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Denial and Deception: An Insider's View of the CIA from Iran-Contra to 9/11 [Buy it!] | Melissa Boyle Mahle | USD 8.50 (Tue May 14 07:41:22 2024) | Abebooks | Strand Book Store, ABAA | ISBN10: 1560256494, ISBN13: 9781560256496, [publisher: Nation Books] Hardcover From Reagan to Bush Jr., Mahle provides a vivid personal and historical narrative on how the CIA became an anorexic organization, lost in the post-Cold War world. Afraid to take risks that might offend Washington politicos and European allies, gutted of the clandestine operators who knew how to run secret wars, exhausted from reform whiplash, and demoralized by demonization and poor performance, the CIA simply became unable and unwilling 'to get down and dirty to do the hard part to fight a real war on terrorism.' Denial and Deception describes the last generation of the CIA and is a unique contribution to our understanding of the secret world of intelligence. [New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004] |