num_pages: 400
description: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers a remarkable behind-the-scenes look at what its like to run the worlds most powerful intelligence agencythe CIAas well as a sobering glimpse at the espionage and surveillance challenges of the future.Only fourteen men and one woman are alive today who have made the life-and-death decisions that come with running the worlds most powerful and influential intelligence service. With unprecedented deep access to all these individuals Chris Whipple tells the story of an agency that answers to the United States president alone but whose activitiesspying espionage and covert actiontake place on every continent.Since its inception in 1947 the Central Intelligence Agency has been a powerful player on the world stage operating largely in the shadows to protect American interests. For The Spymasters Whipple conducted extensive exclusive interviews with nearly every living CIA director pulling back the curtain on the worlds elite spy agencies and showing how the CIA partnersor clasheswith counterparts in Britain France Germany Israel Jordan Saudi Arabia and Russia. He covers every topic from the influence of the White House on intelligence activity to simmering problems in the Middle East and Asia to rogue nuclear threats and cyberwarfare.A revelatory look at the CIAs impact across the globe The Spymasters uncovers the inside stories behind the CIAs seven decades of activity and elicits predictions about which issuesand threatswill occupy the espionage and surveillance landscape of the future. Including eye-opening interviews with George Tenet John Brennan Leon Panetta and David Patraeus as well as those whove just recently departed the Agency this is a timely essential and important contribution to current events.
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title: The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future
publisher: Scribner