The ordeal of Otto Otepka
By: [by] William J. Gill.
Publisher: Arlington House
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New Rochelle, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 505
ISBN-13: 9780870000546
Subjects: Otepka, Otto F.; Internal security -- United States.
Description: As great battles are often fought on little-known fields, so do great events often focus in the lives of little-known men. Otto Otepka was one such man. He stood at a crossroad of history. In recounting his ordeal, William J. Gill plumbs dark secrets behind the agony of a whole nation. Exhaustively developed from original sources, many of them unpublished or deliberately hidden from public view, here is the sensational record of blundering, deceit, ruthlessness and possibly distorted loyalty, reaching into the high councils of the Kennedy-Johnson administrations: a record that in less than a decade has left America weakened before her enemies. - Jacket flap.
Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 478-495)
Table of contents: title: Book I.; title: The first encounter; title: Otepka; title: It can't happen here; title: The man in SY; title: Bobby; title: Rusk; title: The Buddha; title: Rostow; title: The hawk; title: Book II.; title: Farce; title: Wieland; title: Back on the beat; title: Reilly; title: Cleveland; title: Alger's friends; title: Open sesame; title: Warsaw nights; title: The defector; title: Shillelagh; title: The witness; title: Under surveillance; title: Decision; title: Strange interludes; title: Frame-up; title: High noon; title: Book III.; title: The outcast; title: Under charges; title: Accident; title: Rusk's defiance; title: Challenge; title: Dallas; title: Lyndon; title: Quietus; title: Dodd; title: Crockett; title: The unwanted; title: Limbo; title: The long wait; title: Star chamber; title: The nation on trial; title: Verdict; title: Whirlwind reaped; title: Pledge; title: Vindication