Format:
Book
Author:
Prados, John, author.
Title:
The ghosts of Langley : into the CIA's heart of darkness / John Prados.
Publisher, Date:
New York : The New Press, 2017.
©2017
Description:
xxvi, 446 pages ; 25 cm
Summary:
A 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.
Subjects:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History.
Intelligence service -- United States -- History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-423) and index.
LCCN:
2017023967
ISBN:
9781620970881 (hardcover)
1620970880 (hardcover)
Other Number:
974700011
System Availability:
2
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3565169
Call Number:
327.1273
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
2