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Of Spies and Lies by John F. Sullivan (2002, Hardcover, Illustrated) 
Of Spies and Lies by John F. Sullivan (2002, Hardcover, Illustrated)

 
Of Spies and Lies by John F. Sullivan (2002, Hardcover, Illustrated)

Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas
Publication Date: 2002-04-01
Series: Modern War Studies
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0700611681
ISBN-13: 9780700611683
Product ID: EPID2156412
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Publication Date:2002-04-01
Series:Modern War Studies
Edition Description:Illustrated

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Length:250 pages
Height:9.3 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:23.2 oz

Publisher's Note
John Sullivan was one of the CIA's top polygraph examiners during the final four years of the war in Vietnam, where he served longer and conducted more lie detector tests than any other examiner and worked with more agents than most of his colleagues. His job was to evaluate the reliability of the agency's information sources, an assignment that gave him a more intimate view of the war than was afforded most other participants. In the first book to be written by such an operative, he tells what it was like to be an agency officer working in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos during those chaotic years, putting a human face on covert operations that helps us better understand why we lost the war.
OF SPIES & LIES traces Sullivan's journey from dedication to disillusionment while serving in Southeast Asia. Although many CIA personnel lived better in Vietnam and made more money than ever before, their actual working conditions hindered effective intelligence gathering. A much larger and far more distressing obstacle, however, was the agency's failure to send its "best and brightest" agents to Southeast Asia. On the contrary, as Sullivan notes, Vietnam became a kind of dumping ground for poor performers, alcoholics, refugees from bad marriages, and other "problem agents."

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