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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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'Weiner's riveting history of the CIA contains dozens of jaw-dropping incidents ... astonishing'
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'This extraordinary story reads like a tragedy and thriller. Impeccably sourced, utterly absorbing, dazzling and very, very dark'
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0141033169
- ISBN 13 9780141033167
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages832
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