Volume 3, Number 2 · September 10, 1964
Who's in Charge Here?
By Karl E. Meyer
The Invisible Government
by David Wise, by Thomas B. Ross
Random House, 361 pp., $5.95
One must acknowledge that Mr. Goldwater has made a felicitous contribution to our political language by his reference to Washington as the Land of Oz. The Senator's six-shooter, for once, is unerringly on target—Washington, like Oz, is physically divided into four parts, and somewhere on the wilder outskirts of Munchkin Country lies the CIA and its director, John A. McCone, a true Wizard of Oz, whose specialty is dirty tricks.
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