(SOLD) James Bamford,
The Puzzle Palace:America's Most Secret Agency,
Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, 1982, HB, 465p., DJ=G, book=VG.
The NSA is one of the most secret components of the US government. It was created
by President Truman in 1952 to collect and analyze communications. It is the agency
tasked with code-breaking, intercepting of phone calls and other types of electronic
messages that relate in some way to the security of the US. It is much larger
than the CIA, but much less well known among the general population. Bamford sheds
light on the workings of one of our most mysterious government agencies. [$14.00]
Fred Cook,
The Warfare State,
New York, MacMillan, 1962, second printing, HB, 376p., DJ=VG, book=E.
One of the great investigative reporters of the cold war period,
Fred Cook was unafraid of the Military Industrial Complex. He
criticized the Pentagon and it's big-business connection at a time when
many would have considered him un-American for doing so. [$12.00]
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Richard Condon,
The Manchurian Candidate,
New York, Signet, 1959, 1960, SC, 351p., P.
This was the novel that preceeded the movie of the same
name starring Frank Sinatra. The idea is that one of our
serviceman is hypno-programmed by the Koreans (during his
time as a prisoner in the Korean war) to be the assassin
of the President of the United States. After the assassination
of JFK, this film was shelved for many years.
[$4.00]
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Ralph de Toledano,
J. Edgar Hoover: The Man in
His Time, New York, Manor Books, 1973,
1974, SC, 384p., F.
This book was released soon after Hoover's death and
dealt with certain subjects such as Hoover's alleged
homosexuality and surveillance of MLK that had not been
exposed in depth at that time. It gives an interesting
description of his later deterioration and incompetence.
[$6.00]
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(SOLD) Jim Garrison
A Heritage of Stone,
NY, Putnam, HB, 1970, second printing, 253p., NDJ, book=P, withdrawn
library copy.
Jim Garrison lays out his theories of the military-industrial
complex as culprits in the assassination of JFK. This is the
very scarce, hardcover version of this book. Jim Garrison
was responsible for the only prosecution in a court of law for
the JFK assassination against a person by the name of Clay Shaw.
Shaw was acquited after an extremely controversial trial.
[$18.00]
Jim Garrison,
On the Trail of the
Assassins, New York, Sheridan Square Press, 1988,
1st printing, HB, 342p., DJ=E, book=F (annotated by previous owner).
This is the hardcover version of Garrison's second
non-fiction book describing his theory on the
assassination and problems he experienced when bringing
Clay Shaw to trial in the late 60s for the murder of JFK.
This book was one of two books reportedly used as a basis
for the Oliver Stone film JFK. [$12.00]
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Lyman B. Kirkpatrick,
The U.S. Intelligence
Community: Foreign Policy and and Domestic Activities, New
York, Hill and Wang, 1973, first printing, HB, 212p., DJ=VG, book=VG
(signed by previous owner).
An account of the inner workings and structure of United
States intelligence agencies from the viewpoint of a
former high-ranking official of the CIA. An apologist to
some degree for the scandalous behavior that was
beginning to be revealed in the early 70s, Kirkpatrick
was nonetheless a disgruntled official who could very
well have under different circumstances become director
of the CIA. [$9.00]
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Tom Mangold,
Cold Warrior: James Jesus
Angleton - the CIA's Master Spy, Hunter,
New York, Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, 1991, 1992, LSC,
462p., VG.
This is the story of defectors, double agents, triple
agents, and a man who destroyed himself and nearly ruined
the CIA with his paranoid efforts aimed at exposing
traitors within the CIA and other government agencies. [$11.00]
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(SOLD) Herbert A. Philbrick,
I Led Three Lives,
New York, McGraw-Hill, 1952, HB, 323p., No DJ, book=VG.
According to Lee harvey Oswald's brother, the television series
that was derived from this book was Lee's favorite show in the 50s.
Because this was a story of a man who infiltrated the communists
secretly, it has been cited in theorizing that Lee Harvey Oswald was
only pretending to be a Marxist and that, in reality, like Philbrick,
Oswald was an agent working on behalf of the US government.
[$14.00]
Francis Gary Powers,
Operation Overflight,
New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970,
1966, 5th printing, HB, 375p., DJ=VG, book=VG,
Gary Powers was the pilot of the U2 plane that was shot
down over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. He survived.
This was his account, surpressed by the CIA for years.
In this book, Powers suggests that Lee Harvey Oswald may
have had something to do with the downing of his spy-plane.
Oswald was, at the time, a defector residing in the Soviet
Union who, coincidentally, had been a radar operator on a
base where U2 flights originated in the late fifties.
[$14.00]
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Thomas Powers,
The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard
Helms and the CIA, New York, Knopf, 1979, first edition,
HB, 393p., DJ=G, book=VG,
Richard Helms was one of the old guard of the CIA, having served during
world war II in the precursor to the CIA, the OSS. He was a covert
operations specialist who rose through the operations/plans area of
the agency to eventually become Director of Central Intelligence in
the mid-late sixties period through the early part of the Watergate
scandal. He was the head of the CIA during a very turbulent period
(including Vietnam. Helms was responsible for some of the CIA's
nastiest programs, some directed at US citizens whose only crime
was to voice dissent about the war. He also played a role in the
experimentation on innocent Americans with drugs code-named MKULTRA.
[$14.00]
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Theodore H. White,
The Making of the President,
1960, New York, Pocket Books, 1961, 1964,
eleventh printing, SC, 481p., F.
This is the first in a series of books by White detailing the
presidential election campaigns and the planning and
political deals that result in the American people's
selection of their leader. [$6.00]
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