Playboy's Hall Of Fleeting Fame

August, 1974

If the CIA could kill men and movements as well as it can kill books--such as The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence (Knopf), by Victor Marchetti and John Marks--the Cold War long ago would have turned into a rout and we would have turned into a rout and we would have been able to dismantle our conventional military organizations and go back to raising families, crops, hell and other natural things. Trouble is, we Americans never really had much aptitude for the kind of dirty work that comes prett...

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