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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA [Mīkstie vāki]

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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 832 pages, height x width x depth: 198x130x37 mm, weight: 579 g, 8pp
  • Izdošanas datums: 01-Mar-2012
  • Izdevniecība: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 0241956234
  • ISBN-13: 9780241956236
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIAPalielināt
  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 832 pages, height x width x depth: 198x130x37 mm, weight: 579 g, 8pp
  • Izdošanas datums: 01-Mar-2012
  • Izdevniecība: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 0241956234
  • ISBN-13: 9780241956236
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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.

Recenzijas

This extraordinary story reads like tragedy and thriller. Impeccably sourced, utterly absorbing, dazzling and very, very dark * Time Out * This racy history reveals the CIA as a secret service to make Smiley weep and Bond howl in horror * Daily Telegraph * Combines thrilling storytelling with terrifying revelations -- Simon Sebag Montefiore * New Statesman, Books of the Year * Weiner's riveting history of the CIA contains dozens of jaw-dropping incidents ... astonishing * Evening Standard, Books of the Year * Timely, immensely readable, and highly critical -- Mark Bowden, author of 'Black Hawk Down' Marvellous ... that every quote is also on the record is a testament to his skill -- Steve Coll, author of 'Ghost Wars' Winner of the National Book Award * Prizes and awards *

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Winner of National Book Award.
Author's Note xiii
PART ONE I "In The Beginning, We Knew Nothing" The CIA Under Truman, 1945 To 1953
1 "Intelligence Must Be Global And Totalitarian"
3(6)
2 "The Logic Of Force"
9(13)
3 "Fight Fire With Fire"
22(14)
4 "The Most Secret Thing"
36(8)
5 "A Rich Blind Man"
44(11)
6 "They Were Suicide Missions"
55(16)
7 "A Vast Field Of Illusion"
71(12)
PART TWO "A Strange Kind Of Genius" The CIA Under Eisenhower, 1953 To 1961
8 "We Have No Plan"
83(9)
9 "CIA's Greatest Single Triumph"
92(14)
10 "Bomb Repeat Bomb"
106(14)
11 "And Then We'll Have A Storm"
120(13)
12 "We Ran It In A Different Way"
133(8)
13 "Wishful Blindness"
141(16)
14 "Ham-Handed Operations Of All Kinds"
157(7)
15 "A Very Strange War"
164(15)
16 "He Was Lying Down And He Was Lying Up"
179(18)
PART THREE I Lost Causes
The CIA Under Kennedy And Johnson, 1961 To 1968
17 "Nobody Knew What To Do"
197(21)
18 "We Had Also Fooled Ourselves"
218(11)
19 "We'd Be Delighted To Trade Those Missiles"
229(13)
20 "Hey, Boss. We Did A Good Job, Didn't We?"
242(14)
21 "I Thought It Was A Conspiracy"
256(16)
22 "An Ominous Drift"
272(9)
23 "More Courage Than Wisdom"
281(6)
24 "The Beginning Of A Long Slide Downwards"
287(18)
25 "We Knew Then That We Could Not Win The War"
305(6)
26 "A Political H-Bomb"
311(18)
27 "Track Down The Foreign Communists"
329(8)
PART FOUR "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?"
337(17)
29 "USG Wants A Military Solution"
354(14)
30 "We Are Going To Catch A Lot Of Hell"
368(8)
31 "To Change The Concept Of A Secret Service"
376(6)
32 "A Classic Fascist Ideal"
382(6)
33 "The CIA Would Be Destroyed"
388(6)
34 "Saigon Signing Off"
394(7)
35 "Ineffective And Scared"
401(12)
PART FIVE Victory Without Joy
The CIA Under Carter, Reagan, And George H. W. Bush, 1977 To 1993
36 "He Sought To Overthrow Their System"
413(13)
37 "We Were Just Plain Asleep"
426(8)
38 "A Freelance Buccaneer"
434(15)
39 "In A Dangerous Way"
449(7)
40 "He Was Running A Great Risk"
456(8)
41 "A Con Man's Con Man"
464(14)
42 "To Think The Unthinkable"
478(11)
43 "What Are We Going To Do When The Wall Comes Down?"
489(18)
PART SIX The Reckoning
The CIA Under Clinton And George W. Bush, 1993 To 2007
44 "We Had No Facts"
507(10)
45 "Why In The World Didn't We Know?"
517(7)
46 "We're In Trouble"
524(15)
47 "The Threat Could Not Be More Real"
539(12)
48 "The Dark Side"
551(11)
49 "A Grave Mistake"
562(13)
50 "The Burial Ceremony"
575(20)
Afterword 595(8)
Acknowledgments 603(4)
Notes 607(172)
Index 779
Tim Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the New York Times where he has reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, and fifteen other nations. He was based for a decade in Washington, DC, where he covered the CIA and the military - the last topic being the basis for his famous book Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget.