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Thomas Powers (born December 12, 1940) is an author, intelligence expert, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize.

He was born in New York City in 1940, and went on to study at Tabor Academy graduating in 1958, and Yale University graduating in 1964 with a degree in English.

His books include, The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), The Confirmation (2000), a novel and Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda (2002). He won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 together with Lucinda Franks for his articles on Weatherman member Diana Oughton, and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, Commonweal, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone.

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