ISBN10: 009134820X, ISBN13: 9780091348205, [publisher: Hutchinson] Hardcover Here is the inside story of American intelligence and espionage, told by one of the most controversial and visible of CIA directors. Colby's career spanned thirty years, from the dramatic Second World War era of General 'Wild Bill' Donovan -- when Colby was parachuted behind the enemy lines in German-occupied France and Norway, where he blew up railroads, joined resistance networks and led groups of underground fighters -- to the great public debate over the CIA's role and activities, in which Colby, as the embattled director, answered the questions of the press on a whole generation of CIA policies, secrets, operations and achievements. Colby describes, in full and accurate detail, the innermost workings and procedures of the CIA -- how it is organized; how it is managed and led; how its agents operate and hide; how intelligence is acquired, analyzed, checked and disseminated to the CIA's 'customers.' Here is the real description of spycraft, by a man who knows it intimately, both from field experience (in wartime France and Norway and as a CIA operative in Scandinavia, Italy and South Vietnam) and as a senior official -- and the Director -- of the CIA in Langley. His book is full of extraordinary behind-the-scenes dramas and decisions, and of intimate portraits of such world figures as Henry Kissinger, Lyndon B. Johnson (who gave Colby a surprising ...
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