A very private plot
FictionBlackford Oakes (Fictitious character)United StatesUnited States. Central Intelligence AgencyIntelligence service
0.0
Open LibraryAbout this book
In 1995, a U.S. Senator attempting to disarm the CIA asks the former head of the Agency's covert operations, Blackford Oakes, for an account of his covert activities. One activity involved a 1985 plot by a group of young Soviet soldiers to assassinate Mikhail Gorbachev.
Themes & subjects
FictionBlackford Oakes (Fictitious character)United StatesUnited States. Central Intelligence AgencyIntelligence serviceLarge type books
Setting
United States
About the author
William F. Buckley
24 November 1925 – 27 February 2008
William Frank Buckley, Jr. was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing style was famed for its erudition, wit, and use of uncommon words. George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American conservative movement, believed that Buckley was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century". "For an entire generation he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure." Buckley's primary change to pol…
Reviews
No reviews yet — be the first to write one from the Log screen.
Quotes
No quotes yet.
![Les Vitraux de la C.I.A. [Central intelligence agency]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11015395-M.jpg#w=1280)
