No Cloak, No Dagger: A Professor's Secret Life Inside the CIA

An inside look at the double life of a university professor turned CIA intelligence officer.

No Cloak, No Dagger gives an inside look at the double life of Lester Paldy, a university professor who was recruited by the CIA and brought into the secret world of espionage.

Lester Paldy enlisted in the Marine Corps during the Korean War, rising to the rank of Captain. He joined the faculty at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1967, where he rose to the rank of Distinguished Service Professor. After serving as a CIA Scholar in Residence, the CIA invited him to join the Agency as a part-time intelligence officer. He held this position, along with his position as professor at SUNY for more than twenty years. Paldy is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is active in the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.