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008 970226s1997 nyu 000 0 eng
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100 1 $aShirley, Edward,$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97020432
245 10 $aKnow thine enemy :$ba spy's journey into revolutionary Iran /$cby Edward Shirley.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus, and Giroux,$c1997.
263 $a9705
300 $a247 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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520 $aAs one of the CIA: finest "Iranian-target" officers in the 1980s, Edward Shirley was a front-line spy in Europe and the Middle East, ferreting out the secrets of the country the Ayatollah Khomeini had made the most vociferous enemy of the United States. The job fulfilled Shirley's lifelong dream: ever since he was a boy growing up in the Midwest, Shirley had been obsessed with Persian culture and the distant adventures it evoked in his imagination.
520 8 $aYet when Shirley left the clandestine service in disillusionment after nine years, he still had never been to Iran - for the CIA sent only painstakingly recruited native-born Iranian agents into a land it considered too dangerous for American-born operatives. Shirley, however, vowed to get to Iran on his own. He engaged a short-haul trucker to smuggle him in a cramped secret compartment across Iran's tightly guarded border with Turkey and into the heart of Tehran.
520 8 $aIn narrating Know Thine Enemy, a gripping and wry account of his trip, Shirley blends a spy's cunning and nose for adventure with shrewd insights into the Iranian character. He depicts glamorous Westernized Iranians, disillusioned Muslim fundamentalists, and a crippled veteran of the Iran-Iraq war; and he gives a valuable account of America's bete noire in the Middle East.
520 8 $aOrdinary Iranians, he reports, are weary of Islamic dogma and the clerical regime and have resorted to cynicism, conspiracy, and black humor as everyday survival tactics, because the radical Islam promulgated by Khomeini and his successors has solved few of Iran's problems. Shirley also takes a long look at the decline of the CIA.
651 0 $aIran$xDescription and travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067888
651 0 $aIran$xPolitics and government$y1979-1997.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067913
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