Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA by Bob Woodward

Not a lot of detail into actual operations, but covers the high level people at the White House that presumably Woodward had the most access to. A much deeper book would probably dive into documents more rather than being more based on interviews, and it is possible that those documents hadn't yet been released since the congressional investigations into Iran-Contra were just starting.

128 - Propaganda being used as intelligence- I imagine this happens all the time, but it is difficult to track down except in the rare instances it is exposed. In this case [need to look it up] there was propaganda planted by the CIA that the Soviet Union was sponsoring terrorism, in order to discredit communism locally- but then later on some credulous CIA analyst (or Claire Sterling here) picks it up as proof that the Soviet Union is funding international terrorism and puts it into a report.

136 - List of interesting Revolutionary War books:
Where and How The war Was Fought
General Washington's Spies
A peculiar service
The secret History of the American Revolution
George Washington by Douglas Southall Freeman vol 3 + 6

248 - Something here about the CIA making videos for the president
Are these publicly available now?

344 - Mexico, wave of refugees- back then the argument against communism in central America was that Mexico might go communist and the US would be faced with hordes of Mexican refugees. Also lots of interesting discussion of how Casey repeatedly sent back analyses of the likelihood of collapse in Mexico until they rated it as likely.

469 - $10 million lost by Fawn Hall because she messed up the digits of a swiss bank account. Actually it's not clear if the money was lost permanently- how do these bank accounts work- are they anonymous, no records, or what?

The final pages reminds the reader of one of the more terrorist-like operations supported by the CIA, where a Hezbollah leader in Lebanon was targeted with a car bomb that left 80 people dead.

There's an interesting passage about a campaing of deception against Qaddafi- after an actual air raid against him in Libya, the Reagan Administration intentionally leaked false reports that Libya was planning terrorist attacks and that the US was planning retaliatory air strikes- this would prey upon an unstable mind supposedly. It's not quite clear but the book seems to suggest that the terrorist attacks that followed were at least in part motivated by this deception. It's interesting to think about at least- Joe Evildoer reads in the paper that his organization is plotting an attack, so he goes out and fulfills that even when he wasn't actually planning to earlier.