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Legacy of ashes, the history of the CIA, Tim Weiner

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Legacy of ashes, the history of the CIA, Tim Weiner

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Legacy of ashes

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bibliography

Oclc number

82367780

Responsibility statement

Tim Weiner

Sub title

the history of the CIA

Summary

Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it; and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security. For sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world--when it did not succeed, it set out to change the world instead. Now Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA, based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten Directors of Central Intelligence.--From publisher description

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