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What Formed Bill Casey?
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BOOK WORLD
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9 / 1988 |
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Ray S. Cline
Ray S. Cline, former CIA deputy director for intelligence, is
chairman of the United States Global Strategy Council. |
THE SECRET WAR AGAINST HITLER
William Casey
New York: Regnery Gateway, 1988
225 pp., $19.95
Bill Casey, who died in 1987 after a spectacular and controversial six-year stint as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), has left us a literary legacy. It is a historical account of the work of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services, precursor of the CIA) in the European theater during the assault on France and Germany at the end of the World War II. The narrative is fascinating and worth reading in its own right, but it is especially valuable because it conveys the moral and intellectual qualities that shaped Casey's life.
Without any element of pretentiousness or forecasting, Casey's book, The Secret War Against Hitler, illuminates the issues that complicate the work of a secret intelligence agency in an open and, on the whole, innocent, democratic society. It is a guide to the multiple dilemmas of those who conduct clandestine intelligence operations to protect national security.
Coming of Age During World War II
Casey came to work at the OSS in the summer of 1943, a successful young lawyer and economic research analyst who had gotten himself commissioned in the Navy. He was highly motivated to do something to win the war America had so belatedly been forced into by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His book makes evident the quasi-philosophic bent of mind of the well-educated, upwardly mobile young men of
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