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ZIN Product Number: 10228526
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 Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
Edition: 1ST
Publisher: Prima Communications, Inc.
ISBN: 0761525629
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 1 review.)
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The CIA was founded on the best of intentions -- to battle the Soviet Empire during the Cold War. For over 50 years, hundreds of men and women in America's foremost intelligence agency have engaged nobly in espionage that was both risky and mysterious, in the name of national security. But the real CIA, as revealed in this eye-opening book, was an organization haunted from the very beginning by missed opportunities, internal rivalries, mismanagement, and Soviet moles.
In The Secret History of the CIA, you will descend into the murky underworld of double and triple agents, of divided loyalties and tortured souls, and of high-stakes operations that played out on virtually every continent. Nationally respected investigative journalist Joseph J. Trento peels away the shroud of secrecy that protected the CIA to reveal how the agency suffered from the profoundly human frailties of those who were chosen to lead it. For over a decade the author conducted countless interviews with legendary spymasters and pored through top-secret files to compile an engrossing history, rich with colorful characters and chilling intrigue. You'll come face-to-face with Igor Orlov, the cold-blooded Soviet double agent who infiltrated the upper echelons of American intelligence; James Angleton, the infamous CIA mole hunter, who implicated the Soviets in John F. Kennedy's assassination; George Weisz, the Hungarian emigrant who worked for the Soviets as he recruited Nazi scientists for the West; and many more.
Riveting and majestic in scope, this book takes you down the shadowy corridors of an organization comprised of America's best and brightest, whose thirst for power and influence compromised security, led to incredible mistakes that strengthened the Soviets, and, at the same time, resulted in the needless sacrifice of thousands of patriotic agents.
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The Dangers of No Accountability for Human Intelligence
-- Donald Mitchell, a management consultant from Boston, October 31, 2001
Also Recommended: The Sword and the Shield; The Book of Honor
| |  | | | | Preface | | | With Appreciation | | | 1 | Beria and Stalin | 1 | | 2 | Enter Sasha | 9 | | 3 | Human Poker | 17 | | 4 | The Americans | 25 | | 5 | The Cousins | 33 | | 6 | The Battle to Control American Intelligence | 41 | | 7 | George Weisz | 51 | | 8 | Orlov: The Indispensable Man | 61 | | 9 | Berlin: The New Frontline Base | 69 | | 10 | The FBI Man in the CIA | 75 | | 11 | Cover-Up and Promotion | 85 | | 12 | Tough Guy in Berlin | 93 | | 13 | A Missed Chance | 99 | | 14 | Murphy and Friends | 109 | | 15 | Cowboys in Berlin | 117 | | 16 | Igor and the Ladies | 127 | | 17 | Tunnel Vision | 139 | | 18 | A Defector at Last | 147 | | 19 | The Illegals | 155 | | 20 | The Hungarian Debacle | 163 | | 21 | Harvey Has Problems | 171 | | 22 | Transition, Assassination, and Conscience | 177 | | 23 | What Wall? | 185 | | 24 | Assassination as Foreign Policy | 191 | | 25 | The Kennedys as Case Officers | 203 | | 26 | Khrushchev's Gambit | 211 | | 27 | Oswald in Moscow | 217 | | 28 | SR-9 | 223 | | 29 | The Kremlin Against Khrushchev | 229 | | 30 | Penkovsky Reporting | 235 | | 31 | No Questions Asked | 241 | | 32 | He Found the Missiles - So Fire Him | 249 | | 33 | The Long Knives | 255 | | 34 | Blood Brings Blood | 265 | | 35 | Hoover Saves Philby | 271 | | 36 | Haunting Angleton | 277 | | 37 | The Search | 283 | | 38 | Closing In On SASHA | 291 | | 39 | The Net Widens | 299 | | 40 | The Perfect Operation | 309 | | 41 | The Son-in-Law | 315 | | 42 | Fatal Coup in Vietnam | 327 | | 43 | Thong Nhut Street | 337 | | 44 | The CIA and the Drug Lords | 343 | | 45 | Losing Vietnam | 351 | | 46 | Nixon Versus Kennedy's Ghost | 361 | | 47 | Don't Cross Geneen | 373 | | 48 | Blood and Judgment | 389 | | 49 | Weisz in Germany | 401 | | 50 | Pink Slip for Angleton | 405 | | 51 | Who Needs Counterintelligence? | 413 | | 52 | Christmas in Vienna | 421 | | 53 | After Angleton | 429 | | 54 | The Atomic Spy | 435 | | 55 | Mole in the White House | 441 | | 56 | Molekill | 453 | | 57 | The End of the Cold War | 465 | | Epilogue | 473 | | Notes | 481 | | Select Bibliography | 513 | | Index | 517 |
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