![]() ![]() “We felt very strongly that there were two governments in the United States: one in the civics texts and the other in the real world,” Wise told the New York Times in 1988. In one of his first books, the best-selling “The Invisible Government,” written with journalist Thomas Ross in 1964, Wise wrote about the excesses of intelligence agencies, including the CIA, and its role in orchestrated coups in Iran and Guatemala in the 1950s. He became best known for his coverage of the world of spycraft, writing more than 10 nonfiction books about the Cold War era and beyond, as well as three novels. Wise was a reporter for the old New York Herald Tribune newspaper, which assigned him to its Washington bureau in 1958. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said his wife, Joan Wise. David Wise, a journalist and author who became one of the country’s foremost authorities on espionage, writing books on the CIA, turncoat spies and whether intelligence agencies had become an unaccountable “invisible government,” died Oct. ![]()
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