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The Ghosts of Langley
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- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
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During his first visit to Langley, the CIA's Virginia headquarters, President Donald Trump told those gathered, "I am so behind you...there's nobody I respect more", hinting that he was going to put more CIA operations officers into the field so the CIA could smite its enemies ever more forcefully. But while Trump was making these promises, behind the scenes the CIA was still reeling from blowback from the very tactics that Trump touted - including secret overseas prisons and torture - that it had resorted to a decade earlier during President George W. Bush's war on terror. Under the latest regime it seemed that the CIA was doomed to repeat its past failures rather than put its house in order.
The Ghosts of Langley is a provocative and panoramic new history of the Central Intelligence Agency that relates the agency's current predicament to its founding and earlier years, telling the story of the agency through the eyes of key figures in CIA history, including some of its most troubling covert actions around the world. It reveals how the agency, over seven decades, has resisted government accountability, going rogue in a series of highly questionable ventures that reach their apotheosis with the secret overseas prisons and torture programs of the war on terror.
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Good book, just not for me
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data dump on every rabbit hole
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Stalin actually ran our war policy!
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Did Vladimir Putin Steal the American Election?
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Plan of Attack
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Rorschach Test
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The Road to 9/11
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Full of Interesting Information, Hard to Follow
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Destiny Betrayed, Second Edition
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If you enjoyed the chilling experience of In Cold Blood and were at the edge of your seat while watching Oliver Stone’s JFK, you’ll love this investigative look into all the facets of one of the top conspiracies of the 20th century and beyond. DiEugenio, who has spent decades researching the Kennedy assassination, takes both an analytical and conversational approach to his fascinating exploration of the pivotal historical events and scandals surrounding that day.
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Essential Book but Narration Almost Ruins it
- By Nathan D. Backlund on 09-20-16
By: James DiEugenio
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- Brian
- 03-24-18
very informative but very, very dry.
well researched, but I felt like I was listening to a public policy lecture, worth a listen if you're a spy nerd.
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- David M Oldenhouse
- 03-13-18
Interesting and Detailed but Confusing
I learned a lot about the CIA I didnt know from torture to Iran-Contra to torture and more. I put torture in there twice because the author brings up the CIA's torture scandal often in the book. He tells the story from the point of view of the different Agency chiefs and key personnel so ot doesnt follow a chronological order of events. He often returns to the same major scandal many times as he tells it feom a different persons perspective. This can be confusing because he'll jump decades forward and backward as he switches to a new agency person but often referencing rhe same people and scandals. It is still a very informative and detailed book. I didnt find it too politically biased, it did seem to attack republican presidents but mostly because the scandals happened on their watch, he does hit Obama for the investigation into torture and drone strikes bit he attacks Reagan, Bush 1 & 2, and Nixon alot with very little mention of Carter or Clinton.
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- Purchaser
- 11-09-17
A great book
It is a great analysis of the history of the agency. One can agree or disagree with the analysis, but is is reasonable and balanced analysis nonetheless. Highly recommended for an overview of the agency’s history!
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- Curt
- 08-19-18
Political hack job
If you are going to write a book about a critical piece of our national security apparatus, keep your political opinions to yourself.
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- 12-29-17
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What would have made The Ghosts of Langley better?
The writer obviously has a politcal lean which presents itself in this documentary style book, turning it into an opinion piece, I prefer those books that tell the complete story and allows me to establish my own opinions. I do not like books that have a political expression as they tend to be a mixture of fsct and fictional opinion.
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