Scarica [gramatas] The Spymasters: How the CIA's Directors
Shape History and Guard the Future
By Chris Whipple
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, a remarkable,
behind-the-scenes look at what it?s like to run the world?s most powerful
intelligence agency, and how the CIA is often a crucial counterforce against
presidents threatening to overstep the powers of their office.Only eleven men
and one woman are alive today who have made the life-and-death decisions that
come with running the world?s most powerful and influential intelligence
service. With unprecedented, deep access to nearly all these individuals plus
several of their predecessors, Chris Whipple tells the story of an agency that
answers to the United States president alone, but whose activities?spying,
espionage, and covert action?take place on every continent. At pivotal
moments, the CIA acts as a brake on rogue presidents, starting in the mid-
seventies with DCI Richard Helms?s refusal to conceal Richard Nixon?s
criminality and continuing to the present as the actions of a CIA whistleblower
have ignited
