Shirley Hazzard has written an expose of the corruption of the United Nations. She argues that Kurt Waldheim campaigned to become the U.N.'s Secretary General, confident that details of his past as a Nazi officer would be hushed up. Waldheim, during his UN years, emerges as a tool, both of the Soviets, for whom he carried out unbelievable favours, and of the US, quite possibly as a CIA agent. Hazzard worked at the UN for ten years, and Waldheim is seen as symptomatic of that organization's political and moral bankruptcy. She also reveals that all prospective UN employees were screened by the CIA, and that hundreds were fired through political motives. This book has caused a furore in the States - it is political dynamite.
- ISBN10 0701137347
- ISBN13 9780701137342
- Publish Date 18 February 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 January 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Chatto & Windus
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 178
- Language English