The Complete Idiot's Guide to the CIA - Couverture souple

Benson, Michael; Swenson, Allen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0028643968 ISBN 13 : 9780028643960

Editeur : Alpha Books, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Swenson Allan Benson Michael Swenson Allen

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

It's been said that spying is the world's second oldest profession. The Central Intelligence Agency is without a doubt the most mysterious of all US law enforcement agencies. The CIA's primary mission is to collect, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence to assist the President and senior U.S. governmental policymakers in making decisions relating to national security. To this end, the Agency recruits the finest minds in the fields of science, engineering, economics, linguistics, mathematics, and computer science. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the CIA will also detail the origins of the agency, its often colorful and sometimes even comical missions (.i.e., poisoning Fidel Castro's beard); its evolution from the O.S.S.; its failures and successes, the key players past, present, and future; the CIA's role in wartime and in peacetime; and where the rapidly unfolding events of a very unstable world will take the Agency in the 21st century.

Biographie de l'auteur

Allan Swenson is a former U.S. Intelligence Officer, trained in the U.S. Army as an Airborne Combat Intelligence officer. He is a lifetime member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, and is one of the founders of its active New England chapter.

Michael Benson is the author of more than 20 books, including The Complete Idiot's Guide® to NASA and the upcoming Encyclopedia of the JFK Assassination (Checkmark Books, 5/02).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Alpha Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0028643968
• ISBN 13: 9780028643960
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible