American Spy My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate and Beyond

by Hunt, E. Howard; Aunapu, Greg; Buckley, William F

• ISBN13: 9780471789826
• ISBN10: 0471789828
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-26
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Startling revelations from the OSS, the CIA, and the Nixon White houseThink you know everything there is to know about the OSS, the Cold War, the CIA, and Watergate? Think again. In American Spy, one of the key figures in postwar international and political espionage tells all. Former OSS and CIA operative and White House staffer E. Howard Hunt takes you into the covert designs of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon: His involvement in the CIA coup in Guatemala in 1954, the Bay of Pigs invasion, and more His work with CIA officials such as Allen Dulles and Richard Helms His friendship with William F. Buckley Jr., whom Hunt brought into the CIA The amazing steps the CIA took to manipulate the media in America and abroad The motives behind the break-in at Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office Why the White House "plumbers" were formed and what they accomplished The truth behind Operation Gemstone, a series of planned black ops activities against Nixon's political enemies A minute-by-minute account of the Watergate break-in Previously unreleased details of the post-Watergate cover-upComplete with documentation from audiotape transcripts, handwritten notes, and official documents, American Spy is must reading for anyone who is fascinated by real-life spy tales, high-stakes politics, and, of course, Watergate.

Author Biography

White House "plumber" E. HOWARD HUNT served as a covert operative for the CIA from 1950 until the 1970s, and participated in many of the agency's most secret missions, both abroad and in the United States. He is also the author of more than seventy spy novels.

GREG AUNAPU is a nationally respected journalist, who worked as a freelancer for Time and People magazines for ten years, and has reported for many national news organizations. He is coauthor of two previous books, most recently, Without a Trace.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
World War II	p. 3
OSS	p. 8
China Station	p. 21
The End of War	p. 28
The Marshall Plan	p. 34
The CIA	p. 44
Mexico	p. 52
The Balkans and Operation PB/Success	p. 68
Japan	p. 85
"Play It Again, Sam"	p. 97
Bay of Pigs	p. 113
The Assassination of President Kennedy	p. 126
The Great Propaganda Machine	p. 148
Inside the White House	p. 173
Gemstone	p. 191
Colson and McCord	p. 198
Watergate	p. 210
Watergate Redux	p. 227
Fallout	p. 236
Disaster Strikes Twice	p. 252
After the Crash	p. 269
Sentencing	p. 279
The Web Unweaves	p. 294
The Memo Bites Back	p. 311
The Problem with Langley	p. 323
Index	p. 333
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