MONOGRAPHS

•  Company Confessions: Secrets, Memoirs and the CIA (New York: St Martin's Press, 2016; London: Biteback, 2015), 368pp.
• Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013/Beijing: Gold wall Press, 2020), 434pp.
  * Winner of the St Ermin's Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year Award (2014)

 

EDITED COLLECTIONS

• (With Mark Stout, Ioanna Iordanou & Paul Maddrell, eds), Spy Chiefs: Intelligence Leaders in the United States and Great Britain: Volume I (Georgetown University Press, 2018), 352pp.
• (With Paul Maddrell, Ioanna Iordanou and Mark Stout, eds), Spy Chiefs: Intelligence Leaders and the World: Volume II (Georgetown University Press, 2018), 288pp.
• (With Christopher J. Murphy) Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US: Historiography since 1945 (Edinburgh University Press/Columbia University Press, 2013), 316pp.
• (With Patrick Major) (eds), Spooked: Britain, Empire and Intelligence since 1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• (With Richard J. Aldrich et al.), 'CIA at 75: Roundtable on the Past, Present and Future of the Central Intelligence Agency', <em>Journal of Intelligence History</em>, Online 15 November 2023.&nbsp;&nbsp;
• (With Joe Burton and George Christou) 'The US Intelligence Community, Global Security and AI: From Secret Intelligence to Smart Spying', Journal of Global Security Studies, 8:2 (2023), ogad005.
• (With James D. Lockhart) 'Principal Consumer: President Biden's Approach to Intelligence', International Affairs, 98:2 (March 2022), pp. 549-567.
• (With Andrew Hammond) 'Bringing the 'Social' in from the Cold: Towards a Social History of American Intelligence', Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 34:5 (2021), pp. 616-636.
• (With Trevor McCrisken), 'The Secret Life of Ian Fleming: Spies, Lies and Social Ties', Contemporary British History, 33:3 (2019), pp. 336-356.
• 'Concealing Collusion: The Suez Crisis, Political Memoirs, and Official Secrecy', English Historical Review, 134:567 (April 2019), pp. 358-389.
• (With Trevor McCrisken) 'James Bond, Ian Fleming, and Intelligence: Breaking down the Boundary between the 'Real' and the 'Imagined'', Intelligence and National Security, 33:6 (2018), pp. 804-821.
• (With Christopher Browning) 'REF Impact and the Discipline of Politics and International Studies', British Politics, 13:3 (Sept. 2018), pp. 249-269.
• (With Richard Aldrich) '"Delayed Disclosure": National Security, Whistle-Blowers, and the Nature of Secrecy', Political Studies,67:2 (2018), pp. 291-306.
• (With Anthony Glees et al), 'A JIH Special Forum on Brexit: Implications for UK and European Intelligence Agencies', Journal of Intelligence History, 16:2 (June 2017). 
• (With Richard Aldrich) 'Trump and the CIA: Borrowing from Nixon's Playbook', Foreign Affairs (April 2017).
• 'Nixon's Axe Man: CIA Director James Schlesinger', Journal of American Studies, 53:1 (February 2019), pp. 95-121.
• 'Turning against the CIA: Whistleblowers during the "Time of Troubles"', History: The Journal of the Historical Association, 100:340 (2015), pp. 251-74.
  
• (With Richard Aldrich), 'An INS Snowden Special Forum: Implications of the Snowden Leaks', Intelligence and National Security 29:6 (2014), pp. 793-810.
• 'Note on Teaching Intelligence', Intelligence and National Security, 31:1 (2016), pp. 118-130.
• 'From Confession to Corporate Memory: The Memoirs of CIA Director Richard M. Helms', International History Review, 36:1 (2014), pp. 70-88.
• 'The Last Assignment: David Atlee Phillips and the Birth of CIA Public Relations', International History Review, 35:2 (April 2013), pp. 337-355.
• (With S. Willmetts) 'Filming treachery: British Cinema and Television's Fascination with the Cambridge Five', Journal of British Cinema and Television, 10:1(2013), pp. 49-70. [EUP]
• 'Ian Fleming and the Early Public Profile of the Central Intelligence Agency', Journal of Cold War Studies, 15:1 (Winter 2013), pp. 119-147.
  • This article inspired the following newspaper articles:
  • Sean Coughlan, 'James Bond Gagdets "Copied by CIA"', BBC, 17 July 2013; 'A Close Bond: How the Real-Life CIA Copied James Bond Gadgets', Daily Express, 18 July 2013; 'CIA Copied Fictional James Bond Gagdets for its owns Agents during the Cold War, declassified letters reveal', Mail Online, 18 July 2013; Daniel Johnson, 'CIA Copied Gadgets, study reveals', Telegraph, 17 July 2013; 'The Spy Who Copied Me: How CIA Took Its Cue from Bond', Daily Telegraph, 18 July 2013; 'CIA Ripped Off Bond Gagets in Cold War', The Sun, 18 July 2013;'How the CIA Tried to Copy James Bond's Gadgets', The Times, 18 July 2013; 'A Close Bond: CIA Copied 007 Gagdets', Herald Sun (Australia), 16 July 2013; 'A Close Bond', New Limited, 16 July 2013; Hannah Osborne, 'Declassified: CIA Copied James Bond 007 Gadgets', International Business Times, 16 July 2013; 'CIA Mined Bond Tales in 1950s for Real Spy Gadgets', Birmingham Post, 17 July 2013; 'The CIA's Cold War Gadgets...Inspired by Bond', CNBC, 19 JUly 2013. Also National Post Canada, Sydney Morning Herald, Indian Express, New Zealand Herald, Times of India,
  • It has also been reviewed by Jonthan Nashel for H-Diplo.  
•  (With S. Willmetts) 'Secrecy, Censorship and Beltway Books: Understanding the Work of the CIA's Publications Review Board', International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 24:2 (2011), pp. 239-52.
• 'Intelligence and the Media: The Buster Crabb Affair, Secrecy and the Press', Intelligence and National Security, 26:5 (2011), pp. 676-700.
• ‘The Pursuit of Intelligence History: Sources, Methods and Trajectories’, Studies in Intelligence, 55:2 (June 2011), pp. 33-55.
• (With R.Johnson) 'In the Service of Empire: Imperialism and the British Spy Thriller 1901-1918', Studies in Intelligence, 54:2 (June 2010), pp. 1-22.

 

ARTICLES IN EDITED WORKS

• (with Trevor McCrisken), 'James Bond, Ian Fleming, and Intelligence: Breaking Down the Boundary between the 'Real' and the 'Imagined'', in Martin D. Brown, Ronald J. Granieri and Muriel Blaise (Eds), The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023).
• (With Richard Aldrich), 'Bond or Blofeld: War, Espionage and Secrecy in the Twenty-First Century', in Kurt Almqvist et al., Man and Technology: How Humanity Thrives in a Changing World (Bokforlaget Stople, 2022), pp. 205-212.
• (With M. Stout & I. Iordanou) 'Introduction: Spy Chiefs: Secrecy, Power, and Leadership', in C. Moran, I. Iordanou, M. Stout & P. Maddrell (eds), Spy Chiefs: Intelligence Leaders in the United States and Great Britain: Volume I (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2017).
• (With M. Stout & I. Iordanou) 'Conclusion: Intelligence Leadership in the Twenty-First Century', in C. Moran, I. Iordanoum M. Stout & P. Maddrell (eds), Spy Chiefs: Intelligence Leaders in the United States and Great Britain: Volume I (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2017).
• CIA Director Richard Helms: Secrecy, Stonewalling and Spin', in C. Moran, I. Iordanou, M. Stout & P. Maddrell (eds), Spy Chiefs: Intelligence Leaders in the United States and Great Britain (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2017).
• 'Company Confessions: The CIA, Whistleblowers and Cold War Revisionism', in A. Etges, K. Jarausch & C. Ostermann (eds), The Cold War: Historiography, Memory and Representation (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2017), pp. 94-112.
• 'Ian Fleming and the Early Public Profile of the Central Iitelligence Agency', in M. Kramer (ed.), Spies: A Batch from the Journal of Cold War Studies (The MIT Press, 2014).
• (With C.J. Murphy) 'Intelligence Studies Now and Then', in Moran & Murphy (eds), Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US: Historiography since 1945 (Edinburgh University Press/Columbia University Press, 2013), pp. 1-17.
• (With R. Aldrich & S. Willmetts) 'The Central Intelligence Agency', T. Lynch, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Military and Diplomatic History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
• 'Ian Fleming and CIA Director Allen Dulles: The Very Best of Friends', in R. Weiner (ed.), James Bond and Popular Culture: the Films are not Enough (Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010).
• 'Introduction', in Patrick Major and Christopher R. Moran (eds), Spooked: Britain, Empire and Intelligence (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), pp. 1-28.