All-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective ... this is the image of the CIA as depicted in countless movies and novels. However, it is wrong. This shocking book, based on thousands of declassified documents and interviews with agents at all levels, reveals the reality behind the alluring myth: a clumsy, chaotic, and dangerously ineffective organization, so incompetent that it was named 'Can't Identify Anything' by NATO forces. In a story of failed coups, missed targets, lost agents, and fatal mistakes, Tim Weiner shows how the CIA now poses a threat not only to US security but also to the world.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Tim Weiner
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of Pages
- 832
- Release Date
- -
- Publication Date
- 2012
- Dimensions
- 12.9x19.8 cm
- Language
- English
- Cover
- Soft
- Geopolitical Region
- USA
- ISBN-13
- 9780241956236
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