Ike's Mystery Man

The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler

Author  Peter Shinkle Foreword by  Charles Kaiser
Ike's Mystery Man

The Cold War, The Lavender Scare, and the Untold Story of Eisenhower's First National Security Advisor.

President Eisenhower's National Security Advisor Robert "Bobby" Cutler -- working alongside Ike and also the Dulles brothers at the CIA and State Department -- shaped US Cold War strategy in far more consequential ways than previously understood. A lifelong Republican, Cutler also served three Democratic presidents. A charming raconteur, he was a tight-lipped loyalist who worked behind the scenes to get things done.

Cutler was in love with a man half his age, naval intelligence officer and NSC staffer Skip Koons. Cutler poured his emotions into a six-volume diary and dozens of letters that have been hidden from history. Steve Benedict, who was White House…