In-Person! JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Howard Blum
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In-Person! JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Howard Blum
May 17, 2023 @ 1:00 pm
JCC MetroWest presents, Howard Blum, “The Spy Who Knew Too Much”
In-person at the J!
This true story begins on an Autumn morning in 1978. A sailboat runs aground on the Chesapeake Bay. The coast guard finds bullets scattered on the deck, top secret government documents in the galley, and a classified transmitter used to communicate with satellites.
There’s no sign of the boat’s owner, John Paisley, a high-ranking CIA official. Ten days later an unrecognizable body wrapped in chains floats to the surface. The CIA has no fingerprint records, but identifies the corpse as Paisley. It’s quickly cremated.
But in Brussels, a retired CIA officer, Pete Bagley, decides this mystery might hold a clue to all that went wrong at the agency – the blown ops, the agents caught and executed.
And it’d give him the opportunity to redeem his own tarnished reputation: the CIA had accused him of being a mole. He heads off an suspenseful quest that at its end reveals the last great secret of the Cold War – as well as a continuum of treason that stretches to today.
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