Blackford "Blackie" Oakes is a fictional CIA agent and the protagonist of a series of novels written by William F. Buckley, Jr.

Oakes was born in 1926. He served in World War II as a pilot and graduated from Yale. He joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1951.

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• Saving The Queen (1976) - Set in 1952. Oakes' first mission. He goes to England looking for a British double agent.
• Stained Glass (1979) - Oakes fights a German trying to rebuild the Third Reich.
• Who's on First (1980) - Set in 1956 during the space race and uprising in Hungary.
• Marco Polo, If You Can (1982) - Set in 1958. Oakes is captured while on an undercover mission in East Germany.
• The Story of Henri Tod (1984) - Set in 1961. Oakes is in Germany during the Berlin Wall crisis.
• See You Later, Alligator (1985) - Set in Cuba in the early 1960s.
• High Jinx (1986) - Set in 1954. Oakes is investigating how the Soviets knew about a mission in Albania.
• Mongoose R.I.P. (1987) - Set in 1963. Oakes is in Cuba working to overthrow Castro.
• Tucker's Last Stand (1990) - Set in 1964. Oakes is in Vietnam to cut off Viet Cong supply lines.
• A Very Private Plot (1994) - Oakes in 1995 is called to testify about operations he conducted in the 1980s.