Title: Poorly written, poorly edited
Review: The other customer reviews capture the weaknesses of the book. I would only add that a review laying out these weaknesses at greater length and with more precision was published by Piero Gleijeses in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 34, #3. A brief extract:"Cloak and Dollar adds virtually nothing to our previous knowledge of the CIA, and, worse,it is riddled with old chestnuts and misleading statements. It is, almost invariably, shallow."As he indicates, the problem does not lie with the central theses of the book, which are quite reasonable. But the research is uneven at best, and the presentation surprisingly weak on a number of levels. Gleijeses recommends Evan Thomas' The Very Best Men, which I have not read myself.
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