WITH SPIES LIKE THESE

摘要

Three blocks from the White House, tucked away in an odd little brick building, is a small (50-member) men's club known as the Alibi. It was once a haven for spy masters. Allen Dulles, the longest-serving CIA director (known as the "Great White Case Officer"), drank martinis there with Kennedy and Eisenhower administration officials. It was at the Alibi that Richard Bissell, the CIA's swashbuckling chief of operations, announced in January 1961, at the depths of the cold war, "I'm your basic man-eating shark."