The Book of Honor [Archive] - SOCNET: The Special Operations Community Network

Michael Robertson Moore

12 June 2000, 14:19

There's a new book by a reporter named Ted Gup called The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA. It's got a chapter on SF/Delta/CIA legend Lawrence "Superjew" Freedman, killed in Somalia in 1992.

ActionJackson03

26 February 2002, 13:06

please don't get me started on that book...

JJC_15

8 March 2002, 14:52

Originally posted by ActionJackson03
please don't get me started on that book...

AJ03,

What's wrong with it?

SHOOB

8 March 2002, 20:26

AJ03,
What did you feel was wrong with the book? I am curious because I have read some other books that conflict with what Gup had to say. Just want your take.

ActionJackson03

11 March 2002, 13:22

a lot of it is personal stuff that has to do with people very close to me who kinda got screwed over by gup, who received absolute cooperation from the agency then turned around and, instead of acting on what he said he would do, which was write a tribute to the CIA's fallen heroes, he instead picked a handful people whose families were upset at the CIA for not revealing every detail about their deaths, then adding cursory details about all the other great heroes on that wall. The men who he wrote about died in the service of the CIA, under sensitive conditions. The agency didnt conceal the circumstances of their deaths to spite their loved ones, they did so to protect the lives of other men and women in the field. The deceased would not have had it any other way. unfortunately, a straight story will never sell as well as sensationalism. sorry to rant, by all means read the book and form your own opinion. gup's heart was in the right place i suppose. he just didnt go about it in the most ideal way, IMHO.