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  Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Paperback) By (author) Tim Weiner

  

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  Short Description for Legacy of AshesThe image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and novels is all-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective. This book shows that the CIA is a blundering, chaotic and dangerously incompetent organization, so ineffective that it was nicknamed 'Can't Identify Anything' by Nato forces.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Published: 01 August 2010
  • Format: Paperback 832 pages
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  • Categories: True Crime | Espionage & Secret Services | Political Control & Freedoms | History Of The Americas | History: Specific Events & Topics
  • ISBN 13: 9780141033167 ISBN 10: 0141033169
  • Sales rank: 81,914

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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.