An edition of Legacy of Ashes
(2007)
Legacy of ashes
the history of the Central Intelligence Agency
1st ed.
by Tim Weiner
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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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United States, CIA, Histoire, award:national_book_award=2007, National Book Award Winner, États-Unis, United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Intelligence service, États-Unis. Central Intelligence Agency, Nonfiction, award:national_book_award=nonfiction, Politics, Service des renseignements, History, Services secrets, United states, central intelligence agency, Intelligence service, united states, United states, history, 1945-Places
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Table of Contents
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 well 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, didnt 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 mans 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
A grave mistake
It's broken
The burial ceremony.
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