Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda (New York Review Books Collections) - Tapa dura

Essays by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist document historical successes and failures of the American intelligence services, from analyses of the Bay of Pigs events and the Kennedy assassination to the CIA's Cold War struggles with the KGB.

In essays ranging from the exploits of 'Wild Bill' Donovan's OSS during World War II, through the CIA's cold war struggles with its KGB adversary, the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and the Kennedy assassination, to the Aldrich Ames scandal, Thomas Powers argues the American government and public have both lost their innocence about the role of intelligence-gathering in international affairs and sheds informed doubts on whether the CIA can really defend America against terrorism.