Two years later, they formed the Strategic Services Unit in order to combat perceived threats from Russia, even though Truman did not want another agency. However, after a terrible performance report from President Truman, he disbanded it in 1945.įollowing the dissolution of the Office of Strategic Services, Brigadier General John Magruder and Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy created a new agency to complete half-finished OSS missions. Instead, a group called the Office of Strategic Strategies oversaw all spying operations during WWII. Weiner begins his analysis in World War II, when there was no such thing as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The main reason for this criticism is because they see it as an unbalanced view of their organization and its operations. It is important to note that Weiner’s book has been criticized by the CIA. After reviewing 50,000 government documents and conducting three hundred interviews (including ten with former directors of the CIA), Weiner presents little-known details about what he feels are “first-rate spies” for “the most powerful country in Western civilization.”
The book is different from previous books on the same subject because it’s based entirely on facts-no anonymous sources were used. It won a National Book Award for Nonfiction that year. The book, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by author Tim Weiner, was released in 2007 and angered the CIA. 1-Page Summary of Legacy of Ashes Overall Summary
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