Ronald Kessler’s Dec. 8 Newsmax column is nothing more than a shameless plug for his wife’s book. Kessler begins with an anecdote about the CIA Christmas party, then abruptly shifts into shill mode:
There is no better description of CIA headquarters than in my wife Pamela Kessler’s “Undercover Washington: Where Famous Spies Lived, Worked and Loved.”
This is followed first by an Amazon link to buy the book — strange that his employer’s own online store won’t carry it — then, after stating, “In the spirit of the holidays, she has given me permission to share some excerpts,” a lengthy excerpt.
The book, by the way, is not some recently published tome; it came out in 2005. So it’s not only shameless, it smacks a bit of desperation as well.