Garwood, Darrell. Under Cover: Thirty-Five Years of CIA Deception. New
York: Grove Press, 1985. 309 pages. With an introduction by Tom Gervasi.
"Under Cover" is a revision of Darrell Garwood's "American Shadow"
(Stafford VA: Dan River Press, 1980), which was not widely distributed.
This new version is better, and two of its best features are the introduction
(36 pages) and chronology (9 pages) by Tom Gervasi. Sandwiched between these
is Garwood's research and reporting on over a dozen episodes in CIA history.
Over half involve foreign exploits and the others concern domestic issues.
It is not exhaustive by any means, but is highly readable and serves as an
excellent introduction to the field. Together with Gervasi it makes this
book a perfect choice for required undergraduate reading.
Garwood is one of the only writers to deal with the 1955 attempt on
Zhou En-lai. "The strongest possible circumstantial evidence, overwhelming
in the light of subsequent discoveries, later left no room for doubt that
the agency, working through the Chinese Nationalists, had used a time bomb
to blow up and send crashing into the Pacific the Air India passenger plane
on which Zhou was scheduled to fly to the Bandung Conference." Part of this
evidence is a memoir (also in NameBase) by John Discoe Smith, published
after he defected to the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. In it Smith claims
that he was instructed to deliver a package to a KMT agent, which he later
discovered had contained the time bomb.
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