Company confessions: secrets, memoirs, and the CIA [First U.S. edition] 9781250047137, 9781466847491, 1250047137

Foreword / by Tony Mendez and Jonna Mendez -- INTRODUCTION -- If walls could talk -- What would Walter say? -- Blood spo

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Company confessions: secrets, memoirs, and the CIA [First U.S. edition]
 9781250047137, 9781466847491, 1250047137

Table of contents :
Foreword / by Tony Mendez and Jonna Mendez --
INTRODUCTION --
If walls could talk --
What would Walter say? --
Blood sport --
HERBERT YARDLEY: PLAYING FOR HIGH STAKES --
A 'magnificent book' --
Codebreaker --
Outcast --
Traitor? --
LIMITED HANGOUT --
Care of devils --
The rebirth of the US spy memoir --
The golden age --
Secrecy interrupted --
RENEGADES AND WHISTLE-BLOWERS --
Time of troubles --
Breaking the brotherhood of spies --
'The Agency's no. 1 nemesis' --
WINNING FRIENDS AND INFLUENCING PEOPLE --
Feeling the heat --
The last assignment --
The American model of intelligence --
THE SNEPP PROBLEM --
The PRB --
Institutional disgrace --
Irreparable harm --
Double standards --
THE HELMS EXPERIMENT: RIGHTING AND WRITING THE RECORD --
Midlife crisis --
'The man who kept the secrets' --
Fighting back --
Quasi-official history --
EPILOGUE: 21ST-CENTURY DISPUTES --
The honest broker --
Tightening the noose, again --
Confessions in the digital age.

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