The Company (Littell novel)
The Company: A Novel of the CIA is an American
fictional characters in the field of international espionage
between June 1950 and August 1995.
The book was a New York Times bestseller and received wide critical acclaim.[1]
It is the basis of a 2007
.Notable historical characters
The plot includes numerous characters based on historical persons, with varying degrees of verisimilitude.
The following is a list of the historical persons who speak or interact with other characters in the novel:
- Martin Bormann (as Martin Dietrich)
- Reinhard Gehlen
- Yuri Andropov
- Kim Philby
- James Angleton
- Lucian Truscott
- William Colby
- Richard Helms
- James Reston
- Dick Bissell
- Llewellyn Thompson
- Judith Campbell Exner[2]
- Allen Dulles
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Sam Giancana
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- E. Howard Hunt
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- John F. Kennedy
- Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Manuel Piñeiro
- Johnny Roselli
- Mstislav Rostropovich
- Pope John Paul I
- Frank Sinatra
- Fidel Castro
- Harry Truman
- Frank Wisner
- James Baker
- Ronald Reagan
- Bill Clark
- Boris Yeltsin
- William Casey
- Vladimir Kryuchkov
In addition, William King Harvey does not appear by name, but the character "Harvey Torriti, a.k.a. the Sorcerer" is a very thinly-disguised version of Harvey.
References
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
- for the organization since it was at various times known as the Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKVD, NKGB, MGB, and finally KGB).
External links
- NPR's All Things Considered reviews The Company:[1]