Shan Cretin

Ground-breaking, thought provoking book

Revisado: 08-09-20

A decade ago Nicholson Baker set out to determine whether the United States used biological weapons in the Korean War. He soon found himself in a frustrating struggle to gain access to 50 year old documents under the Freedom of Information Act. As in Human Smoke, he deftly weaves together multiple stories—the history of US biological and chemical weapons research; the transformation of the CIA from an agency to gather information to a hatchery for elaborate psychological warfare plans and ill-conceived covert operations that could be “plausibly denied;” the deeply-ingrained culture of secrecy and lies now used protect government agencies from embarrassment; finally and most movingly, the personal impact on the historian who is seeking the truth.

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