The Unwitting

By Ellen Feldman

Subjects: Cold War Fiction, History, Cold War, United States, Fiction, United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Married people, Fiction, historical, general, Intelligence service, Suspense, United States History 1961-1969 Fiction

Description: "During the Cold War, many liberal anti-communist writers, artists, musicians, and intellectuals ended up working for organizations that were CIA fronts. CIA protocol dictated that one individual in the various organizations would be investigated, sworn to secrecy, and told about the CIA connection and funding. That individual was, in Agency parlance, witting. Everyone else was unwitting. The Unwitting is about a husband who is witting, a wife who is unwitting, and the unraveling of her life when she discovers that the person she is closest to in the world, the husband she loved and trusted, has betrayed her not with another woman but with an allegiance"--