Between Two Towers: How the CIA Undermined a President and Looted an American Church

by Ted Seay

Starting in the 1980s, the publishing arm of the Christian Science church was used by the CIA, first to disrupt the finances of the church itself, then as a vehicle for funding the purchase and construction of a global network of shortwave radio transmitters as part of the Reagan administration’s “Continuity of Government” (COG) operations, and finally as a springboard to assume control of the church’s Board of Directors.

122 pages, Paperback

Published November 22, 2018

About the author

Ted Seay is an author, political commentator and arms control consultant currently living in Oxfordshire. He has appeared on television and radio in the UK and internationally, as well as on numerous Internet-based discussion programs.

A 26-year veteran of the American Foreign Service, Seay served at the U.S. Mission to NATO as arms control advisor from 2008 to 2011. Before that, he was seconded to the Secretariat of the Wassenaar Arrangement in Vienna from 2005 to 2008.

Prior postings included Slovenia (1998-2001) as liaison to the International Trust Fund for Demining; State EUR/RPM (1996-1998), negotiating compliance with the Dayton Peace Accords; and State PM/SPN (1994-1996), where he helped draft Dayton’s disarmament annex. Seay joined the U.S. State Department in 1985.

Seay holds an A.B. (Political Science) from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.S. (Strategic Intelligence) from the Joint Military Intelligence College. He believes he is the only person ever to have been published in Wisden Cricket Monthly, Gridiron Strategy, and Arms Control Today.