"President Eisenhower's National Security Advisor Robert "Bobby" Cutler shaped US Cold War strategy
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English Pages xii, 401 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color Year 2018
Table of contents :
Preface --
Bostonian republicans --
Bachelor --
Wartime --
From old colony to psychological warfare --
With Ike to victory --
Transition --
The gay spy --
Reforming and running the NSC --
Ike's peculiar ban on gays --
The passion of Oppenheimer --
The Iran coup --
Mystery man --
The Guatemala coup --
The Dr. Dick House, Joe McCarthy, and "sexual perversion" --
Exploiting Soviet vulnerabilities --
"Losing my right arm" --
The return --
"The greatest adventure of my life" --
Sputnik, turmoil, and love --
Challenging US nuclear strategy --
Venice, midnight --
"I love him..." --
Investigations--and agony --
Ike's man in Latin America --
"That which I am, I am."