The CIA

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - The Founding Lie
3. Chapter Two - Paperclip: Nazis, but Make It Science
4. Chapter Three - MKUltra and the Mind War
5. Chapter Four - Mockingbird: The Press That Worked for Langley
6. Chapter Five - Gladio: The Shadow Armies of Europe
7. Chapter Six - CHAOS at Home
8. Chapter Seven - The Heart of Darkness: Phoenix in Vietnam
9. Chapter Eight - Cocaine Airlines and Covert Cash
10. Chapter Nine - Coups 'R' Us
11. Chapter Ten - Iran-Contra and the Big Lie
12. Chapter Eleven - A Very 9/11 Chapter
13. Chapter Twelve - The Kill List
14. Chapter Thirteen - The Agency Today
15. Chapter Fourteen - The Game They Taught the World
16. Chapter Fifteen - Langley, Still Watching

Excerpt

PROLOGUE LANGLEY, VIRGINIA. A windowless cube the size of a small city. Outside, it looks like any other federal building — clean landscaping, forgettable architecture, a few cars in the parking lot. Inside? Inside, it’s something else. No signs. No desks. No clocks. You don’t know what floor you’re on, and that’s by design. You take a badge to get in, then another badge to get anywhere else. The walls have ears, but not mouths. Nobody talks more than they have to — and even then, not to you. This is not just a spy agency. This is the United States’ most powerful, least accountable, most mythologized institution. Its budget is classified. Its personnel are classified. Its missions? You...