jeregenest's review
3.0
Diamond analyzes the CIAs role in key events from the end of the Cold War to the war in Iraq. His account explores both CIA successes and failures in the Soviet break-up, the Gulf War, the Ames spy case, the response to al-Qaedas initial attacks, and the US/UN effort to contain and disarm Iraq.
This book is rigorously researched but, in its zeal to exhume every detail of the agency's recent past, wobbles under the weight of the accumulated minutiae.
This book is rigorously researched but, in its zeal to exhume every detail of the agency's recent past, wobbles under the weight of the accumulated minutiae.
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