CIA for Dummies: An Ordinary Guy’s Take on a Spy Agency History

Chris Whipple’s highly regarded 'The SpyMasters' cracks the code for ‘Bob in the Basement,’ a Boston wit with a growing following. He found it both fascinating, but the facts, mind-numbing.

Editor’s Note: Bob Gaudet, a Ph.D-certified educator by trade, has been a professional photographer, political consultant, grants-giver, run a small advertising agency and done widely quoted research on criminal justice and the impact of demographic factors on standardized test outcomes. When the pandemic hit, Gaudet, now semi-retired in Boston, began s…