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The mission : the CIA in the 21st century / Tim Weiner.
Van Pelt Library JK468.I6 W442 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weiner, Tim, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency--History.
- United States.
- Intelligence service--United States.
- Intelligence service.
- National security--United States.
- National security.
- World politics--21st century.
- World politics.
- Genre:
- Informational works.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 454 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- CIA in the 21st century
- Mission : the Central Intelligence Agency in the 21st century
- Central Intelligence Agency in the 21st century
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Mariner Books, [2025]
- Summary:
- "... Tells the gripping, high-stakes story of the CIA through the first quarter of the twenty-first century, revealing how the agency fought to rebuild the espionage powers it lost during the war on terror--and finally succeeded in penetrating the Kremlin. The struggle has life-and-death consequences for America and its allies. The CIA must reclaim its original mission: know thy enemies. The fate of the free world hangs in the balance"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue: The spy and the scribe
- The dark horizon
- Denial and deception
- "It was all sadly absurd"
- The Bay of Goats
- The new world
- "We were all making it up as we went along"
- Unprecedented trouble
- What you do when you do not know
- Sufi mystics and walking zombies
- A beautiful operation
- The butcher's bill
- Guerrilla warfare
- The black cloud
- "How far were we prepared to go?"
- The god's-eye view
- No middle ground
- The keys to the castle
- The right side of history
- "Someone is always watching"
- Lethal and legal
- Face-eating baboons
- The useful idiot
- Ring-kissing and kneecapping
- The enemy of intelligence
- "We are on the way to a right-wing coup"
- The glory gate
- Human intelligence
- The morality of espionage
- Epilogue: Autocracy in America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-440) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780063270183
- 0063270188
- OCLC:
- 1474007984
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