Of local interest: Verne Lyon resides in Johnston. Includes index.
Contents:
Descent into hell -- American as apple pie -- I spy -- The frame-up -- Back with the Company -- Down on the Farm -- Undercover -- Out man in Havana -- Red Square -- A double life -- Dirty tricks -- Going dark -- Trapped -- No way out -- Flight -- Framed -- In hell -- Doing time -- Survival -- Rebirth.
Summary:
An Iowa boy away at college, Verne Lyon was recruited by the CIA to spy on college professors and fellow students as part of Operation CHAOS, a massive surveillance program at the height of the Vietnam War. Framed by his handlers for an airport bombing, he was later sent to Cuba to subvert the Castro regime. Balking at increasingly nefarious missions, he tried to quit: twice kidnapped by the CIA, he landed in Leavenworth. Today a free man, his memoir details his journey through the secret workings of the U.S. government.
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