Legacy of Ashes : The History of the CIA

Author(s): Tim Weiner

History

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.


Product Information

Shortlisted for National Book Critics Circle Awards: Nonfiction 2008.

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General Fields

  • : 9780141033167
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books
  • : 0.579
  • : June 2008
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 35mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Tim Weiner
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : 327.1273
  • : 840
  • : 8pp