Inside the CIA-Revealing the Secrets of the World’s Most Powerful Spy Agency

How the CIA undertakes covert action to influence or overthrow foreign governments or political parties
How the Agency trains its officers to break the laws of other countries
Why the CIA and the State Department held opposing views of Saddam Hussein’s intentions in the Persian Gulf – and how the Agency predicted the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait to the day.
In this unparalled work of investigative journalism, Ronal Kessler traces the CIA’s evolution over the last fifteen years, during peace and war. Based on interviews with two active Directors of Central Intelligence, William H. Webster and Robert M. Gates, and three former DCIs (all of whom spoke on the record), INSIDE THE CIA shows how they worked with – and against – Kessler clearly describes the CIA’s most secret departments and tracks the rapid flow of intelligence from undercover spies in the field and stations around the world to Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia – and directly to the President.
Never before has the CIA been described with such flair and with so keen an eye for vivid detail. Sensational but entirely reliable, filled with astounding revelations, INSIDE THE CIA is an extraordinary guide to the world’s most successful house of spies.