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Name: The ghosts of Langley
Author: John Prados

The Ghosts of Langley offers a comprehensive look at the Central Intelligence Agency, charting its development over seven decades. Through the perspectives of key CIA figures, the book explores the agency’s involvement in covert operations worldwide and its growing resistance to government oversight. It culminates in an analysis of the CIA’s secret overseas prisons and torture programs that emerged during the war on terror.

First publish date: 2017

Genre: History/Modern History

Authors: John Prados

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