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  • Benjamin C. Evans Jr. and the Central Intelligence Agency
  • 著者: Douglas A. Wissing
  • ナレーター: Gary L. Willprecht
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Gentleman in the Shadows

著者: Douglas A. Wissing
ナレーター: Gary L. Willprecht
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With help from family archives, CIA documents, and on-the-record interviews, Douglas A. Wissing reveals how Benjamin C. Evans Jr. quietly ran a vast government agency as elected leaders came and went. A CIA officer for more than 20 years, Evans deftly managed the CIA through four presidents and seven directors of central intelligence.

Gentleman in the Shadows is a book about a remarkable American living in tumultuous times. Through the depths of the Cold War, Evans helped make and execute world-shaping CIA decisions. From his early career as a clandestine officer in revolutionary Cuba to his days as a CIA executive in Washington during the harrowing Cold War missile crises and the Watergate and Family Jewels furor, Evans was a player in major events in American history.

While Gentleman in the Shadows is a book about Evans, it’s also a story about CIA families and the prices they pay for their service. Evans’ widow, Jan King Evans, is a scion of old Washington aristocracy. Her family archives and recollections shared during hundreds of hours of interviews provide a privileged view into the private life of this ever-discrete intelligence official. Interviews with other family members and close friends also reveal rich detail, such as Evans’s toddler daughter Karla dragging her beloved Fidel Castro doll through the family’s Havana villa as her father ran a string of secret anti-Castro agents.

When Evans retired in 1981, the CIA awarded him the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, one of the agency’s highest honors. Upbeat and positive even in the face of some of the CIA’s darkest days, Evans once wrote of his time with the CIA, “I’ve never had a dull day and perhaps due to some ‘character flaw’ enjoyed each one."

The book is published by Indiana Historical Society Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

©2019 Indiana Historical Society Press (P)2021 Redwood Audiobooks

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