A Kafka Story, But It's True
August, 1975
John Marks, the 32-year-old co-author (with Victor Marchetti) of "The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence," is a graduate of Andover, Cornell and Vietnam, where he spent 18 months as a civilian advisor to the Vietnamese government. Back home in 1968, Marks was assigned to the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. In 1969, he became assistant to State's intelligence director and watched CIA operations from the point of view of a cooperating service. He was serving as an a...
