Aug 24, 2009
Tim Weiner: Legacy of Ashes
Legacy of Ashes:
The History of the CIA
Tim Weiner
(New York: Doubleday, 2007)
Official website: LegacyOfAshes.com
This book does not mention Whittaker Chambers by name, but the mention about Alger Hiss is noteworthy:
When McCarthy privately told Dulles face-to-face “that CIA was neither sacrosanct nor immune from investigation,” the director know its survival was at stake. Foster Dulles had opened his doors to McCarthy’s bloodhounds in a public display of sanctimony that devastated the State Department for a decade. But Allen fought them off. He rebuffed the senator’s attampt to subpoena the CIA’s Bill Bundy, who out of old-school loyalties had contributed $400 to the defense fund of Alger Hiss, the suspected communist spy… (p. 106)
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