Ny 1994 simon scuster (1 résultats)

red & black ¼ cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). note: book has a minor defect~ the glossy b&w illustrations are bound in a little off center (abt. 1cm). 509p. glossy b&w photo illustration. acknowledgments. notes. index. biography. american history. world history. conspiracy theory. secret societies. CIA. espionage. covert operations. vietnam war. cold war. iran~contra. ~Ted Shackley's life is the inside story of the CIA during the tense years of the Cold War. He was everywhere. As an Agency officer in postwar Berlin, Shackley attempted a nearly impossible task: to recruit Soviet~bloc spies. In the 1960s, he was the Company's man in Miami, where he ran a base~codenamed JMWAVE~that mounted espionage and sabotage operations ordered by President John Kennedy against Castro's Cuba. In Laos, he used a secret tribal army to wage an undercover war. After that, he was the CIA's top spy in Vietnam, where he earned the nickname "Blond Ghost." In Washington, he rose to the number two position in the Agency's clandestine service and appeared destined to be CIA director. But Shackley's fast ascent was stalled after he was publicly linked to an ex~CIA arms dealer in league with Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi. He went on to play a mysterious role in the murky Iran~Contra scandal. Based on once~secret government records and interviews with over 100 ex~CIA officers, Blond Ghost offers a fascinating portrait of Ted Shackley~a real~life George Smiley. It exposes the inner workings of the CIA and details the failure of the Agency's most important covert enterprises. It reveals dozens of top~secret operations: how the CIA recruited children as agents in Vietnam; how it encouraged perjury before Congress; how it paid off a suspected drug dealer; how it tried to use sex to blackmail communist officials; how it uncovered a Soviet~bloc spy in the German parliament; and more. Washington journalist David Corn discloses that for decades, the CIA's commitment to dirty tricks and secret wars compromised its ability to gather intelligence. Blond Ghost probes the CIA's Cold War record and shows that the Agency's efforts to penetrate the Iron Curtain in the 1950s were utterly unsuccessful, with an appalling and pointless loss of life; that the CIA tried to foment rebellion in Cuba, despite intelligence asserting no uprising was likely; that the CIA foisted on its Laotian allies unrealistic military operations that led to the death and displacement of tens of thousands of Laotians; that the CIA bungled miserably in Vietnam~ignoring intelligence collection for years and then suppressing information on the corruption and ineptness of the Saigon regime. Blond Ghost tells the tale of an important, decorated, and controversial spy master, unveils the nitty~gritty of life in the Agency, and reveals the real job the CIA did in the Cold War. …