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"Legacy of ashes" Table Of Contents:

• 1- "In the beginning, we knew nothing" : the CIA under Truman, 1945-1953
• 2- "A strange kind of genius" : the CIA under Eisenhower, 1953 to 1961
• 3- Lost causes : the CIA under Kennedy and Johnson, 1961 to 1968
• 4- "Get rid of the clowns" : the CIA under Nixon and Ford, 1968 to 1977
• 5- Victory without joy : the CIA under Carter, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, 1977 to 1993
• 6- The reckoning : the CIA under Clinton and George W. Bush, 1993 to 2007.
• 7- Intelligence must be global and totalitarian
• 8- The logic of force
• 9- Fight fire with fire
• 10- The most secret thing
• 11- A rich blind man
• 12- They were suicide missions
• 13- A vast field of illusion
• 14- We have no plan
• 15- CIA's greatest single triumph
• 16- Bomb repeat bomb
• 17- And then we'll have a storm
• 18- We ran it in a different way
• 19- Wishful blindness
• 20- Ham-handed operations of all kinds
• 21- A very strange war
• 22- He was lying down and he was lying up
• 23- Nobody knew what to do
• 24- We had also fooled ourselves
• 25- We'd be delighted to trade those missiles
• 26- Hey, boss, we did a good job, didn't we?
• 27- I thought it was a conspiracy
• 28- An ominous drift
• 29- More courage than wisdom
• 30- The beginning of a long slide downwards
• 31- We knew then that we could not win the war
• 32- A political H-bomb
• 33- Track down the foreign communists
• 34- What the hell do those clowns do out there in Langley?
• 35- USG wants a military solution
• 36- We are going to catch a lot of hell
• 37- To change the concept of a secret service
• 38- A classic fascist ideal
• 39- The CIA would be destroyed
• 40- Saigon signing off
• 41- Ineffective and scared
• 42- He sought to overthrow their system
• 43- We were just plain asleep
• 44- A free-lance buccaneer
• 45- In a dangerous way
• 46- He was running a great risk
• 47- A con man's con man
• 48- To think the unthinkable
• 49- What are we going to do when the wall comes down?
• 50- We had no facts
• 51- Why in the world didn't we know?
• 52- We're in trouble
• 53- The threat could not be more real
• 54- The dark side
• 55- A grave mistake
• 56- The burial ceremony.

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