This book covers roughly three intermingled topics. The first is the
CIA's early years at the Berlin base, where high-flying corruption and
Soviet penetration was rampant, and even seemed to help one's CIA career.
William Harvey was a key player here. The second involves the migration of
some of these players to Vietnam, and also to Chile. The primary source on
Chile is Edward Korry, whose story is told here in some detail. The third
aspect of this book is the mole wars, where Angleton plays a major role.
Trento makes a strong case that Igor Orlov and George Weisz deserve top
billing as moles, but is less convincing when he describes Angleton's
theories about Oswald. In the end, the point of the book -- that the
Soviets consistently ran circles around a corrupted and incompetent CIA
-- is rock solid. It wasn't our self-serving Keystone Cops who won the
Cold War; it was simply that our arms race outlasted the Soviet economy.
ISBN 0-7615-2562-9
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