The Spy Who Loved Him
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Description
An article titled 'The Spy Who Loved Him' tells the story of Michael Scott's long effort to read his father's memoirs. His father was Winston McKinley Scott, a senior CIA officer who ran the agency's Mexico City station. Before he died, Scott wrote his memoirs. The CIA holds those memoirs and will not release them, even to his son.
A station chief's memoir is the kind of document agencies are built to suppress: names, operations, and judgments in the author's own hand. The son's campaign to read it became a case about who owns a spy's memory. The article preserves the family's side of that fight, and the agency's silence, in the form the magazine gave its readers.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | DECLASSIFIED |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30,925 bytes |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Internet Archive |