/lit/ - Literature

>>14720055
imagine how based it would be to be some high level glowfag just flying around shitting on every law in existence to accomplish your secret glowgoals

>>14720055
Killing Hope by William Blum

>>14720055
The Letters of Paul

>>14720055
Legacy of Ashes, Gideon's Spies

>>14720055
Sinister Forces trilogy by Levenda

The CIA is run by a ravenous lunatic who spends all his time playing dress up and harassing pedestrians

>>14720129
+1

Not only was the book great but it has given me something interesting to talk about with girls who are into true crime (i.e. all of them)

>>14720055
Finks : How the CIA tricked the world’s best writers by Joel Whitney.

>>14720633
seconding this although i would say helter skelter is prerequisite to get familiar with the story bugliosi and the MSM constructed.

>>14720633
This book was phenomenonal. Its 600 pages but I must have read it in 2 days (not that it's difficult to read)

Halfway through this and I'm convinced all research university professors are sociopaths and bought by spooks and pedos.

>>14720688
I read it without reading Skelter and I feel like I didn't miss much at all; he did such a good job summarizing what Bugliosi claimed, tearing it apart, and repeat.

I really don't like reading books as a prerequisite to other books so I just jumped right in. Especially knowing that the narrative I was going to be fed was bullshit

>>14720598
You’re thinking of the emperor Nero, bud.

This guy was played by Ben Affleck in Argo I wish I was a fly on the wall when the Iranians realized how much they got owned.

His wife has a wired video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JASUsVY5YJ8

>>14720633
You will love >>14720516

>>14720633
this fucked me up son

>>14720055

>>14720055

>For the last sixty 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 the first 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 September 11th, 2001.

>Tim Weiner’s past work on the CIA and American intelligence was hailed as “impressively reported” and “immensely entertaining” in The New York Times.

>The Wall Street Journal called it “truly extraordinary . . . the best book ever written on a case of espionage.” 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.

>>14721593
this, the CIA is completely inept at actual intelligence gathering. they're more of a Praetorian Guard.

not sure if glow nigger thread

>>14721303
Thanks anon, I'll check it out!!

>>14721670
you're a big guy!

>>14720055
RISE AND KILL FIRST

Seriously, go read it.

>>14721596
Mmm. Some of the CIA's best work is quite clever. Explaining how they operate and think is one challenge, but their secrecy and power are pretty mystifying.

>>14720903
i gotta disagree, helter skelter is well worth reading even if the motive was bullshit. you're missing out on how manson's defense attorney kanarek basically carries the trial, how the defendants put up antics in the court room, how a tv news crew finds evidence before the cops, how manson messed with a biker gang stealing a sword from their leader, or the interesting apocalyptic interpretation of the beatles white album/bible. heck i finished helter skelter with the impression that manson was really a hero like joker and bugliosi an anti-hero batman. i'd really recommend reading helter before CHAOS but helter is still a really fun read otherwise to get a sense for the larger than life character manson was that the other books and documentaries don't get

So we're all in agreement the CIA should be abolished and each and every agent and former director should be tortured to death, right?

>>14721777
Well, the CIA was literally founded by trust fund kids and stock traders and bankers so even if the CIA was dismantled, new groups would just take their place but we wouldn't know about them. It would be better to abolish millionaires.

>>14721777
That would make a great cover for the agency, everyone would be talking about the edgy demises and not thinking about where and for what and how the secret squirrels were scurrying.
>>14721796
They recruit much more broadly than that. If you had to tell elected officials how Turkish taxi drivers feel on Thursday, you might interview passengers but you're also interested in the fleet mechanics and food vendors on their routes

>>14720055
Carl Oglesby, the Yankee and the Cowboy War
Venona Files
Forum Borealis, (YOU)tube

>>14721777
Torture is pointless and pollutes the soul. Simple execution by firing squad is sufficient.

>>14721848
>They recruit much more broadly than that. If you had to tell elected officials how Turkish taxi drivers feel on Thursday, you might interview passengers but you're also interested in the fleet mechanics and food vendors on their routes
Those are the asset grunts. All the officers and managers come from the same inbred families going to the same ivy league schools and hired by the same wallstreet hedge fund groups. The FBI hates them for being snobs.

>>14721777
They should be arrested and sent to perform forced labour as reparations in nations that are suffering and have suffered under American imperialism like Cuba, DPR Korea, Syria etc.

>>14722051
>All the officers and managers come from the same inbred families going to the same ivy league schools
Not surprising, the CIA is the state terror wing of the American ruling class.

>>14721593
This. The author sounds like he is pushing an agenda, but IDK what it is, so I guess just read it with a grain of salt.

The Craft of Intelligence (Allen Dulles). IDK about you but I have a hard time wrapping my brain around the everyday scheming that intelligence agencies take for granted, and this is a good intro.

William F. Buckley's Blackford Oakes novels have a ton of cool details about Cold War spying. Like how the KGB smuggled out Ivy League yearbooks so they could watch for the faces on the street. Unfortunately it is mixed up with dry Buckley writing and weird shit like the villain fucking his girlfriend in Hitler's abandoned canopy bed with a giant swastika on the headboard. If you can make it through, more power to you I guess.

John Le Carré novels are a mixed bag. My favorites are The Tailor of Panama and The Russia House.

>>14721777
Keep in mind that a lot of the criticism you hear is either outright propaganda, sour grapes (e.g. The Good Shepherd), or mall ninja rambling.

>>14721670
If CIA is monitoring threads on 4chan they're in more trouble than we thought. Apply yourselves you sissy Yalies.

CIA declassified docs

Air ben-Menashe's Profits of War. Hands down the best book on glowworms I have read.

>CIA BAD

>>14720055
http://7391.mmark.nl/148162-DXEKJJFBCZ-dianetics-de-ontwikkeling-van-een-wetenschap/

How to manipulate the human brain effectively.

>>14723219
So you can get the audiobook version of this one on a disk?

>>14720055
If you're wondering as to why the Middle East is so fucked up read this

>>14722880
kill yourself glownigger. you aren't defending our freedoms, you're dying for israel

>>14720055
Gravity's Rainbow