Wedge

After a CIA officer and an FBI agent shake hands, the saying goes, each man quickly counts his fingers. For more than fifty years, the rivalry between spies and G-men has informed and defined most major blunders in American counterintelligence, from Pearl Harbor to the Kennedy assassination to the World Trade Center bombing. Relying on newly declassified documents and in-depth interviews with former agents, Mark Riebling has written the first extended account of this secret and costly schism. Riebling reveals how the World War II feud between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and William J. "Wild…