Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby
- ISBN-10
- 0195128478
- ISBN-13
- 9780195128475
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 380
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- John Prados
Description
A gripping account of one of the nation's most controversial CIA directors looks back on a life spent fighting Communism, from his salad days in the OSS to his notorious involvement in the Phoenix program in Vietnam and the bloody Indonesian coup of 1965.
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