Conversations With The Crow - The Final Conversations of Robert Trumbull Crowley
Crowley was the former head of the CIA's dirty tricks department and this is the closest thing one might come to a "death bed confession".
These are transcribed conversations between two former spooks whose lives seemed to overlap and you get to listen in as they are talking shop.
Wickedly funny, disturbingly revealing, utterly fascinating. Thought you might want to see it. --VT
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While CIA drug running , money-laundering and brutal assassinations are very often strongly rumored and suspected, it has so far not been possible to actually pin them down. But it is more than possible that the publication of the transcribed and detailed Crowley-Douglas conversations will do a great deal towards accomplishing this.
On October 8th, 2000, Robert Trumbull Crowley, once a leader of the CIA's Clandestine Operations Division, died in a Washington hospital of heart failure and the end effects of Alzheimer's Disease. Before the late Assistant Director Crowley was cold, Joseph Trento, a writer of light-weight books on the CIA, descended on Crowley's widow at her town house on Cathedral Hill Drive in Washington and hauled away over fifty boxes of Crowley's CIA files.
Known as “The Crow” within the agency, Robert T. Crowley joined the CIA at its inception and spent his entire career in the Directorate of Plans, also know as the “Department of Dirty Tricks”. Crowley was one of the tallest men ever to work at the CIA. Born in 1924 and raised in Chicago, Crowley grew to six and a half feet when he entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in NY as a cadet in 1943 in the class of 1946. He never graduated, having enlisted in the Army and serving in the Pacific during World War II. He retired from the Army Reserve in 1986 as a Lieutenant Colonel. According to a book he authored with his friend and colleague, William Corson, Crowley’s career included service in military intelligence and Naval Intelligence before he joined the CIA at its inception in 1947. His entire career at the agency was spent within the Directorate of Plans in covert operations. Before his retirement, Bob Crowley became assistant deputy director for operations, the second-in-command in the Clandestine Directorate of Operations.
Bob Crowley first contacted Gregory Douglas in 1993 when he found out from John Costello that Douglas was about to publish his first book on Heinrich Mueller, the former head of the Gestapo who had become a secret, long-time asset to the CIA living with a fair degree of comfort in Georgetown and the horse country of Northern Virginia. Crowley contacted Douglas and they began a series of long and often very informative telephone conversations that lasted for four years.
In 1996, Crowley told Douglas he believed him to be the person that should ultimately tell Crowley’s story but only after Crowley’s death. Douglas, for his part, became so entranced with some of the material that Crowley began to share with him that he secretly began to record their conversations later transcribing them word for word, planning to incorporate some, or all of the material in later publications.
These many transcribed conversations are relatively short because Crowley was a man who tired easily but they make excellent reading. There is an interesting admixture of shocking revelations on the part of the retired CIA official and often rampant anti-social (and very entertaining) activities on the part of Douglas but readers are gently reminded to always look for the truth in the jest!
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