{"product_id":"9781504075282","title":"Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eHougan, Jim\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOpen Road Media\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e05\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe exposé that reveals “a prostitution ring, heavy CIA involvement, spying on the White House as well as on the Democrats, and plots within plots” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ten years after the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency, Jim Hougan—then the Washington editor of \u003ci\u003eHarper’s Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e—set out to write a profile of Lou Russell, a boozy private-eye who plied his trade in the vice-driven underbelly of the nation’s capital. Hougan soon discovered that Russell was “the sixth man, the one who got away” when his boss, veteran CIA officer Jim McCord, led a break-in team into a trap at the Watergate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Using the Freedom of Information Act to win the release of the FBI’s Watergate investigation—some thirty-thousand pages of documents that neither the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e nor the Senate had seen—Hougan refuted the orthodox narrative of the affair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Armed with evidence hidden from the public for more than a decade, Hougan proves that McCord deliberately sabotaged the June 17, 1972, burglary. None of the Democrats’ phones had been bugged, and the spy-team’s ostensible leader, Gordon Liddy, was himself a pawn—at once, guilty and oblivious.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The power struggle that unfolded saw E. Howard Hunt and Jim McCord using the White House as a cover for an illicit domestic intelligence operation involving call-girls at the nearby Columbia Plaza Apartments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A New York Times Notable Book, \u003ci\u003eSecret Agenda\u003c\/i\u003e “present[s] some valuable new evidence and explored many murky corners of our recent past . . . The questions [Hougan] has posed here—and some he hasn’t—certainly deserve an answer” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e declared the book “a fascinating series of puzzles—with all the detective work laid out.”\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46590877991167,"sku":"9781504075282","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/Jacket_41814e31-d5d3-4d91-a3a7-3b4deadbe148.jpg?v=1739315798","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781504075282","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}