Spies in Fact and Fiction

Debriefing 092506-1830

For Consideration:

Week 2:

“Beware the law of unintended consequences.”

Names We Know

U2 Pilot

• Gary Powers (Shot down over China) – 1960

Captured rather than commit suicide. International incident for Ike.

Names We Know

‘super spy?’

• Col. Rudolf Abel

(Soviet spy, convicted in US Court.

Traded for Powers 17 months later.

Timeline

1960 1961 1962 1963

1959: Castro aligns with USSR. Repressive measures drive exiles to Miami.

Dec: Authorizes 16,000 for Saigon

May 1: US U-2 shot down over Russia

April: Space Race begins

Kennedy defeats Nixon

April: Bay of Pigs ‘Invasion’

August: Confrontation in Berlin;the Wall

CIA recruits ‘La Brigada’

June: Summit

October 15: The Cuban Missile Crisis

“13 days in which the world held its breath.”

Brinkmanship

“We were eyeball to eyeball, and the other guy just blinked.”

-Sec. of State Dean Rusk, on the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Non-Fiction

• Robert Kennedy

Fiction

• Leon Uris

Timeline

1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968

Kennedy Assassinated

Oct: Khrushchev deposed.

Coup in Vietnam, Diem killed

Jan 23: U.S.S. Pueblo captured

Gulf of Tonkin

May: Marines enter Vietnam

Jan 30:Tet Offensive

Cold War turns Hot

“I was told if I voted for Goldwater, we’d be at war in six months.” (Pause)

“I did – and we were.” - satirical joke from 1965

Fiction

• Morris West

Fiction

• Ian Fleming

Fiction

• Ian Fleming

Books to consider:

Goldfinger 1960

Thunderball 1961

You Only Live Twice 1963

Fiction

• Alistair MacLean

Fiction

• Alistair MacLeanBooks to consider:

Black Shrike 1961

The Satan Bug 1962

The Golden Rendezvous 1962

Ice Station Zebra 1963

When Eight Bells Toll 1966

Where Eagles Dare 1967

Puppet on a Chain 1969

Caravan to Vaccares 1970

Fiction

• Donald Hamilton

Fiction

• Donald HamiltonBooks to consider:

Death of a Citizen 1959

The Ambushers 1962

The Poisoners 1965

Fiction

• Len Deighton

Fiction

• Len DeightonBooks to consider:

The Ipcress File 1962

Funeral In Berlin 1964

The Spy Game 1977

Yesterday’s Spy 1975

Fiction

• John le Carre

Fiction

• John le CarreBooks to consider:

Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1965

Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy 1975

Fiction

• Fredrick Forsyth

Fiction

• Robert Ludlum

Non-Fiction

• Neil Sheehan

Next Week

Spies, 1976-1990

Spy Game in the Reagan Years:

Iran-Contra and Shredded Confidences

Created by:

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