Legacy of ashes : the history of the CIA, Tim Weiner

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Legacy of ashes : the history of the CIA, Tim Weiner

Link

• http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0742/2007004077-d.html
• http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0742/2007004077-s.html
• https://archive.org/details/legacyofasheshis00wein
• http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0742/2007004077-b.html
• http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0710/2007004077.html
• https://openlibrary.org/books/OL17848694M

Title remainder

the history of the CIA

Statement of responsibility

Tim Weiner

Instantiates

• Legacy of ashes : the history of the CIA

Publication

• New York, Doubleday, c2007

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

• 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
• 2. A
• Author's note
• 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.
• pt. 1.
• 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 --
• 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.
• 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
• pt. 3.
• 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?
• Lost causes : the CIA under Kennedy and Johnson, 1961 to 1968
• 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
• 17.
• 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
• Nobody knew what to do
• 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
• 18.
• 43.
• What are we going to do when the wall comes down? --
• We had also fooled ourselves
• 19.
• We'd be delighted to trade those missiles
• 47. The
• threat could not be more real
• 48. The
• dark side
• 49. A
• grave mistake
• 50. The
• burial ceremony
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• pt. 6. The
• Index
• 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

Extent

1 online resource (xvii, 702 pages, [8] pages of plates

Form of item

online

Other physical details

illustrations)

Record ID

legacyofasheshis00wein

Specific material designation

remote

System control number

(OCoLC)1035889660