Tells the fist person story of Verne Lyon, an Iowa farm boy, who is inducted into the CIA to spy on his professors and fellow students as part the then largest domestic surveillance program in American history. Lyon details his journey through CIA lies and deceit both to make amends and to reveal the secret workings of government all around us.
An Iowa boy away at college, Verne Lyon was recruited by the CIA to spy on college professors and fellow students as part of Operation CHAOS, a massive surveillance program at the height of the Vietnam War. Framed by his handlers for an airport bombing, he was later sent to Cuba to subvert the Castro regime. Balking at increasingly nefarious missions, he tried to quit: twice kidnapped by the CIA, he landed in Leavenworth. Today a free man, his memoir details his journey through the secret workings of the U.S. government.
