Stories from Langley: A Glimpse inside the CIA.
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1. Verfasser: Mickolus, Edward (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Dulles, Potomac Books Inc. 2014
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; Abbreviations; Part 1: Speaking Truth to Power: CIA Intelligence Analysts; Getting In: Why Join the Directorate of Intelligence?; 1. Careers in Intelligence Analysis; 2. The Best Speech I Ever Gave, the Best Thing I Ever Wrote; Briefing the President; 3. Working with Words and Enjoying the View; 4. Never Boring, Often Meaningful, and Almost Fun; 5. Briefing Presidential Candidates; Monitoring Soviet Military Capabilities; 6. The Soviets Go on the LAMM; 7. Making the World Safe through SAFE; 8. Getting the Facts Right; Winning the Cold War
9. An Economist's Look at the Soviet Union, and Beyond10. Two of the "Coolest" Things I Did Working for the CIA; 11. A Cold War CIA Analyst Remembers; A Wealth of Options; 12. Reminiscences of a Checkered Past; 13. Reflections on an Eclectic CIA Career; 14. A Geographer Looks Back at 50 Years with the CIA; 15. An "Out-of-Body Experience": Seeing the DI with New Eyes; 16. Peasant at the Creation: The Agency's First Terrorism Analyst and Beyond; Dealing with the Rest of the World; 17. Satellite Imagery and the Afghan Task Force; 18. Slideshow; 19. Meanwhile, in Asia . .
Part 2: Heroes Behind the Heroes: CIA Support OfficersA Quick Look at Oversight; 20. On Planet Congress; 21. In Support, You Never Know Where You Might End Up-and What You Might Learn along the Way; 22. What Is a Promise Worth?; 23. An Adventure in the Far East; 24. First Tour Adventures: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Missionary; 25. Out of the Barn, Into the Beltway; 26. Ed and a Secretary: How I Ended Up at the CIA; 27. Traveling with the President; 28. KH601; A Hero's Story; 29. Our Man in Havana's Jails: Temporary Duty Assignment in Hell; A Word from Our Predecessors
30. Operation OshimaAnd from the Next Generation; 31. The Other Side of the CIA: My Life as a CIA Analyst; Appendix: The Vision, Mission, and Values Statement of the Central Intelligence Agency; Suggested Reading; Contributors
Applicants to the Central Intelligence Agency often asked Edward Mickolus what they might expect in a career there. Mickolus, a former CIA intelligence officer whose duties also included recruiting and public affairs, never had a simple answer. If applicants were considering a life in the National Clandestine Service, the answer was easy. Numerous memoirs show the lives of operations officers collecting secret intelligence overseas, conducting counterintelligence investigations, and running covert action programs. But the CIA isn't only about case officers in far-flung areas of the world, recr
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