#JLFBoulder 2015: The Wilderness of Mirrors: Inside the CIA
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Channel: Jaipur Literature Festival · 2015 · Nonprofits & Activism
Pulitzer Prize winning writer Kai Bird has written a complex and arresting biography of the CIA operative’s Robert Ames, the first high-level American officer to penetrate inside the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). In conversation with Marie Brenner, he speaks of the clandestine world of espionage and the occasionally good people who inhabit it. Marie Brenner is an American author, investigative journalist and writer-at-large for Vanity Fair. Her recent book is a memoir called Apples and Oranges. She has also written for The New Yorker and the Boston Herald and has taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
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