TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weiner,Tim
TI  - The mission: the CIA in the 21st century 
SN  - 9780008606602
U1  - 327.1273 23
PY  - 2025///
CY  - London
PB  - William Collins, 
KW  - United States
KW  - Central Intelligence Agency
KW  - History
KW  - Intelligence service
KW  - National security
KW  - World politics
KW  - 21st century
KW  - HISTORY / Military / Intelligence & Espionage
KW  - HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / Afghan War (2001-2021)
KW  - HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 21st Century
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
KW  - TRUE CRIME / Espionage
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-440) and index; 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 -- Autocracy in America
N2  - "... 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 America and its allies. The CIA must reclaim its original mission: know thy enemies. The fate of the free world hangs in the balance"-- Provided by publisher
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