The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence Author:Victor Marchetti, John D. Marks The first book in American history to be subject to pre-publication censorship. — The CIA went to court long before publication to try to suppress this book by a former CIA senior official and an ex-State Department Intelligence expert. The CIA declared this book would harm national security. The courts decided otherwise. The only thing this book... more » can harm is the sinister clandestine activities of the CIA.