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Starting with the founding of the CIA in 1947 as the successor to the Office of Strategic Services, the author provides the reader with a chronological overview of the agency's history. [ 10 ] [ 12 ] He documents the CIA's involvement in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état , [ 12 ] and provides a biographical assessment of the motivations of Mohammad ...
Ten of McCarry's novels involve the life story of a fictional character named Paul Christopher, who grew up in pre-Nazi Germany, and later served in the Marines and became an operative for a U.S. government entity known as "the Outfit", meant to represent the Central Intelligence Agency.
Reviews, ranging from high praise to scathing criticism, are presented here in chronological order. Richard A. Clarke, Finally the CIA gets it right, The Washington Post, June 27, 2004; Michiko Kakutani, A Dark View of U.S. Strategy, The New York Times, July 9, 2004; Mark Follman, A spook speaks out, Salon Magazine, July 13, 2004
Mark Perry (1950 – 8 August 2021) was an American author specializing in military, intelligence, and foreign affairs analysis. [1] [2]He authored nine books: Four Stars, [3] Eclipse: The Last Days of the CIA, [4] A Fire In Zion: Inside the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, [5] Conceived in Liberty, [6] Lift Up Thy Voice, [7] Grant and Twain, [8] Partners In Command, [9] Talking To ...
The Covert-One series is a sequence of thriller novels written by several authors after the death of Robert Ludlum, presumably according to some of his ideas.The books feature a team of political and technical experts, belonging to a top-secret U.S. agency called Covert-One, who fight corruption, conspiracy, and bioweaponry at the highest levels of society.
David Wise, coauthor of The Invisible Government, faulted Weiner for portraying Allen Dulles as "a doddering old man in carpet slippers" rather than the "shrewd professional spy" he knew and for refusing "to concede that the agency's leaders may have acted from patriotic motives or that the CIA ever did anything right," but concluded: "Legacy of Ashes succeeds as both journalism and history ...
Pages in category "Non-fiction books about the Central Intelligence Agency" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Who's Who in CIA is a book written by the East German journalist Julius Mader (also known by the alias Thomas Bergner) and published in East Berlin in 1968, under Stasi auspices and probably with KGB assistance. Mader was employed by the East German military publishing house and apparently had access to some information on CIA officers that was ...