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Thomas Powers
The Man Who Kept the Secrets
Ian Fleming did much to popularize the
clean image of the men who gather
intelligence. His smooth, debonair
depiction of James Bond, the man who
always manages to avoid near
obliteration with his state-of-the-art
technology and deft karate blows, was a
far cry from the dirty, sordid spies he was
pitted against
Books
Thomas Power's book has little of the "
patent Hollywood glamour of 007, but it
does have a lot of cold facts about
espionage; the art of secrecy; the agency
responsible for the amplification of
spying, the CIA; and the history of the
man who rose through the ranks to make
it his life Richard Helms.
During World War II, the Office of
Strategic Services was set up in
Washington as the first genuine foreign
intelligence agency in U.S. history. A jew
mutations of the agency later followed.
Then, in July 1947, the National Security
Act passed, officially giving birth to the
Central Intelligence Agency.
Helms was a journalist who worked in
his pre-war days for United Press
International out of the Berlin office. He
made a likely candidate for the OSS and
he found himself assigned there by the
Navy. .
The CIA, throughout the ensuing 376
pages of the book, is shown to have
received increasing pressure from the
military and the executive branch to
expand its services not only to collect
information to be used in policy
formation, but to actually do something
about the covert action.
Powers makes a very important point:
the American concept of espionage, until
this time, was firmly locked in the belief
that the other side may pull dirty tricks,
but not us. After the investigations
following the Bay of Pigs incident, small
clues as to the true activity of the
administration and the intelligence
community began to emerge.
The pattern had been set, and the CIA .
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went on to become actively. involved in
not only Cuba but Guatemala, Vietnam,
Cambodia and Chile, to name but a few.
The CIA should have our attention if.
only because its bunglings indicate a
much deeper ill. An agency, originally
established to glean the facts, finds itself
doing feasibility studies and providing
game plans for international involvement.
As an agency that was formed primarily
in response to America's failure to foresee
the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, it
hasn't done so well in predicting
subsequent power moves, such as the
Cuban missile crisis.
One comes away from this reading with
the unsettled feeling that the agency
doesn't really know what it's doing, and
that its footing in the international
communitv is tenuous at best.
In the book, Powers docs an excellent
job of documenting his resources and
providing a very extensive bibliography
for further reading. He also does a great
job of demystifying many of the agency's
previously clandestine activities.
John Le Carre, in his review of the bock
in the New York Times, says it best of all,
". . .we British stand in awe before such
acts of self-exposure. If Mr. Powers and
his subject had been English. . . neither he
nor his book would have seen the light of
day.?' So much for James Bond.
Marisis Nelson-Duers is a book critic for
The Daily Tar HeeL
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1. Chesapeake,. by James Michener. (Fawcett, $3.95.) Multi-family saga along
. Maryland's Eastern Shore: fiction.
2. The World According to Carp, by John Irving. (Pocket, $2.75.) Hilarious
adventures of a son of a famous mother.
3. Wifey, by Judy Blume. (Pocket, $2.50.) Housewife's experiences on road to
emotional maturity: fiction.
4. The Far Pavilions, by M.M. Kaye. (Bantam, $2.95.) High adventure and love in
the Himalayas: fiction.-
5. Pulling Your Own Strings, by Wayne W. Dyer. (Avon, $2.75.) How "not" to be
victimized by others.
6. Evergreen, by Belva Plain. (Dell, $2.75.) Jewish immigrant woman's climb from
poverty on lower Manhattan.
7. The Amityvi!e Horror, by Jay Anson. (Bantam, $2.50.) True story of terror in a
house possessed.
8. Second Generation, by Howard Fast. (Dell, $275.) On-going story of Italian
family in "The Immigrants": fiction.
9. Scruples, by Judith Krantz. (Warner, $2.75.) Rags to riches in the fashion world:
fiction.
10. The Women's Room, by Marilyn French. (JoveHBJ, $2.50.) Perspectives on
women's role in society: fiction.
Compiled by The Chronicle of Higher Education from information supplied by
j college stores throughout the country. November 5, 1S79.
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