A need to know [[electronic resource] ] : the clandestine history of a CIA family / / H.L. Goodall Jr
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| Autore: |
Goodall H. Lloyd
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| Titolo: |
A need to know [[electronic resource] ] : the clandestine history of a CIA family / / H.L. Goodall Jr
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| Pubblicazione: | Walnut Creek, Calif., : Left Coast Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (401 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 327.12730092 |
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| Soggetto topico: | Intelligence service - United States |
| Intelligence officers - United States | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [385] -394) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; 1. My Narrative Inheritance: March 12, 1976-December 7, 2001; 2. Where He Came From: December 7, 1941, and Its Aftermath; 3. Hidden Tales Within the Paper Trails: April-December 1946; 4. What I Didn't Know: October 1944-November 1946; 5. Martinsburg: November 1946-September 1952; 6. Appointment to a Cold War: June 1954-August 1955; 7. Setup: Angleton, Colby, and Italy, 1946-1954; 8. Rome: 1956-1958; 9. Philby: 1956; 10. Fragments: London, 1958-1960; 11. London, Berlin, Washington: 1960; 12. Wyoming: 1960-1961; 13. Breakdown: 1962-1963 |
| 14. Recovery, Vindication, and the Night Road to Ruin: November 1962-July 196315. Trouble at Home: Cheyenne, 1963-1964; 16. Better Living Through Chemistry: Cheyenne, 1965-1967; 17. Philadelphia and Operation CHAOS: 1967-1969; 18. Decline, Denouement, and Death: 1970-1976; Postscript: Echoes from the Story Line; Sources; References Cited; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In scenes eerily parallel to the culture of fear inspired by our current War on Terror, A Need to Know explores the clandestine history of a CIA family defined, and ultimately destroyed, by their oath to keep toxic secrets during the Cold War. When Bud Goodall's father mysteriously died, his inheritance consisted of three well-worn books: a Holy Bible, The Great Gatsby, and a diary. But they turned his life upside down. From the diary Goodall learned that his father had been a CIA operative during the height of the Cold War, and the Bible and Gatsby had been his codebooks. Many unexplaine |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A need to know |
| ISBN: | 1-315-43569-1 |
| 1-59874-786-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457321403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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