bout de papier, Volume 26, Issue No. 3, 2012
The Moscow Rules
CANADIANS WILL REMEMBER TONY MENDEZ as the CIA operative who assisted in the exfiltration of the “American guests” in Teheran in 1980. This book is about his background as the CIA’s master of disguise, inventing ways to meet Russians in Moscow at…
The Traitor Who Wasn’t
Herbert Norman was a senior and respected Canadian diplomat hounded to his suicide, in Cairo in 1957, by American McCarthyites seizing on his dalliance with the ideas of communism. Norman was interested in Marxist thought, and probably remained a moderate socialist throughout his life… but he was not a life-long communist and did not betray […]
Superforecasting
On August 17, 2007, George Soros hosted twenty of Wall Street’s most senior financiers to lunch at his Long Island estate. Earlier in the month, BNP Paribas had frozen withdrawals from three of its funds and central bankers around the world were…
Exceptional Circumstances
Editor’s Note: We have received two reviews. Harold Hickman, and one from an active FS L both for your reading pleasure.
