Perry,M. Eclipse. 1992
Perry, Mark. Eclipse: The Last Days of the CIA. New York: William Morrow,
1992. 528 pages.
In this book Perry covers the CIA from the death of William Casey to
the nomination of Robert Gates. He has chapters on how the CIA dealt with
the Tiananmen Square massacre, Middle East terrorism, the fall of Eastern
Europe, the Soviet breakup, the Persian Gulf War, and Panama.
Perry is skeptical of the CIA's ability to handle a crisis, from its
failure to predict the fall of the Soviet empire to its failure to provide
adequate intelligence for Desert Storm. One of the most troubling chapters
is on CIA's assessments and handling of the 1989 pro-democracy movement in
China. Though the CIA helped rescue many of the student leaders, it failed
to predict the military crackdown. George Bush is depicted as a novice in
his understanding of the CIA, despite the fact that Bush was once CIA
director. CIA director William Webster is slower still, apparently lacking
even in his knowledge of world geography. Perry interviewed numerous CIA
officers and State Department officials for this book. The work includes an
excellent bibliography and chronology for further research.
-- Wendell Minnick
ISBN 0-688-09386-8
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