Jeffrey T. Richelson

Jeffrey Talbot Richelson (born 1949) is an American author and academic researcher who studies the process of intelligence gathering and national security. He has authored at least thirteen books and many articles about intelligence, and has directed the publication of several of the National Security Archive's collections of source documents.

Richelson earned his PhD in political science from the University of Rochester in 1975 and has taught at the University of Texas, Austin and American University. Richelson is currently a senior fellow with the National Security Archive.^[1]

Books

• Social choice theory and Soviet national security decisionmaking. Center for International and Strategic Affairs UCLA. 1982. ISBN 9780866820486
• United States strategic reconnaissance: photographic/imaging satellites. Center for International and Strategic Affairs UCLA. 1983. ISBN 9780866820509.
• Jeffrey Richelson and Desmond Ball. The ties that bind: intelligence cooperation between the UKUSA countries. Allen & Unwin. 1985. ISBN 0-04-327092-1.
• Sword and shield: the Soviet intelligence and security apparatus. Ballinger Publishing Company. 1986. ISBN 0887300359.
• American espionage and the Soviet target. William Morrow. 1987. ISBN 0688067530.
• Foreign intelligence organizations. Ballinger Publishing Company. 1988. ISBN 0-88730-121-5.
• America's secret eyes in space: the U.S. Keyhole spy satellite program. Harper & Row. 1990. ISBN 0-88730-285-8.
• A century of spies: intelligence in the twentieth century. Oxford University Press. 1995. ISBN 0-19-507391-6, ISBN 01-9511-390-X (paperback).
• The U.S. intelligence community. First edition. Ballinger Publishing Company. 1985. ISBN 0887300243.
  • Second edition. Ballinger Publishing Company. 1989. ISBN 0887302459.
  • Third edition. Westview Press. 1995. ISBN 9780813323763.
  • Fourth edition. Westview Press. 1999. ISBN 9780813368931.
  • Fifth edition. Westview Press. 2007. ISBN 9780813343624.
  • Sixth edition. Westview Press. 2012. ISBN 9780813345123. OCLC 701015423.
• America's space sentinels: DSP satellites and national security. University of Kansas Press. 1999. ISBN 0-7006-0942-3.
• The Wizards of Langley: inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology. Westview Press. 2001. ISBN 0-8133-6699-2.
• Spying on the bomb: American nuclear intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea. Norton. 2006. ISBN 0-393-05383-0.
• Defusing Armageddon: Inside NEST, America's Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad. New York: W.W. Norton. 2009. ISBN 9780393065152. OCLC 227016184.

References

1. Jeffrey Richelson and Desmond Ball. The ties that bind: intelligence cooperation between the UKUSA countries Allen & Unwin. 1985, frontispiece

External links

• Teachinghistory.org review of China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998, a web resource edited by Richelson
• Appearances on C-SPAN