Kerry, the Sandinistas, and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)

"Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies" | 1987 | S. Steven Powell

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Backhoe is a good guy to know on this forum. He's got stuff bookmarked and crosslinked enough to keep me reading, well, like, forever! :-]

[T'wit]

> It's from a book I found at a used bookstore that appears to have had limited distribution.

I've known the publisher for many years. I'll go remind him of this information and see what I can get stirred up :-)

[Fedora]

Backhoe is a good guy to know on this forum. He's got stuff bookmarked and crosslinked enough to keep me reading, well, like, forever! :-]

Oh, definitely! :)

[Fedora]

I've known the publisher for many years. I'll go remind him of this information and see what I can get stirred up :-)

Oh, good! :) If you do talk to them, please encourage them to consider reissuing the book in an updated edition. I've found it to be an invaluable research tool, and there's so much that could be added since it was published, especially by crossreferencing it with things that have been released since then like the Venona files, KGB files, the transcripts of McCarthy's Senate hearings, biographies of various Hollywood and political figures incorporating information from FOIA files, etc.; plus everything that's been posted here at FR about the Clintons, Gore, and Kerry. A publisher could get a lot of mileage out of all that if they were so inclined.

[T'wit]

The publisher tells me that the book is out of print, but that it sold well for such work (10,000+). No reissue is under consideration, but copies can be found in used book outlets.

He wonders, btw, how you picked the name "Fedora"? That is, if it's not confidential. Some such character showed up in Soviet espionage. I don't remember where, but it might have surfaced in Venona.

[Fedora]

He wonders, btw, how you picked the name "Fedora"? That is, if it's not confidential. Some such character showed up in Soviet espionage. I don't remember where, but it might have surfaced in Venona.

Your publisher friend is correct :) I was having trouble picking a good screen name when I signed up for FR, so I tried to think of something appropos to the subject, and I remembered Fedora:

http://www.markriebling.com/golitsyn.html

The first of the FBI's two new sources was forty-year-old Scotch-loving Aleksei Isidorovich Kulak, nicknamed "Fatso" by his Bureau handlers and officially code-named Fedora. . .