A Need to Know The Clandestine History of a CIA Fam download

A Need to Know The Clandestine History of a CIA Family

There were three reasons. First, as I explain in the preface, I wrote it because I thought my parents deserved a better story than the one I had previously assigned to them. Given that so much of our lives together was shrouded in secrecy and given that I really didn’t know very much about the truth of their lives, I thought it was about time to find out. The second reason, and really the most compelling one, was that my own son had reached an age where he wanted to know about his grandparents and I found myself repeating to him the same half-truths and omissions that I had grown up with. I knew he deserved something better than that. Finally, I wrote it because I wanted to find a relationship to my father that previously had eluded both of us. I tell the story of listening to Bob Edwards interview Pat Conroy on afternoon as I was driving home from work, and hearing Conroy’s account of wanting to write about his father, and feeling a certain connection that truly stopped me in my tracks.

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ReviewS:

“This is a deeply fascinating portrait of the cold war….An important and brilliant take on life in mid-twentieth century US.” —The Guardian

"The effect of clandestine operations on the operators and their families is something we don't think about often, or encounter in reading spy literature.... An enlightening and moving work." —Hugh Downs, longtime anchor of ABC's 20/20 and author of several books, including My America—What My Country Means to Me.

"A Need To Know begins as an investigation of a father’s concealed life as a spy, but by its end, author Harold Lloyd Goodall Jr. casts new light on previously explored corners of broader subjects such as the dangerous conspiracy of family secrets, the world of espionage, and the destructive nature of the Cold War.... Throughout his quest for facts, Goodall draws attention to the tenuous nature of “truth” and the poisonous power of lies…. Although it is based in truth, this spy story captures the reader’s attention in the tradition of the best mystery novels." —Alice L. George, Ph.D., author of Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis

"Goodall has written a powerful, eerie, and moving portrait of his father, and of a life built on lies required of a secret agent during the Cold War. The book reads like a mystery combined with Shakespearean tragedy and conveys how families can be battered and broken by the forces of clandestine government work. This tale is an intimate story of family life, and also a chilling picture of Cold War America."—Elaine Tyler May, Ph.D., author of Homeward Bound: American families in the Cold War Era



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