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082 0 0 _a327.1273 WEI
100 1 _aWeiner, Tim
245 1 0 _aLegacy of ashes :
_bthe history of the Central Intelligence Agency
_c/ by Tim Weiner
250 _a1st ed
260 _aNew York
_b: Doubleday
_c, c2007.
263 _a0708
300 _a702 p.
505 0 _aIntelligence must be global and totalitarian -- The logic of force -- Fight fire with fire -- The most secret thing -- A rich blind man -- They were suicide missions -- A vast field of illusion -- We have no plan -- CIA's greatest single triumph -- Bomb repeat bomb -- And then well have a storm -- We ran it in a different way -- Wishful blindness -- Ham-handed operations of all kinds -- A very strange war -- He was lying down and he was lying up -- Nobody knew what to do -- We had also fooled ourselves -- We'd be delighted to trade those missiles -- Hey, boss, we did a good job, didnt we? -- I thought it was a conspiracy -- An ominous drift -- More courage than wisdom -- The beginning of a long slide downwards -- we knew then that we could not win the war -- A political H-bomb -- Track down the foreign communists -- What the hell do those clowns do out there in Langley? -- USG wants a military solution -- We are going to catch a lot of hell -- To change the concept of a secret service -- A classic fascist ideal -- The CIA would be destroyed -- Saigon signing off -- Ineffective and scared -- He sought to overthrow their system -- We were just plain asleep -- A free-lance buccaneer -- In a dangerous way -- He was running a great risk -- A con mans con man -- To think the unthinkable -- What are we going to do when the wall comes down? -- We had no facts -- Why in the world didn't we know? -- We're in trouble -- The threat could not be more real -- A grave mistake -- It's broken -- The burial ceremony.
610 _aUnited States
_b. Central Intelligence Agency
_x-History
650 4 _aIntelligence service
_z-United States
_x-History
651 0 _aUnited States
_x-History
_z-1945-
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