Conversations with the Crow Kindle Edition

This is an absolutely fascinating book about activities undertaken by the CIA during the post war/Cold War period of our history. Many of the events mentioned in this book can be corroborated by other sources, but much cannot, which makes one wonder if this is factual or a story by someone with great imagination. With the revelations of Edward Snowden about the NSA, I tend to think the former. In this case (as well as the Snowden case) it shows us workings of our intelligence services gone wild with no apparent oversize.

Very entertaining book. Easy to read. Gregory Douglas brings a refreshingly cynical perspective on many historical events related to the CIA and American political history. How much is true, I don't know. But the author's rationale regarding decisions affecting events described in the book seem more logical than the bs espoused by the government. Can't wait to read Douglas's Mueller journals which promise to be even more cynical and amusing.

Was really enjoying the book until about halfway thru the RTC fellow who is being interviewed by author states that Kruschev is alive somewhere in Russia?? This book was written in the 90's Kruschev died in 1971!!. So folks this is just a fiction book. Don't take what is revealed to heart

BEWARE: this book not only is a fraud, it is virulently anti-Semitic, anti black, anti woman, etc. I bought it because it promised to shed light on the Kennedy assassinations - it purports to be a transcript of phone conversations between the author and a well-known former CIA operative. It did not take long past the "sample" period to realize that there was little on the Kennedys, but much bragging and outright hatred. An internet search for this author confirms this.I returned the kindle version for money back. Amazon should allow a no stars rating. This book is repulsive.

With considerable experience in the intelligence community (I am now retired) I was completely fascinated by this book. I knew Bob Crowley and this is an authentic and convincing rendering of his speech and his views. Yes, the book drips with cynicism and amorality, but that is what one gets in real conversations between two jaded intelligence operatives. Bob was with the Company (the CIA) since its founding in 1948 and privy to all of its most important secrets. I have heard from friends that the book is "causing all kinds of trouble." The author, Gregory Douglas, is not popular in certain quarters and one of his excellent books, “Regicide,” supposedly had a comment posted from Bob’s son, Gregory, that his father never knew the author. However, it is interesting to note that the alleged comment from Greg Crowley re. the other book was written six months after Greg died of cancer in a Washington hospital. Such is the eternally clumsy incompetence of our premier "intelligence" agency. What with the recently released torture reports, if this book gets widely read, the CIA is in for a lot more very bad publicity. And I can state that some of the things Bob spoke of in the book are known to me but certainly not to the American public. I would recommend this book, but not to any government employee or starry-eyed idealist. An entertaining, thoroughly amoral and very accurate view into the bowels, (if you will pardon the expression,) of American intelligence.

The conversations Crowley claimed to have with William Corson, Bob Crowley and documents he claimed to have are all utter nonsense. He also made baseless claims about me. This is a fable not a non-fiction book.