Spies in Fact and Fiction Debriefing 092506- 1830
Dec 14, 2015
Spies in Fact and Fiction
Debriefing 092506-1830
For Consideration:
Week 2:
“Beware the law of unintended consequences.”
Names We Know
U2 Pilot
• Gary Powers (Shot down over China) – 1960
Captured rather than commit suicide. International incident for Ike.
Names We Know
‘super spy?’
• Col. Rudolf Abel
(Soviet spy, convicted in US Court.
Traded for Powers 17 months later.
Timeline
1960 1961 1962 1963
1959: Castro aligns with USSR. Repressive measures drive exiles to Miami.
Dec: Authorizes 16,000 for Saigon
May 1: US U-2 shot down over Russia
April: Space Race begins
Kennedy defeats Nixon
April: Bay of Pigs ‘Invasion’
August: Confrontation in Berlin;the Wall
CIA recruits ‘La Brigada’
June: Summit
October 15: The Cuban Missile Crisis
“13 days in which the world held its breath.”
Brinkmanship
“We were eyeball to eyeball, and the other guy just blinked.”
-Sec. of State Dean Rusk, on the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Non-Fiction
• Robert Kennedy
Fiction
• Leon Uris
Timeline
1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968
Kennedy Assassinated
Oct: Khrushchev deposed.
Coup in Vietnam, Diem killed
Jan 23: U.S.S. Pueblo captured
Gulf of Tonkin
May: Marines enter Vietnam
Jan 30:Tet Offensive
Cold War turns Hot
“I was told if I voted for Goldwater, we’d be at war in six months.” (Pause)
“I did – and we were.” - satirical joke from 1965
Fiction
• Morris West
Fiction
• Ian Fleming
Fiction
• Ian Fleming
Books to consider:
Goldfinger 1960
Thunderball 1961
You Only Live Twice 1963
Fiction
• Alistair MacLean
Fiction
• Alistair MacLeanBooks to consider:
Black Shrike 1961
The Satan Bug 1962
The Golden Rendezvous 1962
Ice Station Zebra 1963
When Eight Bells Toll 1966
Where Eagles Dare 1967
Puppet on a Chain 1969
Caravan to Vaccares 1970
Fiction
• Donald Hamilton
Fiction
• Donald HamiltonBooks to consider:
Death of a Citizen 1959
The Ambushers 1962
The Poisoners 1965
Fiction
• Len Deighton
Fiction
• Len DeightonBooks to consider:
The Ipcress File 1962
Funeral In Berlin 1964
The Spy Game 1977
Yesterday’s Spy 1975
Fiction
• John le Carre
Fiction
• John le CarreBooks to consider:
Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1965
Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy 1975
Fiction
• Fredrick Forsyth
Fiction
• Robert Ludlum
Non-Fiction
• Neil Sheehan
Next Week
Spies, 1976-1990
Spy Game in the Reagan Years:
Iran-Contra and Shredded Confidences
Created by:
• Russell GiffordSpectacular Voyage: Lewis and Clark in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota (2002)
Learning the Great Battles of the American Civil War(CD Rom learning series, 2005)
Mass Media and Big Government (Multi-media lecture series, 2006)
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