Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wedge - The Secret War Between the FBI and CIA is a nonfiction book by American historian and policy analyst Mark Riebling. It is was originally published in hardcover in 1994 by Alfred A. Knopf, and then in paperback, in 2002, by Simon and Schuster.Wedge traces the conflict between U.S. law enforcement and intelligence, from World War II through the post-Cold War era. Riebling presents FBI-CIA rivalry through the prism of national traumas the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the McCarthy-era loyalty investigations, the JFK assassination, Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair that might have turned out differently had these agencies cooperated.