Thomas has drawn on his original research in CIA archives and interviews with scores of old agency hands to evoke the urgency and uncertainty, as well as the giddiness, of the shadow wars of the 1950s and early 1960s when the country, with reason, felt itself in danger from Soviet-led Communist aggression. Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes, and Desmond FitzGerald embodied the confiden…
A counterterrorism spy describes his leadership of the campaign that routed al Qaeda and the Taliban in the weeks after the September 11 attacks, offering insight into the ways in which the Afghanistan campaign changed American warfare
Dinas intelijen terbesar di dunia ini melakukan blunder paling parah dalam sejarah panjang spionase berbohong tentang eksistensi senjata nuklir Irak, yang menjadi basis pengambilan keputusan politik paling keliru dalam sejarah kepresidenan AS, yakni menyerbu Irak sekaligus menumbangkan Presiden Saddam Hussein. Setelah pendudukan di Irak, terbongkar lagi skandal-skandal yang mencoreng wajah AS s…
Willem Oltmans menulis bahwa CIA memerankan bagian yang dominan dalam tragedi Gestapu 1965, dengan menggunakan tangan (Angkatan Darat/Bersenjata) militer Indonesia sendiri. Untuk itu, kehadiran buku ini merupakan sumber informasi terbaru yang selama ini tidak pernah disebutkan dalam penulisan buku sejarah Indonesia, dan diharapkan dapat menguak tabir yang selama ini dibungkam atau sengaja dipen…
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.
Agent Storm opens a unique window onto bleak interlocking landscapes the radicalization on European Muslims that has now been energized by the Syrian civil war, the leadership and organization of global jihad, and the twilight struggle waged by western intelligence agencies against an elusive and implacable enemy Steven Simon bestselling co-author of The Age of Scared Terror and The Next Attack.
Buku ini mencoba menangkap realitas keberadaan CIA melalui berbagai bukti yang berhasil terungkap. Narasi sejarah dalam jejak CIA di Indonesia diungkapkan secara jelas, mendalam, dan terbuka. Beberapa di antaranya mungkin merupakan hal-hal yang berusaha di tutup-tutupi oleh rezim yang pernah mencengkeramkan kuasanya di Indonesia.
Using hundreds of inside sources and secret documents, the author has pieced together an unparalleled account of the CIA, its Director and the United States government. Casey, the presidential campaign man ager for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and CIA Director from 1981-1987, reflected and helped define the foreign policy aspirations of the Reagan Administration that will come to be seen as defining i…
What is the CIA really up to? What does ita do, and why? No other arm of the United States government is so shrouded in mystery. or so self-willed and independently powerful. There have been other books about the CIA,a but never before has there been one which laid bare the facts so explicitly and with such authority as this. Written from first-handa knowledge by Victor Marchetti, a senior CIA …
At that time the Soviet Union still existed and the cold wat was very much alive, particularly with Ronald Reagan in the White House, and the Introduction reflects this. It is presented here because it offers a concise history of the cold war and a background to understanding the impetus behind, and the nature of, the many American interventions throughout the world. The actual case histories o…