Title: for Cold War junkies, worth reading
Review: This book is a curious mix: for the Cold War/espionage junkie, there will be much here that's known or familiar from other reading. Still, one can't fail to read the recollections and opinions of someone like Bearden who was involved with so much. The first 40-50% of the book (and it's a big book!) is hard to follow because it skips around among different persons and places; it's hard to keep them straight, especially the Russians. When the narrative comes back to someone mentioned previously, it's often hard to remember who they are. After that, as it moves into the recent decade--fall of the Iron Curtain--readers will be fascinated to read of the inside look at things still fresh in their own memory. Bearden had quite a career and you can get a good feel for it here; the epilogue alone is a good summary of the recent ordeals of the CIA.
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