Blackford "Blackie" or "Black" Oakes is a fictional character, a CIA agent and the protagonist of a series of novels written by William F. Buckley, Jr. Alice, a fictional character based on a real character from the work of Lewis Carroll. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... William Francis Buckley Jr. ...
Oakes was born in 1926. He served in World War II as a pilot and graduated from Yale University. He joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1951. Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... “Yale†redirects here. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...
Stained Glass (1979) – Oakes is sent to keep tabs on a German politician who is trying to unify East and West Berlin against the wishes of both American and Soviet intelligence agencies.
Marco Polo, if You Can (1982) – Set in 1958. Oakes is captured while flying a U2 aircraft over Soviet airspace.
The Story of Henri Tod (1984) – Set in 1961. Oakes is in Germany during the Berlin Wall crisis.
See You Later, Alligator (1985) – Set in Cuba in the early 1960s, Oakes meets Che Guevara and tries to ease tensions between Cuba and America after the Bay of Pigs incident.
High Jinx (1986) – Set in 1954. Oakes works behind the scenes to avoid an internal Soviet power struggle that could lead to a Stalin protege gaining in power in Moscow.
Mongoose R.I.P. (1987) – Set in 1963. Oakes is in Cuba working to overthrow Castro.
Tucker's Last Stand (1990) – Set in 1964. Oakes is in Vietnam to cut off Viet Cong supply lines.
A Very Private Plot (1994) – Oakes in 1995 is called to testify about operations he conducted in the 1980s, especially one in particular involving a domestic Soviet plot to assassinate Mikhail Gorbachev.
Last Call for Blackford Oakes (2005) – Set in 1987, Oakes confronts the infamous Soviet defector, Kim Philby.
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