PREFACE

Like many men of achievement, William K. Harvey was Winston Churchills riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Todays term multifaceted doesnt begin to describe him because it implies superficiality; Big Bill was anything but superficial. Indeed, the deeper I probed, the more dense yet clear the mans character became. Bill Harvey was a man of the shadows, an obfuscator who was a true-born member of the inner world of espionage.

I saw Bill in several different lights over a decade in mid-twentieth century and was encouraged to delve into his life by his widow several decades later. There came delays, until I finally set out to pull together as many strands of his life as I could gather. I take full responsibility for what appears here and for the conclusions I have drawn, except for those clearly labeled as someone elses thought.

Throughout the text, I quote various sources with whom I spoke or exchanged e-mails in the course of research for the book as if they were still alive. In fact, a number of them died while Flawed Patriot was in preparation.

I owe thanks to many people, particularly to Bob Kilroy and Clarence Berry, whose real names I have not used. It would be unjust to single out others. Suffice it to say that all whom I have asked, and all who knew him, responded fully. Many have never before talked for the record.

Those formerly of CIA who talked with me: Jim Critchfield, Dennis Flinn, Warren Frank, Stan and Dottie Gaines, Sam Halpern, Dick Helms, Bill Hood, Adam Horton, George Kirby, Walt Lomac, Alex Macmillan, Dave and Star Murphy, Herb Natzke, Tom Polgar, Anita Adolph Potocki, Neill Prew, Ted and Hazel Shackley, Peter Sichel, Henry Woodburn, and Mark Wyatt. Also, Sam Papich, formerly of the FBI.

By correspondence only: David Chavchavadze, Jack Corris, Ben Cushing, Paul Garbler, Norman and Lois Glasser, Mrs. Vyrl (Ernie) Leichliter, and Richard W. Montague. Also, George Bailey and Peter Lunn, formerly of the British SIS; Gen. Sergei Kondrashev, formerly of the KGB; and an anonymous member of the Dutch Intelligence Service.

Others from a variety of backgrounds with whom I spoke: Jack Anderson, Arthur, Ed Becker, Prof. G. Robert Blakey, Brenda Brady, Michael Dobbs, Doug Fleming, John Foreman, Michael Goldsmith, Dan Hardway, Sen. Gary Hart, Maureen Hughes, Jim Kelly, Jim Lesar, Fred Logevall, Robert Maheu, Scott Malone, Dave Mazzarella, Joe McMoneagle, Jefferson Morley, Andy (Lee) Nelson, Bill Nugent, Connie ODonnell, Curtis G. (Bill) Pepper, Stephen J. Rivele, Gus Russo, Charles Rappleye, Ann Reynolds, F. A. O. Schwarz Jr., Toni Shimon, David Stafford, Larry Stewart, Anthony Summers, David Suter, Helmut Trotnow, Gore Vidal, Bob Weitershausen, Linda Williams, Robin Winks, and Mick Winter.

Those from Indiana who helped: Tom Cochrun, Dr. Chuck Coffin, Jack Hall, Sally Harvey, Hal Hyde, and David Kahlenberg.

Also, the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO), the FBIs Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Section, the CIAs FOIA Section, and the CIAs Publications Review Board (PRB).

AUTHORS NOTE: The changes that the CIAs PRB required were primarily semantic in nature: names, cryptonyms, locations, and the like. Some of the deletions insisted on by the CIA were of names, designations, job titles, and locations that have appeared elsewhere in print, in some cases many times over. Thus I am not allowed to use a specific designation for the top CIA man in a specific location, even though, for instance, a book by a former CIA chieftain that appeared in 1976 openly used the term and the same designation appears, as a matter of course, in practically every book about the CIA. Some true names of former colleagues who had granted permission to use their names in the clear, and of officers now dead, were redacted by the PRB, in its wisdom. Even some fictitious names that I had dreamed up were blue-penciled by PRB.