A very private plot
Subtitle: a Blackford Oakes novel
By: William F. Buckley, Jr.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Morrow
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Fiction; Oakes, Blackford (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Intelligence service -- United States -- Fiction
Description: In 1995, a U.S. Senator attempting to disarm the CIA asks the former head of the Agency's covert operations, Blackford Oakes, for an account of his covert activities. One activity involved a 1985 plot by a group of young Soviet soldiers to assassinate Mikhail Gorbachev.