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The history of the cia by tim weiner online at alibris. Ike felt he had left a broken and ineffectual intelligence agency far removed from the reality of what america needed. Legacy of ashes is a detailed history of the central intelligence agency from its creation after world war ii, through the cold war years and the war on terror, to the september 11 attacks in 2001 and beyond. May 16, 2017 now pulitzer prizewinning author tim weiner offers the first definitive history of the ciaand everything is on the record. He is the author of four books and coauthor of a fifth, and winner of the pulitzer prize 1 and national book award. For the last sixty years, the cia has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in topsecret archives.
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