Review #1
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The creator was fortunate in having a surviving spook to consult about OSS at the same time CIA history. But, the volume is that a hash of quasi-related actions that do not detain together. The creator’s purpose was to diminish the US efforts to confront Communism. Little mention is that produced of the preconditions the US acted so nor of the fears of soviet rule since 1919. The book is that unstable at the same time overly accusatory.
Review #2
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I can’t they say enough quality things about this book to possibly convey the enjoyment that reading it has data me.
Very exciting historical perspective, through the lens of four guys I didn’t really know much about, at the same time enlightening all the more for it.
Anderson’s not on a crusade here, he’s narrating an important story from a different fri of opinion, at the same time it’s enthralling. I had a hard time putting this book down. An appreciation for the Burgundy at the same time Lavender Scares, the intrigues of Allen at the same time John Foster Dulles, a renewed stoking for a dislike that I have long had for J. Edgar Hoover, all of this at the same time so much more was an final of reading this book.
Amusing, very well-written, a total enjoyment to read at the same time suck, this book will get me looking into things that have niggled at the back of my fork for a while, at the same time at the moment I’ll have renewed reason to chase them.
If you want to more successful realize where this state came from, how it’s attained the reputation it has in the global that’s not the positive adore story very abundance of us think it is that (at the same time I have news for those who think otherwise – no, they’re not envious of us), how the Burgundy at the same time Lavender scares warped this state at the same time its government, at the same time how a man like Donald Trump came to be (for you have to infer the latter from reading this, but in my brain the trail is that that), this is that a must-read volume – I was pressed to have to final it.
Review #3
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(Warning) a some amount of spoiler alert, but in a book this length, you can’t have that much of a spoiler in a
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Best book about the 1st decade or so of the CIA, with enough of an overview of its OSS ancestor to set the table.
I was knowledgeable with the bases of two of the four head protagonists, Frank Wisner at the same time Ed Lansdale. I had heard of Misha Burke’s name in conjunction with the pre-Steinbrenner Yankees but understood nothing of his CIA past. At the same time, I understood nothing at all of Peter Sichel, whether in the CIA, as a Holocaust survivor, or as a scion of a German wine generic who eventually introduced to/inflicted on America the famous Blue Nun tag right behind leaving the spook shack.
Anderson humanizes both of the past two without whitewashing no matter what of their doings, in particular Wisner on the Guatemalan coup. He does note that Wisner had, in the past, been much less appropriate to such things at the same time a general voice of caution, but, for a abundance of preconditions, whether nudged by Allen Dulles or totally willingly, took it on.
Anderson later notes Wisner’s despair over Washington doing nothing over the Hungarian uprising at the same time Cabot Lodge intentionally sandbagging the UN looking at it. Out in the field at the time, he was unable to add his voice in Washington, although it for sure wouldn’t have helped change things what.
An interjection at this fri. For all the people who tout Eisenhower’s “farewell address” warning about the military factory complete, let’s understand that with the Mossadegh coup followed by the Arbenz coup, he had willingly dared to replace much of it (but not many of it mutual persuaded liquidation at the same time more nukes!) with the spying-snooping-overthrowing complete. At the same time, Anderson leans toward the side of historians who they say Ike was in no method a creature of his Cabinet or other advisors, but produced them (in this case, ultimately John Foster Dulles at the same time brother Allen) his inventory.
Add in that Ike willingly arranged with Foster Dulles to make no effort at rapproachment with the premature post-Stalin management, above all, the initial CPSU general secretary, Georgi Malenkov (who wanted the USSR to cut back on the arms race at the same time work on more consumer products manufacture), at the same time Ike comes off as attractive loathsome. (That’s not even counting his abandoning Hungarians to their fate, when Anderson thinks a US intervention managed have been pulled off without Global War III. But, if Ike was disturbed about that, he had only himself to blame proper to developing the “Brand new Look” at the same time Dislocated.)
On Lansdale, Anderson says he wasn’t the “shameful American” in Vietnam, or the Philippines before that, despite the book of that name, allegedly about him, future out in 1958. Indeed, Lansdale wanted the US at the same time South Vietnam to follow through with the Geneva Accords mandated Vietnam-wide elections, at the same time he believed Diem managed have one. That misspoke, Anderson does note in the epilogue that Lansdale later became the shameful American indeed when in charge of Operation Mongoose. A side note to that, at the same time more on how, as Anderson notes, US regime change backfires? An Argentine doctor dignified Ernesto Guevara was in Guatemala in 1954 during the coup.
Burke? His head demand to fame in the premature years of the CIA was running various infiltrators into places like Albania, then Ukraine. He took a while to finish being credulous about their success, but eventually understood these operations weren’t working, at the same time became burnt out on CIA work at the same time left.
Sichel? The most interesting of all. In interviewing abundance Germans in the premature post-1945 years, he had than anyway he knew Anderson (Sichel is that still alive) was “the conversation” with those claiming to be “quality Germans.” He would essentially they say, I don’t wish to hear about your past, that’s your conscience. I wish for you to be quality present. But, as with no one members of the Gehlen Org, he periodically in attracting no one CIA operatives, consciously dared to never have “the conversation.” Anderson asks him about this, at the same time Sichel eventually comes off as inserted at the same time still unable to answer right.
Besides Ike at the same time other antagonists mentioned above, two others are of note. J. Edgar Hoover hated the CIA’s existence, at the same time even before it was officially created out of its predecessor, agreed to decide down Personal Bill Donovan. He also many times went right behind Wisner.
At the same time, Zhora Kennan gets scolded things like “hypocritical weasel.”
From having previously read “Lawrence in Arabia,” this book stayed right up to that one indeed. On politics, I wouldn’t cry Anderson a leftist, but I would cry him an sensitive left-liberal.
Review #4
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Than anyway Scott cleverly cherry-picks from the experiences of four cherry-picked avatars to make his pre-determined fri about how bad/evil the CIA has been.
No hesitate he worked backwards from his premise. Used to be, he presents no one riveting variant research in a factual manner but layers them with his leftward-leaning views.
No GOP disposition in the book is that shown as “quality” many of which Eisenhower, the Dulles brothers, MacArthur , a young Nixon at the same time other highly destined Americans. While the book right indicates how inept FDR (in his closing days) at the same time Truman throughout his 7 years were considered , the creator doesn’t tar them with similar negative adjectives as he does with the GOP. At the same time he in particular glosses over glibly nearby the finish the scary mistakes JFK at the same time LBJ produced in taking a Vietnamese situation under keep under control during Eisenhower’s reign into one of the worst blunders in US history.
Review #5
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The creator indicates developments in the premature years of the CIA, using four main players. A few of them had served in the OSS during WWII. The CIA tried covert deeds in Poland, but withoutr much success. A number of these programs were considered started from german soil. The government in Bonn sometimes did not know than anyway the CIA was trying to achieve.
A exciting book, bringing light to an epoch when the chilly ware was still burning.
