The Secret War Against Hitler - Hardcover

Casey, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 089526563X ISBN 13: 9780895265630

Publisher: Gateway Books, 1988

Synopsis

In his final written testament, the late CIA director chronicles the role played by U.S. intelligence services in World War II and shows how intelligence is used and misused by our government today

About this title

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: Gateway Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 089526563X
• ISBN 13: 9780895265630
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304