According to NameBase:

The CIA went to court prior to publication of this book, claiming that it would harm national security. The court disagreed, but the publisher had to submit the manuscript to the CIA for prior review. They asked for 339 deletions, most of which were refused by the court. Along with Philip Agee’s Inside the Company: CIA Diary, this was one of the most important works on the CIA to appear in the 1970s. While Agee’s book is a detailed look at one officer’s activities in several Latin American countries, Marchetti and Marks give an overview of the CIA’s administrative structure and operational history. (An appendix reprints the detailed notes from a secret four-hour 1968 Council on Foreign Relations meeting that discussed intelligence issues. Richard Bissell gave the talk while nineteen other luminaries, such as Allen Dulles, listened and offered comments. It’s clear from gems like this that the ruling class knows who they are, even if most of their subjects don’t.)

Victor Marchetti spent 14 years in the CIA, where he became an executive assistant to the deputy director, and John Marks spent five years in the State Department, where he worked as an analyst and as staff assistant to the intelligence director. Currently Marchetti lives in Vienna, Virginia while Marks lives in Washington, D.C.

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