Agent of Influence Author:Ian Adams It is October, 1964. The Americans are still reeling from the assassination of President Kennedy. The Cold War is at its height. In a hotel room in Montreal, John Watkins, Canada's ambassador to Moscow, is being held for questioning by the RCMP at the request of the CIA. He is skilled, fluent in Russian, completely loyal to his country--and ... more »gay. And, in a matter of days the ambassador is dead. The official story maintained that Watkins had died of a heart attack during a farewell dinner with friends in a Montreal restaurant. Now, thirty-five years later, the death of John Watkins has taken a new and disturbing turn, as Ian Adams unravels the true story behind Watkins' interrogation and death. The trail leads to the desk of James Jesus Angleton, ten head of the CIA. In what reads like a John Le,Carre' novel, Adams bring us face to face with an agency that saw communists around every corner, viewed Canada as a hotbed of Soviet activity, and waged a secret war that would target even the Canadian prime minister himself.« less