Wise,D. The Spy Who Got Away. 1988
Wise, David. The Spy Who Got Away. New York: Random House, 1988. 289 pages.
The subtitle reads, "The Inside Story of Edward Lee Howard, the CIA
Agent Who Betrayed His Country's Secrets and Escaped to Moscow." Wise was
able to interview Howard, who defected to the USSR in 1985 while under FBI
suspicion and surveillance for espionage. Wise also took full advantage of
his many contacts in U.S. intelligence and counterintelligence to fill out
the story, making the book particularly valuable for the names he included.
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.
ISBN 0-394-56281-X
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