Aided by an avalanche of documents declassified since 2000, Weiner offers a dismal litany of failed operations the agency did its best to cover up. The agency devotes most of its budget to covert operations, most of them bungled. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower believed intelligence could prevent another Pearl Harbor by uncovering Soviet intentions, but the CIA never predicted an important Soviet or terrorist move, the author avers. This is his third book.The CIA started off on the wrong foot in 1947 and never regained it, maintains Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Weiner ( Blank Check, 1990, etc.). He is a past winner of the Pulitzer Prize for covering national security. glitters with relevance.-Los Angeles TimesThis is by far the scariest book of the year.-The Christian Science Monitor About the Author Tim Weiner, a reporter for The New York Times, has filed stories from inside the CIA and around the world for twenty years.
Edward Jay Epstein, The Wall Street JournalLegacy of Ashes should be must-reading for every presidential candidate-and every American who wants to understand why the nation repeatedly stumbles into one disaster abroad after another.-The Boston Globe A timely and vital contribution. The Washington PostLegacy of Ashes is the best book Ive yet read on the CIAs covert actions. Review Quotes Must reading for anyone interested in the CIA or American intelligence since World War II. Book Synopsis With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.
Now Pulitzer Prize-winning author Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA-and everything is on the record.
About the Book For the last 60 years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record.
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