Wise,D. Ross,T. The Invisible Government. 1974
Wise, David and Ross, Thomas B. The Invisible Government. New York:
Vintage Books, 1974. Reprint of the 1964 Random House edition. 379 pages.
With chapters on the Bay of Pigs, Burma, Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam, and
Guatemala, as well as information on Iran, Egypt, Costa Rica, and even the
Gehlen Org, this 1964 book was amazingly comprehensive about U.S. covert
activities. Other chapters include the NSA, DIA, covert shortwave radio,
and electronic spying. Until these revelations, literature concerning the
CIA consisted only of puff-piece memoirs and anecdotes by ethically-
myopic, compartmented former agents. It took too long for American
journalism to discover that they didn't have the story.
With all of the literature about the CIA over the past two decades, it
is easy to forget that for the first half of the Agency's history, almost
nothing was in the public domain. Washington journalist David Wise changed
all of that with "The Invisible Government" in 1964. CIA director John
McCone called in Wise and co-author Thomas Ross to demand deletions on the
basis of galleys the CIA had secretly obtained. When that didn't work, the
CIA formed a special group to deal with the book and tried to secure bad
reviews, even though the CIA's legal counsel had found the book "uncannily
accurate." As the unofficial dean of intelligence journalists, Wise is
still working on future books from his Washington office.
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