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Irreparable Harm

A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the CIA in an Epic Battle over Secrecy and Free Speech

by Frank Snepp


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Accusing the CIA of ruining his career and violating the First Amendment, Frank Snepp chronicles the events that followed the 1977 publication of DECENT INTERVAL, his account of American secret operations in and the evacuation from Vietnam. The agency sued Snepp for not obtaining their clearance for DECENT INTERVAL and in IRREPARABLE HARM Snepp presents his side of the case. A New York Times Notable Book of 1999.


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9780394505039 9780394505039, Hardcover, Random House Inc, 1999

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Publisher Notes

The absorbing inside story of the CIA's successful attempt to punish and muzzle an agent who wrote the truth about the scandalous fall of Saigon.

Media Reviews

"IRREPARABLE HARM is Snepp's well-written, candid, modern version of Kafka's TRIAL."

Excerpt

During the long months of Saigon's demise I'd been too preoccupied to be able to dwell on any of these indelicacies. But now, with unaccustomed leisure on my hands, I had time to contemplate as never before the overwrought headlines, the tales of murderous excess and lawlessness, and the intimations of perjury by one of my idols, former CIA director Richard Helms, who, it was reported, had deliberately lied to Congress about CIA complicity in the overthrow of Chile's Salvador Allende years before.

First Line

So, how do you crawl out of a country standing up!"   

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