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- 592 páginas
- 21 horas de lectura
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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
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- Publicado en
- 2002
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- Título
- Wedge
- Subtítulo
- From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 - Updated with a New Epilogue
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Mark Riebling
- Editorial
- Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
- Publicado en
- 2002
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 592
- ISBN10
- 0743245997
- ISBN13
- 9780743245999
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Ciencias sociales, Tema histórico, Historias reales, Ciencias políticas & Política, Política, EE.UU., Prosa bélica, Literatura americana, Segunda Guerra Mundial, Siglo XX, True crime, Espionaje, Historia de EE. UU., Teorías Políticas, Siglo XXI, Conspiraciones, Unión Soviética, Guerra Fría, FBI, CIA, Cuba, Política mundial, Política Americana, Pearl Harbor
- Calificación
- 3,95 de 5
- Descripción
- 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."