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SNOW-STORM IN AUGUST: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Riot of 1835 (“History so fresh it feels alive”-David Mariniss, best-selling author. Since 1993 About Jefferson Morley Editor, investigative reporters and blog, Morley is a Washington-based journalist whose book tell untold stories of American power. OUR MAN IN MEXICO: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA (“A compelling page turner about a fascinating figure”-Jorge Casteneda, former foreign minister of Mexico.) THE GHOST: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton ("The best book ever written about the strangest spy who ever lived”-Tim Weiner, best-selling author.) "A riveting story that will make you chuckle and shiver." "Morley has captured, in all its surreal conspiratorial glory, the last sinister tango of a pair of wicked Richards," says John Aloysius Farrell, author of Richard Nixon: The Life. "The lens is the relationship between President Nixon and Richard Helms, CIA Director through all but a few months of the Nixon presidency,' notes former U.S. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!Jefferson Morley's latest book, SCORPIONS' DANCE: The President, The Spymaster, and Watergate is an "eye opening investigation" (Publishers Weekly) about "the corrosive impact of intelligence covert action on individuals and on democracy itself." (Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, former CIA operations officer) Some of his other books include The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton and Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA.įollow and support Jefferson Morley’s work at JFK Facts. His latest book is Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate. Jefferson Morley is a Washington author and veteran journalist whose novelistic non-fiction books explore untold chapters in the history of the American nation.

Unsurprisingly, the CIA is still withholding many documents, after 59 years and counting. From the agency's MKULTRA mind-control experiments to the wars of the Mideast, Angleton wielded. We talk with Jefferson Morley about the latest developments in the JFK assassination-specifically the documents which were released in part yesterday, Thursday the 15th of December. In The Ghost, investigative reporter Jefferson Morley tells Angleton's dramatic story, from his friendship with the poet Ezra Pound through the underground gay milieu of mid-century Washington to the Kennedy assassination to the Watergate scandal.
