Inside the CIA: Revealing the Secrets of the World's Most Powerful Spy Agency

Author: Ronald Kessler

01 Feb 1994

Price: $3.67

Ronald Kessler's explosive bestseller, "The FBI," brought down FBI Director William S. Sessions. Now, in this unparalleled work of investigative journalism, Kessler reveals the inner world of the CIA. Based on extensive research and hundreds of interviews, including two with active Directors of Central Intelligence, William H. Webster and Robert M. Gates, and with three former DCI's "Inside The CIA" is the first in-depth, unbiased account of the Agency's core operations, its abject failures, and its resounding successes. Kessler reveals how: CIA analysts botched the job of foreseeing the Soviet economy's collapsethe Agency spies on every country in the world except Great Britain, Australia, and Canadathe CIA undertakes covert action to influence or overthrow foreign governments or political partiesthe Agency trains its officers to break the laws of other countries "Inside The CIA" is an extraordinary guide to the world's most successful house of spies.