CIA Die ganze Geschichte

Shadowy dealings such as drug trafficking and money laundering, murder plots, illegal interventions, and torture: Since its founding sixty years ago, the CIA has been associated with many dubious activities, starting from the Cold War to the present "War on Terror." There is hardly any change in global events over the past decades where the CIA has not had a hand, whether in South America, Vietnam, or Afghanistan. In numerous films and thrillers, it is portrayed as a cool, brilliant, and all-powerful puppet master of world politics. However, the opposite is true. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Weiner chillingly yet entertainingly reveals the incompetence and naivety with which the world's most powerful intelligence agency operates. Among other things, they were completely taken by surprise by the fall of the Soviet Union, overlooked the invasion of Kuwait, and ignored warning signs before September 11.