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Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jim HouganPublish date:2022-05-17Pages:366
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Integrated Media LLCISBN-13:9781504075282ISBN-10:1504075285UPC:9781504075282Book Category:True Crime, Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Corruption & Misconduct, United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.82 inchesWeight:1.1817Product ID:SCCZ4Q5VXN
The exposé that reveals "a prostitution ring, heavy CIA involvement, spying on the White House as well as on the Democrats, and plots within plots" (The Washington Post)

Ten years after the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency, Jim Hougan--then the Washington editor of Harper's Magazine--set out to write a profile of Lou Russell, a boozy private-eye who plied his trade in the vice-driven underbelly of the nation's capital. Hougan soon discovered that Russell was "the sixth man, the one who got away" when his boss, veteran CIA officer Jim McCord, led a break-in team into a trap at the Watergate.

Using the Freedom of Information Act to win the release of the FBI's Watergate investigation--some thirty-thousand pages of documents that neither the Washington Post nor the Senate had seen--Hougan refuted the orthodox narrative of the affair.

Armed with evidence hidden from the public for more than a decade, Hougan proves that McCord deliberately sabotaged the June 17, 1972, burglary. None of the Democrats' phones had been bugged, and the spy-team's ostensible leader, Gordon Liddy, was himself a pawn--at once, guilty and oblivious.

The power struggle that unfolded saw E. Howard Hunt and Jim McCord using the White House as a cover for an illicit domestic intelligence operation involving call-girls at the nearby Columbia Plaza Apartments.

A New York Times Notable Book, Secret Agenda "present[s] some valuable new evidence and explored many murky corners of our recent past . . . The questions [Hougan] has posed here--and some he hasn't--certainly deserve an answer" (The New York Times Book Review). Kirkus Reviews declared the book "a fascinating series of puzzles--with all the detective work laid out."
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Integrated Media LLCISBN-13:9781504075282ISBN-10:1504075285UPC:9781504075282Book Category:True Crime, Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Corruption & Misconduct, United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.82 inchesWeight:1.1817Product ID:SCCZ4Q5VXN
Jim Hougan is an award-winning journalist, a former Washington editor of Harper's Magazine, and the author of two investigative works of nonfiction: Spooks and Secret Agenda. Writing with his wife under the pseudonym John Case, he has published six thrillers, including New York Times bestsellers such as The Genesis Code and The First Horseman. Executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning Confessions of a Dangerous Man, Hougan worked with Mike Wallace at 60 Minutes and has produced investigative documentaries about the Jonestown massacre, the Russian Mafia, among other topics.
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC

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