Ted Gup is a Boston-based author, most recently, of A Secret Gift. He is a frequent contributor to the Washington Post, New York Times, and other publications. His e-mail is tedgup at att.net.
Long before a top bureaucrat was exposed for destroying secret interrogation tapes, the CIA shrouded his identity, making the press corps complicit in practices that would offend the nation’s conscience.
A predawn fire drill propels a writer into an unexpected encounter with a former CIA director–and an unexpected lesson on the uses and limits of intelligence.