Yes, I did read it. Any resemblence between Reed's book and fact is purely coincidental, and I actually have some direct knowledge of what he was talking about. I was in the machine-tool business when Reed was, and he was well known (it was and still is a small community where everyone knows--or has at least heard--of everyone else) for bragging that he was working for the CIA. I figured that those who really worked for the CIA in a covert capacity (as Reed claimed to) generally didn't broadcast it at every damn bar they ever visited.
It was during my jail duty period that I met the Nicaraguans who were in the business so to speak. They were not dirt bags, but Patriots in their nation.
I agree Reed was a wanna be James Bond, but how do you explain Buddy Young doing the investigation on the insurance fraud case?
While I'm not an attorney, I have been told by those who are, that it is very rare for a Federal judge to enter a "Not Guilty" verdict in dismissing a case.
Maybe someday I do a vanity or magazine article* which will help historians understand that era. Bottom line while "Project Jade, Operation Screworm Centaur Rose and such ... were brilliant, they left a lot of collateral damage, such as putting Slickmesiter into POTUS.
*I did save the documentation which would be essential.