Citation
Weiner, Tim. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008. Google Books Link
Excerpts
| Page | Quote | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 87 | ”The president [Dwight D. Eisenhower] began trying to redirect the agency. The CIA would fight the enemy in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America — and wherever colonial empires crumbled.” | Citation: “Coordination and Policy Approval of Covert Actions”, Feb 23, 1967, NSC/CIA |
| 131 | Allen Dulles “felt that ‘no policy approval was required’ for his decisions.” | |
| 138 | Japanese former war criminal fascist and Prime Minister, Nobusuke Kishi, “played a round of golf at an all-white country club with the president of the United States” Dwight D. Eisenhower | https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2015/05/20/golf-diplomacy-1957/ |
| 142 | Goal of NSC 5412/2, Dec 28 1955: “to ‘create and exploit troublesome problems for International Communism‘“ | |
| 158 | ”The president [Dwight D. Eisenhower] said he wanted to promote the idea of an Islamic jihad against godless communism. ‘We should do everything possible to stress the ‘holy war’ aspect’.“ | |
| 158 | US… attache(?) to Jordan, Rountree, on King Hussein, King Saud of KSA, President Chamoun of Lebanon, President Said of Iraq: “These four mongrels were supposed to be our defense against communism and the extremes of Arab nationalism in the Middle East” | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Rountree |
| 170 | DA, Sep 25 1957, “Indonesian Operation”, CIA/CREST, Mar 15 1958 | |
| 171 | DA: Jan 8 1958 | |
| 173 | DA: Apr 19 1958 | |
| 680 | David Wise, The Politics of Lying (1973) | |
| 184 | DA: May 1 1960 | |
| 188 | Devlin cable to CIA HQ: “THERE MAY BE LITTLE TIME LEFT IN WHICH TO TAKE ACTION TO AVOID ANOTHER CUBA” in Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
| 203 | Bay of Pigs Invasion: “four American pilots on contract to the CIA from the Alabama National Guard were killed in combat” | |
| 214 | CIA task force post Bay of Pigs Invasion: Named “‘Task Force W’, after William Walker, the American freebooter who led a private army into Central America and proclaimed himself the Emperor of Nicaragua in the 1850s.” | |
| 218 | DA: Jul 30 1962 | |
| 222 | DA: Aug 15 1962 | |
| 696 | DA: May 29 1958 | |
| 248 | DA: Jun 11 1963: Monk self-immolates to protest US-backed dictator Diem | |
| 249 | DA: Aug 29 1963: Cable approving overthrow of Diem | |
| 698 | DA: Aug 23 1963: “South Vietnamese Catholics trained by the CIA were killing Buddhists” | Mentioned in that days’ Presidential Daily Brief |
| 277 | DA: Aug 2 1964: USS Maddox opens fire on North Vietnamese patrol boats | |
| 280 | NSA’s 2005 confession on Gulf of Tonkin incident: “No attack had happened” | |
| 300 | ”Martens [“senior political officer” within US embassy in Jakarta] gave the emissary [from the anti-Sukarno coup] an unclassified list of sixty-seven PKI leaders, a roster he had compiled out of communist press clippings. ‘It was certainly not a death list’, Martens said.” | |
| 310 | Helms: “The structure of US military power is ill-suited to cope with guerrilla warfare waged by a determined, resourceful, and politically astute opponent.” | |
| 312 | ”The radios were arguably the most influential political-warfare operations in the agency’s history. The CIA had spent close to $400 million subsidizing them.” | |
| 322 | Tom Polgar: “The CIA and the propertied classes of Latin America had that one thing in common — that fear [of Fidel_Castro]“ | |
| 337 | ”Richard Nixon thought the agency was filled with eastern elitists, knee-jerk liberals, Georgetown gossips, John F. Kennedy men.” | |
| 348 | In Laos, “the agency ‘maintained a covert irregular force of a total of 39,000 men’ […] he reminded Nixon […] and Vang Pao […] has been forced to use 13- and 14-year-old children to replace his casualties.” | |
| 355 | DA: Jun 27 1970: Henry Kissinger approves $300,000 to crush Salvador Allende | |
| 358 | ”the United States would ‘condemn Chile and the Chileans to utmost deprivation and poverty,’ Korry told Henry Kissinger, ‘forcing Allende to adopt the harsh features of a police state,’ and provoking a popular uprising.” | |
| 361 | ”On October 16, Karamessines cabled his orders to Hecksher: ‘IT IS FIRM AND CONTINUING POLICY THAT ALLENDE BE OVERTHROWN BY A COUP‘“ | |
| 737 | Helms, Nov 4 1977, “received a two-year suspended sentence and a $200 fine in lieu of an eight-count felony indictment” for perjury, for lying about CIA involvement in coup against Salvador Allende | |
| 419 | ”We needed to know how many Soviets and Czechs and East Germans and North Koreans were providing arms and training. Could they overwhelm the Rhodesians?“ | |
| 322 | ”the US cannot afford the moral luxury of helping only those regimes in the free world that meet our ideals […] Eliminate all the absolute monarchies, dictatorships, and juntas from the free world and count those that are left and it should be readily apparent that the US would be well on its way to isolation” | |
| 748 | ”harassment would make life uncomfortable for the Sandinistas, would keep them from consolidating their power, and would bring them to the negotiating table. They would see that there were unacceptable costs to their economy if they did not negotiate.” | |
| 440 | Duane Clarridge “came up with a two-point plan: ‘Make war in Nicaragua and start killing Cubans.’ This was exactly what William Casey wanted to hear and he said, ‘okay, go ahead and do it.‘“ | |
| 444 | James Baker “had been the White House Chief of Staff when the covert action began, but he had lost track of the operation. He wondered aloud, ‘What the hell did we give Stinger missiles to Chad for?‘“ | lmfao. dawg. pls. lock in bro. you gotta lock in here. |
| 494 | DA: Feb 13 1991: “Hundreds of women and children died.” | |
| 510 | DA: 1200 Somalis killed | |
| 513 | DA: Jun 26 1993: Apartment building in the middle of Baghdad | |
| 544 | ”The agency started combing the cities and the suburbs of America looking for the children of immigrants and refugees […] reaching out with ads in ethnic newspapers throughout the United States” | |
| 556 | DA: Afghan prisoner beaten to death | |
| 558 | DA: Apr 7 2003 | |
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Abstract
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • With shocking revelations that made headlines all across the country, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it, and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.”For anyone interested in the CIA or American intelligence since World War II.” —The Washington PostA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century • The precursor to the New York Times bestseller The MissionFor years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President Eisenhower, “a legacy of ashes.”Now Pulitzer Prize–winning author Tim Weiner offers a definitive history of the CIA—and everything is on the record. LEGACY OF ASHES is based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten Directors of Central Intelligence. It takes the CIA from its creation after World War II, through its battles in the cold war and the war on terror, to its near-collapse after 9/ll.Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it; and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security.
Metadata
FirstAuthor:: Weiner, Tim
Title:: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA ShortTitle:: Legacy of Ashes Year:: 2008
Citekey:: weiner_legacy_2008
itemType:: book
Publisher:: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN:: 978-0-307-38900-8