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Flawed Patriot: The Rise And Fall of CIA Legend Bill Harvey
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- A close, persistent and loyal friend of a top Mafioso, Johnny Rosselli, despite repeated official warnings to cut the association.
- Legal adviser to Rosselli, and to his lover, the publisher of an Illinois daily newspaper; perhaps involved in the murder of the woman’s husband.
- Brought to his knees and disgraced when he was no longer able to control his drinking, but while still a senior Agency officer.
- Witness to The Church Committee in rthe mid-1970s which, he told friends, simply “didn’t ask the right questions” . . . .
- Object of scorn and derision by many within CIA who disliked his cultivated hard-drinking, hard-swearing facade and who didn’t realize that his bellicose front was intended precisely to conceal his real persona, and his activities.
- Privately, a devoted family man who, in has last years, was always wary, zealously protective of his family’s safety. Never paranoid, but even years after he left CIA, his house was burgled by people trying to find papers he might have had. After his death, his family found countless guns stashed throughout the house, available, in the event of need.
Flawed Patriot was conceived in the early 1980’s by Bayard Stockton, with the enthusiastic approval of Bill Harvey’s widow, as a rebuttal to David C. Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors, but the project was postponed until 2001. Then Stockton raced around the country, talking to men and women who had known Harvey . . .and who were rapidly dying off . . .Retired members of CIA Foreign Intelligence who usually would never talk for the record, but who confided in Stockton because he had been one of their own. They seized the chance to set the record straight . . .a record they thought had been publicly mutilated over the past several decades, not least in Norman Mailer’s Harlot’s Ghost.
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