Spooks: The Haunting of America-The Private Use of Secret Agents

ISBN: 1504075293

Author: Hougan, Jim

Condition: New

Probably the most eye-opening and engrossing exposé to date of the bizarre power games played by multinational corporations and tycoons. -Publishers WeeklyA classic of investigative reporting, Spooks is a treasure trove of who-shot-who research on the metastasis of the US intelligence community, whose practices and personnel have engulfed the larger society. Teeming with tales of wiremen, hitmen, and mobsters; crooked politicians and corrupt cops going about their business of regime-change, union-busting, wiretapping, money laundering, and industrial espionage, read about: Richard Nixons Mission Impossible war on Aristotle Onassis Not-so-deep-fake porno films starring the CIAs enemies The Robert Vesco heist, targeting billions in numbered Swiss accounts Robert Maheu and the kidnapping of billionaire Howard Hughes The murder-for-hire of a Columbia University professor Bobby Kennedys archipelago of private intelligence agencies-Intertel and the Five Is The Friendly Ghost and Nixons secret account in the offshore Castle Bank & TrustOne of the best non-fiction books of the year, a monument of fourth-level research and fact-searching. -Los Angeles TimesThis book will curl your hair with its revelations and the names it names. A landmark book in its field of investigative reporting. -John Barkham ReviewsHougan is a superb storyteller and the pages teem with unforgettable characters. Admirable. -The Washington PostHougan is exhilarating on the mystique of spooks. -The New York Review of Book