@article{318296,
      recid = {318296},
      author = {Weiner, Tim.},
      title = {Legacy of ashes : the history of the CIA /},
      publisher = {Doubleday,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xvii, 702 p., [8] p. of plates :},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven  presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been  unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA  director has left the agency in worse shape than he found  it; and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized our  national security. For sixty years, the CIA has managed to  maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible  record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its  mission was to know the world--when it did not succeed, it  set out to change the world instead. Now Pulitzer  Prize-winning journalist Weiner offers the first definitive  history of the CIA, based on more than 50,000 documents,  primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds  of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten Directors of  Central Intelligence.--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/318296},
}