THE BOOK BEAT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00418R000100050030-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 11, 2012
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: October 9, 1988
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/11: CIA-RDP99-00418R000100050030-4
STAT
The book beat
Joseph Persico, author of The Imperial
Rockefeller and Edward R. Murrow: An
American Original, has signed a contract
with Viking Books to produce a book on tlfa'
late William Casey, former CIA director:'
"What he did at the CIA dwarfed the per-'
formance of any of his predecessors," said
Persico. "Casey's CIA in certain areas Jas
far more a force in the making of Reagyar~
foreign policy than the more likely depajq~,
ments of State and Defense." The books'
due out in the fall of 1990.
The Washington Post
The New York Times
The Washington Times
The Wall Street Journal
The Christian Science Monitor
New York Daily News
USA Today
The Chicago Tribune
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/11: CIA-RDP99-00418R000100050030-4