the true story of an FBI agent, US Army lieutenant colonel, a decorated war hero, and his life with the Bureau, the CIA and the Mob
as told to another former government agent Rodney Stich.
2nd ed
Alamo, CA
Silverpeak Enterprises
2007
649 pages ; 23 cm
Includes index.
Start of military career and Vietnam assignment --; Adopting Vietnamese orphan --; Central American operations --; Back to Vietnam --; Post-Vietnam assignments --; Second Central American trip (1973) --; Israeli war and South American politics --; Purging intelligence agencies --; Transfer within the system --; Taus and the FBI Academy --; FBI Bank Robbery Squad --; Transfer to Foreign Counter-Intelligence Division --; Lufthansa Airlines robbery --; RICO and the Bonanno Organized Crime Squad --; Pizza Connection case --; CIA corrupt activities --; Informants and internal FBI intrigue --; Joint Narcotics Task Force --; Some other CIA crimes --; WedTech, Castle, and CIA --; Joint CIA and Mafia criminal activities --; K-Team, Iraq, and Grenada --; CIA and Grenada invasion --; Enterprise operation at Fort Lauderdale airport --; The hunt for Red October --; Castle Securities and the CIA --; Rivalries between intelligence services --; The United Nations Club --; CIA links in Freeport Soccer Club --; BCCI and CIA --; More on Iran-Contra crimes --; Sanctioned Dominican drug-trafficking --; U.S. intelligence community and criminal operations --; Presidential crimes of Iran-Contra --; The Eastern block businessman --; Taus pays heavy price for defending national interests --; 911 and the Pakistani --; Staten Island assassination --; FBI's murderous conduct in Boston office --; Deadly blowback effects upon America --; FBI's murderous conduct in New York offices --; Parallel murderous conduct in NYPD --; FBI culture and 1993 WTC bombing --; Only the tip of widespread corruption in U.S.
Details the life of a decorated Vietnam War pilot, Richard Taus, his undercover work for the CIA, and then as an FBI agent in the New York City area. Here, he discovered secret funding of Iraq by CIA assets during the 1980s, and crimes perpetrated by his boss, FBI supervisor Lindley DeVecchio. And the false charges against him when he source to reports of these crimes.
FBI, CIA, the Mob, and treachery
Taus, Richard.
United States. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Corrupt practices.
United States. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
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2007
as told to another former government agent Rodney Stich.