Review of Kai Bird: The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames. Crown Publishers, New York, 2014, 430 p., $26.00 Kai Bird’s The Good Spy, The Life and Death of Robert Ames is more than a book about Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer … [Read more...] about The Dangers of Bad Tradecraft
Contributor: Robert D. Chapman
Rewriting Cuban History
Left: Maureen O'Hara, Fidel Castro, and Alec Guinness in 1959 Review of The Longest Romance, The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro by Humberto Fontova. New York: Encounter Books, 2013. 259 p., $25.99 Humberto Fontova has written another book on … [Read more...] about Rewriting Cuban History
The Transformation of American Intelligence*
Review of 'The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth' by Mark Mazzetti. New York: Penguin Press, 2013, 381 p. $29.95 After twelve years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s difficult to remember how it … [Read more...] about The Transformation of American Intelligence*