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Reveals how the feud between FBI director J. Edgar Hoover & Wm J. Donovan, the CIA's godfather, drove a wedge between foreign & domestic spycatching, creating a deeply flawed intelligence system. Examines how the problems arising from this split shaped the McCarthy loyalty probes, the U-2 affair & plots to kill Castro; sparked political scandals, from Watergate to Iran-contra & Iraq-Gate; hobbled the '60s hunt for spies in the CIA; may have contributed to Jack Ruby's murder of Lee Harvey Oswald; & allowed Russian mole Aldrich Ames to serve almost a decade in the CIA before being caught. "A grand panorama of dramatic episodes, peopled by picaresque secret agents from Ian Fleming to Oliver North, 'Wedge' is both a journey & a warning. From Pearl Harbor, McCarthyism & the plots to kill Castro thru the JFK assassination, Watergate & Iran Contra down to the Aldrich Ames affair, Robert Hanssen's treachery & the hunt for Al Qaeda--'Wedge' shows the price America has paid for its failure to resolve the conflict between law enforcement & intelligence. Gripping & authoritative--& updated with an important new epilogue, carrying the action thru to 9/11/01--'Wedge' is the only book about the schism that has informed nearly every major blunder in American espionage."
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Wedge, Mark Riebling
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- Année de publication
- 2002
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- Titre
- Wedge
- Sous-titre
- From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 - Updated with a New Epilogue
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Mark Riebling
- Éditeur
- Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
- Publié
- 2002
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 592
- ISBN10
- 0743245997
- ISBN13
- 9780743245999
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Sciences sociales, Thème historique, Histoires vraies, Sciences politiques & Politique, Politique, États-Unis, Prose de guerre, Littérature américaine, Seconde Guerre mondiale, 20e siècle, Crime réel, Espionnage, Histoire des États-Unis, Théories politiques, 21e siècle, Conspirations, Union Soviétique, Guerre Froide, FBI, CIA, Cuba, Politique mondiale, Politique américaine, Pearl Harbor
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- 3,95 sur 5
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- Reveals how the feud between FBI director J. Edgar Hoover & Wm J. Donovan, the CIA's godfather, drove a wedge between foreign & domestic spycatching, creating a deeply flawed intelligence system. Examines how the problems arising from this split shaped the McCarthy loyalty probes, the U-2 affair & plots to kill Castro; sparked political scandals, from Watergate to Iran-contra & Iraq-Gate; hobbled the '60s hunt for spies in the CIA; may have contributed to Jack Ruby's murder of Lee Harvey Oswald; & allowed Russian mole Aldrich Ames to serve almost a decade in the CIA before being caught. "A grand panorama of dramatic episodes, peopled by picaresque secret agents from Ian Fleming to Oliver North, 'Wedge' is both a journey & a warning. From Pearl Harbor, McCarthyism & the plots to kill Castro thru the JFK assassination, Watergate & Iran Contra down to the Aldrich Ames affair, Robert Hanssen's treachery & the hunt for Al Qaeda--'Wedge' shows the price America has paid for its failure to resolve the conflict between law enforcement & intelligence. Gripping & authoritative--& updated with an important new epilogue, carrying the action thru to 9/11/01--'Wedge' is the only book about the schism that has informed nearly every major blunder in American espionage."