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050 00 $aDS559.8.M44$bS85 2002
082 00 $a959.704/38$221
100 1 $aSullivan, John F.,$d1939-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001051863
245 10 $aOf spies and lies :$ba CIA lie detector remembers Vietnam /$cJohn F. Sullivan.
260 $aLawrence, Kan. :$bUniversity Press of Kansas,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $axvi, 250 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aModern war studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-238) and index.
520 1 $a"Any serious study of the Vietnam War would be less than complete without accounting for the CIA's role in that conflict - a role that increased dramatically after the Tet Offensive in 1968.".
520 8 $a"John Sullivan was one of the CIA's top polygraph examiners during the final four years of the war in Vietnam, where he served longer and conducted more lie detector tests than any other examiner and worked with more agents than most of his colleagues. His job was to evaluate the reliability of the agency's information sources, an assignment that gave him a more intimate view of the war than was afforded most other participants.".
520 8 $a"Of Spies and Lies traces Sullivan's journey from dedication to disillusionment while serving in Southeast Asia. Although many CIA personnel lived better in Vietnam and made more money than ever before in their careers, their working conditions hindered effective intelligence gathering. A larger and far more distressing obstacle, however, was the agency's failure to send its "best and brightest" agents to Southeast Asia.
520 8 $aOn the contrary, as Sullivan notes, Vietnam became a kind of dumping ground for poor performers, alcoholics, refugees from bad marriages, and other "problem agents.""--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aVietnam War, 1961-1975$xSecret service$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010117837
610 10 $aUnited States.$bCentral Intelligence Agency.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79099301
830 0 $aModern war studies.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86714675
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