Books, Arts & Manners: The Intelligence Gap

The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War, by Jerrold L. Schechter and Peter S. Deriabin (Scribner’s, 488 pp., $25)

The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA, by Burton Hersh (Scribner’s, 576 pp., $29.95)