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As a global Warfare II commando, a Chilly Warfare spy, and CIA director under Presidents Nixon and Ford, William Egan Colby enjoyed a critical role in a few of the most pivotal incidents of the twentieth hundred years. A quintessential person in the greatest technology, Colby embodied the moral and strategic ambiguities of the postwar world, and confronted lots of the dilemmas about ability and secrecy that America still grapples with today. In Darkness Warrior, eminent historian Randall B. Woods riveting biography of Colby, he reveals that crusader for global democracy was also attracted to the darker area of American ability. Colby signed up with the U.S. Military in 1941, equally America came into World Warfare II, providing with differentiation in France and Norway. By the end of the battle he transitioned into America's first peacetime intelligence agency: the CIA. Fresh from struggling with fascism, Colby zealously redirected his efforts against international communism. He insisted on the value of struggling with communism on the floor, doggedly making use of guerilla practices for counterinsurgency, sabotage, surveillance, and information-gathering - the new battlefields of the Chilly War. Over time, these strategies became progressively more ruthless; as brain of the CIA's ASIA Department, Colby oversaw an endless succession of assassination tries, coups, secret wars in Laos and Cambodia, and the Phoenix Program, in which 20,000 civilian followers of the Vietcong were killed. Colby ultimately arrived clean about lots of the CIA's illegitimate activities, making general public a set of internal studies known as the "family jewels." Ostracized from the intelligence community, he passed away under suspicious circumstances - a murky finishing to a life lived in the shadows. Drawing on multiple new resources, including interviews with customers of Colby's family, Woods has made a gripping biography of 1 of the most fascinating and questionable characters of the twentieth hundred years.
