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

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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 848 pages, height x width x depth: 203x132x44 mm, weight: 692 g, 8 PP B&W
  • Izdošanas datums: 20-May-2008
  • Izdevniecība: Random House Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0307389006
  • ISBN-13: 9780307389008
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 848 pages, height x width x depth: 203x132x44 mm, weight: 692 g, 8 PP B&W
  • Izdošanas datums: 20-May-2008
  • Izdevniecība: Random House Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0307389006
  • ISBN-13: 9780307389008
A New York Times reporter offers a powerful indictment of the CIA and its intelligence-gathering capabilities as he traces the history of the organization from the end of World War II to Iraq, in a study that condemns the CIA for its record, its inability to understand world affairs, the violence it has unleashed, and its undermining of American politics. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.

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Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (History) 2007 and National Book Awards 2007. Short-listed for Lionel Gelber Prize 2008 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 2007.
Author's Note xvii
Part One ``In the Beginning, We Knew Nothing'' The CIA Under Truman, 1945 to 1953
``Intelligence Must Be Global and Totalitarian''
3(6)
``The Logic of Force''
9(13)
``Fight Fire With Fire''
22(14)
``The Most Secret Thing''
36(8)
``A Rich Blind Man''
44(11)
``They were Suicide Missions''
55(16)
``A Vast Field of Illusion''
71(12)
Part Two ``A Strange Kind of Genius'' The CIA Under Eisenhower, 1953 to 1961
``We Have No Plan''
83(9)
``CIA'S Greatest Single Triumph''
92(14)
``Bomb Repeat Bomb''
106(14)
``And Then We'll Have A Storm''
120(13)
``We Ran It In A Different Way''
133(8)
``Wishful Blindness''
141(16)
``Ham-Handed Operations of All Kinds''
157(7)
``A Very Strange War''
164(15)
``He Was Lying Down And He Was Lying Up''
179(18)
Part Three Lost Causes The CIA Under Kennedy and Johnson, 1961 to 1968
``Nobody Knew What To Do''
197(21)
``We Had Also Fooled Ourselves''
218(11)
``We'd Be Delighted To Trade Those Missiles''
229(13)
``Hey, Boss, We Did A Good Job, Didn't We?''
242(14)
``I Thought It Was A Conspiracy''
256(16)
``An Ominous Drift''
272(9)
``More Courage Than Wisdom''
281(6)
``The Beginning Of A Long Slide Downwards''
287(18)
``We Knew Then That We Could Not Win The War''
305(6)
``A Political H-Bomb''
311(18)
``Track Down The Foreign Communists''
329(8)
Part Four ``Get Rid of the Clowns'' The CIA Under Nixon and Ford, 1968 to 1977
``What The Hell Do Those Clowns Do Out There In Langley?''
337(17)
``USG Wants A Military Solution''
354(14)
``We Are Going To Catch A Lot Of Hell''
368(8)
``To Change The Concept Of A Secret Service''
376(6)
``A Classic Fascist Ideal''
382(6)
``The CIA Would Be Destroyed''
388(6)
``Saigon Signing Off''
394(7)
``Inefective And Scared''
401(12)
Part Five Victory Without Joy The CIA Under Carter, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, 1977 to 1993
``He Sought To Overthrow Their System''
413(13)
``We Were Just Plain Asleep''
426(8)
``A Freelance Buccaneer''
434(15)
``In A Dangerous Way''
449(7)
``He Was Running A Great Risk''
456(8)
``A Con Man's Con Man''
464(14)
``To Think The Unthinkable''
478(11)
``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
``We Had No Facts''
507(10)
``Why In The World Didn't We Know?''
517(7)
``We're In Trouble''
524(15)
``The Threat Could Not Be More Real''
539(12)
``The Dark Side''
551(11)
``A Grave Mistake''
562(13)
``The Burial Ceremony''
575(20)
Afterword 595(8)
Acknowledgments 603(4)
Notes 607(172)
Index 779