Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 by Bob Woodward

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Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987

by Bob Woodward

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2105 Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987, by Bob Woodward (read 30 Oct 1987) This is a journalistic work and one doesn't know how much to believe, but it is fascinating reading. It revolves around Bill Casey, who served six years as head of the CIA--1981 to 1987. He was a dedicated and unusual man, but he sure never hesitated about means. The book of course ends with the Iran/Contra affair, which I watched so much testimony about. (

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New York Times Best Books of the Year (1987)

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VEIL: The top-secret code word for covert operations undertaken in the latter years of the Reagan Administration to influence events abroad

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The alarm woke the Director of Central Intelligence, Admiral Stansfield Turner.

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Veil is the story of the covert wars that were waged in Central America, Iran and Libya in a secretive atmosphere and became the centerpieces and eventual time bombs of American foreign policy in the 1980s.

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