Eyes on Havana: Memoir of an American Spy Betrayed by the CIA

by: Vee Lyon (Author),Philip Zwerling(Author)

Publisher: McFarland & Company

Publication Date: 2018/1/29

Language: English

Print Length: 227 pages

ISBN-10: 1476670900

ISBN-13: 9781476670904

Book Description

An Iowa boy away at college, Vee 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 jouey through the secret workings of the U.S. govement.

About the Author

An Iowa boy away at college, Vee 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 jouey through the secret workings of the U.S. govement.