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Title

Chasing shadows : a special agent's lifelong hunt to bring a Cold War assassin to justice / Fred Burton with John Bruning.

Author

Burton, Fred.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Additional Authors

Bruning, John R.

Description

vi, 258 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"In July 1973, a gunman stepped from behind a tree and fired five shots, point blank, into Josef Alon, a kind, unassuming Israeli Air Force pilot. Sixteen-year-old Fred Burton was deeply shocked by this crime that rocked his sleepy suburban neighborhood of Bethesda, Maryland. As it turned out, Alon wasn't just a pilot and family man--he was a high-ranking Israeli military official with intelligence ties. The assassin was never found and the case was closed. Then, in 2007, now State Department counterterrorism special agent Fred Burton reopened the case and successfully pursued the killer, bringing closure to a traumatized family. From swirling dogfights over Egypt and Hanoi to gun battles on the streets of Beirut, this action-packed history spans the globe and several fraught decades in our history. In its portrait of how power is used, misused, and sold to the most convenient bidder, Chasing shadows spins a gripping tale of agents, double agents, terrorists, and heroes as Burton chases leads around the globe in an effort to solve this decades-old murder"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Burton, Fred
• Alon, Josef, -1973 > Assassination
• Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-Aswad
• 1900-1999
• Intelligence officers > United States > Biography
• Murder > Investigation > Case studies
• Intelligence officers > Israel > Biography
• Murder > Bethesda > History > 20th century
• Terrorism > Prevention > Case studies
• Conspiracies > Case studies
• Cold War

Genre/Form

• True crime stories
• Biographies
• Case studies
• History
• Récits criminels.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]) and index.
• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue: The long pursuit -- The crime -- The lion of Hatzor -- The investigation begins -- Dvora's quest -- Conspiracy theory -- Rolling thunder -- Stealing the MiG-21 -- The bear's black eye -- The fate of the evidence -- The suspect list -- Origins of terror -- The birth of Black September -- The shadow war begins -- Unbridled vengeance -- Coming into focus -- The CIA's involvement -- Tracking the killer -- Epilogue.

ISBN

• 9780230620551 (hardback)
• 0230620558 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2010038120

OCLC

651913842

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library