Comment on How to explain the KGB's success identifying CIA agents in the field (2015)parentComments−boh_grey3yI can't believe you left out the interview with Tim Weiner, author of Legacy of Ashes:https://youtu.be/wGeqoQeJj8Y−eastbayjake3yAnd can't recommend enough Legacy of Ashes itself for people who are interested in the CIA, 20th century US history, and modern statecraft.If you don't have time for a 20-hour read, Adam Gopnik's New Yorker piece "Are Spies More Trouble Than They're Worth?" is a good 15-minute synopsis: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/02/are-spies-more...−mhoad3yHadn’t seen it myself yet, thanks for the recommendation!
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I can't believe you left out the interview with Tim Weiner, author of Legacy of Ashes:
https://youtu.be/wGeqoQeJj8Y
And can't recommend enough Legacy of Ashes itself for people who are interested in the CIA, 20th century US history, and modern statecraft.
If you don't have time for a 20-hour read, Adam Gopnik's New Yorker piece "Are Spies More Trouble Than They're Worth?" is a good 15-minute synopsis: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/02/are-spies-more...
Hadn’t seen it myself yet, thanks for the recommendation!