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Pros
Book is well written, almost a page turner style. The author displays an intimate knowledge of events and has obviously done his homework. All are mini-biographies in support of anderson’s overall story of the making of the modern middle east during w... Read More
the u. S. Was had by the soviets in the aftermath of wwii and in the 1950s.
Much of the story is about policy issues and bureaucratic struggles as field operations are planned, implemented and debated. Only drawback of listening is that the narrator had the deadpan delivery of a newscaster through even the most thrilling adve... Read More
Cons
The book features interesting personal stories, although in a disjointed way that makes it difficult to follow each separate storyline.
Highlights
Quality
This is a really good book a combination of the wide lens history and on the ground hinge of history decision making which made... Read More
Even if you are familiar with the tale this author brings compassion to the story by attempting to understand the points of vie... Read More
This left me with the stories and careers of three other early cia operatives michael burke frank wisner and peter sichel
The reader comes away with the conviction that america is not very good at spycraft — either in setting realistic and durable o... Read More
Competitiveness
Overall looking back 70 years us intelligence failures have far outnumbered intelligence successes
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They kept talking about this book in that book and it sounded interesting so i thought i would give it a go but its just super slow moving
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S i didnt know amazon had a refund option for digital books
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I had until the 8th i didnt know that
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The areas that these men performed their spying includes eastern europe korea vietnam and the philippines
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Very disturbing was the description of whitehouse orders to topple democratic governments under aegis of fighting communism
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When the different administrations democratic and republican changed the lack of actual policy revision on the ground was disturbing despite public posturing
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Only to let the very unexceptional qualities of ego selfrighteousness pettiness and greed undermine her greatness
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Their activities so secret they did not exist
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