The Mission

Resumen del libro

Many countries where surveillance was once deemed crucial went uncovered. Essential intelligence wasn't being collected. At the dawn of the information age, the CIA's officers and analysts worked with outmoded technology, struggling to distinguish the clear signals of significant facts from the cacophony of background noise.Then came September 11th, 2001.

After the attacks, the CIA transformed itself into a lethal paramilitary force, running secret prisons and brutal interrogations, mounting deadly drone attacks, and all but abandoning its core missions of espionage and counterespionage. The consequences were grave: the deaths of scores of its recruited foreign agents, the theft of its personnel files by Chinese spies, the penetration of its computer networks by Russian intelligence and American hackers, and the tragedies of Afghanistan and Iraq. A new generation of spies now must fight the hardest targets - Moscow, Beijing, Tehran - while confronting a president who has attacked the CIA as a subversive force.From Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Weiner, The Mission tells the gripping, high-stakes story of the CIA through the first quarter of the twenty-first century, revealing how the agency fought to rebuild the espionage powers it lost during the war on terror - and finally succeeded in penetrating the Kremlin.

The struggle has life-and-death consequences for America and its allies. The CIA must reclaim its original mission: know thy enemies. The fate of the free world hangs in the balance.A masterpiece of reporting, The Mission includes exclusive on-the-record interviews with six former CIA directors, thirteen station chiefs, and scores of top spies who served undercover for decades and have never spoken to a journalist before.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Tim Weinerx{0026}lt;/B es reportero de x{0026}lt;I The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/I y obtuvo el Premio Pulitzer por su trabajo sobre programas secretos para la seguridad nacional. Lleva veinte años cubriendo la actualidad de inteligencia en Estados Unidos, y de terrorismo en Afganistán, Pakistán y Sudán entre otros países. Conoce de primera mano las operaciones secretas de la CIA, que plasmó en su best seller internacional x{0026}lt;I Legado de cenizasx{0026}lt;/I . x{0026}lt;I La historia de la CIAx{0026}lt;/I , por el que recibió numerosos premios como el National Book Award de no ficción y el premio de x{0026}lt;I Los Angeles Timesx{0026}lt;/I al Mejor Libro de Historia de 2007; fue finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award de no ficción, y figuró en las listas de los mejores libros del año de las principales publicaciones de Estados Unidos. x{0026}lt;I Enemigos. Una historia del FBIx{0026}lt;/I , publicado por Debate, es su cuarto libro.x{0026}lt;/P