'Wilderness of Mirrors: Intrigue, Deception, and the Secrets that Destroyed Two of the Cold War's Most Important Agents' by David C. Martin - Poetry Connection

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by: David C. Martin See Larger Image List Price: $12.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.36 You Save: $2.59 (20%) Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 973 EAN: 9781585748242 ISBN: 1585748242 Label: The Lyons Press Manufacturer: The Lyons Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: July 01, 2003 Publisher: The Lyons Press Sales Rank: 214668 Studio: The Lyons Press Related Items: Spytime: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games The Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency see more Editorial Review: Product Description: c Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Sensationlized, but maybe not fullt factual There were some "juicy" bits but this was not an unbiased approach. I bought the book to get a contrasting view of JJA, but wound up with a more "novel" approach. It was entertaining. Rating: - good book for serious assassination buffs This is the best CIA book according to old CIA hands. It doesn't tell you that the CIA people planned the JFK assassination,.... but it sure does tell you that Nosenko the KGB defector who told them the KGB didn't control Oswald,...was tortured and urged to change his story,...and WHO treated Nosenko so harshly. You can then deduce that those same agents were the JFK assassins. Rating: - Watching the Watchers Since its establishment in 1947, CIA has enjoyed some modest successes as an agent for regime change, but does not to appear to have been a very effective intelligence agency. Yet during the first 25 years of its existence under the freewheeling influence of the many WWII Office of Strategic Services (OSS) veterans who formed its original cadre, it certainly seems to have been an interesting place to work. Indeed its halls were apparently filled with interesting and colorful characters who may or ... Read More Rating: - The contagious paranoia of counterintelligence... The term, "wilderness of mirrors," is still used today in counterintelligence circles to denote the feelings of paranoia that sometimes develop in the byzantine business of spyhunting, when one is no longer able to distinguish between what is real and what is illusion. When conjuring up images of this precise phenomenon, no name rings louder than that of James Jesus Angleton, who himself was enveloped and ultimately destroyed by his obsession with uncovering a "mole" within the CIA. Martin's ... Read More Rating: - Help! The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum!!! This book, which relates the ongoing war between the CIA and the KGB, focuses on the activities of William K. Harvey, a gun-totin' ex-FBI agent (who does not seem to have entirely evolved in a social sense), and James Jesus Angleton, a Yale graduate who lived first in Italy and then in England, where he learned the fine arts of counter-espionage at the knees, as it were, of Kim Philby, and was in charge of counter-espionage at the CIA. The revelation that the latter was a KGB penetration agent in British ... Read More see more

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