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Wedge
From Pearl Harbor to 9/11: How the Secret War between the FBI and CIA Has Endangered National Security
- 592 pages
- English
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eBook - ePub
Wedge
From Pearl Harbor to 9/11: How the Secret War between the FBI and CIA Has Endangered National Security
About this book
Prophetic when first published and even more relevant now, Wedge is the classic, definitive story of the secret war America has waged against itself.
Based on scores of interviews with former spies and thousands of declassified documents, Wedge reveals and recreates—battle by battle, bungle by bungle—the epic clash that has made America uniquely vulnerable to its enemies. For more than six decades, the opposed and overlapping missions of the FBI and CIA—and the rival personalities of cops and spies—have caused fistfights and turf tangles, breakdowns and cover-ups, public scandals and tragic deaths.
A grand panorama of dramatic episodes, peopled by picaresque secret agents from Ian Fleming to Oliver North, Wedge is both a journey and a warning. From Pearl Harbor, McCarthyism, and the plots to kill Castro through the JFK assassination, Watergate, and Iran Contra down to the Aldrich Ames affair, Robert Hanssen's treachery, and the hunt for Al Qaeda—Wedge shows the price America has paid for its failure to resolve the conflict between law enforcement and intelligence.
Gripping and authoritative—and updated with an important new epilogue, carrying the action through to September 11, 2001—Wedge is the only book about the schism that has informed nearly every major blunder in American espionage.
Based on scores of interviews with former spies and thousands of declassified documents, Wedge reveals and recreates—battle by battle, bungle by bungle—the epic clash that has made America uniquely vulnerable to its enemies. For more than six decades, the opposed and overlapping missions of the FBI and CIA—and the rival personalities of cops and spies—have caused fistfights and turf tangles, breakdowns and cover-ups, public scandals and tragic deaths.
A grand panorama of dramatic episodes, peopled by picaresque secret agents from Ian Fleming to Oliver North, Wedge is both a journey and a warning. From Pearl Harbor, McCarthyism, and the plots to kill Castro through the JFK assassination, Watergate, and Iran Contra down to the Aldrich Ames affair, Robert Hanssen's treachery, and the hunt for Al Qaeda—Wedge shows the price America has paid for its failure to resolve the conflict between law enforcement and intelligence.
Gripping and authoritative—and updated with an important new epilogue, carrying the action through to September 11, 2001—Wedge is the only book about the schism that has informed nearly every major blunder in American espionage.
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INDEX
A note about the index: The pages referenced in this index refer to the page numbers in the print edition. Clicking on a page number will take you to the ebook location that corresponds to the beginning of that page in the print edition. For a comprehensive list of locations of any word or phrase, use your reading system’s search function.
Abel, Rudolf, 146–7, 153, 158–9, 186, 187, 252
Abwehr, 20, 21, 24, 25, 42, 44, 47, 52, 142
Abzug, Bella, 149
Adams, Jim, 383
Adham, Kamal, 418
AE/SCREEN, 352
AE/SHAMROCK, 224–5
Afanasiev, Dmitri, 413
Agee, Philip, 328, 329, 432
Air Force, U.S., 94, 413
Ajaj, Mahmad Muhammad, 435–6
Al-Amri, Hamid, 404
Albee, Edward, 149
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Bureau of (ATF), 429
Aldhizer, Jay, 268, 298, 313–14, 317, 318, 334, 338–9, 341, 346, 347, 356–7, 365–8, 370, 384, 390–2, 400, 401, 405, 422
Aleman, José, 171, 172, 238, 240
Alexander, Yonah, 439
Al-Habobi, Safia, 422
Alien Border Control Committee (ABCC), 434
Alsop, Joseph, 117
Ambler, Eric, 360
America First, 36
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 315, 347, 382
American Communist Group in Mexico (ACGM), 269
American Institute of International Information (AIII), 96–7
American Labor Party, 121
Ames, Aldrich Hazen “Rick,” 350, 354–5, 361, 362, 415, 430–3, 441–9
Ames, Maria del Rosario Casas,...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Prologue: For Special Services
- Book One: The War Against Wild Bill
- Book Two: America’s James Bond
- Book Three: The Poetry of Deception
- Book Four: Chaos
- Book Five: Twilight For Chameleons
- Epilogue
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
- Copyright