Jim Hougan Spooks

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';Probably the most eye-opening and engrossing expose to date of the bizarre ';power games' played by multinational corporations and tycoons.' Publishers Weekly A classic of investigative reporting, Spooks is a treasure trove of who-shot-who research on the metastasis of the US intelligence community, whose practices and personnel have engulfed the larger society. Teeming with tales of wiremen, hitmen, and mobsters; crooked politicians and corrupt cops going about their business of regime-change, union-busting, wiretapping, money laundering, and industrial espionage, read about: *; Richard Nixon's ';Mission Impossible' war on Aristotle Onassis *; Not-so-deep-fake porno films starring the CIA's enemies *; The Robert Vesco heist, targeting billions in numbered Swiss accounts *; Robert Maheu and the kidnapping of billionaire Howard Hughes *; The murder-for-hire of a Columbia University professor *; Bobby Kennedy's archipelago of private intelligence agenciesIntertel and the ';Five I's' *; ';The Friendly Ghost' and Nixon's secret account in the offshore Castle Bank & Trust ';One of the best non-fiction books of the year, a monument of fourth-level research and fact-searching.' Los Angeles Times';This book will curl your hair with its revelations and the names it names. A landmark book in its field of investigative reporting.' John Barkham Reviews ';Hougan is a superb storyteller and the pages teem with unforgettable characters. Admirable.' The Washington Post ';Hougan is exhilarating on the mystique of spooks.' The New York Review of Book