Jeffrey T. Richelson

The Wizards Of Langley

Inside The Cia's Directorate Of Science And Technology

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In this, the first full-length study of the Directorate of Science and Technology, Jeffrey T. Richelson walks us down the corridors of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and through the four decades of science, scientists, and managers that produced the CIA we have today. He tells a story of amazing technological innovation in service of intelligence gathering, of bitter bureaucratic infighting, and sometimes, as in the case of its mind-control adventure, of stunning moral failure. Based on original interviews and extensive archival research, The Wizards of Langley turns a piercing lamp on many of the agency's activities, many never befor… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7867-4266-0
EAN: 9780786742660
Produktnummer: 22913114
Verlag: Basic Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 416 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'766 KB

Über den Autor

Jeffrey T. Richelson received his PhD in political science from the University of Rochester in 1975 and has taught at The University of Texas at Austin and American University, Washington, DC. A senior fellow at the National Security Archive in Washington, DC, Richelson has authored numerous works on intelligence, spying, and weapons of mass destruction, including The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology, America's Space Sentinels: the History of DSP and SBIRS Satellite Systems, and Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea.