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Legacy of ashes is based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the cia itself, and hundreds of interviews with cia veterans, including ten directors of central intelligence. For the last sixty years, the cia has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in topsecret archives. Soon that came to entail exporting and cementing democracy. Stefan rudnicki this is the book the cia does not want you to read. Legacy of ashes tim weiner contents title page dedication epigraph authors note part one in the beginning, we. The history of the cia kindle edition by tim weiner. Intelligence work, focused as it is on the uncertain, the unknown, and the deliberately hidden, comes with great difficulty and risk. With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, pulitzerprizewinner tim weiner gets at the. The history of the cia is a 2007 book by tim weiner.
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