![]() Frank Wisner, the CIA’s deputy director of plans, had key roles in the Office of Policy Coordination until its full merging with the CIA in 1950. Former naval officer Michael Burke headed the paramilitary operations in Albania and elsewhere. Peter Sichel, a German Jew whose family escaped the Nazis, ran the CIA’s Berlin office for more than a decade. In the Philippines, Edward Lansdale was instrumental in combatting the Hukbalahap uprising, lining up Ramon Magsaysay, the secretary of defense, to become president in 1954. Anderson delivers a complex, massively scaled narrative, balancing prodigious research with riveting storytelling skills. Under a recently sworn-in President Harry Truman, the American government was slower to gauge early signals but eventually responded with often disastrous covert tactics. ![]() On the heels of Germany’s defeat in World War II, European leaders and intelligence agents were shifting focus to the Soviet Union’s dominance over Eastern Europe and threatening pursuit of influence in Asia. ![]() ![]() ![]() A probing history of the CIA’s evolving role from the outset of the Cold War into the 1960s, viewed through the exploits of four American spies. ![]()
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