American_Spy_-_H._K._Roy

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CHAPTER 4 DON’T GET ME STARTED “A re you a CIA agent?” I’ve gotten that question a lot over the years. My response is always the ...

62 AMERICAN SPY James Bond and Forrest Gump,” a ridiculous assertion since I look nothing like either of them.) I wasn’t born wi ...

DON'T GET ME STARTED 63 end. I figured I was off the hook and life would be pretty much smooth sailing from that point forward. ...

64 AMERICAN SPY blistering summer day and offered a plastic cup of lemonade. Despite my natural (and understandable) naiveté abo ...

DON'T GET ME STARTED 65 with my best friend, a kind and brilliant foreign exchange student from South America. Spending a month ...

66 AMERICAN SPY English-only Italian American friends from home who were there for the week. After dropping a gettone into an It ...

DON'T GET ME STARTED 67 became interested in foreign affairs when handling asylum cases for clients from Iran and El Salvador. I ...

68 AMERICAN SPY was House minority leader when he and two other Republicans informed President Richard Nixon that he needed to r ...

DON'T GET ME STARTED 69 I researched the CIA as much as was possible in those pre-internet days, by speaking with people in the ...

70 AMERICAN SPY CIA officer: “Hell yes! It’s my job, remember?” Polygraph operator: “It’s a yes or no question.” My psychiatric ...

DON'T GET ME STARTED 71 minister Menachem Begin, and the aforementioned John Hinckley. By that time, the criminally insane Hinck ...

72 AMERICAN SPY This was possibly an indelicate nod toward my Italian heritage, but it was sound advice nonetheless. I studied, ...

CHAPTER 5 CIA PARAMILITARY TRAINING D rifting in and out of consciousness in a dank solitary confinement cell, I was grateful fo ...

74 AMERICAN SPY lance by pretending to track and snatch an insect off the wall in front of me, lizard-like, quickly putting it i ...

CIA PARAMILITARY TRAINING 75 smoke-filled interrogation room. As we made our way through the hall, the guards lifted my hood and ...

76 AMERICAN SPY Angry beatings and more cries of pain. I fought to suppress a smile. On the one hand, Jack’s unbending resis- ta ...

CIA PARAMILITARY TRAINING 77 The fact is they did their best to prepare us to survive the brutal, life- threatening reality that ...

78 AMERICAN SPY spective American spies. Run by former US military personnel with CIA experience, SOTC gave us a real taste of m ...

CIA PARAMILITARY TRAINING 79 before, but having spent my youth hunting quail, I hit every clay pigeon during trap and skeet dril ...