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Reflections Of A Cold Warrior: From Yalta To The Bay Of Pigs
Richard M. Bissell, Jr., the most important CIA spymaster in history, singlehandedly led America's intelligence service from the age of Mata Hari into the space age. In this compelling memoir, Bissell gives readers an insider's view of the personalities, policies, and historical forces surrounding such paramount covert operations as the Bay of Pigs, and tells of the lesson...more
Hardcover, 280 pages
Published
May 29th 1996
by Yale University Press
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So much of this book is incredibly dry and pointless. The exciting portions often are no longer than a sentence like "I was the one who hired the Mafia to assasinate Castro" (actual sentence).
The begining and end are garbage, but the middle portion which deals with Bissell's years in Intelligence are a pudantically thurough depiction of the beauracracy involved with covert operations, hightlighting paperwork and committees rather than action.
The begining and end are garbage, but the middle portion which deals with Bissell's years in Intelligence are a pudantically thurough depiction of the beauracracy involved with covert operations, hightlighting paperwork and committees rather than action.
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