No Cloak, No Dagger
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No Cloak, No Dagger

A Professor's Secret Life Inside the CIA

  1. 301 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

No Cloak, No Dagger

A Professor's Secret Life Inside the CIA

About this book

Lester Paldy, a distinguished professor, was tapped by the CIA in 1988 to join the Agency for a "trial run" as they faced a troubling new situation in Russia. That "temporary" assignment would last for 25 years, during which he would find himself tested by a shifting set of responsibilities, his ability to penetrate secret sites, his expertise in approaching and assessing targets for potential value to the Agency, and his personal commitment to breaking down long-held barriers between the CIA and the FBI. He achieved this by demonstrating to CIA officers and FBI special agents how to approach scientists in ways that fit smoothly into their research and organizational cultures. As long as Les Paldy remained at the CIA, officers and special agents from both intelligence bases would benefit from this unexpected opportunity.
Even today, years after his official departure from the Agency, Les Paldy is invited to brief intelligence officers and special agents. And now, the author extends an invitation to every reader to join him on his life-changing journey as the professor with "No Cloak, No Dagger."

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Disclaimer
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Acronyms
  6. In the Beginning . . .
  7. Entry on Duty
  8. Into the Nuclear Archipelago
  9. Blasts from the Past
  10. Negotiation End Game
  11. Moscow and Kyiv
  12. New Man in the Office
  13. Man in the Middle
  14. A CIA That Looks Like America
  15. Views from the Field
  16. Churning and Travel
  17. Leadership and Morale
  18. Time for Choices
  19. Disarming Nuclear Ukraine
  20. Expendable Contractor
  21. Airborne Again
  22. Playing the Long Game
  23. New Threat, Usual Suspects
  24. Epilogue
  25. Index
  26. About the Author