{"product_id":"secret-agenda-watergate-deep-throat-and-the-cia-9781504075282","title":"Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jim Hougan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Open Road Integrated Media LLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\"","brand":"Open Road Integrated Media LLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45411260039319,"sku":"9781504075282","price":2245.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781504075282.webp?v=1767917706","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/secret-agenda-watergate-deep-throat-and-the-cia-9781504075282","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}