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Rhodri Jeffreys Jones

A Question of Standing: The history of the CIA by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

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September 2022, no. 446
Timothy J. Lynch reviews 'A Question of Standing: The history of the CIA' by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

I was once subjected to a lecture by a Dublin taxi driver ‘on the extensive inequities of the Central Intelligence Agency’. Its every atrocity, in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, was relayed to me. It was an object lesson in the popular contempt in which the CIA has been held since its founding in the 1940s.

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