Wedge

From Pearl Harbor to 9/11: How the Secret War between the FBI and CIA Has Endangered National Security

By: Mark Riebling

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Paperback | 6 November 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Prophetic when first published and even more relevant now, <i Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(251, 252, 253);">Wedge is the classic, definitive story of the secret war America has waged against itself.

Based on scores of interviews with former spies and thousands of declassified documents, Wedge reveals and recreates—battle by battle, bungle by bungle—the epic clash that has made America uniquely vulnerable to its enemies. For more than six decades, the opposed and overlapping missions of the FBI and CIA—and the rival personalities of cops and spies—have caused fistfights and turf tangles, breakdowns and cover-ups, public scandals and tragic deaths.

A grand panorama of dramatic episodes, peopled by picaresque secret agents from Ian Fleming to Oliver North, Wedge is both a journey and a warning. From Pearl Harbor, McCarthyism, and the plots to kill Castro through the JFK assassination, Watergate, and Iran Contra down to the Aldrich Ames affair, Robert Hanssen's treachery, and the hunt for Al Qaeda—Wedge shows the price America has paid for its failure to resolve the conflict between law enforcement and intelligence.

Gripping and authoritative—and updated with an important new epilogue, carrying the action through to September 11, 2001—Wedge is the only book about the schism that has informed nearly every major blunder in American espionage.

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Prologue: For Special Services	p. 3
The War Against Wild Bill	p. 17
The Tricycle Trust	p. 19
No-Man's-Land	p. 31
Double Cross	p. 44
American Gestapo?	p. 56
America's James Bond	p. 81
Shakedown Cruise	p. 83
A Poisoned Chalice	p. 106
The Gray Ghost	p. 133
Licensed to Kill	p. 161
The Poetry of Deception	p. 177
A Mind of Winter	p. 179
Sinister Implications	p. 198
Molehunt	p. 219
Wedge	p. 236
Chaos	p. 257
The Hydra Project	p. 259
The Sullivan Plot	p. 275
Smoking Gun	p. 295
Blowback	p. 315
Twilight for Chameleons	p. 343
The Last Buccaneers	p. 345
Here Comes the Judge	p. 381
The Fall of Babylon	p. 405
The Keys to the Kingdom	p. 428
Epilogue	p. 453
Afterword	p. 473
Acknowledgments	p. 477
Notes	p. 479
Sources	p. 551
Index	p. 565
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