04332cam a2200397L  4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001500069020001800084035002400102035002100126040002200147041000800169043001200177050002300189082001600212100002600228245006100254260003500315300006800350504005100418505044700469505153400916520085302450610004903303610005403352650005003406650004603456651003503502651003603537856008303573856010603656856009103762856008103853BJBSDDR20230404125739.0ta070131s2007    nyu           000 u eng d  a038551445X  a9780385514453  a(OCoLC)ocn474181516  a(OCoLC)474181516  aDKDLAbdancDKDLA  aeng  an-us---14aJK 468bW423l 200700a327.12730091 aWeiner, Tim, d1956- 10aLegacy of ashes :bthe history of the CIA /cTim Weiner.  aNew York :bDoubleday,cc2007.  axvii, 702 pages, 8 pages of plates : billustrations ; c25 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 a"In the beginning, we knew nothing" : the CIA under Truman, 1945-1953 -- "A strange kind of genius" : the CIA under Eisenhower, 1953 to 1961 -- Lost causes : the CIA under Kennedy and Johnson, 1961 to 1968 -- "Get rid of the clowns" : the CIA under Nixon and Ford, 1968 to 1977 -- Victory without joy : the CIA under Carter, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, 1977 to 1993 -- The reckoning : the CIA under Clinton and George W. Bush, 1993 to 2007.0 aIntelligence must be global and totalitarian -- The logic of force -- Fight fire with fire -- The most secret thing -- A rich blind man -- They were suicide missions -- A vast field of illusion -- We have no plan -- CIA's greatest single triumph -- Bomb repeat bomb -- And then we'll have a storm -- We ran it in a different way -- Wishful blindness -- Ham-handed operations of all kinds -- A very strange war -- He was lying down and he was lying up -- Nobody knew what to do -- We had also fooled ourselves -- We'd be delighted to trade those missiles -- Hey, boss, we did a good job, didn't we? -- I thought it was a conspiracy -- An ominous drift -- More courage than wisdom -- The beginning of a long slide downwards -- We knew then that we could not win the war -- A political H-bomb -- Track down the foreign communists -- What the hell do those clowns do out there in Langley? -- USG wants a military solution -- We are going to catch a lot of hell -- To change the concept of a secret service -- A classic fascist ideal -- The CIA would be destroyed -- Saigon signing off -- Ineffective and scared -- He sought to overthrow their system -- We were just plain asleep -- A free-lance buccaneer -- In a dangerous way -- He was running a great risk -- A con man's con man -- To think the unthinkable -- What are we going to do when the wall comes down? -- We had no facts -- Why in the world didn't we know? -- We're in trouble -- The threat could not be more real -- The dark side -- A grave mistake -- The burial ceremony.  aHere is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it; and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security. For sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world--when it did not succeed, it set out to change the world instead. Now Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA, based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten Directors of Central Intelligence.--From publisher description10aUnited States.bCentral Intelligence Agency.14aEstados Unidos.bAgencia Central de Inteligencia  0aIntelligence servicezUnited StatesxHistory. 4aServicio de inteligencia zEstados Unidos 4aUnited StatesxHistoryy1945-. 4aEstados UnidosxHistoriay1945-  3Table of contents onlyuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0710/2007004077.html  3Contributor biographical informationuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0742/2007004077-b.html  3Publisher descriptionuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0742/2007004077-d.html  3Sample textuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0742/2007004077-s.html