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Books : Inside the CIA: Revealing the Secrets of the World's Most Powerful Spy AgencyIn association with Amazon.comby: Ronald Kessler  Amazon.com's Price: $7.99 Prices subject to change.Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 327 EAN: 9780671734589 ISBN: 067173458X Label: Pocket Books Manufacturer: Pocket Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 358 Publication Date: February 01, 1994 Publisher: Pocket Books Studio: Pocket Books Sales Rank: 119759 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Employs material taken from extensive research and hundreds of interviews to trace the CIA's evolution over the last fifteen years, describing its failures and successes. Reprint. AB. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Boring , dull readingJust like read a long long laundry list. Or like read an operation manual written by someone just observed how people do the work but don't really understand. Recommend: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. That book is a much better overview of what's CIA's contribution in cold war years and recent days. Rating:  - Inside the CIAThe book was very informative. It sidewise criticizes libs as well as conservatives within the CIA. The text has quite a bit of value for the general reader. Rating:  - Good introductory book to the CIA's organization but not much elseThis book has a good introduction to the organizational structure of the CIA (when it was written) but little discussion as to operations, policies, successes, failures, background of personnel and the production of intellegence estimates. Very little analysis of these. Rating: - The Inside scoop- for sure. Kessler managed to write a series of books throughout his literary career. It isn't his writing prowess that sells his books though- it is his ability to gather comprehensive information that is otherwise unavailable to the public regarding a very secret agency, and present that material to those with the curiosity about the CIA. Kessler writes much like a classroom notetaker, where organization is sometimes compromised by detail upon detail. But this is not a negative thing at all. There is just ... Read More Rating:  - Good bookI should have read the published date, some of the material is a little out of date. It's good reading though. Browse for similar items by category:
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