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Inside the Secret Campaign Against Terror
St. Martin's Press Griffin
September 2004
384 pages
ISBN: 0312319339
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With the CIA at the core of the war on terror, no agency is
as important to preserving America's freedom. Yet the CIA
is a closed and secretive world-impenetrable to generations
of journalists-and few Americans know what really goes on
among the spy masters who plot America's worldwide campaign
against terrorists. Only Ronald Kessler, an award-winning former Washington
Post and Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, could
have gained the unprecedented access to tell the story.
Kessler interviewed fifty current CIA officers, including
all the agency's top officials, and toured areas of the CIA
the media has never seen. The agency actively encouraged
retired CIA officers and officials to talk with him as
well. In six years as director, George J. Tenet has never
appeared on TV shows and has given only a handful of print
interviews, all before 9/11, but Tenet agreed to be
interviewed by Kessler for this book. He spoke candidly and
passionately about the events of 9/11, the war on terror,
the agency's intelligence on Iraq, and the controversies
surrounding the agency. The CIA at War tells the inside story of how Tenet, a son
of Greek immigrants, turned around the CIA from a pathetic,
risk averse outfit to one that has rolled up 3,000
terrorists since 9/11, was critically important to winning
in Afghanistan and Iraq, and now kills terrorists with its
Predator drone aircraft. The book portrays Tenet as a true American hero, one who
overcame every kind of Washington obstacle and the
destructive actions of previous director John Deutch to
make the agency a success. As Tenet said in a recent
speech, "Nowhere in the world could the son of an immigrant
stand before you as the director of Central Intelligence.
This is simply the greatest country on the face of the
earth." The CIA at War discloses highly sensitive information about
the CIA's unorthodox methods and its stunning successes and
shocking failures. The book explores whether the CIA can be
trusted, whether its intelligence is politicized, and
whether it is capable of winning the war on terror. In
doing so, the book weaves in the history of the CIA and how
it really works. It is the definitive account of the agency. From the CIA's intelligence failure of 9/11 to its critical
role in preventing further attacks, The CIA at War tells a
riveting, unique story about a secretive, powerful agency
and its confrontation with global terrorism.
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