CHAU AND THE CIA LADIES

About the Book

The Hungarian Countess, the Czech General’s daughter, the lady parachutist, the Phat Song of the Hoa Hao––sounds like a James Bond novel, but Jim Ogle is not James Bond, he is a rather Hamletian figure who was there, on the front line of the Cold War. This memoir takes you inside the American intelligence apparatus, and inside the psychological and philosophical labyrinth of one of its major players. Jim and his colleagues predicted the Tet Offensive with widely recognized timeliness and detail.

About the Author

Jim Ogle’s 32 years in various intelligence agencies included 16 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, of which two were spent in Vietnam at the turning point of the war. After resigning from the CIA Jim Ogle continued to work on contract for various intelligence agencies, his article in the Washington Post, “Will Computers Destroy the Soviet System?”1 November 1981, included the prediction “There can no longer be any doubt that within this decade, the Soviet bloc will be completely transformed.” He also worked as a hospice volunteer and as pastoral visitor for his Unitarian church. He continued his love affair with boats and mountains as long as health permitted. He still enjoys Platonic relationships with beautiful women.