The True -- and Shocking -- History of the CIA

An on-the-record master history of the CIA has finally been published, and it lesson is that an incompetent intelligence agency can be as great a threat to national security as not having one at all. Full Story »

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David Starr
2.7
by David Starr - Oct. 1, 2008

Book review of a book about CIA. Neither the author nor the reviewer like CIA much. Unfortunately much time is spent rehashing ancient history and too little time is spent on CIA's recent mistakes (they missed the fall of the USSR and 9/11 for two). I'd be more interested in details of the recent failures, I'm less interested in what happened in Guatamala 50 years ago.

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