Although Zorthian and Habib were to prove Lansdale’s most inveterate foes, they were hardly alone in protecting their prerogatives from this interloper. Gordon Jorgensen, the chief of the CIA station (known for cover purposes as the Office of Special Activities), had started off working under Lansdale in the 1950s and might have been expected to be amenable to his former boss’s arrival. In fact, when a reporter told him the news, he “damn near dropped his martini.” The reporter he was talking with could tell that mentally Jorgy was “throwing up the barricades to protect his turf, and that’s
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