A Need to Know: The Clandestine History of a CIA Family

by Goodall Jr,H.L.

• ISBN13: 9781598740424
• ISBN10: 1598740423
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In scenes eerily parallel to the culture of fear inspired by our current War on Terror, A Need to Know explores the clandestine history of a CIA family defined, and ultimately destroyed, by their oath to keep toxic secrets during the Cold War. When Bud Goodall's father mysteriously died, his inheritance consisted of three well-worn books: a Holy Bible, The Great Gatsby, and a diary. But they turned his life upside down. From the diary Goodall learned that his father had been a CIA operative during the height of the Cold War, and the Bible and Gatsby had been his codebooks. Many unexplained facets of Bud's childhood came into focus with this revelation.The high living in Rome and London. The blood-stained stiletto in his jewelry case. Bud, as a child, was always told he never had "a need to know." Or did he? Now, as an adult and a university professor, Goodall attempts to fill in the missing pieces of his Cold War childhood by uncovering a lifetime of family secrets. Who were his parents? What did his father do on those business trips when he was "working for the government?" What betrayal turned a heroic career of national service into a nightmare of alcoholism, depression, and premature death for both of his parents? Slowly, inexorably, Goodall unearths the chilling secrets of a CIA family in A Need to Know.

Table of Contents

Preface

My Narrative Inheritance, March 12, 1976-December 7, 2001

Where He Came From, December 7, 1941 and its Aftermath

Hidden Tales In Paper Trails: April - December 1946

What I Didn't Know: October 1944 - November 1946

Martinsburg-Beckley, November 1946 - September 1952

Appointment to a Cold War: June 1954 - August 1955

Setup: Angleton, Colby, and Italy, 1946 - 1954

Rome, 1956 - 1958

Philby: 1956

Fragments: London, 1958 - 1960

London, Berlin, Washington, 1960

Wyoming, 1960 - 1961

Breakdown, 1962 - 1963

Recovery, Vindication, and the Night Road to Ruin: November 1962 - July 1963

Trouble at Home: Cheyenne, 1963 - 1964

Better Living Through Chemistry: Cheyenne, 1965 - 1967

Philadelphia and Operation CHAOS, 1967 - 1969

Decline, Denouement, and Death, 1970 - 1976

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