Simon Willmetts is an associate professor of intelligence studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University. He is the author of In Secrecy's Shadow: The OSS and CIA in Hollywood Cinema, 1941–1979.Constant Hijzen is the historical adviser at the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) and is a research fellow in intelligence and security at Leiden University. He is the author of Roots of Counterterrorism: Contemporary Wisdom from Dutch Intelligence.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction, Simon WillmettsPart I: Intelligence and the Politics of Fiction1. Security's Fictions: Speculative Narrative and the Imagination of the State, Timothy Melley2. Taking Fiction Seriously: Spies, Secrecy, and Democracy, Pauline Blistène3. The CIA and Hollywood, Tricia Jenkins and Simon Willmetts4. An Interview with German Spy Novelist Titus Müller, Constant HijzenPart II: Intelligence, Secrecy, and Paranoia5. Trust No One: An Intellectual and Cultural History of US Deep State Conspiracy Theories, Kathryn Olmsted6. The Perfidious and Invisible Enemy: Narratives of the Dutch Covert Sphere in the 1960s, Constant Hijzen7. An Interview with Swedish Psychological Defense Practitioners Björn Palmertz and Per Thunholm, Simon WillmettsPart III: Journalism and State Secrecy8. A Culture Collapses?: Spies, Unsecrecy, and the American Press since 9/11, Richard J. Aldrich9. An Interview with National Security Reporter James Risen, Constant Hijzen and Simon WillmettsPart IV: Intelligence Mentalities10. Imperial Boomerang: Domestic CIA Operations during the Cold War, Hugh Wilford11. Cord Meyer: A Gray Man of the CIA, Jonathan NashelConclusion: Spies and Society, the Cultural Politics of Espionage, Constant HijzenList of Contributors 297Index 303

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