Jefferson Morley is a Washington journalist who explores the history of America and gives history a little twist through storytelling. The topic of the book The Ghost is about the role of CIA chief counterintelligence officer James Jesus Angleton during the era of the Cold War. Morley’s purpose in writing The Ghost is to highlight the importance of Angleton’s work, Angleton’s work goes unnoticed and writing about him helps the reader understand more about what really happens when you’re a spy and learn more about history. I chose this book primarily because its not everyday the life of a secret agent is written about and shown for the world to see. Although told from the perspective of a journalist, Morley’s The Ghost is a well- written book which depicts…show more content… Jefferson Morley is a Minneapolis native who went to Yale and then went on to work as a journalist in Washington. In which no way does Morely have any correlation with the CIA or Angleton himself. This is why Morley is somewhat qualified to have written the book; he gets documents that were in CIA records, which come straight from the source but are not always accurate. Morley also uses an abundance of sources to come together to write the book. I would say there is an error in Morley being 100% credible because he was never there; he is pulling all these sources together to make a book that he must make sure is credible, and he personally never talked to Angleton himself. Morley wrote a book solely based on what he had read and heard, which could alter the actual story of what happened. Morely also wrote about the assignation of JFK, in which he used some conspiracies in his work. Morely’s writing was fairly adequate; he had really good vocabulary and made it feel more like a narrative. The topic of the CIA is very complex, but he goes and explains everything fairly well, although it is still
