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In questo controverso libro a finire sotto inchiesta è la Central Intelligence Agency. Sotto inchiesta sono i suoi metodi, i finanziamenti occulti a enti e cittadini, e le sue ingerenze nella vita politica di altri Stati. Victor Marchetti, dopo aver deciso di congedarsi dalla CIA alla fine degli anni '60, e John D. Marks hanno voluto raccontare cosa significa lavorare come agente dell'intelligence americana. E tuttavia prima di poterlo fare, per ordine di una corte federale, hanno dovuto consegnare il manoscritto per una revisione completa all'Agenzia, che ha eliminato 339 brani. A seguito della causa intentata all'Intelligence dall'editore e dagli autori solo 177 brani censurati sono stati reintegrati nel testo. Ma - nonostante la censura - questo libro è e rimane uno strumento per comprendere come funziona la CIA: dal suo protocollo di classificazione alle attività più segrete, dai metodi adottati alle sue ramificazioni. L'inchiesta di Marchetti e di Marks svela il vero volto dell'Agenzia più famosa e discussa del mondo.
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- Pagine: 383
- Data di uscita: 29-11-2018
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Written following Watergate by a former State Dept. employee and a former executive assistant to the Deputy Director of the CIA. The federal government sued to stop publication. When that didn't work it sued to have several pages removed. Federal court allowed some of the questionable parts to be pr Leggi tutto
Not the easiest book to get through since it’s a bit dry in places, but it contained enough eye-poppingly crazy stories about the CIA’s various misadventures to keep me turning pages. I found the section about CIA proprietary companies particularly fascinating—I’ve not encountered much about that to Leggi tutto
Here's a book I've had for quite a long while without getting around to reading it. The hesitation was that it was dated, censored and authored by two who were to me unknowns. However, being reminded through GoodReads as to how impressed I was by Marks when I finally read him got me to pull it off t Leggi tutto
This book stood in for the mia culpa we never got from Washington about the black bag jobs and anti-American to the core covert operations that we were running all over the world. Even though we know all this so well that we're almost jaded to it (so much so that we let it happen all over again) it' Leggi tutto
I read the original 1975 paperback edition "Published with spaces and indicating the exact location and length of the 168 deletions demanded by the CIA." (Later editions were able to return some of the expurgated passages.) The authors argue that the CIA has a “profound determinative effect on the f Leggi tutto
This 1974 book by a former long-time CIA officer (Marchetti) was a straightforward expose of the agency - more like a realistic call for reform than an impassioned denunciation of the agency, since the author admits it is a given that any country will need to have some sort of intelligence capabilit Leggi tutto
Interesting, but kinda dull
I had never heard of this book but saw it in a used book store and had to check it out. I'd highly recommend it. Very readable, very disturbing. I tried getting through Phillip Agee's Inside the Company a while back but got bogged down in all the operational details - CIA exposes should never be suc Leggi tutto
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