A retired agent describes what he believes is the CIA's real mission and warns that their approach to intelligence gathering could result in more Vietnams

Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA

Biographies & Memoirs

McGehee, Ralph W.

Leaders & Notable People

Sheridan Square Pubns

Secret Contenders: The Myth of Cold War Counterintelligence

Beck, Melvin

The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection

Book by Herman, Edward S., Brodhead, Frank

Politics & Social Sciences

Herman, Edward S.

Brodhead, Frank

Social Sciences

On May 13, 1981, Mehmet Ali Agca - Turkish fascist, leading member of the notorious Gray Wolves, and convicted murderer - shot Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square. Agca was one of the most wanted terrorists in the world. He had been found guilty of the 1979 murder of progressive Turkish newspaper editor Abdi Ipekci, but had escaped from prison with Gray Wolves help. Agca was hurriedly convicted of the attempted assassination of the Pope, amidst dark rumors of "conspiracy." For more than a year, the prisoner was seen by the world as just what he appeared to be, a rightwing Muslim fanatic who had threatened once before to kill the Pope and who had, finally, attempted the deed on behalf of his Gray Wolves brotherhood. But suddenly some western journalists, led by a former CIA chief of propaganda, claimed that Agca was in fact an agent of the Bulgarian government, and by extension of the KGB, hired to kill the Polish Pope because of his influence in troublesome Poland. This theory, for. which there was no evidence, was soon bolstered by Agca's prison confessions - confessions the authors of this book say he was coached by intelligence agencies to make. In the years which followed, the elaborate conspiracy theory - the Bulgarian Connection - was voiced incessantly in the western media. In October 1984 three Bulgarians and six Turks (including Agca) were indicted for conspiracy to murder the Pope; in May 1985 the trial began; and in March 1986 all the defendants were acquitted of any conspiracy. The case against the Bulgarians, which the western media had presented as ironclad, was a shambles. Agca had claimed he was Jesus and offered to raise the dead. In nearly four years of intensive investigations, no evidence was ever found to corroborate any of the specifics of his charges against the Bulgarians. How did it happen that this ludicrous theory was foisted on the public, developed, elaborated, and repeated, until everyone saw not only smoke, but fire? This book is a study of intelligence agency scheming, of knee-jerk conservative journalism, and of gullibility. It is also a warning to the reading public that the western press is neither free nor unbiased. The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection is a case study of western disinformation.

The sole government official to run an investigation into the death of JFK tells his story, offering theories and long-unknown details of the event that support the evidence for a conspiracy

On the Trail of the Assassins: My Investigation and Prosecution of the Murder of President Kennedy

GARRISON, JIM

499 pages plus colophon. A nice copy.

Warsaw: A Novel of Resistance

Literature & Fiction

Litewka, Albert

United States

Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and Her Washington Post Empire

Although Katharine Graham is surely one of the most powerful women in the world, few people are aware of the extent of her influence. World leaders meet with her; presidents meet with her; anyone moving up in the circles of power in the nation's capital tries to meet with the owner of the Washington Post and Newsweek--a communications conglomerate.Katharine the Great is a full-length biography of Kay Graham, a woman born into wealth and power. The second daughter of multimillionaires Eugene Meyer and Agnes Ernst, she grew up among the elite. Her mother's friends included Picasso, Rodin, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Thomas Mann.She went to Vassar and the University of Chicago. After a brief stay on the West Coast she returned to the East, where her father had just purchased the Washington Post. When Katharine married, her husband, the brilliant, mercurial Philip Graham, became publisher of the Post.Katharine Graham settled down to home life while her husband ran the newspaper. But during the 1950s Philip Graham was battling manic depression, and their marriage suffered. In 1963, twenty-five years to the day after he took over the Washington Post Company, Philip Graham committed suicide.Middle-aged and inexperienced, Katharine Graham took over the newspaper. Together with Ben Bradlee she made the Post a successful and powerful newspaper. In 1970 she published the Pentagon Papers to international repercussions. In 1972 the Post began the Watergate investigation, which led to Richard Nixon's resignation from the White House.From the Meyer Family to Phil Graham's era at the Post, to the CIA and Deep Throat, and beyond to the changing politics of the Reagan-Bush years, Deborah Davis reveals how Katharine Graham has helped to shape the destiny of the United States.

Davis, Deborah

History

Lays out the myriad details of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's investigation into the murder of JFK, discussing events from World War II to the present day and the indictment of Clay Shaw in the murder.

Destiny Betrayed : J.F.K., Cuba, and the Garrison Case

DiEugenio, James

Ben-Menashe, who worked for more than a dozen years in the inner circles of Israel's clandestine services, tells what actually happened during the 1980s: Israel and America prevented peace in the Middle East, the US supplied chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein, and Ronald Reagan and George Bush swapped arms with the Iranians for a delay in the release of the hostages to win the 1980 election. Published by Sheridan Square Press, Inc., 145 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012-1054. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Profits of War : Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network

Ben-Menashe, Ari

Politics & Government

Gerry Adams may be the best-known politician in Northern Ireland. But he is not only a politician. He is, as The Listener puts it, "a natural storyteller, with a warm and agile wit."The Street, this collection of short stories set in Belfast, describes the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.

The Street and Other Stories

ADAMS, GERRY

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Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA

Secret Contenders: The Myth of Cold War Counterintelligence

The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection

The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection

On the Trail of the Assassins: My Investigation and Prosecution of the Murder of President Kennedy

Warsaw: A Novel of Resistance

Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and Her Washington Post Empire

Destiny Betrayed : J.F.K., Cuba, and the Garrison Case

Profits of War : Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network

The Street and Other Stories