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As 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. Yet when Shirley left the clandestine service in disillusionment after nine years, he still had never been to Iran - for the CIA sent only…
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2 editions- Other · English · 1998Westview Press · 247 pages · 9780813335889
- Other · English · 1997Farrar, Straus, and Giroux · 247 pages · 9780374182199
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