Format:
Online-Ressource (399 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1598740415
Content:
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 fac
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [385] -394) and index
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Preface; 1. My Narrative Inheritance: March 12, 1976-December 7, 2001; 2. Where He Came From: December 7, 1941, and Its Aftermath; 3. Hidden Tales Within the Paper Trails: April-December 1946; 4. What I Didn't Know: October 1944-November 1946; 5. Martinsburg: November 1946-September 1952; 6. Appointment to a Cold War: June 1954-August 1955; 7. Setup: Angleton, Colby, and Italy, 1946-1954; 8. Rome: 1956-1958; 9. Philby: 1956; 10. Fragments: London, 1958-1960; 11. London, Berlin, Washington: 1960; 12. Wyoming: 1960-1961; 13. Breakdown: 1962-1963
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
Print version A Need to Know : THE CLANDESTINE HISTORY OF A CIA FAMILY
Language:
English
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