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Legacy of ashes the history of the CIA

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. Fo...

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Main Author: Weiner, Tim
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, c2007.
Edition:1st ed.
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United States. > Central Intelligence Agency > History.
Intelligence service > United States > History.
United States > History > 1945-
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Table of Contents:
  • "In the beginning, we knew nothing" : the CIA under Truman, 1945-1953
  • "A strange kind of genius" : the CIA under Eisenhower. 1953 to 1961
  • Lost causes : the CIA under Kennedy and Johnson, 1961 to 1968
  • "Get rid of the clowns" : the CIA under Nixon and Ford, 1968 to 1977
  • Victory without joy : the CIA under Carter, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, 1977 to 1993
  • The reckoning : the CIA under Clinton and George W. Bush, 1993 to 2007.
  • Intelligence must be global and totalitarian
  • The logic of force
  • Fight fire with fire
  • The most secret thing
  • A rich blind man
  • They were suicide missions
  • A vast field of illusion
  • We have no plan
  • CIA's greatest single triumph
  • Bomb repeat bomb
  • And then we'll have a storm
  • We ran it in a different way
  • Wishful blindness
  • Ham-handed operations of all kinds
  • A very strange war
  • He was lying down and he was lying up
  • Nobody knew what to do
  • We had also fooled ourselves
  • We'd be delighted to trade those missiles
  • Hey, boss, we did a good job, didn't we?
  • I thought it was a conspiracy
  • An ominous drift
  • More courage than wisdom
  • The beginning of a long slide downwards
  • We knew then that we could not win the war
  • A political H-bomb
  • Track down the foreign communists
  • What the hell do those clowns do out there in Langley?
  • USG wants a military solution
  • We are going to catch a lot of hell
  • To change the concept of a secret service
  • A classic fascist ideal
  • The CIA would be destroyed
  • Saigon signing off
  • Ineffective and scared
  • He sought to overthrow their system
  • We were just plain asleep
  • A free-lance buccaneer
  • In a dangerous way
  • He was running a great risk
  • A con man's con man
  • To think the unthinkable
  • What are we going to do when the wall comes down?
  • We had no facts
  • Why in the world didn't we know?
  • We're in trouble
  • The threat could not be more real
  • The dark side
  • A grave mistake
  • The burial ceremony.

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