02420cam a2200337 i 4500 295985284 TxAuBib 20100106120000.0 070131s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007004077 9780385514453 $27.95 038551445X $27.95 eng rda TxAuBib rda Weiner, Tim. Legacy of ashes [BOOK] : the history of the CIA / Tim Weiner. History of the CIA. First edition. New York : Doubleday, 2007. 702 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. Intelligence 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 w. 20100107. United States Central Intelligence Agency History. Intelligence service United States History. United States History 1945- National Book Award winner books. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0710/2007004077.html Table of contents only