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A spy for all seasons : my life in the CIA / Duane R. Clarridge with Digby Diehl.

Van Pelt Library JK468.I6 C5483 1997
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Clarridge, Duane R., author.
Diehl, Digby, author.
Contributor:
Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017, former owner.
Scribner, publisher.
Harry Mathews Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
United States.
Clarridge, Duane R.
United States Central Intelligence Agency.
Spies--United States--Biography.
Spies.
Local Subjects:
United States Central Intelligence Agency.
Genre:
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Physical Description:
430 pages : map ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Scribner, 1997.
Summary:
He is the highest ranking American spy directly and personally involved in espionage, war, counterterrorism, and intrigue to make public his life. Dashing and flamboyant, with mettle akin to the granite for which his home state of New Hampshire is known, Duane "Dewey" Clarridge became a master spy right out of a Tom Clancy novel.
In a spy for All Seasons, we follow Dewey Clarridge on his trajectory through the CIA. His no-holds-barred style carried him to Nepal, India, Turkey, Italy, Nicaragua, Panama, Iraq, and beyond, in situations both terrifying and exhilarating. With legendary candor, Dewey describes the role he played in the international espionage scene: his days as Dax P. LeBaron, when he pressed Saddam Hussein to turn over a terrorist; the inner workings of the CIA; the creation of his brainchild, the CIA's Counter-Terrorist Center; his admiration for William Casey and his contempt for William Webster; and his alleged involvement in the Iran-contra affair, for which he was indicted and then pardoned. Along the way he developed a talent for recruiting foreign agents and smiled in the face of his enemies.
Contents:
The making of a spy
Policing the global village
Battle stations
Fighting new enemies
Attacked from within.
Notes:
Includes index.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.
Mathews Collection copy has dust jacket.
ISBN:
0684800683
9780684800684
0743245369
9780743245364
OCLC:
35292734

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