Company confessions: secrets, memoirs, and the CIA

Introduction. If walls could talk ; What would Walter say? ; Blood sport

1: Herbert Yardley : playing for high stakes. A 'magnificent book' ; Codebreaker ; Outcast ; Traitor?

2: Limited hangout. Care of devils ; The rebirth of the US spy memoir ; The golden age ; Secrecy interrupted

3: Renegades and whistle-blowers. Time of troubles ; Breaking the brotherhood of spies ; 'The Agency's no. 1 nemesis'

4: Winning friends and influencing people. Feeling the heart ; The last assignment ; The American model of intelligence

5: The Snepp problem. The PRB ; Institutional disgrace ; Irreparable harm ; Double standards

6: The Helms experiment : righting and writing the record. Midlife crisis ; 'The man who kept the secrets' ; Fighting back ; Quasi-official history

Epilogue: 21st-century disputes. The honest broker ; Tightening the noose, again ; Confessions in the digital age.