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After a CIA officer and an FBI agent shake hands, the saying goes, each man quickly counts his fingers. For more than fifty years, the rivalry between spies and G-men has informed and defined most major blunders in American counterintelligence, from Pearl Harbor to the Kennedy assassination to the World Trade Center bombing. Relying on newly declassified documents and in-depth interviews with former agents, Mark Riebling has written the first extended account of this secret and costly schism. Riebling reveals how the World War II feud between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan, the godfather of CIA, drove a wedge between foreign and domestic spycatching, creating a fundamentally flawed intelligence system. He shows how the problems arising from this arbitrary split shaped McCarthyist loyalty probes, the U-2 affair, and plots to kill Fidel Castro; sparked major political scandals, from Watergate to Iran-contra to Iraq-Gate; hobbled the 1960s hunt for spies in CIA; perhaps contributed to Jack Ruby's murder of Lee Harvey Oswald; and allowed Russian mole Aldrich Ames to serve almost a decade in CIA before being caught. Riebling also adds to the public recor

Author

Riebling, Mark

Publisher

New York: A.A. Knopf: Distributed by Random House

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679414711

Subjects

Political Science, History, Social_sciences

Rating

4.2 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14