Podcasts Culture Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything Too good to be true remix

Too good to be true remix

Published: Aug. 15, 2023, 12:01 p.m.

Two very different tales about making stuff up about the CIA.\xa0Your host shares the story of Sylvia Press, who in the 1950s, wrote a revenge novel after she was fired during the McCarthy purges. And author Jefferson Morley tells us about the time CIA director Richard Helms tried to create an American James Bond with the help of future Watergate burglar E Howard Hunt.

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Get Jefferson Morley\u2019s amazing new book: Scorpion's Dance. Sylvia Press\u2019s novel The Care of Devils is harder to find.