The man who kept the secrets: Richard Helms & the CIA

by Thomas Powers

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394507770
• ISBN13: 9780394507774
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 393 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fascinating history

This is a fascinating book which provides insight into Richard Helms and the CIA's activities from the end of WW II through the seventies, including revelations on Watergate, Chile, Iraq, Cuban Missile Crisis, Castro, Bay of Pigs, and the presidents of that time. The book goes on at length discussing when, to whom in Congress, and about what, the CIA may lie. The book's faults are that it assumes too much historical knowledge of the reader, and a bit too much flitting back and forth time-wise.