CWRU Professor and Alumni, Ted Gup, publishes The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA

CIA agents who die in the line of duty are honored by being included in "The Book of Honor," part of a memorial located in the lobby of CIA headquarters.

According to the CIA, the book "displays the names of those whose identities can be revealed."

In The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA, Ted Gup reveals the names, lives, and history of some two dozen agents killed in the line of duty whose identities and missions were covered up by the Agency--those whose names were excluded from the CIA's "Book of Honor." Gup's book offers rare insight into the world of the CIA and its history, as well as its agents and the price they and their families pay for serving their country.

Highlights include:

• Rare inside accounts of life within the clandestine ranks of the CIA
• The full story of an American spy posing as a businessman in China who was arrested in the early 1950's and held by the Chinese for nineteen years on charges of espionage.
• A look at how the government, in the name of secrecy and national security, kept grieving family members from speaking the truth about their loved ones
• An intimate and personal account of the loss of a CIA officer aboard Pan Am 103, bombed by terrorists over Lockerbie, Scotland
• Details of the life and death of the first casualty in the Somalia campaign
• The full story of four pilots, working under contract for the CIA, who were killed during the Bay of Pigs fiasco

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Ted Gup is an award-winning journalist who has been an investigative reporter and editor for the Washington Post and a correspondent for Time Magazine. A graduate of CWRU's School of Law, he now holds the Shirley Wormser Professorship in Journalism and Media Writing at CWRU.

His work has appeared in more than 20 publications, such as National Geographic, Gentlemen's Quarterly, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Audubon, New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Parenting, and the Los Angeles Times.