| Edition |
First Anchor Books edition. |
| Description |
xxii, 812 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [607]-778) and index. |
| Contents |
Author's note -- pt. 1. "In the beginning, we knew nothing" : the CIA under Truman, 1945-1953 -- 1. "Intelligence must be global and totalitarian" -- 2. "The logic of force" -- 3. "Fight fire with fire" -- 4. "The most secret thing" -- 5. "A rich blind man" -- 6. They were suicide missions" -- 7. "A vast field of illusion" -- pt. 2. "A strange kind of genius" : the CIA under Eisenhower, 1953 to 1961 -- 8. "We have no plan" -- 9. "CIA's greatest single triumph" -- 10. "Bomb repeat bomb" -- 11. "And then we'll have a storm" -- 12. "We ran it in a different way" -- 13. "Wishful blindness" -- 14. "Ham-handed operations of all kinds" -- 15. "A very strange war" -- 16. "He was lying down and he was lying up" -- pt. 3. Lost causes : the CIA under Kennedy and Johnson, 1961 to 1968 -- 17. "Nobody knew what to do" -- 18. "We had also fooled ourselves" -- 19. "We'd be delighted to trade those missiles" -- 20. "Hey, boss, we did a good job, didn't we?" -- 21. "I thought it was a conspiracy" -- 22. "An ominous drift" -- 23. "More courage than wisdom" -- 24. "The beginning of a long slide downwards" -- 25. "We knew then that we could not win the war" -- 26. "A political H-bomb" -- 27. "Track down the foreign communists" -- pt. 4. "Get rid of the clowns" : the CIA under Nixon and Ford, 1968 to 1977 -- 28. "What the hell do those clowns do out there in Langley?" -- 29. "USG wants a military solution" -- 30. 'We are going to catch a lot of hell" -- 31. "To change the concept of a secret service" -- 32. "A classic fascist ideal" -- 33. "The CIA would be destroyed" -- 34. "Saigon signing off" -- 35. "Ineffective and scared" -- pt. 5. Victory without joy : the CIA under Carter, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, 1977 to 1993 -- 36. "He sought to overthrow their system" -- 37. "We were just plain asleep" -- 38. "A freelance buccaneer" -- 39. "In a dangerous way" -- 40. He was running a great risk" -- 41. "A con man's con man" -- 42. "To think the unthinkable" -- 43. "What are we going to do when the wall comes down?" -- pt. 6. The reckoning : the CIA under Clinton and George W. Bush, 1993 to 2007 -- 44. "We had no facts" -- 45. "Why in the world didn't we know?" -- 46. "We're in trouble" -- 47. "The threat could not be more real" -- 48. "The dark side" -- 49. "A grave mistake" -- 50. "The burial ceremony" -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
| Subject |
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History.
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Intelligence service -- United States -- History.
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United States -- History -- 1945-
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| ISBN |
9780307389008 paperback |
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0307389006 paperback |
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