How the CIA Lost the War on Terror
In The Mission, Tim Weiner argues that the agency’s past 25 years have been defined by scandal, psychodrama and human error.
By the autumn of 2021, just a few months after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the emerging consensus in the US intelligence community was that Russia was laying the groundwork for a huge invasion of Ukraine, including the capture of Kyiv. By late January 2022, an avalanche of evidence – some of it “exquisite”, in intelligence parlance – revealed that the decision to give the green light was imminent.
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