I am taken with Jefferson Morley..he is a truth seeker and young enough to make a difference.His work deserves the widest appreciation. This book I hope will be one of many. Mexico City was the Casablanca of the Cold War - a hotbed of spies, revolutionaries, and assassins. The CIAs station there was the front line of the United States fight against international communism, as important for Latin America as Berlin was for Europe. And its undisputed spymaster was Winston Mackinley Scott.Chief of the Mexico City station from 1956 to 1969, Win Scott occupied a key position in the founding generation of the Central Intelligence Agency, but until now he has remained a shadowy figure. Investigative reporter Jefferson Morley traces Scotts remarkable career from his humble origins in rural Alabama to wartime G-man to OSS London operative (and close friend of the notorious Kim Philby), to right-hand man of CIA Director Allen Dulles, to his remarkable reign for more than a decade as virtual proconsul in Mexico.Morley also follows the quest of Win Scotts son Michael to confront the reality of his fathers life as a spy. He reveals how Scott ran hundreds of covert espionage operations from his headquarters in the U.S.
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