Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIAKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008 M05 20 - 848 pages 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. |
Contents
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THE MOST SECRET THING | 36 |
A RICH BLIND MAN | 44 |
THEY WERE SUICIDE MISSIONS | 55 |
A VAST FIELD OF ILLUSION | 71 |
PART TWO A Strange Kind of Genius The CIA Under Eisenhower 1953 to 1961 | 81 |
PART FOUR Get Rid of the Clowns The CIA Under Nixon and Ford 1968 to 1977 | 335 |
WHAT THE HELL DO THOSE CLOWNS DO OUT THERE IN LANGLEY? | 337 |
USG WANTS A MILITARY SOLUTION | 354 |
WE ARE GOING TO CATCH A LOT OF HELL | 368 |
TO CHANGE THE CONCEPT OF A SECRET SERVICE | 376 |
A CLASSIC FASCIST IDEAL | 382 |
THE CIA WOULD BE DESTROYED | 388 |
SAIGON SIGNING OFF | 394 |
WE HAVE NO PLAN | 83 |
CIAS GREATEST SINGLE TRIUMPH | 92 |
BOMB REPEAT BOMB | 106 |
AND THEN WELL HAVE A STORM | 120 |
WE RAN IT IN A DIFFERENT WAY | 133 |
WISHFUL BLINDNESS | 141 |
HAMHANDED OPERATIONS OF ALL KINDS | 157 |
A VERY STRANGE WAR | 164 |
HE WAS LYING DOWN AND HE WAS LYING UP | 179 |
PART THREE Lost Causes The CIA Under Kennedy and Johnson 1961 to 1968 | 195 |
NOBODY KNEW WHAT TO DO | 197 |
WE HAD ALSO FOOLED OURSELVES | 218 |
WED BE DELIGHTED TO TRADE THOSE MISSILES | 229 |
HEY BOSS WE DID A GOOD JOB DIDNT WE? | 242 |
I THOUGHT IT WAS A CONSPIRACY | 256 |
AN OMINOUS DRIFT | 272 |
MORE COURAGE THAN WISDOM | 281 |
THE BEGINNING OF A LONG SLIDE DOWNWARDS | 287 |
WE KNEW THEN THAT WE COULD NOT WIN THE WAR | 305 |
A POLITICAL HBOMB | 311 |
TRACK DOWN THE FOREIGN COMMUNISTS | 329 |
INEFFECTIVE AND SCARED | 401 |
PART FIVE Victory Without Joy The CIA Under Carter Reagan and George H W Bush 1977 to 1993 | 411 |
HE SOUGHT TO OVERTHROW THEIR SYSTEM | 413 |
WE WERE JUST PLAIN ASLEEP | 426 |
A FREELANCE BUCCANEER | 434 |
IN A DANGEROUS WAY | 449 |
HE WAS RUNNING A GREAT RISK | 456 |
A CON MANS CON MAN | 464 |
TO THINK THE UNTHINKABLE | 478 |
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WHEN THE WALL COMES DOWN? | 489 |
PART SIX The Reckoning | 505 |
WHY IN THE WORLD DIDNT WE KNOW? | 517 |
WERE IN TROUBLE | 524 |
THE THREAT COULD NOT BE MORE REAL | 539 |
THE DARK SIDE | 551 |
A GRAVE MISTAKE | 562 |
THE BURIAL CEREMONY | 575 |
AFTERWORD | 595 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 603 |
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