Prados John The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA`s Heart of Darkness 9781620970881

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Автор: Prados John
Название: The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA`s Heart of Darkness
ISBN: 9781620970881
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1620970880
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 320
Вес: 0.84 кг.
Дата издания: 07.11.2017
Язык: English
Размер: 239 x 165 x 41
Поставляется из: США
Описание: The Ghosts of Langley offers a detail-rich, often relentless litany of CIA scandals and mini-scandals. . . and a] prayer that the CIA learn from and publicly admit its mistakes, rather than perpetuate them in an atmosphere of denial and impunity.
--The Washington Post

From the writer Kai Bird calls a wonderfully accessible historian, the first major history of the CIA in a decade, published to tie in with the seventieth anniversary of the agencys founding

During his first visit to Langley, the CIAs Virginia headquarters, President Donald Trump told those gathered, I am so behind you . . . theres nobody I respect more, hinting that he was going to put more CIA operations officers into the field so the CIA could smite its enemies ever more forcefully. But while Trump was making these promises, behind the scenes the CIA was still reeling from blowback from the very tactics that Trump touted--including secret overseas prisons and torture--that it had resorted to a decade earlier during President George W. Bushs war on terror. Under the latest regime it seemed that the CIA was doomed to repeat its past failures rather than put its house in order.

The Ghosts of Langley is a provocative and panoramic new history of the Central Intelligence Agency that relates the agencys 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.

Drawing on mountains of newly declassified documents, the celebrated historian of national intelligence John Prados throws fresh light on classic agency operations from Poland to Hungary, from Indonesia to Iran-Contra, and from the Bay of Pigs to Guantanamo Bay. The halls of Langley, Prados persuasively argues, echo with the footsteps of past spymasters, to the extent that it resembles a haunted house. Indeed, every day that the militarization of the CIA increases, the agency drifts further away from classic arts of espionage and intelligence analysis--and its original mission, while pushing dangerously beyond accountability.

The Ghosts of Langley will be essential reading for anyone who cares about the next phase of American history--and the CIAs evolution--as its past informs its future and a president of impulsive character prods the agency toward new scandals and failures.

The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA`s Heart of Darkness, Prados John