Jonathan Stevenson

A Drop of Treason

Philip Agee and His Exposure of the CIA

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Produktbeschreibung

"As the first agent to publicly betray the CIA, Philip Agee was on the run for over forty years--a pariah akin to Edward Snowden. Agee revealed in spectacular detail what many had feared about the CIA's actions, but he also outed and endangered hundreds of agents. Agee relentlessly opposed the CIA and the regimes it backed, whether in America or around the world. In Jonathan Stevenson's words, Agee became "one of history's successful viruses: undeniably effective and impossible to kill." In this first biography of Agee, Stevenson will reveal what made Agee tick, and what made him run"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 166mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 627g
• ISBN-13: 9780226356686
• ISBN-10: 022635668X
• Artikelnr.: 60415783

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Stevenson is senior fellow for U.S. defense and managing editor of Survival at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He was previously professor of strategic studies at the U.S. Naval War College, and he has served as director for political-military affairs, Middle East and North Africa, on the National Security Council. He is the author of several books, including Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable: Harnessing Doom from the Cold War to the Age of Terror and "We Wrecked the Place" Contemplating and End to the Northern Irish Troubles.