Hey Guys, I'm thinking of doing a comparative study of CIA operations in Tibet and Laos for my dissertation. I was going to use this to reflect on CIA capabilities in the world as part of it and was wondering if you have any recommended reading to look at for its capabilities as I've mainly looked at literature focusing on the actual operations. Please feel free to leave any ideas, discussions or interesting spins on the topic! :)
Are you willing to travel to Washington DC?
Although it's a book about the KGB I would suggest 'The KGB and the world: The Mitrokhin Archive II'. Since you're focussing on the period 1950-1960, when the US was the Main Adversary of the USSR, I guess there would be plenty of references to the CIA. At least this was the case for the first part (which I read, I didn't start part 2 yet).