Hayden Peake earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in photographic science at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master of Arts in international relations at Georgetown University.
After a career in Army military intelligence, he joined the CIA in 1978, serving on the Intelligence Community Staff and in the Directorates of Science & Technology and Operations. In 1986 he retired to teach counterintelligence and intelligence history at the Defense Intelligence College (NDIC). In 2002 he returned to the CIA as the curator of the Historical Intelligence Collection.
He is the author of the “Reader's Guide to Intelligence Periodicals” and the “Annotated Bibliography of Intelligence Literature” (third edition December 2005). He also wrote the Afterword to the second edition of Elizabeth Bentley's “Out Of Bondage” (Ballantine, 1988) and was co-editor and a contributor to a festschrift, “In The Name Of Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Walter Pforzheimer” (NIBC Press, 1994). In 2000, he contributed to and edited Rufina Philby’s memoirs, “The Private Life of Kim Philby: The Moscow Years” (New York: Fromm International, 2000).
He has been a guest lecturer at Georgetown and Cambridge universities and has published a number of journal articles on intelligence and counterintelligence, the latest being a survey of counterintelligence literature for the International Studies Association Compendium. He serves on the editorial review board of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, and writes a book review column for the CIA’s journal, Studies in Intelligence. He is a member of the International Intelligence History Association and the International Studies Association. |
