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The Agency A History of the CIA [TTC Audio]


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English | March 01, 2019 | ASIN: B07NQPG8CT | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 32m | 331 MB
Lecturer: Hugh Wilford
There’s a fundamental tension buried within the heart of the CIA’s mission to protect the American people: between democratic accountability and the inherent need for secrecy. Ultimately, it’s US citizens who bear the responsibility of staying informed about what the CIA has done and continues to do.
In these 24 engrossing lectures, explore the roles the CIA has played in recent American history, from the eve of the Cold War against communism to the 21st-century War on Terror. You’ll delve into some of the most remarkable successes, including the sound intelligence CIA spy planes provided during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the admirable performance of the CIA throughout much of the Vietnam War, as well as historic failures, including the agency’s slowness spotting the rise of radical Islamism (including the September 11 attacks).

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Targeted by the CIA An Intelligence Professional Speaks Out on the Scandal That Turned the CIA Upside Down


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English | January 1, 2002 | ISBN: 1563116537 | True EPUB | 204 pages | 0.9 MB
Targeted by the CIA is a personal account by S. Peter Karlow of how he was falsely accused, by counterintelligence chief James J. Angleton, of being a mole for Moscow. The book describes in thrilling detail how he suddenly found himself challenged to refute something that never existed. How the case was resolved has all the makings of an intelligence classic. Targeted by the CIA is packed with detailed personal vignettes and insights usually missing in other broad historical or fictional overviews of the OSS and the CIA.

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Laughter in the Shadows A CIA Memoir


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English | 2014 | pages: 194 | ISBN: 1612515762, 1591145171 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
This memoir of a CIA operations officer captures the spirit of the early years of the Agency, a period sometimes described as its "finest hours." Using the name "St. Martin," Stuart Methven served in the CIA from the 1950s through the 1970s. The book opens by describing the author’s training in the clandestine arts and subsequent assignment to Asia in a country he calls "Bushido." There he is involved in numerous operations, including one that takes him under the ocean, and earns his case officer’s "brevet." A nation-building program in "Cham" follows, which begins well enough when Methven gains a tribal leader’s confidence by parachuting badly needed supplies to his mountain village. It ends abruptly, however, with a coup d’etat and civil war that forces Methven’s evacuation, the first of several during his career. His next assignment is in South Vietnam working to counter another budding insurgency. Methven spends four years in the mountain and delta provinces of Vietnam before being given a sabbatical to MIT’s School of International Studies. After completing his studies, he returns to Southeast Asia as a deputy station chief with a focus on a large Soviet mission in Samudra and the recruitment of Soviet military officers. Promoted to station chief, his final assignment is in central Africa, where his station becomes center stage for a large covert operation that attracts Soviet and Cuban military intervention. Glimpses of the CIA from the inside are rare, and Methven’s recollections of his experiences during a formative period in the Agency’s history will be of particular value to those with an interest in the CIA and international affairs-and in spy stories.

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The Sisterhood The Secret History of Women at the CIA


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English | October 17th, 2023 | ISBN: 0593238176 | 480 pages | True EPUB | 44.96 MB
The acclaimed author of Code Girls returns with a "rip-roaring" (Steve Coll) history of three generations at the CIA, "electric with revelations" (Booklist) about the women who fought to become operatives, transformed spycraft, and tracked down Osama bin Laden.

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The Sisterhood The Secret History of Women at the CIA [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BVSBFCZT | 2023 | 18 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 524 MB
Author: Liza Mundy
Narrator: Liza Mundy

Created in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency relied on women even as it attempted to channel their talents and keep them down. Women sent cables, made dead drops, and maintained the agency’s secrets. Despite discrimination-even because of it-women who started as clerks, secretaries, or unpaid spouses rose to become some of the CIA’s shrewdest operatives. They were unlikely spies-and that’s exactly what made them perfect for the role. Because women were seen as unimportant, pioneering female intelligence officers moved unnoticed around Bonn, Geneva, and Moscow, stealing secrets from under the noses of their KGB adversaries. Back at headquarters, women built the CIA’s critical archives-first by hand, then by computer.

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The Lumumba Description The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BVRY2G7J | 2023 | 18 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 534 MB
Author: Stuart A. Reid
Narrator: Michael Boatman

A spellbinding work of history that comes across like a Cold War spy thriller-about the U.S.-sanctioned Description to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo. It was supposed to be a moment of great optimism, a cause for jubilation. The Congo was at last being set free from Belgium-one of seventeen countries to gain independence in 1960 from ruling European powers. At the helm as prime minister was charismatic nationalist Patrice Lumumba. Just days after the handover, however, the Congo’s new army mutinied, Belgian forces intervened, and Lumumba turned to the United Nations for help in saving his newborn nation from what the press was already calling "the Congo crisis." Dag Hammarskjöld, the tidy Swede serving as UN secretary-general, quickly arranged the organization’s biggest peacekeeping mission in history. But chaos was still spreading.

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Conversations with a Masked Man My Father, the CIA, and Me


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English | 2016 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 1628725915 | EPUB | 4,6 mb
For forty years John Hadden and his father of the same name fought at the dinner table over politics, art, and various issues concerning America. One was haunted by what he had witnessed during his long CIA career, from Berlin to Tel Aviv; the other retreated to the Vermont woods to direct Shakespeare until finally he confronted his father at the table one last time with a tape recorder. Conversations with a Masked Man is a series of conversations Hadden had with his father about the older man’s thirty-year career as a CIA officer and how American policy affected the family and the world.

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