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Reveals how the feud between FBI director J. Edgar Hoover & Wm J. Donovan, the CIA's godfather, drove a wedge between foreign & domestic spycatching, creating a deeply flawed intelligence system. Examines how the problems arising from this split shaped the McCarthy loyalty probes, the U-2 affair & plots to kill Castro; sparked political scandals, from Watergate to Iran-contra & Iraq-Gate; hobbled the '60s hunt for spies in the CIA; may have contributed to Jack Ruby's murder of Lee Harvey Oswald; & allowed Russian mole Aldrich Ames to serve almost a decade in the CIA before being caught. "A grand panorama of dramatic episodes, peopled by picaresque secret agents from Ian Fleming to Oliver North, 'Wedge' is both a journey & a warning. From Pearl Harbor, McCarthyism & the plots to kill Castro thru the JFK assassination, Watergate & Iran Contra down to the Aldrich Ames affair, Robert Hanssen's treachery & the hunt for Al Qaeda--'Wedge' shows the price America has paid for its failure to resolve the conflict between law enforcement & intelligence. Gripping & authoritative--& updated with an important new epilogue, carrying the action thru to 9/11/01--'Wedge' is the only book about the schism that has informed nearly every major blunder in American espionage."
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Wedge, Mark Riebling
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2002
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- Titolo
- Wedge
- Sottotitolo
- From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 - Updated with a New Epilogue
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Mark Riebling
- Editore
- Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
- Pubblicato
- 2002
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 592
- ISBN10
- 0743245997
- ISBN13
- 9780743245999
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Scienze sociali, Tema stórico, Storie vere, Scienze politiche & Politica, Politica, USA, Prosa di guerra, Letteratura Americana, Seconda guerra mondiale, XX Secolo, True crime, Spionaggio, Storia degli Stati Uniti, Teorie Politiche, 21° Secolo, Teorie del complotto, Unione Sovietica, Guerra Fredda, FBI, CIA, Cuba, Politica mondiale, Politica Americana, Pearl Harbor
- Valutazione
- 3,95 su 5
- Descrizione
- Reveals how the feud between FBI director J. Edgar Hoover & Wm J. Donovan, the CIA's godfather, drove a wedge between foreign & domestic spycatching, creating a deeply flawed intelligence system. Examines how the problems arising from this split shaped the McCarthy loyalty probes, the U-2 affair & plots to kill Castro; sparked political scandals, from Watergate to Iran-contra & Iraq-Gate; hobbled the '60s hunt for spies in the CIA; may have contributed to Jack Ruby's murder of Lee Harvey Oswald; & allowed Russian mole Aldrich Ames to serve almost a decade in the CIA before being caught. "A grand panorama of dramatic episodes, peopled by picaresque secret agents from Ian Fleming to Oliver North, 'Wedge' is both a journey & a warning. From Pearl Harbor, McCarthyism & the plots to kill Castro thru the JFK assassination, Watergate & Iran Contra down to the Aldrich Ames affair, Robert Hanssen's treachery & the hunt for Al Qaeda--'Wedge' shows the price America has paid for its failure to resolve the conflict between law enforcement & intelligence. Gripping & authoritative--& updated with an important new epilogue, carrying the action thru to 9/11/01--'Wedge' is the only book about the schism that has informed nearly every major blunder in American espionage."