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Legacy of Ashes, history about the CIA
Posted on 5/26/18 at 10:58 am
Posted on 5/26/18 at 10:58 am
Anyone read it? Is it worth delving into?
Heard about it on a podcast the other day and it got my interest.
Heard about it on a podcast the other day and it got my interest.
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Posted on 5/26/18 at 8:00 pm to memphis tiger
Yes. It will piss you off big time though. Offers a good explanation of our foreign policy blunders, i.e., the CIA has been an incompetent organization for a long time.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 3:11 pm to memphis tiger
Like any pop and/or academic history book, though, read with a grain of salt. Hard to find a CIA related book that isn't a bit agenda driven. On one hand, you have the ones that are super-grand conspiracy theories that make an extremely bureaucratic institution into some centralized powerful cabal of evil masterminds. Others play them as completely incompetent and destructive. Still others will give a more heroic bent. All of these have a tinge of truth.
Posted on 6/2/18 at 4:39 pm to tigahbruh
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Hard to find a CIA related book that isn't a bit agenda driven.
To say the least. The CIA has had terrible lapses in judgement, and done very well at other times (Afghanistan initial invasion was amazing). Almost everything they do is classified so we aren't going to hear their side, directly at least.
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