Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA

by Jefferson Morley

Book Overview

Mexico City was the Casablanca of the Cold War-a hotbed of spies, revolutionaries, and assassins. The CIA's station there was the front line of the United States' fight against international communism, as important for Latin America as Berlin was for Europe. And its undisputed spymaster was Winston Mackinley Scott. Chief of the Mexico City station from 1956 to 1969, Win Scott occupied a key position in the founding generation of the Central Intelligence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700617906
• ISBN13: 9780700617906
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"