Secret War Against Hitler - Softcover

Casey, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425116158 ISBN 13: 9780425116159

Publisher: Berkley, 1989

Synopsis

William Casey, former director of the CIA, wrote this autobiogrpahical account of his World War II Service in Intelligence to reveal how important clandestine work, covert action, and organized resistance was in defeating Hitler. 6 cassettes.

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About the Author:

WILLIAM JOSEPH CASEY (1913-1987) was the Director of Central Intelligence from 1981 to 1987. In this capacity he oversaw the entire United States Intelligence Community and personally directed the Central Intelligence Agency.

From Publishers Weekly:

During World War II, Casey, the late CIA director, was a staff officer in the Office of Strategic Services' London branch, in charge of sending agents behind enemy lines. The most interesting passages in this bland account describe the difficulty of getting the high command to pay attention to information gathered by those agents. Casey regrets that the OSS, forerunner of the CIA, was unable to exploit the political advantages of the failed putsch against Hitler on July 20, 1944; he also bemoans the tardy penetration of Germany by OSS agents. In his opinion, the OSS "should have and could have" exploded the myth of the Bavarian redoubt, the Alpine retreat from which Hitler supposedly expected to fight on indefinitely. Casey's summary of OSS activities from 1943 to the end of the war in Europe is disappointingly reticent.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0425116158
• ISBN 13: 9780425116159
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 295