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Overview
This updated edition contains new analysis on the situation in Iraq and the war against terrorism.Sold over 10,000 copies in hardcover.
No one outside the intelligence services knows more about their culture than Thomas Powers. In this book he tells stories of shadowy successes, ghastly failures, and, more often, gripping uncertainties. They range from the CIA's long cold war struggle with its Russian adversary to debates about the use of secret intelligence in a democratic society, and urgent contemporary issues such as whether the CIA and the FBI can defend America against terrorism.
Synopsis
This updated edition contains new analysis on the situation in Iraq and the war against terrorism.
Sold over 10,000 copies in hardcover.
No one outside the intelligence services knows more about their culture than Thomas Powers. In this book he tells stories of shadowy successes, ghastly failures, and, more often, gripping uncertainties. They range from the CIA's long cold war struggle with its Russian adversary to debates about the use of secret intelligence in a democratic society, and urgent contemporary issues such as whether the CIA and the FBI can defend America against terrorism.
The Washington Post
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Powers has written a highly regarded biography of former CIA director Richard Helms and an ambitious, controversial history of the failed Nazi atom-bomb program. Intelligence Wars collects 24 reviews (most of which appeared in the New York Review of Books) of more than 60 intelligence books. These discerning essays span 25 years and provide a revealing history of the victories, defeats and ambiguities of Cold War and post-Cold War intelligence gathering. — Lorraine Adams