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Lost crusader : the secret wars of CIA director William Colby.

Author: John Prados
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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An 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 involvement in the Phoenix program in Vietnam and the Indonesian coup of 1965.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Biographies
Named Person: William Egan Colby; William Egan Colby; William Egan Colby
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: John Prados
ISBN: 0195128478 9780195128475
OCLC Number: 49493468
Description: xvii, 380 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: The mystery of Bill Colby --
Baptism of fire --
Tianjin to Trondheim --
The crusade begins --
Political action --
Journey to the east --
A bigger stage to play on --
Death in November --
Arc of crisis --
Exhilaration of war --
Rising from ashes --
The fall of Phoenix --
Back to Langley --
The top floor --
The year of intelligence --
Intelligence in a free society.
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An 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 involvement in the Phoenix program in Vietnam and the Indonesian coup of 1965.

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