Honorable Men by William E. Colby, Peter Forbath (.ePUB)
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Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA by William E. Colby, Peter Forbath
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Overview: In this memoir, the former CIA director and veteran intelligence agent recalls the people and events who shaped his career, while detailing the inner workings of the CIA.
“This is a big and important book. It deserves to be read whole, and carefully.” —Foreign Affairs
William E. Colby was not expected to cause a stir when he accepted the role of CIA director from President Richard Nixon. But in the wake of firestorms in Vietnam, Chile, and at the Watergate Hotel, a scathing exposé forced Colby to answer for a decade of troubling CIA activity. The statements he made in front of Congress and the press transformed him into a controversial figure in the political and intelligence communities; he simply thought he was doing the right thing.
In Honorable Men, Colby retraces his career and the development of the OSS and the CIA. He recounts parachuting behind enemy lines in World War II to blow up railroads and lead resistance groups, and ends with his involvement in the great debate over the CIA’s operations—and his dismissal at the hands of Gerald Ford.
Along the way, Colby outlines the practices of the CIA, offering an insider’s description of spycraft as a man who knew it intimately. A senior official with decades of field experience before running “The Company” from its headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Colby explains how the CIA is organized, managed, and led, and how its agents operate and hide. He also discusses how intelligence is acquired, reviewed, and disseminated to the CIA’s “customers.”
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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