The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA

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Simon and Schuster, 10 dec. 1996 - 427 sidor
Thomas has drawn on his original research in CIA archives and interviews with scores of old agency hands to evoke the urgency and uncertainty, as well as the giddiness, of the shadow wars of the 1950s and early 1960s when the country, with reason, felt itself in danger from Soviet-led Communist aggression. Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes, and Desmond FitzGerald embodied the confidence, daring, and arrogance of the WASP elite that dominated the CIA at its founding. Thomas brings these men to life as they move boldly, and a bit innocently, into the corrosive life of secrets. He portrays the improbable scene of Bissell, of Groton and Yale, hiring the Mafia to eliminate Fidel Castro, and the terrible drama of Frank Wisner, the first chief of covert operations, slowly succumbing to suicidal mania. He follows Barnes and FitzGerald as they run covert operations from Berlin to Burma.

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INTRODUCTION
9
Chapter
15
Chapter
32
Chapter Three
44
Chapter Four
60
Chapter Five
75
Chapter
87
Chapter Seven
98
Chapter Fourteen
203
Chapter Fifteen
216
Chapter Sixteen
230
Chapter Seventeen
237
Chapter Eighteen
261
Chapter Nineteen
273
Chapter Twenty
285
Chapter TwentyOne
305

Chapter Eight
107
Chapter Nine
127
Chapter
142
Chapter Eleven
153
Chapter Twelve
164
Chapter Thirteen
179
Chapter TwentyTwo
318
Acknowledgments
342
NOTES
349
INDEX
358
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Om författaren (1996)

Evan Thomas is the author of The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the C.I.A., a book about the careers of Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes and Desmond FitzGerald; Robert Kennedy: His Life; The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst and the Rush to Empire, 1989; Sea of Thunder: The Last Great Naval Command, 1941-1945; and John Paul Jones. He is at work on a book about President Dwight Eisenhower.

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