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ryanmarsh · 2018-11-04
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Legacy of Ashes does a pretty good job to that end...
https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Ashes-History-Tim-Weiner/dp/03...
samstave · 2017-05-29
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Met a guy recently and he recommended "The Way of the Knife":
https://www.amazon.com/Way-Knife-Secret-Army-Earth/dp/B00QSF...
and "Legacy of ashes"
https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Ashes-History-Tim-Weiner/dp/03...
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I downloaded the ebook to WoTK -- reviews of it are good, but I haven't started reading it just yet.
forgetsusername · 2016-05-15
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>The CIA is the reason for most of the unstable regions
I recently read Legacy of Ashes[0], which I thought would be a sort of thrilling history of the spy game in America, but turned out to be a chronicle of blunder after blunder by the CIA. Fascinating stuff.
Having read that, I'm not naive enough to believe the cause of "most" global instability is due to the CIA; that's giving them far too much credit.
[0]http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Ashes-History-Tim-Weiner/dp/030...
https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Ashes-History-Tim-Weiner/dp/03...