Lester Paldy

No Cloak, No Dagger (eBook, ePUB)

A Professor's Secret Life Inside the CIA

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Lester Paldy, a distinguished professor, was tapped by the CIA in 1988 to join the Agency for a "trial run" as they faced a troubling new situation in Russia. That "temporary" assignment would last for 25 years, during which he would find himself tested by a shifting set of responsibilities, his ability to penetrate secret sites, his expertise in approaching and assessing targets for potential value to the Agency, and his personal commitment to breaking down long-held barriers between the CIA and the FBI. He achieved this by demonstrating to CIA officers and FBI special agents how to approach scientists in ways that fit smoothly into their research and organizational cultures. As long as Les Paldy remained at the CIA, officers and special agents from both intelligence bases would benefit from this unexpected opportunity. Even today, years after his official departure from the Agency, Les Paldy is invited to brief intelligence officers and special agents. And now, the author extends an invitation to every reader to join him on his life-changing journey as the professor with "No Cloak, No Dagger."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538182154
• Artikelnr.: 68620736

Autorenporträt

Lester Paldy was a Marine Corps veteran and a nuclear physicist-a Distinguished Service Professor of Technology and Society at SUNY Stony Brook-when the CIA invited him to be a Scholar in Residence to support U.S. nuclear weapon delegations in Geneva and at the UN. The temporary assignment turned into a decades-long gig as a contract intelligence officer and later a consultant at the FBI Counterintelligence Training Center. He earned the CIA's Agency Seal and George Washington medals for exceptional service to the nation, is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a recipient of the Distinguished Service Citation of the American Association of Physics Teachers, and is active in the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. Paldy is a nuclear arms control consultant at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. In the Beginning...
Chapter 2. Entry on Duty-Day
Chapter 3. Into the Nuclear Archipelago
Chapter 4. Blasts from the Past
Chapter 5. Negotiation End Game
Chapter 6. Moscow and Kyiv
Chapter 7. New Man in the Office
Chapter 8. Man in the Middle
Chapter 9. A CIA That Looks Like America
Chapter 10. Views from the Field
Chapter 11. Churning and Travel
Chapter 12. Leadership and Morale
Chapter 13. Time for Choices
Chapter 14. Disarming Nuclear Ukraine
Chapter 15. Expendable Contractor
Chapter 16. Airborne Again
Chapter 17. Playing the Long Game
Chapter 18. New Threat, Usual Suspects
Epilogue
About the Author