num_pages: 528
description: Based on interviews with top-ranking CIA insiders &amp; informed by classified &amp; Top Secret documentation, Eclipse is an investigation of the CIA from the death of Wm Casey to the swearing-in of its newest director, Rbt Gates. Its subject is something far less understood than any covert, overseas action taken on behalf of the USA. It's the battles waged within the agency that form the explosiveness of this groundbreaking book. Key incidents in Eclipse deal with: the bombing of PanAm 103, the seizure of Manuel Noriega, the breakup of the Abu Nidal terrorist organization, the political fallout of the Iran-contra affair, the collapse of the USSR &amp; its empire, the enormously controversial confirmation of Rbt Gates to be Director of Central Intelligence &amp;, most important, the politicization of the CIA's intelligence findings. It also details considerable new information on how the CIA provided defense information to Saddam Hussein that would later be used to confuse American bombers during the Iraqi War, how Geo Bush undermined CIA independence, the CIA's role in the student massacre at Tiananmen Square &amp; why the White House didn't respond to warnings that Iraq would invade Kuwait. From Geo Bush to Wm Casey to Wm Webster to Rbt Gates, Eclipse exposes both the triumphs &amp; the blunders made on behalf of an American public who believe in the CIA's power to protect them as well as provide accurate, objective intelligence analysis--&amp; have often been tragically let down.
language: English
title: Eclipse: The Last Days of the CIA
titlecomplete: Eclipse: The Last Days of the CIA
genres: History
ratings_count: 6
publisher: William Morrow & Company (NYC)