Having recently seen The Good Shepard with Matt Damon, my book has turned into an ideal sequal to provide more elaborate details on the partakings of Washington, DC during the 1930s - 1950s era.
By the eary 1950s Georgetown had become a major CIA listening post. It made good sense, Georgetown, by virtue of those who lived and socilized in the tiny kingdom, had become as much a seat of power as the White House, only far more accessible.
J. Edgar Hoover, spurred on by his determination "to keep tabs" on everyone, including the Georgetown crowd, set in motion a private project he called "Operation G-town," where he registered a number of FBI agents with an exclusive domestic employment agency to serve as per diem waiters and bartenders at Georgetown get-togethers. "Their main objective," said John White, "was to amass data on both the CIA and the Georgetown social set. The CIA, of course, knew that Hoover was spying on them." In return, they were spying on him.
In a later comment to the CIA Director William Casey, he received word from a socialite host that the best pastry chef ever employed turned out to be an FBI agent. That's irony. Must have been able to make one heck of a strudel.
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