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Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA
Scribner
January 2014
On Sale: January 7, 2014
336 pages
ISBN: 1451673930
EAN: 9781451673937
Kindle: B00BSB2AQW
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In 1975, fresh out of law school and working a numbing job
at the Treasury Department, John Rizzo took “a total shot in
the dark” and sent his résumé to the Central Intelligence
Agency. He had no notion that more than thirty years later,
after serving under eleven CIA directors and seven
presidents, he would become a notorious public figure—a
symbol and a victim of the toxic winds swirling in post-9/11
Washington. From serving as the point person answering for
the Iran-contra scandal to approving the rules that govern
waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation techniques,”
John Rizzo witnessed and participated in virtually all of
the significant operations of the CIA’s modern history.
In Company Man, Rizzo charts the CIA’s evolution
from shadowy entity to an organization exposed to new laws,
rules, and a seemingly neverending string of public
controversies. Rizzo offers a direct window into the CIA in
the years after the 9/11 attacks, when he served as the
agency’s top lawyer, with oversight of actions that remain
the subject of intense debate today. In Company Man,
Rizzo is the first CIA official to ever describe what “black
sites” look like from the inside and he provides the most
comprehensive account ever written of the “torture tape”
fiasco surrounding the interrogation of Al Qaeda suspect Abu
Zubaydah and the birth, growth, and death of the enhanced
interrogation program.
Spanning more than three
decades, Company Man is the most authoritative
insider account of the CIA ever written—a groundbreaking,
timely, and remarkably candid history of American intelligence.
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