The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA
#3465 of 3,809 books · #1077 in History
Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (1996).
Research from CIA archives and interviews relate the early history of the CIA and focus on four of the first spymasters--Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes, and Desmond FitzGerald.
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- Simon and Schuster
- ISBN-13
- 9780684825380
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Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestShortlisted(1996)
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