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Legacy of Ashes

Tim Weiner

CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE

DEDICATION

EPIGRAPH

AUTHOR'S NOTE

PART ONE | "In the Beginning, We Knew Nothing" "The CIA Under Truman, 1945 to 1953

1. "INTELLIGENCE MUST BE GLOBAL AND TOTALITARIAN"

2. "THE LOGIC OF FORCE"

3. "FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE"

4. "THE MOST SECRET THING"

5. "A RICH BLIND MAN"

6. "THEY WERE SUICIDE MISSIONS"

7. "A VAST FIELD OF ILLUSION"

PART TWO | A Strange Kind of Genius" The CIA Under Eisenhower, 1953 to 1961

8. "WE HAVE NO PLAN"
...The United States had no intelligence to speak of when World War II began, and next to none a few weeks after the war ended. A mad rush to demobilize left behind a few hundred men who had a few years' experience in the world of secrets and the will to go on fighting a new enemy. "All major powers except the United States have had for a long time past permanent worldwide intelligence services, reporting directly to the highest echelons of their Government," General William J.
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