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The ghosts of Langley : into the CIA's heart of darkness
Author
Title
The ghosts of Langley : into the CIA's heart of darkness / John Prados.
ISBN
9781620970881
1620970880
9781620970898
Publication
New York : The New Press, 2017.
Copyright Notice Date
©2017.
Physical Description
xxvi, 446 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary
"The Ghosts of Langley is a provocative and panoramic new history of the Central Intelligence Agency that relates the agency's current predicament to its founding and earlier years, telling the story of the agency through the eyes of key figures in CIA history, including some of its most troubling covert actions around the world. It reveals how the agency, over seven decades, has resisted government accountability, going rogue in a series of highly questionable ventures that reach their apotheosis with the secret overseas prisons and torture programs of the war on terror." -- from publisher's web site.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 08, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-423) and index.
Contents
Prologue: Ghosts in the machine
The house that Allen built
Zealots and schemers
Stars and meteors
Crisis
The consiglieri
The sheriffs
The headless horseman
A failed exorcist
Jacob Marley's ghosts
The Flying Dutchman.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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