Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA
- ISBN-10
- 1510729593
- ISBN-13
- 9781510729599
- Series
- Dirty Tricks
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 655
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-10-09
- Publisher
- Skyhorse + ORM
- Author
- Shane O'Sullivan
Description
“This meticulously researched spy-versus-spy story” offers compelling theories about how Nixon sabotaged American interests in pursuit of power (Dick Russell, author of The Man Who Knew Too Much). Richard Nixon won the US presidential election of 1968 thanks to an unscrupulous “October Surprise.” Key figures in the Republican Party executed a treasonous plot to keep the South Vietnamese government away from peace talks in Paris. It was a manufactured crisis that tipped the scales in favor of Nixon while costing thousands of American lives. Dirty Tricks provides compelling new evidence about the Nixon-approved plan to sabotage the peace talks, including the role of Nixon’s secret emissary, Anna Chennault. It also delves into the infamous cover-up, analyzing the CIA’s own documentation of Watergate. The CIA documents offer critical information on the burglars, their associations with the Agency, and how the Nixon White House sought to implicate the CIA in the emerging scandal. Drawing on newly-declassified files, Dirty Tricks debunks the myths around Watergate and deepens our understanding of the political espionage that undermined our democracy during the Nixon years. “O’Sullivan . . . offers intriguing possibilities in this consistently surprising book.” —Kirkus Reviews
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