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Legacy of Ashes

Paperback • 2012 • English

Legacy of Ashes

By Tim Weiner

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About the book

All-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective ...this is the image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and novels. It is wrong. This shocking book, based on thousands of declassified documents and interviews with agents at all levels, shows the reality behind the glamorous myth: a blundering, chaotic and dangerously incompetent organization, so ineffective it was nicknamed 'Can't Identify Anything' by Nato forces. In a story of botched coups, missed targets, lost operatives and...Show more

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ISBN

9780241956236

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Legacy of Ashes

Format

Paperback

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