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Review title: Tabloid Journalism Posing as History
Product review: I am a retired CIA careerist, having served 30 years including five in Germany during the mid 60s, including a tour in Berlin. The author writes a one-sided "tale" of the agency, full of rumor, innuendo, and distorted history. He projects the purported colorful stories of several former employees and Berlin Base activities onto 20,000 other employees worldwide. I knew and worked with many of the named and respected persons in the book. He shows a lack of unserstanding of the intelligence process, chain of command, Agency mission and successes. He concentrates on tales of failure and penetrations, some of which are true, to the exclusion of the many productive operations. He does severe discredit to the thousands of agency employees who had dedicated careers often at great sacrifice to themselves and their famiies. He should have been working for the KGB who had similar goals during the cold war--destroy the CIA. Don't waste your money.
