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An Insider's View of the CIA from Iran-Contra to 9/11
Nation Books
January 2006
400 pages
ISBN: 1560258276
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Non-Fiction
The reality for a woman agent working in the secret world of
intelligence often leads to extraordinary obstacles and
sacrifices. Melissa Boyle Mahle, a sixteen-year covert
operative for the CIA in the Middle East, was the Agency�s
top-ranked female Arabist before she left in 2002. In Denial
and Deception, Mahle not only describes the Agency�s
successes and failures, but details her life as a woman in
one of the last professions that remain almost exclusively
male-directed and dominated. The author has a unique vantage point from which to view the
political and operational culture of the CIA in the
post-Cold War climate, and reveals how it failed to
anticipate the 9/11 attacks. From Ronald Reagan to George W.
Bush, she provides a vivid narrative of how the agency
became a rudderless organization, lost in the post-Cold War
world. Afraid to take risks that might offend Congress and
European allies after overstepping its legal bounds in the
Iran-Contra era, gutted of the clandestine operators who
knew how to run secret wars, demoralized by criticism and
poor performance, the CIA simply became unable and unwilling
"to get down and dirty to do the hard part to fight a real
war on terrorism."
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