Dinner & A Book - The CIA And Congress: The Untold Stroy From Truman to Kennedy

 This is a non-fiction work on how "The Agency" responded to a handful of political bosses on Capitol Hill, in addition to those at the White House. Dr.Barrett has peeled back many layers of concealment to reveal how the federal government’s most open branch conducted oversight of its most secretive agency.  In this study of the early Cold War he challenges previous estimates of what the key members of Congress knew about the CIA, and what responsibility they bore for its operations. The big question facing the United States Congress when it created the CIA nearly 60 years ago was how to keep track of what the agency was doing.

 Dr. David Barrett, Professor of Political Science at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania  I chose David Barrett to be my guest host because David is a fine professor of American Political Science at Villanova University and a former host of WNIT’s program, STRAIGHT TALK which aired more than twenty years ago on Public Television.  David has traveled to all parts of the world, and I interviewed him 20 years ago when he traveled to Lebanon to interview Yasser Arafat.