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Title: Confessions of an Ex-Secret Service Agent: The Marty Venker Story by Marty Venker, George Rush ISBN: 1-55611-054-5 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: 01 July, 1988 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Private Life in the Secret Service
Comment: George Rush was asked to work on an article, and met Marty Venker. They turned on the tape recorder and listened to his memories. The result was an article for 'Roling Stone'. More talks and recordings led to this book. Seventeen chapters cover his experiences over the ten years in the Secret Service during the 1970s, and afterwards.
Page 53 tells of his undercover work in Kansas City. He wore jeans to pretend he was a demonstrator and infiltrate the crowd. He was then beaten with night sticks! Page 57 tells of the agent who protected LBJ in Dallas. Nixon subjected him to petty harassment until he resigned. In 1972 the Secret Service protected candidate Dr. Benjamin Spock, who was also listed as a "potential threat" (p.60). Information from an agent guarding Sen McGovern was passed to the White House (p.61). This hurt their morale. Chapter 7 gives his experience on guarding foreign dignitaries. Chapter 8 tells of guarding Presidential candidates. Its who you know, not what you know (p.118). Pages 131-2 tell of guarding the President in foreign countries. Page 159 gives his idea on the source for Woodward & Bernstein: a disgruntled ex-agent. Page 192 tells how the agents gave Tricia Nixon's plants special care!
When the pressure piled too high, Marty quit while working in Vienna in the middle of a trip. He suffered from a post-traumatic stress disorder. His interest in music led to his work as a DJ. Can music be as addictive as alcohol or opiates? Or a form of Pavlovian conditioning? As I read the last chapters, I wondered what his fate would be.
Rating: 5
Summary: Funny!
Comment: This book is really funny, and a good look at a agency that really has too much time on its hands outside of election season.
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Title: The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency by Philip H., Ph.D Melanson, Peter F. Stevens ISBN: 0786710845 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: 20 Years in the Secret Service; My Life With Five Presidents by Rufus W. Youngblood ISBN: 0671216090 Publisher: Simon & Schuster (T) Pub. Date: 01 January, 1974 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Secret Service Agents: Life Protecting the President (Extreme Careers) by David Seidman ISBN: 0823936368 Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.50 |
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Title: Secret Service (High Interest Books: Top Secret) by Mark Beyer ISBN: 0516243764 Publisher: Children's Press (CT) Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Protecting the President: The Inside Story of a Secret Service Agent Vice Agent by Dennis V.N. McCarthy, Philip W. Smith ISBN: 0688054226 Publisher: Harpercollins Pub. Date: 01 November, 1985 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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