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Markus Wolf was, for many years, deputy minister of the East German State
Security Ministry, more commonly known both within and outside of the GDR as
the Stasi. In it, he headed the foreign espionage branch, roughly equivalent
in function to the American CIA and in fact called the Central Intelligence
Adminstration (although the German initials are HVA). This book is a biography
of the man that many see as the real life model for John Le Carre's fictional
Karla.
There is no doubt that Colitt has done a great deal of research. The Stasi
tried, but was unable to destroy forty-five years of records in the brief time
between its disbanding and the takeover by the reunified Germany. The author
was able to interview Wolf and family membe...
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Book descriptionThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bias exposes the culture of narrow-minded elitism in the media--and reveals what must be done to change it.In December of 2001, Emmy Award-winning journalist Bernard Goldberg charged the mainstream media with slanting the news and created a firestorm with his controversial bestseller Bias. Now Goldberg goes beyond identifying the media's partiality and explains how the slanting of the news is all but inevitable in the current climate--and why the media's stars continue to deny the industry's condition. In this fascinating report, Goldberg lays out his rallying cry, unafraid to name names, and prescribes the difficult remedies that must take place if genuinely balanced news is to survive.
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