excerpt.html