https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/mbln/rss/search?query=%22United%20States.%20Central%20Intelligence%20Agency.%22&searchType=subject&origin=core-catalog-explore&view=groupedRSS for NodeSat, 11 Jul 2026 17:56:07 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7101172https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7101172Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/7101172075DVDenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781419878374/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=&upc=883929057351https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C5826218https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C5826218Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5826218075DVDenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=&upc=025192867125https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7378103https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7378103Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/7378103075BKCharles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixtiesenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316477550/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8562598https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8562598Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/8562598075BKThe Secret History of the CIA and A Cold War Assassinationenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781524748814/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C865735https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C865735Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/865735075BKThe Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001enghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594200076/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NOW A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to "gobsmacking" (The Ringer) new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this "kaleidoscopic" (The New York Times) reassessment of an infamous case in American history.   Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order — their crimes lit a flame of paranoia across the nation, spelling the end of the sixties. Manson became one of history's most infamous criminals, his name forever attached to an era when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia — or dystopia — was just an acid trip away.   Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up behind the "official" story, including police carelessness, legal misconduct, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents. When a tense interview with Vincent Bugliosi — prosecutor of the Manson Family and author of Helter Skelter — turned a friendly source into a nemesis, O'Neill knew he was onto something. But every discovery brought more questions:  

Who were Manson's real friends in Hollywood, and how far would they go to hide their ties?

Why didn't law enforcement, including Manson's own parole officer, act on their many chances to stop him?

And how did Manson — an illiterate ex-con — turn a group of peaceful hippies into remorseless killers?

  O'Neill's quest for the truth led him from reclusive celebrities to seasoned spies, from San Francisco's summer of love to the shadowy sites of the CIA's mind-control experiments, on a trail rife with shady cover-ups and suspicious coincidences. The product of two decades of reporting, hundreds of new interviews, and dozens of never-before-seen documents from the LAPD, the FBI, and the CIA, Chaos mounts an argument that could be, according to Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Steven Kay, strong enough to overturn the verdicts on the Manson murders. This is a book that overturns our understanding of a pivotal time in American history.  ]]>https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4390009https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4390009Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4390009980EBOOKCharles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixtiesenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316477574/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9611864https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9611864Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9611864075DVDenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=&upc=012236106234https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9674529https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9674529Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9674529075BKSidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Controlenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250762627/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction • A New York Times bestseller
“The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events . . . Deeply satisfying.” —The New York Review of Books
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Directorate S and The Achilles Trap comes the explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan.
To what extent did America’s best intelligence analysts grasp the rising thread of Islamist radicalism? Who tried to stop bin Laden and why did they fail? Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll recounts the history of the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks. Based on scrupulous research and firsthand accounts by key government, intelligence, and military personnel both foreign and American, Ghost Wars details the secret history of the CIA’s role in Afghanistan (including its covert operations against Soviet troops from 1979 to 1989), the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of bin Laden, and the failed efforts by U.S. forces to find and assassinate bin Laden in Afghanistan.]]>https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C203555https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C203555Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/203555980EBOOKThe Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001enghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781101221433/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C6489897https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C6489897Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6489897075BKThe C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistanenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594204586/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C4672452https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C4672452Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4672452075BKThe CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosionenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781609806217/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C6600581https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C6600581Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6600581075DVDVolume 10enghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=&upc=024543117476https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9613936https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9613936Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9613936075DVDenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=&upc=032429283276https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C1642868https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C1642868Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1642868075LPRINTenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781410417497/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Nominated for the National Book Award for Nonfiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11
Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, ostensibly in cooperation, although often in direct opposition, with I.S.I., the Pakistani intelligence agency. While the US was trying to quell extremists, a highly secretive and compartmentalized wing of I.S.I., known as "Directorate S," was covertly training, arming, and seeking to legitimize the Taliban, in order to enlarge Pakistan's sphere of influence. After 9/11, when fifty-nine countries, led by the U. S., deployed troops or provided aid to Afghanistan in an effort to flush out the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the U.S. was set on an invisible slow-motion collision course with Pakistan.
Today we know that the war in Afghanistan would falter badly because of military hubris at the highest levels of the Pentagon, the drain on resources and provocation in the Muslim world caused by the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and corruption. But more than anything, as Coll makes painfully clear, the war in Afghanistan was doomed because of the failure of the United States to apprehend the motivations and intentions of I.S.I.'s "Directorate S". This was a swirling and shadowy struggle of historic proportions, which endured over a decade and across both the Bush and Obama administrations, involving multiple secret intelligence agencies, a litany of incongruous strategies and tactics, and dozens of players, including some of the most prominent military and political figures. A sprawling American tragedy, the war was an open clash of arms but also a covert melee of ideas, secrets, and subterranean violence.
Coll excavates this grand battle, which took place away from the gaze of the American public. With unsurpassed expertise, original research, and attention to detail, he brings to life a narrative at once vast and intricate, local and global, propulsive and painstaking.
This is the definitive explanation of how America came to be so badly ensnared in an elaborate, factional, and seemingly interminable conflict in South Asia. Nothing less than a forensic examination of the personal and political forces that shape world history, Directorate S is a complete masterpiece of both investigative and narrative journalism.]]>https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3337651https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3337651Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3337651980EBOOKThe C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistanenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525557302/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=Major Motion Picture based on Dark Alliance and starring Jeremy Renner, "Kill the Messenger," to be be released in Fall 2014
In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled “Dark Alliance,” revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras. 
Gary Webb pushed his investigation even further in his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Drawing from then newly declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that had never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, Webb demonstrates how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities. 
Webb’s own stranger-than-fiction experience is also woven into the book. His excoriation by the media—not because of any wrongdoing on his part, but by an insidious process of innuendo and suggestion that in effect blamed Webb for the implications of the story—had been all but predicted. Webb was warned off doing a CIA expose by a former Associated Press journalist who lost his job when, years before, he had stumbled onto the germ of the “Dark Alliance” story. And though Internal investigations by both the CIA and the Justice Department eventually vindicated Webb, he had by then been pushed out of the Mercury News and gone to work for the California State Legislature Task Force on Government Oversight. He died in 2004.]]>https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C1915008https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C1915008Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1915008980EBOOKThe CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosionenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781609802028/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8689921https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8689921Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/8689921075BKSaddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraqenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525562269/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8709541https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8709541Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/8709541075BKNazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Ageenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780358646501/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8695464https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8695464Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/8695464075BKThe CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africaenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781541768307/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8251477https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8251477Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/8251477075BKThe President, the Spymaster, and Watergateenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250275837/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7476304https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7476304Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/7476304075BKThe FBI, the CIA, and the Truth About America's "deep State"enghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781324003540/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7378148https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7378148Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/7378148075BKThe Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castroenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781510741713/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8523170https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8523170Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/8523170075ZINE10 : What Happened to the Black Panther Party? : An Introduction, 1967-1990enghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781621066446/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=&upc=https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C4655115https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C4655115Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4655115075BKCommittee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Programenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781612194851/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C1783551https://mbln.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C1783551Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://mbln.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1783551075BKHow the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in Historyenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780670026227/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=