Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
by: Tim Weiner
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With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.
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- dwelling on the negative?
This books purports to report the failures of the CIA - the so-called secret history of the CIA. A better book would be a history of the CIA that included both the failures and the seemingly fewer successes. A CIA enthusiast may be interested in this book simply due to the fact that a lot of recently unclassified information is revealed in it. Evidently the unclassified information contained a lot of the mistakes and failures of the agency.
One can take away from the reading that the ... Read More
Rating: - Savage indictment of CIA incompetence
This is a gripping -- and incidentally most amusing -- compilation of the greatest mistakes made by the CIA, which (if you believe the author) is an organisation that sucks up billions of dollars a year and is almost totally useless. Virtually everything the CIA touched turned into a disaster and its much vaunted analysts missed many historic and important developments. I gave this four stars rather than five because (a) I can't believe there weren't at least some successes along the way and (b) the ... Read More
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- Misleading Information
If the author spent 20 years preparing this book, then there is no excuse for him to give us false information about G.H.W. Bush, saying "Bush was...not a spy.He knew almost nothing about intelligence.He was a politician pure and simple."How could Weiner so be incredibly wrong?Is he just afraid of retrobution from Bush?The reality is that Bush (41) was and is an agency man through and through.George HW Bush was the CIA man written about by J Edgar Hoover when Hoover stated that Bush was ... Read More
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- Legacy of Ashes
This is the most shocking book I have ever read.It is well researched and totally credible.It makes me worry about my country and wonder how we managed to remain free from attack until 9/11/2001.Any person who loves their country should read this and hope that people with more intelligence are being tapped to take us into the future.
Rating: - Hilarious Hatchet Job.
This is the blooper reel of the CIA for the last 50 years.Embellishments, yes, Biases, yes, entertaining? yeah, Enjoyed candid admission by former CIA director he had a harder time getting "facetime" with the President, then the President's mistress.
- dwelling on the negative?This books purports to report the failures of the CIA - the so-called secret history of the CIA. A better book would be a history of the CIA that included both the failures and the seemingly fewer successes. A CIA enthusiast may be interested in this book simply due to the fact that a lot of recently unclassified information is revealed in it. Evidently the unclassified information contained a lot of the mistakes and failures of the agency.
One can take away from the reading that the ... Read More
- Savage indictment of CIA incompetenceThis is a gripping -- and incidentally most amusing -- compilation of the greatest mistakes made by the CIA, which (if you believe the author) is an organisation that sucks up billions of dollars a year and is almost totally useless. Virtually everything the CIA touched turned into a disaster and its much vaunted analysts missed many historic and important developments. I gave this four stars rather than five because (a) I can't believe there weren't at least some successes along the way and (b) the ... Read More
- Misleading InformationIf the author spent 20 years preparing this book, then there is no excuse for him to give us false information about G.H.W. Bush, saying "Bush was...not a spy.He knew almost nothing about intelligence.He was a politician pure and simple."How could Weiner so be incredibly wrong?Is he just afraid of retrobution from Bush?The reality is that Bush (41) was and is an agency man through and through.George HW Bush was the CIA man written about by J Edgar Hoover when Hoover stated that Bush was ... Read More
- Legacy of AshesThis is the most shocking book I have ever read.It is well researched and totally credible.It makes me worry about my country and wonder how we managed to remain free from attack until 9/11/2001.Any person who loves their country should read this and hope that people with more intelligence are being tapped to take us into the future.
- Hilarious Hatchet Job.This is the blooper reel of the CIA for the last 50 years.Embellishments, yes, Biases, yes, entertaining? yeah, Enjoyed candid admission by former CIA director he had a harder time getting "facetime" with the President, then the President's mistress.
