NEW BOOK: SECRET SERVICE: THIRTY-THREE CENTURIES OF ESPIONAGE BY RICHARD WILMER ROWAN WITH ROBERT G. DEINDORFER

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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2003
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: November 27, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM roR
SUBJECT
November 1967
Director of Central laden nce
New Book: Secret Service: Thirty-three
Centuries of Espionage by Richard Wilmer
Iowan with Robert G. Deindorfer
I. This memorandum is for information only to invite your
attention to the new revised edition of the late Richard %Vilmer Rowan's
book rvia_icoltt Storrv-of Sereetret Serrv:ecoeof. Ems.pinzgeedtiNtillown lysoestirk: tkileadvsiSethcoret
Books. Inc. 1967).
Z. This revised edition has been done by Robert G. Dititdorfer
with some assistance from the author', widow. Deindorfer
h?ptab-
liahed several articles in this field, none of which are noted fgr
excellence. In updating the Rowan book. Didadorfer contacted.14r.
Goodwin to solicit CIA advice or assistance which, as a matter of
policy, we were unabie to give him.
3. Allen Dulles has contributed a foreword noting a rigid for
secrecy in clandestine operations. He charecterisee Mr. ROWarite book
as a work "of major importance", and in fact, it is probably the best
comprehensive historical survey of well-known intelligence cases from
biblical times to the date of the book's first publication in 1937. Unfortu-
nately, Mr. Rowan himself never updated his own book from the materials
In many libraries and archives which have become available since the
book was first written. Except for some excisions, Deindorfer has not
altered the original text. The new material which Deindorfer tuts added
starts at page 573. It is largely a rewrite of well-known cases and pub-
lished information.
Distribution
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(Mr. Goodwin)
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