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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 βa total shot in the darkβ and sent his rΓ©sumΓ© 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 figureβa 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 βenhanced interrogation techniques,β John Rizzo witnessed and participated in virtually all of the significant operations of the CIAβs modern history.
In Company Man, Rizzo charts the CIAβs 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 agencyβs 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 βblack sitesβ look like from the inside and he provides the most comprehensive account ever written of the βtorture tapeβ 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 writtenβa groundbreaking, timely, and remarkably candid history of American intelligence.
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