Book: The Spymasters
Author: Chris Whipple
Pages: 400
This is my 132nd read for the year
What Amazon says:
Only 11 men and 1 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 US president alone, but whose activities - spying, espionage, and covert action - take place on every continent. At pivotal moments, the CIA acts as a break on rogue presidents, starting in the mid 70s with DCI Richard Helm's refusal to conceal Richard Nixon's criminality and continuing to the present as the actions of a CIA whistleblower have ignited impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. Since its inception in 1947, the CIA has been a powerful player on the world stage, operating largely in the shadows to protect American interests. For The Spymasters, Whipple conducted extensive, exclusive interviews with nearly every living CIA director, pulling back the curtain on the world's elite spy agencies and showing how the CIA partners - or clashes - with counterparts in Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Russia.
This was a pretty interesting book. It is well written and quite thorough coverage of the CIA over the years. Each president form Nixon to Trump are covered in this book and how the CIA worked with them. (I can give you a pretty good idea how that last one is going). I learned a lot about the CIA in general and new information related to different difficulties each President faced. Good book.
Stars: 4
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