The Invisible Government -
WISE, David and Ross, Thomas B.
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Title: The Invisible Government -
Publisher: Random House
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
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The invisible government
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Bantam, 1964
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Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Dampness has seeped into more than just the cover. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book. Seller Inventory # 123684823
The Invisible Government -
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Random House
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The Invisible Government
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Bantam Books, New York, 1964
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Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
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Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Good. 5th Printing. Several creases in cover. Seller Inventory # 013231
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THE INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT
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Random House, New York, 1964
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Seller: Dromanabooks, Newstead, VIC, Australia
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good jacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Wear to base of jacket, darkened rear; Index. 685gms weight; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 378 pages. Seller Inventory # 37186
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The Invisible Government
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Random House, New York, 1964
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Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 375pp. Fine in very good or better dust jacket with a few small tears, creases and toning to the spine and rear board. Seller Inventory # 612510
The Invisible Government
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Taiwan [?}, 1964
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Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. The format is approximately 5.25 inches by 7.5 inches. [8], 375, [1] pages. Notes. Index. The dust jacket has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Paper quality appears inferior to U.S. book manufacturing. The invisible government is America's intelligence and espionage apparatus, with the CIA at its center. Four chapters of the book focus on the Bay of Pigs. Pirated copies from this era are increasingly scarce. David Wise was America's leading writer on intelligence and espionage. He was the coauthor of The Invisible Government, a #1 bestseller about the CIA. He was also the author of Nightmover, Molehunt, The Spy Who Got Away, The American Police State, The Politics of Lying, Cassidy's Run, Spy, and Tiger Trap, and the coauthor, with Thomas B. Ross, of The Espionage Establishment and The U-2 Affair. He was the former chief of the Washington bureau of the New York Herald-Tribune. David Wise died in 2018. Thomas B. Ross was born in New York in 1929. After graduating from Yale University he served in the United States Navy. During this period he saw active duty in the Korean War. After leaving the navy he worked for the International News Service and the United Press International. In 1958 he became a member of the Washington Bureau of the Chicago Sun-Times. Ross joined forces with David Wise to research the events surrounding the shooting down of the Lockheed U-2 spy plane on 1st May, 1960. Their book, The U-2 Affair was published in 1962. Ross and Wise now began work on a new book called Invisible Government. John McCone, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, discovered that the book intended to look at his links with the Military Industrial Congress Complex. The authors also claimed that the CIA was having a major influence on American foreign policy. This included the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran (1953) and Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala (1954). The book also covered the role that the CIA played in the Bay of Pigs operation, the attempts to remove President Sukarno in Indonesia and the covert operations taking place in Laos and Vietnam. John McCone called in Wise and Ross to demand deletions on the basis of galleys the CIA had secretly obtained from Random House. The authors refused to made these changes and Random House decided to go ahead and publish the book. Invisible Government was published in 1964. It was the first full account of America's intelligence and espionage apparatus. In the book Wise and Ross argued that the "Invisible Government is made up of many agencies and people, including the intelligence branches of the State and Defense Departments, of the Army, Navy and Air Force". However, they claimed that the most important organization involved in this process was the CIA. Ross worked for the Chicago Sun-Times until President Jimmy Carter appointed him as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (1977 to 1981). Other posts held by Ross included Senior Vice President of NBC News. In April 1994 President Bill Clinton appointed Ross as Special Assistant to the President, Senior Director for Public Affairs at the National Security Council and Deputy White House Press Secretary. Thomas B. Ross died on 24th October, 2002. Pirated Edition with Chinese marking at the back. Seller Inventory # 16124