Playboy Interview: Shintaro Ishihara

October, 1990

Playboy Interview: Shintaro IshiharaIn the political thriller "Three Days of the Condor," Robert Redford plays a CIA operative whose job is to read everything. He reads books from around the world in virtually every language. He is nearly killed because his reading leads him to a CIA within the CIA that is planning an invasion of the Middle East.In the real-life Pentagon, there is a division called DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In 1958, after the U.S. was caught...