The mission : the CIA in the 21st century /
Tells the gripping, high-stakes story of the CIA through the first quarter of the twenty-first century, revealing how the agency fought to rebuild the espionage powers it lost during the war on terror and finally succeeded in penetrating the Kremlin. The struggle has life-and-death consequences for...
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New York :
Mariner Books,
[2025].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The spy and the scribe
- The dark horizon
- Denial and deception
- "It was all sadly absurd"
- The Bay of Goats
- The new world
- "We were all making it up as we went along"
- Unprecedented trouble
- What you do when you do not know
- Sufi mystics and walking zombies
- A beautiful operation
- The butcher's bill
- Guerrilla warfare
- The black cloud
- "How far were we prepared to go?"
- The god's-eye view
- No middle ground
- The keys to the castle
- The right side of history
- "Someone is always watching"
- Lethal and legal
- Face-eating baboons
- The useful idiot
- Ring-kissing and kneecapping
- The enemy of intelligence
- "We are on the way to a right-wing coup"
- The glory gate
- Human intelligence
- The morality of espionage
- Epilogue: Autocracy in America.