Invisible Ink: At the CIA's Creative Writing Group

Re:Invisible Ink: At the CIA's Creative Writing Group by ynac on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:24PM (#38943387)

I had two interesting lists to compile after reading this article:

First is books written by former diplomats / intel opporatives. SO many greats!

Second, the intelligence officer's book shelf. In other words, book lists for people studying the various arts of intelligence. Fascinating stuff.

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Re:Invisible Ink: At the CIA's Creative Writing Group by mdhb on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @05:05PM (#38943975)

I feel like most people maybe aren’t aware that this is a thing but here are hundreds of book reviews by the CIA https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/book-reviews-by-title/

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Re:Invisible Ink: At the CIA's Creative Writing Group by mesofile on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @05:51PM (#38944605)

Sounded interesting, but 1) the titles don't link to reviews as I expected, am I missing something? and 2) it appears to be an inactive project – I've only clicked through a sample of the full list but the majority of titles reviewed date from the 1960s & 70s, and I haven't found any more recently published than 1995.

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Re:Invisible Ink: At the CIA's Creative Writing Group by scrlk on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @07:40PM (#38945773)

> I haven't found any more recently published than 1995.

See the text above the filter - "486 Declassified Book Reviews". I assume anything newer than 1995 is still classified.

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Re:Invisible Ink: At the CIA's Creative Writing Group by ynac on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @05:22PM (#38944236)

https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/an-intelligence-profes...

The magazine was a new discovery for me as well as the annual reading list.

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Re:Invisible Ink: At the CIA's Creative Writing Group by max2 on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @06:33PM (#38945136)

Could you share your list please?

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Re:Invisible Ink: At the CIA's Creative Writing Group by bozhark on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @06:45PM (#38945278)

got a link to the lists?

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Re:Invisible Ink: At the CIA's Creative Writing Group by kramerger on Thursday January 11, 2024 @06:52AM (#38951031)

Can you point me to some good ones?

I have found some excellent British authors with roots in GCHQ, but the American ones I have tried reading so far have been all very black-and-white which makes them super boring.

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