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Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret
Turner Stansfield
A CIA director offers a riveting glimpse into the complicated relationship between the United States presidents and their CIA chiefs
Hyperion
October 2005
320 pages ISBN: 0786867825 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The way the U.S. government gathers intelligence
information has become front-page news. In Burn Before
Reading, former CIA director Admiral Stansfield Turner
highlights pivotal moments between presidents and their CIA
directors-detailing the decisions that continue to shape
the intelligence community and our world. This behind-the-
scenes look at the CIA's relationship with the presidents,
from World War II to the present day, reveals how
intelligence gathering works, and how personal and
political issues often interfere with government business. In Burn Before Reading, we learn:
*Why President Harry Truman distrusted the CIA yet ended up
expanding it.
*How President John F. Kennedy entrusted his reputation to
the CIA at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba and got burned.
*That President Nixon strongly mistrusted the -Ivy League+
CIA and tried, unsuccessfully, to use it as a way out of
Watergate.
*That President Gerald Ford was confronted with three
reports of egregious and illegal CIA misdeeds, and how he
responded by replacing CIA director Colby with George H. W.
Bush. Drawing on his own personal experience, as well as
interviews with living presidents, Turner takes us into the
White House and shares with us an intimate view of the
inner working of our government's intelligence agency.
There has never been a time when the relationship between
the president and the head of the CIA has been so
scrutinized or so relevant to our government policy. This book concludes with a blueprint for reorganizing the
intelligence community and strengthening the relationship
between the CIA and the president.
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