Ebook {Epub PDF} Chief of Station Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone by Larry Devlin

 · Devlin was CIA station chief of the Congo in the early s and this memoir is an account of that tour in East Africa. This was during some of the highest tensions of the Cold War period, and the US government was eager to establish allies in /5. Larry Devlin is a legendary CIA Case Officer, Station Chief and Operations Officer who was the first CIA Chief of Station in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was part of the original first generation of CIA men, most of whom were WWII veterans, who defined the Cold War Intelligence Game at the peak of the CIA's golden era in the late 50s and early www.doorway.ru by: Fighting a hot war in the Cold War. Reviewed in the United States on J. Verified Purchase. Larry Devlin shows how a resourceful CIA agent can cause a difference in the Cold War. He reluctantly received the chief of station of the Congo Republic in /5(82).

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Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone. Larry Devlin arrived as the new chief of station for the CIA in the Congo five days after the country had declared its independence, the army had mutinied, and governmental authority had collapsed. Devlin was CIA station chief of the Congo in the early s and this memoir is an account of that tour in East Africa. This was during some of the highest tensions of the Cold War period, and the US government was eager to establish allies in sub-Saharan Africa to keep the Soviet Union out. Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone. By Larry Devlin. pp, PublicAffairs, Purchase. One of the more notorious CIA agents of the Cold War, Devlin has written a matter-of-fact account of his role in the Congo's tumultuous early postindependence years.