A Question of Standing: The history of the CIA
Oxford University Press, $43.95 hb, 312 pp
Politics
American Gestapo?
A new history of the CIA
by Timothy J. Lynch •
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Demonstrators wearing Henry Kissinger and pig masks protest against US involvement in Angola in front of the Capitol, 1976 (CSU Archives/Everett Collection Historical/Alamy)
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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