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An edition of Legacy of Ashes (2007)

Legacy of ashes

the history of the CIA

  • 4.57 ·
  • 7 Ratings
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  • 4 Currently reading
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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 United States 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. The author 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.

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Allen Lane
Language
English
Pages
702

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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
327.1273009
Library of Congress
JK468.I6

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 702 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
702

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Open Library
OL35365831M
Internet Archive
legacyofasheshis0000wein_a4y7
ISBN 10
1846140463, 1846140641
ISBN 13
9781846140464, 9781846140648
OCLC/WorldCat
244314178

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