Skip to content
Catalog
You are not logged in |Login  
Request Add to My Lists Add to Bag MARC Display Return to Browse More Information
     
Limit search to available items
Record 15 of 45
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Prados, John, author.

Title The ghosts of Langley : into the CIA's heart of darkness / John Prados.

Publication Info. New York : The New Press, 2017.
©2017

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  327.1273 PRA    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  327.1273 PRA    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  327.1273 PRA    Check Shelf
Description xxvi, 446 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-423) and index.
Contents Prologue: Ghosts in the machine -- 1. The house that Allen built -- 2. Zealots and schemers -- 3. Stars and meteors -- 4. Crisis -- 5. The consiglieri -- 6. The sheriffs -- 7. The headless horseman -- 8. A failed exorcist -- 9. Jacob Marley's ghosts -- 10. The Flying Dutchman.
Summary "The Ghosts of Langley is a provocative and panoramic new history of the Central Intelligence Agency that relates the agency's current predicament to its founding and earlier years, telling the story of the agency through the eyes of key figures in CIA history, including some of its most troubling covert actions around the world. It reveals how the agency, over seven decades, has resisted government accountability, going rogue in a series of highly questionable ventures that reach their apotheosis with the secret overseas prisons and torture programs of the war on terror." -- from publisher's web site.
Subject United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency. (OCoLC)fst00536259
Intelligence service -- United States -- History.
Intelligence service. (OCoLC)fst00975848
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781620970881 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
1620970880 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
9781620970898 (electronic book)
-->
Permanent Link
Add a Review

 

Library Links

Encore

Search Tools

Language Settings

English
Español