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Title: A Major Disappointment
Review: This book is amazingly shallow, even among its genre of 'instant histories' focusing on the newly energized interest in the CIA post 11 September. More a hagiography of George Tenet than a serious analysis, the author seems to take virtually everything he is told by Tenet and his supporters at face value. What might be worse is that the bulk of the book is filled with a pastiche of rather pointless -- and poorly organized -- historical anecdotes that have nothing to do with the book's purported theme. Readers with an interest in how the CIA actually works and its history should go somewhere else than this book. Even material on the CIA's website itself typically is more nuanced than the treatment here.
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