Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner
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Author: Tim WeinerEdition: Audio Cassette
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-06-28
ISBN: 1433201984
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.
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Book Review: CIA as evil once again
Summary: 3 Stars
Well having an interest history and how we held the soviets back I bought the book and audio cd of Legacy OF Ashes.
I though listened and read carefully and after taking in the entire book I am left with a bad taste.....the book really gives very little positive's to the fellows who really had little or no idea how to be spys etc. other than the fact that they were brave enough to give it go!
The book really attacks them all as being fools who couldn't shoot straight and so on and frankly that is not correct.
My suggestion would be to read some of the other books out there on the CIA and really see how hard it was to foil the soviets as they were brutal and vilolent and we as Americans really didnt know how to deal with what we know now and they new then as EVIL!!!!
The agents for Russia stopped at nothing to steal secrets from the US as well as convience hundreds of Americans that the soviet union was a pleasant carefree workers paradise , when in fact it was Stalin's sandbox that he ruled with an iron fist! The terror of 1938 read about it as it will open your eyes to the mesery of the soviet union ; punishing those who disagreed with him or he imagined disagreed etc. The truth as we know it is Socialism is Evil in all its forms ...the powerfull use it to control the many !Think about it horror was living under communist rule in the 1920's to the 1980's the fench in Berlin wasnt put up to keep everybody out but to keep everyone in!
Thank God we had brave men such as Frank Wisner,Tracy Barnes,Richard Bissel and Desmond FitzGerald all of them served and worked hard toward the goal of protecting all us from the soviets.Richard Bissel who in the nineteen fifties developed the U2 spyplane with Kelly Johnson ( Lockheed )absolutely saved many lives with our ability to capture pictures inside russia as the soviets lied about everything from number of warheads to the number of tanks ,Bissel and Johnson then went on to create the SR-71 Blackbird which still holds the speed record for a jet propelled aircraft; both were designed and built prior to computers being used in design and creation of aircraft etc. ...these folks are hero's they did it quickly and correctly and under budget with a slide rule!I also wish to mention the work of Dr.Edwin Land who developed the camera used in the U2 and the Blackbird with out his genius the planes could never have taken any pictures at heights in excess of 60,000 feet up!
Each man listed did there job to the best of thier abilities.... they as well as thier families suffered , wondering if the men ever would return from the lastest mission. The years spent in the company of thieves and murderer's took its toll on everyone not just the CIA men themselves.
Did everything that the CIA do become a success? no it did not but I will tell you ...read all the books about the history of the CIA and then judge for yourself...I did and I am better off for it. I wish to say thank you to all of them for keeping myself and my family safe during there lifetime.
James
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