Really the founding personalitys the cia. One of most powerful men in the cia from the founding in 1947 until his forced retirement in 1974. So, really a founding father of u. S. Counterintelligence use what type of issues and areas did he work on . Guest angleton used his position as chief of counterintelligence staff to really create a kind of cia within the cia, and so he dabbled everywhere. He was very influential in u. S. Policy toward israel. Created programs of mass surveillance, opening the mail of americans. Involved in the domestic surveillance schemes of the nixon white house, for example. Involved in the early dives the mk up to mind experiment mck up to mind expert. Very involved in u. S. Policy toward cuba. So, this position a lot of cia officers rise through a geographical directorat. A Division Within the cia. Angleton had his fingers in many things. Was hey wellknown personality during the years he was active. Guest he was not. In fact there are stories that pun story
California, thinks that people were duped often into voting for donald trump. Guest there is that view out there but as i talk about in the smear if you actually watched the rallies of Hillary Clinton and donald trump issue tried to watch almost every one. You talk to people outside the big cities, which i did a lot of, thats what led me to predict in advance that donald trump would be president when so many others cooperate see that. Think you get a different picture than the stereotype that it bandied about. Host tie the spear into into election 2016. Were there campaigns going on sub rosa . Guest totally. 2016 was the emit my of all the factors, whether its emotional media, smear industry in washington, dc, thats grown to this huge level, all the tack tactics. Everything claim into play in 2016. More money was spent gazillions more by Hillary Clinton and her supporters than on donald trump, far more, and i guess the lesson is even though, as i say in the book, the liberal side and t
Influence, blood money, body of lies and most recently, the quantum spy. This is part of our 2018 special fiction addition of indepth. Host David Ignatius, whats the premise of the quantum spy. Guest the us is locked in a new Manhattan Project race to build a piece of technology that is world changing, that is the quantum computer and our principal rival in that race is china. I told you as far as simply the facts, the the quantum spy is a novel that imagines characters who involve intelligencebattles , and other secrets about this world changingtechnology. Principally its the story of my hero orest chang. An officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learned things about himself, things about the cia, they do not how the world works that shake him to his foundation and we also see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Services , not so familiar to readers as five fiction. We all feel weve been in Moscow Center with carla and the russian
The quantum computer the principal rival ms. China that the quantum spy is a novel that the characters to be involved to see who can steal the other secret over changing technology but simply it is the story of my hero. Of a cia officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in process learn things about himself and the cia that she came up to his foundation. Not so familiar to readers of Science Fiction like the russian spy world but but it takes us into the world of security. That is the principal antagonist in the book. Host how much is real . I always say the preface exist in the imagined world if you take any book that i write the menu and up with the mud pie. E. But that said i try to do a lot of research i research that for many months going to the computer laboratories and i travel to every place mentioned in the book study the Chinese Intelligence Service. Would be those characters o dont exist in real life but it is as real as i could make it be and st
Our principal rival in that race is china. As far as simply the facts, the quantum spy is a novel that imagines the characters involved, the battle to see who can steal the other secrets about world changing technology, principally the story of my hero, american of chinese descent who was a cia officer, asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learns about himself and the cia and how the world works shake him to his foundations and we see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Service not so familiar to readers of spy fiction, we have been with carla, the russians by world is your to us so one of the pleasures for me if it takes us into the world of state security, very secretive Chinese Intelligence Agency that is the principal antagonist in this book. Host how much of it is true . I always say in the prefaces to my books they exist in an imagined world, if you take any book i write and think it is a recipe for how to bake a cake you are going to end