Available from:
Join American Compass for a great deal on AMERICAN SPY
Remember Watergate? Of course you do, and so you know the name of E. Howard Hunt, one of the distinguished men who got caught up doing things they ought not to have done. But wait: there's a whole lot more to Hunt's story than that.
He was one of the very first CIA agents, worked for the agency for nearly a quarter century, and was involved in “black ops” in various places around the globe. He was a key operational figure in the botched Bay of Pigs invasion and, perhaps because of that, has been linked to the assassination of JFK, although he was not involved in that horrific event in any way. Still, he has a lot to say about it, some of it quite shocking.
And, of course, being a spy made him well-suited to write spy novels, which he did—bunches of them—some under his own name and some under pseudonyms.
But it's in describing the Watergate Era (and all those “dirty tricks”) that American Spy really hits its stride, providing brutally frank background details that make clear how and why a group of sensible, patriotic men got caught up in a web of subversion and deceit that all but ruined their lives. Champagne...and then ashes. Some (Hunt, Charles Colson, G. Gordon Liddy) recovered nicely; others never did.
Mr. Hunt is now 88 and rues all the lies.
“I was one of those liars,” he writes, “and the subterfuge cost me everything I held dear, except my life.”
There is some bitterness here, but you couldn't ask for a better account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history.—Brad Miner
Visit
American Compass for more information
|
