McCarry, Charles
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Name (Hebrew)
מקקרי, צ'רלס
Name (Latin)
McCarry, Charles
Other forms of name
McCarry, Albert Charles, Jr., 1930-2019
Date of birth
1930
Field of activity
American fiction
Biography
Editing
Intelligence service
Journalism
Travel
Occupation
Intelligence officers
Novelists
Periodical editors
Authors
Biographers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
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Sources of Information
- Washington post WWW site, viewed March 1, 2019(Charles McCarry spent almost 10 years in the CIA as an undercover agent, operating alone as he roamed throughout Africa, Europe and Asia in the 1950s and 1960s. Mr. McCarry, whose novels about spycraft and politics were deeply admired if not always well known, died Feb. 26 [2019] in Fairfax County, Va. He was 88. Albert Charles McCarry Jr. was born June 14, 1930, in Pittsfield, Mass. In 1958, Mr. McCarry joined the CIA. He left the CIA in 1967 to concentrate on writing. His first book, "Citizen Nader," a somewhat skeptical biography of consumer advocate Ralph Nader, appeared in 1972. In addition to his novels, Mr. McCarry published several nonfiction books on travel and one of the first transatlantic balloon flights. He also helped write the memoirs of Alexander M. Haig Jr., a onetime White House chief of staff and secretary of state. Mr. McCarry settled in Washington in 1985 and, for several years, was an editor-at-large for National Geographic. He maintained homes for many years in Massachusetts and Florida)
- His Citizen Nader, 1972.
- His Double Eagle, 1979:t.p. (Charles McCarry) pub. info. sheet (b. 6/14/30)
- The Author's מרגלים ותיקים, תשס"ה 2005 .
Wikipedia description:
Charles McCarry (June 14, 1930 – February 26, 2019) was an American writer, primarily of spy fiction, and a former undercover operative for the Central Intelligence Agency.
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