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The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA (Book One)

By John Ranelagh
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By John Ranelagh
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In 2000 the Washington Post listed The Agency as one of the ten best books on Intelligence in the twentieth century, calling it "An encyclopedic and fair-minded overview of the agency into the 1980s."

A history of the CIA from its intrepid early days to becoming a mature bureaucracy riddled with scandal and scrutiny. During World War II "Wild Bill" Donovan started the Office of Special Services (OSS) and gave the CIA its original image: dashing, Ivy League, and Eastern Establishment. Success...

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