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(More customer reviews)I am in this book, but that is not saying a great deal since I came out from under cover with permission after Alvin Toffler built the chapter on "The Future of the Spy" around me, in War and Anti-War: Making Sense of Today's Global Chaos.
Based on the lack of authorship, details, and the kludge of names, I was tempted to give this a three but went to a four solely because it is probably a good illustration of the range of information about CIA officers that is online today AND the price is sensational. This is a very fairly priced book, and for that alone I do recommend its purchase.
What the book discloses is not to be confused with what is known about CIA officers by one and all--as long as CIA continues to operate out of official facilities, generally the only one being the US Embassy, it will continue to be an "open book" and the only people CIA is deceiving are the US public and the US Congress.
Not recommended for anyone other than a die-hard fan of books of, by, and for CIA matters. NameBase online is much more fun, and has the advantage of being able to produce relationship diagrams based on relationships in text, something I helped think about within CIA while managing Project GEORGE (Smiley) in the Office of Information Technology (OIT).
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 187. Chapters: Francis Gary Powers, Klaus Barbie, Tscherim Soobzokov, Bob Barr, William F. Buckley, Jr., Raymond Allen Davis incident, Valerie Plame, Luis Posada Carriles, Carl E. Duckett, James Jesus Angleton, David Addington, Porter Goss, Samuel V. Wilson, E. Howard Hunt, Michael Scheuer, Larry C. Johnson, Paul R. Pillar, Aldrich Ames, Cofer Black, Mary McCarthy, Philip Agee, Arthur Stratton, Carmel Offie, William Sloane Coffin, William Harding Jackson, William A. Eddy, Robert Baer, Robert E. Cushman, Jr., Abdurahman Khadr, Arthur C. Lundahl, Richard M. Bissell, Jr., Rob Simmons, Charles E. Allen, Félix Rodríguez, Frank Sturgis, Theodore Shackley, William Francis Buckley, Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., Billy Waugh, Kenneth Pollack, Charles P. Cabell, Ishmael Jones, Frank Olson, Edwin P. Wilson, Stephen Kappes, Douglas Mackiernan, Frank Wisner, Kyle Foggo, Gary Berntsen, Jose Rodriguez, E. Michael Burke, Thomas Braden, Charles S. Whitehouse, Holden Roberto, Duane Clarridge, Jeffrey Alexander Sterling, Lyman Kirkpatrick, Tucker Gougelmann, Johnny Micheal Spann, James Marcinkowski, Ralph McGehee, Bernard Barker, Gerry Patrick Hemming, Lindsay Moran, David Atlee Phillips, Cord Meyer, Luis de Florez, Rick Francona, John Stockwell, Jack Hawkins, A. B. Krongard, Karl Koecher, Vincent Cannistraro, Edward Lee Howard, Kathleen Christison, Robert Seldon Lady, Philip Giraldi, James Pavitt, Ksawery Wyrożemski, Donald Kerr, Sidney Gottlieb, Flynt Leverett, Thomas G. Clines, Victor Marchetti, Robert David Steele, John T. Downey, John Kiriakou, Anthony Poshepny, John L. Helgerson, Leutrell Osborne, Howard Hart, Frederick H. Fleitz, Huntington D. Sheldon, Michael G. Vickers, Gerry Droller, Willem Smit, Douglas H. Paal, George Kisevalter, Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr., David Sánchez Morales, Robert Grenier, Milton Bearden, Ronald A. Marks, Edward Sch...
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