Volume 40, Number 9 · May 13, 1993
The Truth About the CIA
By Thomas Powers
Eclipse: The Last Days of the CIA
by Mark Perry
Morrow, 528 pp., $25.00
Casey: From the OSS to the CIA
by Joseph Persico
Viking, 601 pp., $14.95 (paper)
The Bear Trap: Afghanistan's Untold Story
by Gen. Mohammad Yousaf, by Mark Adkin
Leo Cooper, (out of print)
The Red Web: MI6 and the KGB Master Coup
by Tom Bower
Aurum, (out of print)
The FBI–KGB War: A Special Agent's Story
by Robert J. Lamphere, by Tom Schactman
Random House, 320 pp., $18.95
Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton: The CIA's Master Spy Hunter
by Tom Mangold
Touchstone, 462 pp., $13.00 (paper)
Molehunt: The Secret Search for Traitors that Shattered the CIA
by David Wise
Random House, 325 pp., $22.00
No Other Choice: The Cold War Memoirs of the Ultimate Spy
by George Blake
Simon and Schuster, 288 pp., $22.00
The Cambridge Spies: The Untold Story of Maclean, Philby, and Burgess in America
by Verne W. Newton
Madison Books, 464 pp., $24.95
The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War
by Jerrold L. Schechter, by Peter S. Deriabin
Scribner's, 488 pp., $25.00
The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government, to 1950
by Arthur B. Darling
Pennsylvania State University Press, 509 pp., $17.50 (paper)
General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence, October 1950–February 1953
by Ludwell Lee Montague
Pennsylvania State University Press, 308 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Moscow Station: How the KGB Penetrated the American Embassy
by Ronald Kessler
Scribner's, 305 pp., $19.95
The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA
by Burton Hersh
Scribner's, 536 pp., $29.95
America's Secret Eyes in Space: The U.S. Spy Satellite Program
by Jeffrey T. Richelson
Harper Business, 560 pp., $24.95
American Espionage and the Soviet Target
by Jeffrey T. Richelson
(out of print)
The secret war concealed within the cold war achieved a kind of climax one chilly morning in the early 1960s in the Congo, when two boats slowly approached each other along the western shore of Lake Tanganyika. These were no native dugouts, but long, sleek craft with powerful engines. Whether it was someone in the southern boat heading north or someone in the northern boat heading south who first distinguished the low diesel rumble of the approaching boat over the growl of his own, I cannot say, for my informant is now dead. Nor can I say who spied the other first, or who fired first, or what was shouted in the panic and confusion as bullets were exchanged during the frantic moments before engines were revved up and the two powerful craft veered off into the mist. But I can report that the shouts of alarm that echoed over Lake Tanganyika, uttered by the hired warriors of the United States and the Soviet Union, were in both cases Cuban Spanish, mother tongue alike of the Cubans who went to the Congo to make a revolution with Che Guevara at Soviet expense and the Cubans dispatched to foil them by the intelligence agencies of America.
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