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Pub. Date
c2011
Formats
Description
"Inside the CIA, Robert Baer was known as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. But if his career was everything a spy might aspire to, his personal life was a brutal illustration of everything a spy is asked to sacrifice--he had few non-work friendships, his prolonged absences destroyed his marriage, and he felt intense guilt at spending so little time with his children. Dayna Williamson was just an ordinary California girl, but she...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"A high-speed, high-stakes account of [the] riveting true story of a father's deception, a son's loyalty, and the terrible costs of betraying both country and kin"--Back jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2012
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (ca. 13 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Henry Crumpton led the CIA's global covert operations against America's terrorist enemies, including al Qaeda. In the days after 9/11, the CIA tasked Crumpton to organize the Afghanistan campaign. With Crumpton's initiative and leadership U.S. and Afghan allies routed al Qaeda and the Taliban in less than ninety days after the Twin Towers fell. The campaign changed the way America wages war. This book will change the way America views the CIA.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
vii, 546 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Explores the life and career of William Egan Colby, one of the most controversial figures of the postwar period: World War II commando, Cold War spy, Saigon CIA station chief, and eventual CIA director under Nixon and Ford, he played a critical role in some of the most pivotal events in 20th-century history.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xv, 244 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 25 cm.
Description
This work is a narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian who penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highest reaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war on terror. In December 2009, a group of the CIA's top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent who infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xvi, 566 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
"The author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Wild Bill Donovan, tells the story of four OSS warriors of World War II. All four later led the CIA. They are the most famous and controversial directors the CIA has ever had--Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey. Disciples is the story of these dynamic agents and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe under OSS Director Bill Donovan. Allen Dulles ran the OSS's...
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