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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780141033167
eBay Product ID (ePID)90801969
Product Key Features
Number of Pages832 Pages
Publication NameLegacy of Ashes: the History of the Cia
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGovernment, History
Publication Year2008
TypeTextbook
AuthorTim Weiner
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight578 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorTim Weiner