Denial and Deception: An Insider's View of the CIA from Iran-Contra to 9/11

Melissa Boyle Mahle

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Nation Books, New York, 2004

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Nation Books, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Spine straight and tight, tail bumped. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xi + 403 pages. A former clandestine agent of the CIA's Directorate of Operations (DO), the author was posted in the Middle East in the 1990s. In this memoir, Mahle includes autobiographical anecdotes as well as analyses of the CIA's organizational and leadership problems in that decade. According to Mahle, the CIA's biggest problem was figuring out what to do after the cold war. Mahle details reforms proposed by successive directors from Robert Gates to George Tenet, and the extent to which these filtered down the line to the DO. She also imparts the flavor of her career--its operational excitement and sense of participating in history (one startling example: her proposal, eventually denied, to snatch a future 9/11 terrorist, Khalid Shaykh Muhammad). Although Mahle is generally supportive of the CIA, she delivers criticism bound to be pertinent to her core audience--potential CIA applicants--concerning an internal-security system she regards as unaccountable. She ran afoul of that system, which terminated her career. She also criticizes the conditions facing women in the male-dominated DO. Contents: September 11, 2001. Intelligence failure -- The Webster years (May 26, 1987-August 31, 1991). Iran-Contra legacy ; Directorate of operations ; Setting new standards -- The Gates years (November 6, 1991-January 20, 1993). Confirmation of an insider ; A new vision ; Rethinking covert action ; The directorate of intelligence ; Post-Cold War convulsions -- The Woolsey years (February 5, 1993-January 10, 1995). The technocrat and the new world order ; New directions ; Adrich Ames ; Doing less with less ; Woolsey's undoing -- The Deutch years (May 10, 1995-December 15, 1996). The reluctant spy ; Politically correct espionage ; Al-Qa'ida dawns ; Mission alignment ; Unethical spies ; Turf and policy battles ; The CIA bites back -- The Tenet years (July 11, 1997-July 11, 2004). A pleasant surprise ; War on terrorism ; The dark side ; Help wanted ; Failure ; Out of the foxhole -- The years ahead. Epilogue.…

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Titre
Denial and Deception: An Insider's View of the CIA from Iran-Contra to 9/11
Auteur
Melissa Boyle Mahle
Éditeur
Nation Books, New York
Année de publication
2004
État de l'article
Near Fine
Jaquette
Near Fine
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1560256494
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781560256496
Édition
First Edition
Impression
1st Printing
Poids de l'article
1,5 livre
Dimensions
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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