Denial and Deception : An Insider's View of the CIA

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mahle, Melissa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brainwashing--United States.

Intelligence service--United States.

Military research--United States.

United States.

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

Local Subjects:

Brainwashing--United States.

Intelligence service--United States.

Military research--United States.

United States.

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nation Books, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The reality for a woman agent working in the secret world of intelligence often leads to extraordinary obstacles and sacrifices. Melissa Boyle Mahle, a sixteen-year covert operative for the CIA in the Middle East, was the Agency's top-ranked female Arabist before she left in 2002. In Denial and Deception, Mahle not only describes the Agency's successes and failures, but details her life as a woman in one of the last professions that remain almost exclusively male-directed and dominated.The author has a unique vantage point from which to view the political and operational cu

Contents:

Contents; Preface; PART ONE: SEPTEMBER 11, 2001; Chapter 1. Intelligence Failure; PART TWO: THE WEBSTER YEARS (MAY 26 1987-AUGUST 31, 1991); Chapter 2. Iran-Contra Legacy; Chapter 3. Directorate of Operations; Chapter 4. Setting New Standards; PART THREE: THE GATES YEARS (NOVEMBER 6, 1991-JANUARY 20, 1993); Chapter 5. Confirmation of an Insider; Chapter 6. A New Vision; Chapter 7. Rethinking Covert Action; Chapter 8. The Directorate of Intelligence; Chapter 9. Post-Cold War Convulsions; PART 4THE WOOLSEY YEARS(FEBRUARY 5, 1993-JANUARY 10, 1995)

PART FOUR: THE WOOLSEY YEARS (FEBRUARY 5, 1993-JANUARY 10, 1995)The Technocrat andthe New World Order; Chapter 10. The Technocrat and the New World Order; Chapter 11. New Directions; Chapter 12. Aldrich Ames; Chapter 13. Doing Less with Less; Chapter 14. Woolsey's Undoing; PART FIVE: THE DEUTCH YEARS (MAY 10, 1995-DECEMBER 15, 1996); Chapter 15. The Reluctant Spy; Chapter 16. Politically Correct Espionage; Chapter 17. Al-Qa'ida Dawns; Chapter 18. Mission Alignment; Chapter 19. Unethical Spies; Chaptr 20. Turf and Policy Battles; Chapter 21. The CIA Bites Back

PART SIX: THE TENET YEARS (JULY 11, 1997-JULY 11, 2004)Chapter 22. A Pleasant Surprise; Chapter 23. War on Terrorism; Chapter 24. The Dark Side; Chapter 25. Help Wanted; Chapter 26. Failure; Chapter 27. Out of the Foxhole; PART SEVEN: THE YEARS AHEAD; Chapter 28. Epilogue; Notes; Glossary of Intelligence and National Security Terms; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-282-46008-0

9786612460081

0-7867-3759-X

OCLC:

793166662