A Short Course in the Secret War
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James McCargar (pseudonym Christopher Felix)
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Ron Edwards: What really hit me is that the book operates on three layers - the original text, the introduction and footnotes for the next release, and the introduction and footnotes for the third release. The "middle" additions are strongly concerned with disputing Philip Knightley's position in The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century. The final additions are most telling - he seems to have made a sharp 90-degree turn in his views toward espionage, specifically that he was disgusted by Iran-Contra and also by the U.S.'s dramatic shift from the world's richest nation to its biggest debtor. It's like watching a stop-motion movie called "Disillusion of a Cold Warrior."
