Tully, Andrew. CIA: The Inside Story. New York: William Morrow, 1962.
276 pages.
Written at a time when few Americans could identify what the letters
CIA stood for, much less what the agency did, this was the first book to
reveal a number of CIA adventures in some detail. It discusses actual and
possible CIA attempts at government-making in Algeria, Guatemala, Iraq,
Iran, Egypt, Cuba, Laos, Korea and the Soviet bloc, and also has sections
on Nazi general Reinhard Gehlen, and the U-2 and Francis Gary Powers. Some
espionage and counter-espionage tales are thrown in to make what must have
at the time seemed like the "inside story," but which now definitely comes
across as rather superficial.
Tully's point of view is strictly cold-war anti-communist, although
he's not an extremist. To have put together a book like this in 1962, he
most likely had the cooperation of the CIA, which was reeling from the Bay
of Pigs fiasco and needed some publicity about agency "successes." In
general, the book's sins are more those of omission than of commission.
-- William Blum
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