![]() They really only serve one goal, the maintenance of American, and thus capitalist, global hegemony at any expense. Like any other of the myriad departments, bureaus or agencies that make up the US government they don't exist as some kind of accident or deviation from some pure ideal of American democracy. Tim Weiner's constant representation of the CIA as a bumbling mess staffed by failson Yale graduate James bond wannabes serves to whitewash the true aims of this organization. The existence of these unaccountable organizations is simply a mistake that could have been rectified had the right person been elected to some position before everything went wrong. That the United States, despite some mistakes in its past, is ultimately a force for good in the world. These organizations deviate from this vague idea of what the US represents in their mind. ![]() ![]() Beyond that however, Tim Weiner's thesis is like that of many other liberals: that the CIA and its analogues in the US government are aberrations. ![]() I have few positive things to say about this book.Īs far as a one volume history of the CIA is concerned this is probably the best you're gonna get. CIA learned of Berlin Wall fall, Soviet collapse on CNN Although it may not be the best metaphor, if the Central Intelligence Agency had been a baseball team over the last 60 years, its record. ![]()
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