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The spymaster on November 22

The spymaster on November 22

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Jefferson Morley
May 27, 2022
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Excerpted from Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster and Watergate (St Martin's Press, 2022

"Richard Helms disliked the term spymaster, but no other word captures his extraordinary—and invisible—position in the wake of Kennedy’s assassination. The deputy director had one hand-picked case officer in Miami, George Joannides, running the AMSPELL ne…

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