Tim weiner cia book5/26/2023 ![]() There are about 200 pages of endnotes, and about 80 pages of endnotes in Enemies. I certainly agree that Legacy of Ashes is credible, because every assertion is documented. What are the counts in your indictment, if you agree with that assessment? ![]() Your prize-winning book about the CIA, Legacy of Ashes, was called “a credible and damning indictment of US intelligence policy” by Publishers Weekly. How do you run a secret intelligence agency in an open and democratic society? How do you balance national security and civil liberty? How can we be both safe and free? These are questions that Hoover struggled with, and that we struggle with still. Today, 40 years after Hoover’s death, we still live in the shadow of his legacy. ![]() In its first incarnation under J Edgar Hoover, who ruled the Bureau for 48 years, the FBI was the president’s secret intelligence service. You will learn that the Bureau has served first and foremost as a secret intelligence service reporting to the president of the United States. What will we learn by reading your new history of the FBI, Enemies? You have spent decades studying the inner workings of America’s intelligence system, and the past few years looking at newly released files from the FBI.
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