Legerdemain
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***Nominated by Harry Truman Presidential Library for Book of the Year**
This is a true story of a barely trained and inexperienced Air Force undercover agent who is sent to Morocco to assist the nationalist movement in breaking away from the teetering French colonial system without the French being made aware. It was Operation Camelback, set in motion by President Truman to safeguard the SAC airbases in Morocco, vital to a bombing run on Moscow if necessary, and a continued maintenance of a secret storage of Atomic bombs, also unknown to the French.The author's mission takes him to the Atlas Mountain garrison of the Foreign Legion, through the bathhouses and alleyways of Casablanca, the exotic Arabian Nights-like Fair in Marrakech and the settings of the privileged in Cairo where he meets the young Anwar Sadat and the former Nazi commando Otto Skorzney. The story unveils the working of MI6, the CIA, French Security Force, Mossad and the KGB. This story brings to the reader an understanding of the Islamist mind, angry at their European colonial masters, and sets the stage for the Twenty First century.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An interesting look at the work of the spy business. Heaphey is a young man in 1952, assigned to a post in Morocco where the US was secretly storing nuclear weapons. I didn't find it to be action-packed or all that thrilling, but it is an interesting look at the day-to-day work of a spy. Heaphey is ostensibly a journalist, which gives him a lot of freedom to move around the base and the surrounding areas, talking to people and looking at things. He lies to the people around him without being able to tell them why. He has to do some things he finds repugnant and associate with people who disgust him. All with the knowledge that no one will ever know what he's actually done, unless he gets caught and then he'll probably be dead.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Legerdemain by James Heaphy is a fascinating true story of the author’s exploits as an American Air Force intelligence officer in Morocco during the early 1950s. Legerdemain provides many insights into the early days of the cold war when the US relied heavily on its bomber force. Heaphy tells the relatively unknown story of American and French espionage during the period when Morocco was still ruled by France. At that time, before the development of ICBMs, the US needed air bases closer to Russia in the event of a nuclear strike. Although a work of non fiction, Heaphey’s book reads more like a spy novel. I was especially interested to learn that the US stored nuclear bombs in Morocco in this early period, contrary to what the media has reported for many years. I highly recommend this book to readers interested in cold war history, espionage stories or just a good read.