This fascinating and groundbreaking historical novel, based on documented facts, intense research, and the author's deep personal knowledge and experience, is a never-before-told account of the infamous relationship between the notorious British spy, Harold "Kim" Philby, and disgraced CIA Associate Deputy Director of Operations for Counter Intelligence James Jesus Angleton. Commander Anthony Wells employs his considerable inside knowledge of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance and the workings of their analysis operations to build a compelling case for his explosive theories.
In an exciting historical novel format, Commander Wells takes readers from WWII to the Cold War, giving wholly new insights into the true nature of the Philby-Angleton relationship, particularly when Philby was MI6's key liaison person at the British Embassy in Washington, DC, and Philby's defection to the Soviet Union. He explores the relationship's effect on the climatic years of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Wells lays out the critical factors, errors of judgment, and operational blunders compounded by an abiding arrogance and the political proclivities of the inner sanctum of the CIA, that led to the 1963 tragedy in Dallas, Texas.
Readers will be drawn into the plot and storyline of this thriller cum spy story cum history, to be thrilled, educated, excited, and will draw their own conclusions about the key events revealed in the book. Readers will not want to put it down until the very last page.
Wells, Anthony: - Commander Anthony Wells is the only person alive to have worked for both British intelligence as a British citizen and for U.S. intelligence as a U.S. citizen, and also to have served in uniform with both the Royal Navy and the U.S. Navy. He is a 50-year veteran of the Five Eyes intelligence community. Wells received his PhD in war studies from King's College, University of London. He holds a BA and MA from the University of Durham, and an MSc from the London School of Economics. He was trained at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and received his advanced training at the School of Maritime Operations. Commander Wells was trained and mentored in the late 1960s by the very best of the WWII intelligence community, including Sir Harry Hinsley, leader of the famous Bletchley Park code breakers. Wells was recently the keynote speaker on board HMS Victory in Portsmouth, England, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the famous Zimmermann Telegram intelligence coup by Blinker Hall and his Room 40 team in British Naval Intelligence.Wells is a Member of the Naval Order of the United States, and was appointed an Honorary Crew Member of USS Liberty by the USS Liberty Veterans Association. He is the third Chairman of the USS Liberty Alliance. A retired U.S. National Ski Patroller and Instructor, he is a life member and former president of The Plains, Virginia, Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company. He is an FAA commercial pilot with single and multi engine, land and sea, instrument, and flight instructor ratings.Wells has four children and eight grandchildren, and currently lives on his farm in Virginia.
