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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
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In this brutally honest memoir, Brennan, the son of an Irish immigrant who settled in New Jersey, describes the life that took him from being a young CIA recruit enamored with the mystique of spy work, secretly defiant enough to drive a motorcycle and sport a diamond earring, and invigorated by his travels in the Middle East to being the most powerful individual in American intelligence. He details his experiences with very different presidents and...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A counterterrorism spy describes his leadership of the campaign that routed al Qaeda and the Taliban in the weeks after the September 11 attacks, offering insight into the ways in which the Afghanistan campaign changed American warfare.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Duncan Chaplin Lee was one of the highest-ranking moles in the wartime U.S. intelligence apparatus. Lee was chief aide to William "Wild Bill" Donovan, the fabled head of the Office of Strategic Services and grandfather of the CIA. During World War II, Lee's political sympathies and desire to advance the fight against fascism led him to leak highly classified information to the Soviets. J. Edgar Hoover would tirelessly trace Lee's movements in an...
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A memoir from the Newsweek foreign correspondent in which he explores his relationship with his father, a spy with the CIA whose murky past causes a lifetime of suspicion and deception.
Growing up, Scott C. Johnson always suspected that his father was different. Only as a teenager did he discover the truth: his father was a spy, one of the CIA's most trusted officers. At first the secret was thrilling. But over time Scott began to have doubts. How...
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