Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Weiner, Tim

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‘Legacy of Ashes’ makes clear that the CIA has always been a blundering, ruinously incapable organisation, with each decade providing its own low points.

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Publish Date: 01/03/2012
ISBN: 9780241956236 Category: Tag:

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All-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective … this is the image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and novels. It is wrong.

This shocking book, based on thousands of declassified documents and interviews with agents at all levels, shows the reality behind the glamorous myth: a blundering, chaotic and dangerously incompetent organization, so ineffective it was nicknamed ‘Can’t Identify Anything’ by Nato forces. In a story of botched coups, missed targets, lost operatives and fatal errors, Tim Weiner shows how the CIA now poses a threat not only to the security of the US, but the world.

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Weight 576 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 35 mm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

812

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

327.1273009 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K