Patriotic Betrayal: The Inside Story of the Cia's Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism

by Karen M Paget and Karen M. Paget

Book Overview

The previously untold true story of the CIA's clandestine use of American students as undercover operatives during the Cold War

In 1967, CIA director Richard Helms had, as he would later recall, "one of my darkest days" when President Lyndon Johnson told him that the muckraking magazine Ramparts was about to expose one of the Agency's best-kept secrets: a covert project to enroll American students in the crusade against communism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300205082
• ISBN13: 9780300205084
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.5"