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The Very Best Men
Evan Thomas
其他書名
Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA
出版Simon and Schuster, 1996-12-10
主題History / GeneralPolitical Science / Intelligence & EspionagePolitical Science / American Government / GeneralTrue Crime / Espionage
ISBN06848253849780684825380
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oZU7u0GiMEUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.