Legacy of ashes : the history of the CIA /
Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it; and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security. Fo...
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Doubleday,
[2007]
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Table of Contents:
- Author's note
- pt. 1. In the beginning, we knew nothing : the CIA under Truman, 1945-1953
- 1. Intelligence must be global and totalitarian
- 2. The logic of force
- 3. Fight fire with fire
- 4. The most secret thing
- 5. A rich blind man
- 6. They were suicide missions
- 7. A vast field of illusion
- pt. 2. A strange kind of genius : the CIA under Eisenhower, 1953 to 1961
- 8. We have no plan
- 9. CIA's greatest single triumph
- 10. Bomb repeat bomb
- 11. And then we'll have a storm
- 12. We ran it in a different way
- 13. Wishful blindness
- 14. Ham-handed operations of all kinds
- 15. A very strange war
- 16. He was lying down and he was lying up.
- pt. 3. Lost causes : the CIA under Kennedy and Johnson, 1961 to 1968
- 17. Nobody knew what to do
- 18. We had also fooled ourselves
- 19. We'd be delighted to trade those missiles
- 20. Hey, boss, we did a good job, didn't we?
- 21. I thought it was a conspiracy
- 22. An ominous drift
- 23. More courage than wisdom
- 24. The beginning of a long slide downwards
- 25. We knew then that we could not win the war
- 26. A political H-bomb
- 27. Track down the foreign communists
- pt. 4. 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?
- 29. USG wants a military solution
- 30. We are going to catch a lot of hell
- 31. To change the concept of a secret service
- 32. A classic fascist ideal
- 33. The CIA would be destroyed
- 34. Saigon signing off
- 35. Ineffective and scared
- pt. 5. Victory without joy : the CIA under Carter, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, 1977 to 1993
- 36. He sought to overthrow their system
- 37. We were just plain asleep
- 38. A free-lance buccaneer
- 39. In a dangerous way
- 40. He was running a great risk
- 41. A con man's con man
- 42. To think the unthinkable
- 43. What are we going to do when the wall comes down?
- pt. 6. The reckoning : the CIA under Clinton and George W. Bush, 1993 to 2007
- 44. We had no facts
- 45. Why in the world didn't we know?
- 46. We're in trouble
- 47. The threat could not be more real
- 48. The dark side
- 49. A grave mistake
- 50. The burial ceremony
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.