Description: The authors present documentation they claim reveals a litany of misdeeds of the CIA--from the recruitment of Nazi scientists after World War II to the arming of opium traffickers in Afghanistan. "All of this is extremely well-documented, " says "Kirkus."
Review Quotes: "Cockburn and St. Clair present a litany of CIA misdeeds, from the recruitment of Nazi scientists after WWII to the arming of opium traffickers in Afghanistan. All of this is extremely well documented ... A chilling history that many will take issue with of what the CIA has been up to in the past 50 years."--KIRKUS
"A solid, pitiless piece of muckraking, ... Cockburn and St. Clair raise troubling questions about the role of a largely secretive government agency in a democratic society."--San Diego Union Tribune "A probing examination of the CIA's chilling history of coddling major drug traffickers, gangsters and Nazi psychopaths."--Philadelphia Tribune "A convincing, well-researched, comprehensive condemnation of the CIA."--Maximum Rock 'N Roll