Volume One takes the reader from the Barrios of Bogota through the intrigues of Manchuria and war-torn South-East Asia to the slums and skyscrapers of New York City, the latter as seen through the eyes of the truant, Lee Harvey Oswald.
Within a year of formation in 1947, the CIA committed what was probably its first major act. It involved an assassination using a designated patsy. Time and place: Bogota, April 9, 1948 - the victim, the youthful and charismatic presidential front-runner, Jorge Eliecer Gaitan.
The entire scenario would be replicated 20 years later in Los...