The ghosts of Langley
Subtitle: into the CIA's heart of darkness
By: John Prados
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9781620970881
Subjects: Intelligence service; United States; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; History
Description: "The Ghosts of Langley is a provocative and panoramic new history of the Central Intelligence Agency that relates the agency's current predicament to its founding and earlier years, telling the story of the agency through the eyes of key figures in CIA history, including some of its most troubling covert actions around the world. It reveals how the agency, over seven decades, has resisted government accountability, going rogue in a series of highly questionable ventures that reach their apotheosis with the secret overseas prisons and torture programs of the war on terror." -- from publisher's web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-423) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Ghosts in the machine; title: 1. The house that Allen built; title: 2. Zealots and schemers; title: 3. Stars and meteors; title: 4. Crisis; title: 5. The consiglieri; title: 6. The sheriffs; title: 7. The headless horseman; title: 8. A failed exorcist; title: 9. Jacob Marley's ghosts; title: 10. The Flying Dutchman.