James Angleton was the most controversial and mysterious counterintelligence spymaster in the CIA's history. Veteran reporter Tom Mangold covers every phase of the spymaster's career and lays bare the dangerous, illusory world of high intelligence in the white heat of the Cold War. His tale is as suspenseful as a work of fiction.
Beginning where fiction leaves off, "Plague Wars"--the definitive book on biological weapons--has been impeccably researched with the cooperation of the U.N., the Department of Defense, and various worldwide civilian and military agencies. It shows that biological agents are the weapons of the future: cheaply produced, easily unleashed, and as ...
The riveting, true story of the remarkable, but little known, Vietnam War campaigns fought inside 200 miles of secret tunnel networks around Saigon, between Viet Cong guerillas and special American forces.
This text argues that biological warfare whether in the hands of "madmen" states or lone terrorists has the potential to do more damage than even nuclear weapons. It cannot be properly banned by treaty; it cannot be controlled; and it requires little investment to refine. It is the poor man's atom bomb. The battlefields of the new biological ...
This is the story of the decade-long CIA spy-hunt driven by the paranoid convictions and Cold War obsessions of two men, the legendary American spycatcher, James Jesus Angleton, and the Soviet KGB defector, Anatoly Golitsyn. They were an instrument of destruction for their victims throughout Western intelligence, and the political ramifications ...
Based on more than three years of research and 300 interviews, Cold Warrior charts the career of James Jesus Angelton, former head of counterintelligence for the CIA and America's most legendary and ruthless spycatcher. Rarely has the dangerous, illusory world of international espionage been so fully revealed. 16-page photo insert.
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