Bibliograph

Company confessions, secrets, memoirs, and the CIA, Christopher Moran

Type

Label

Company confessions, secrets, memoirs, and the CIA, Christopher Moran

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-332) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Company confessions

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

945804186

Responsibility statement

Christopher Moran

Sub title

secrets, memoirs, and the CIA

Summary

"The absorbing and untold story of how the CIA, the world's most famous and controversial intelligence agency, has managed the problem of whistleblowers and dealt with the age-old puzzle of secrecy in an open society"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- I. If Walls Could Talk -- II. What Would Walter Say? -- III. Blood Sport -- 1. Herbert Yardley: Playing for High Stakes -- I. A 'Magnificent Book' -- II. Codebreaker -- III. Outcast -- IV. Traitor? -- 2. Limited Hangout -- I. Care of Devils -- II. The Rebirth of the US Spy Memoir -- III. the Golden Age -- IV. Secrecy Interrupted -- 3. Renegades and Whistle-blowers -- I. Time of Troubles -- II. Breaking the Brotherhood of Spies -- III. 'The Agency's No. 1 Nemesis' -- 4. Winning Friends and Influencing People -- I. Feeling the Heart -- II. The Last Assignment -- III. The American Model of Intelligence -- 5. The Snepp Problem -- I. The PRB -- II. Institutional Disgrace -- III. Irreparable Harm -- IV. Double Standards -- 6. The Helms Experiment: Righting and Writing the Record -- I. Midlife Crisis -- II. 'The Man Who Kept the Secrets' -- III. Fighting Back -- IV. Quasi-Official History -- Epilogue: 21st-Century Disputes -- I. The Honest Broker -- II. Tightening the Noose, Again -- III. Confessions in the Digital Age

Target audience

adult

Classification

Creator