For Nehru, the whole affair was deeply troubling. As he explained to the Dalai Lama, his “being in India [kept] alive the question of Tibet in the world,” which for China was “immediately one of irritation and suspicion.” On the one hand, he had hoped that with the mutual accord ...
Many will ask why an article of this importance is appearing on my personal website rather than in a prestigious publication. I will not detail the entire journey this article took at this time, but will say that while working with editors at mainstream publications I was asked to do things...
Jack Devine, who has been serving as the CIA’s acting deputy director for operations in recent months, has been given a highly prestigious posting as CIA station chief in a major foreign capital, which the CIA has asked The Times not to identify. Advertisement Devine, 54, was the CIA’s...
CI was not prestigious. It had a bad reputation. It was not fast track. It did not lead to promotions or good assignments. Angleton left a distasteful legacy that for years discredited the CI profession. Ted Price did more than anyone else in the Agency to reverse that trend and to ...
chapter 1 IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS MADNESS... The Truth Seekers In the spring of 1942, General William "Wild Bill" Donovan, chief of the OSS, the CIA's wartime predecessor, assembled a half-dozen prestigious American scientists and asked them to undertake a top-secret research program. ...
The CIA used the MIA-POW mission, Poshepny said, “as a cover to gather intelligence and conduct its manhunt [in Indochina].” American Pisces Valentine’s interview with Poshepny is one of the highlights from his new memoir,Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire(Walterville, ...