Inside the CIA

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Simon and Schuster, 1994 - Political Science - 358 pages
"Now, in this unparalleled work of investigative journalism, Kessler reveals the inner world of the CIA"--Page 4 of cover.
 

Selected pages

Contents

The Real CIA
3
Bikinis
14
Courtship
20
Falling in Love
32
Castros Beard
49
Weather Balloons
59
New Targets
69
The Rogue Elephant
78
Too Little Too Late
147
Triumph
156
PART IV
169
Laundering Money
171
Langley
174
Keystone Cops
189
Getting the Bugs
202
PART V
217

PART II
95
Seeing Through Clouds
97
Crateology
105
James Bond
111
PART III
119
MirrorImaging
121
Trying to Cook the Books
135
Selling the Agency
269
The Lawyers
300
The Future
310
Epilogue
321
Directors of Central Intelligence
337
Selected Bibliography
355
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Inside the CIA
Ronald Kessler
Limited preview - 2012
Inside the CIA: Revealing the Secrets of the World's Most Powerful Spy Agency
Ronald Kessler
Snippet view - 1992

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About the author (1994)

Ronald Kessler was born in New York City in 1943. He grew up in Belmont, Massachusetts and attended Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is an American journalist and author of 20 nonfiction books. Kessler worked at the Washington Post for many years. After this he began to write books about current affairs and national intelligence topics. Four of his books were listed on the hardcover nonfiction New York Times Best Seller list. In 2009 he published In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect. Kessler's The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents (Crown 2014) made the New York Times bestseller list in August 2014.

Bibliographic information

TitleInside the CIA
Pocket Books nonfiction
AuthorRonald Kessler
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherSimon and Schuster, 1994
ISBN067173458X, 9780671734589
Length358 pages
Subjects › 

Political Science / Intelligence & Espionage
  
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