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Author Reel, Monte, author.

Title A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war / Monte Reel.

Publisher New York : Doubleday, [2018]

ISBN 9780385540209 (hardcover)
0385540205 (hardcover)



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 Holland Branch Adult  327.1273 Ree    AVAILABLE  ---
 Main Adult  327.1273 Ree    AVAILABLE  ---

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Edition First edition.
Description 342 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Journalist Monte Reel reveals how the U-2 spy program, principally devised by four men working in secret, upended the Cold War and carved a new mission for the CIA. This secret fraternity, made up of Edwin Land, best known as the inventor of instant photography and the head of Polaroid Corporation; Kelly Johnson, a hard-charging taskmaster from Lockheed; Richard Bissell, the secretive and ambitious spymaster; and ace Air Force flyer Powers, set out to replace yesterday's fallible human spies with tomorrow's undetectable eye in the sky. Their clandestine successes and all-too-public failures make this brilliantly reported account a true-life thriller with the highest stakes and tragic repercussions.
Subject Land, Edwin H., 1909-1991.
Johnson, Clarence L., 1910-1990.
Bissell, Richard M. (Richard Mervin), 1909-1994.
Powers, Francis Gary, 1929-1977.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History -- 20th century.
Subject(S) Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
U-2 (Reconnaissance aircraft)
U-2 Incident, 1960.
ISBN 9780385540209 (hardcover)
0385540205 (hardcover)