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2. Intelligence Wars- American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda (New York Review Books Collections)

   Intelligence Wars

   American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda (New York Review Books Collections):
   • Book by Thomas Powers.
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Intelligence Wars- American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda (New York Review Books Collections)

Intelligence Wars

American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda (New York Review Books Collections):

• Review:: 'An Excellent Collection of Reviews from Powers This revised and expanded collection of Thomas Powers' reviews of books on intelligence and national security for the New York Review of Books is an excellent resource on a wide range of topics. Powers has a demonstrated knowledge of many aspects of the history of US intelligence gathering since World War II, and he shows it in this collection. Beginning with a review of the life of Billy Donovan, the progenitor of WWII American espionage, and ending with a review of books on the current threat from international terrorism, Powers covers a broad spectrum of topics. Though he is much stronger on the Cold War history, the author is able to bring his background in history to comment on current threats. I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in national security and the intelligence world.
• Review:: 'Interesting cold war history, weak on modern intelligence. Despite the alluring subtitle boasting coverage from Hitler to Al-Qaeda, the bulk of the book (likely from the first edition - delineation of new material is not clear) is dedicated to cold war spying issues and the Soviet Union. Many of the stories covered of that time are done so in great detail, sometimes overly monotonous. As the book moves on, I was hoping to learn more about American intelligence efforts in other theaters, but the material is limited. Hitler, South American and the Middle East pre-9/11 are all given little attention and scant new information is available, even for a moderate follower of the subject. Further, as the coverage shifts more to the modern day and the post-9/11 world, the book takes on a sanctimonious tone on what, based on earlier writings on the subject, would still be considered limited information from the intelligence world. Material that likely makes up the revised edition appears sounds more of Monday morning quarterbacking thrown together quickly to take advantage of the current public interest.
• Review:: 'BOOOOORING! This book is not for people with an amateur interest in American secret intelligence. I didn't make it past the third chapter so my review is based on the first two in which the author discusses some underground operations that occurred during WWII and a failed conspiracy to kill Hitler. The book is compiled of a collection of writings that the author did for the New York Review of Books. In these essays, the author often throws out the names of 10 or 12 people in only a few pages and it is difficult to keep track of who they are and what they did... "Smith and Clark got together and met with Jameson. Then on the third day they went to see Johnson and Clark and Smith told Johnson about their meeting with Williams and bla, bla, bla" He just begins talking about them as if they were big names in American history and discusses their involvement in the subject being discussed. He also refers to them by last name only which makes it even more difficult to follow. He'll mention a name once and you won't see it again for 8 more pages and you have to go back and see who the hell he's talking about. Aside from this, which I found really annoying, the subjects being discussed are not that interesting. A whole chapter is devoted to whether or not some of the members of the Manhatten Project (those involved in building the atomic bombs used on attacks in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) may have been a communist. So what? He goes on and on for pages about one guy who had connections with communists in Russia. It's over and done with. Does it really matter 60 years later if a member of the Manhatten Project knew a communist? And when the author discusses a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler, he writes as if this was the only attempt made. I'm sure that at the time, several hundred, if not thousands of people were plotting to kill Hitler. This one teeny tiny incident he mentions wasn't even significant enough to make it into elementary school history books. I want to know about real exciting stuff like who may have killed JFK. And I don't want to know about a grocery list that some guy wrote who was the friend of a cousin of Lee Harvey Oswald's babysitter. This book would make good kindling for the fire, but I think I will try and sell it to a used book store in an attempt to get some of the money back that I wasted on it.
• Review:: 'A trip down American security policy memory lane I'm writing this to counter the troglodytish review posted by the unnamed reader from Alexandria, Virginia. My career was in the national security establishment--defense industry and State Department. I, along with Forrester, also have "no connection or history within the intelligence world." The New York Review of Books serves intellectuals like myself, however, not intelligence professionals. As such, his reviews and this book provides a timely refresher course in the scandals and triumphs of American intelligence over the last some sixty years. It is especially welcome because of the arrival of more scandal in regard to 9/11 and Iraq weapons of mass destruction, and another triumph in the defeat of the Taliban. INTELLIGENCE WARS is stimulating, well written, and engrossing.
• Review:: 'An outsider making guesses in the dark Having spent a number of years in the intelligence world, I anticipated Mr. Power's book and pre-ordered it. Unfortunately, what I soon realized is that Mr. Powers has no experience from which he can authoritatively speak.

  While the book's title rather breathlessly promises to deliver the goods on intelligence operations since World War II, what it really serves up is a collection of reheated essays written by Mr. Powers for the New York Review of Books. Mr. Powers has no connection or history within the intelligence world - and it shows.

  Like many outsiders, Mr. Powers infers and guesses - figuratively speaking, stumbling in the dark. He relies heavily on other writers, few of whom have any experience in the subject. This reliance on second hand, third hand and often unattributed sources of information might serve to whet the appetite of conspiracy theorists. But it ill serves a considered survey on the subject of intelligence matters. Worse, Mr. Powers writes continuously from outdated notions of how and why the government classifies information, streaming comments from equally uninformed members of Congress. Thankfully, these aren't the people in charge of our nation's security.

  Where the books does get interesting is in Mr. Powers' views on the Gulf War, written from the perpsective of December 2002. The reader quickly surmises that Mr. Powers lack of experience on the subject disqualifies him as a reputable source.

  There are far better writers on this subject. This book would have more accurately been titled "An Outsiders Collection of Guesses and Opinions, Apropos of Nothing"

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The Looming Tower- Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

The Looming Tower

Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11:

A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright’s remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States.

The Looming Tower achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy and insight by telling the story through the interweaving lives of four men: the two leaders of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri; the FBI’s counterterrorism chief, John O’Neill; and the former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal.

As these lives unfold, we see revealed: the crosscurrents of modern Islam that helped to radicalize Zawahiri and bin Laden . . . the birth of al-Qaeda and its unsteady development into an organization capable of the American embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and the attack on the USS Cole . . . O’Neill’s heroic efforts to track al-Qaeda before 9/11, and his tragic death in the World Trade towers . . . Prince Turki’s transformation from bin Laden’s ally to his enemy . . . the failures of the FBI, CIA, and NSA to share intelligence that might have prevented the 9/11 attacks.

The Looming Tower broadens and deepens our knowledge of these signal events by taking us behind the scenes. Here is Sayyid Qutb, founder of the modern Islamist movement, lonely and despairing as he meets Western culture up close in 1940s America; the privileged childhoods of bin Laden and Zawahiri; family life in the al-Qaeda compounds of Sudan and Afghanistan; O’Neill’s high-wire act in balancing his all-consuming career with his equally entangling personal life—he was living with three women, each of them unaware of the others’ existence—and the nitty-gritty of turf battles among U.S. intelligence agencies.

Brilliantly conceived and written, The Looming Tower draws all elements of the story into a galvanizing narrative that adds immeasurably to our understanding of how we arrived at September 11, 2001. The richness of its new information, and the depth of its perceptions, can help us deal more wisely and effectively with the continuing terrorist threat.

• Review:: 'The Shadow That Hangs Over Generations To Come We are only a few days away from the 5th anniversary of 9/11. I read this gripping book over the last 3 days and feel that I finally understand the why and the how: Why these people act out of such hate and how they were able to harness that hate. Sadly, I do not walk away from this book feeling any better about the future.
• Review:: 'the most readable of its kind I work at a bookstore and see what seems like hundreds of "hard-hitting examinations" of 9/11; including events before, during and after the "tragedy". I put that word in quotations because a tragedy is someone being in a car accident or having a stroke. What happened on 9/11 was an unforgettable, scarring outrage. Having 5 years to take a step back and examine the big picture offers a lot of perspective. This book is by far the best I have read on the subject. I began thumbing through it and found myself unable to put it down. Mr. Wright introduces the major players and plots out the course of events in concise, readable fashion. The book doesn't point fingers as some of the more political books try to do, but simply states the facts and lets the reader digest what could have been done along this far-reaching timeline. No one person could have stopped or caused this, but it is amazing to see all the chips that fell directly into place for it to happen. May we take it, learn from previous mistakes, and move forward without forgetting.
• Review:: 'Very important read This is a terrific book for those seeking a better understanding of the rise of al-Qaeda and the important symbolism of bin Laden within the Muslim world. Wright spends the first third of the book discussing the rise of militant Islamic fundamentalism and attributing it to the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qtub, an interesting background missing from much of the discussion around this issue today. The rest of the book explores bin Laden's history and the FBI agent who was obsessed with catching him, John O'Neill. Had these two characters and their fates been written by [LeCarre]Create?, a reader would have found it preposterous and far-fetched. The irony of O'Neill's retirement from the FBI in August of 2001, followed by his taking over the top security position for the World Trade Center the week of the 9/11 attacks is the stuff of tawdry spy novels. Wright does an excellent job of helping his readers understand the poor communications between the FBI and the CIA, with much -- although certainly not all -- of the fault lying with the agency. It would be nice and comforting to think that these systemic problems have been identified and corrected. It also would be foolish to do so.
• Review:: 'Stop and Smell The Roses As a teenager growing up in New York City, I remember the hole they dug for the foundation for the Twin Towers. As a young man, there was a spark of life as I was one of many who worked in the towers during the 1980's. And I remember as you all do the day both came crashing down. As I travel to New York today I still cannot bring myself to go and see the site today. With all the 9/11 movies and books and articles her is one that cuts to the soul of 9/11. Maybe in this national discussion we have as a nation this 9/11; we will be able to close some old wounds. And the question is: "Where is Osama and his minions?"
• Review:: 'Captivating account of events leading to 9-11 Lawrence Wright has written an utterly absorbing book that will both captivate and appall you, and not just because of his recounting of the breathtaking horrors that took place on September 11, 2001. Equally appalling is Wright's depiction of the entrenched bureaucrats at the CIA, FBI and the National Security Agency, who failed to share crucial information with one another because of petty personal differences and agency cultures that value conformity above true investigative ability. Had the CIA, in particular, released information regarding the whereabouts of several individuals who ultimately participated in the 9-11 attacks, those tragedies might well have been prevented. Reading these things was deeply painful for me, who watched the Trade Towers collapse as I sped across Queens trying to get home to my family in Brooklyn Heights. I can only imagine how distressing this experience might be to those who lost friends and loved ones in the attacks that day. Yet Wright has handled this difficult material in a way that makes it bearable to read, and his pacing of the story is masterful. The Looming Tower reads like a suspense novel at times and the writing is lyrical. The book is also chock full of pertinent facts and background material that help make sense, insofar as that is even possible, of the motivations of the terrorists. I have never seen logic in the tactics of al Qaeda and similar groups, but this book has helped me understand that logic is not the driving force. Rather it seems to be history, the pursuit of a tribal conception of "honor" and a desire to recreate past glory that is far more important than logic. Wright connects those dots to paint a picture of the "terrorist" that is far more three-dimensional than the one that Bush Administration officials and the media have given us. There are also a number of oddball facts and anecdotes that enliven The Looming Tower and add to its interest. For example, Wright relates a tidbit that highlights the so-called "clash of cultures" better than anything I've read to date: "[Jamal al-Fadl] would become al-Qaeda's first traitor. He offered to sell his story to various intelligence agencies in the Middle East, including the Israelis. He eventually found a buyer when he walked into the American Embassy in Eritrea in June 1996. In return for nearly $1 million, he became a government witness. While in protective custody, he won the New Jersey Lottery." There are lots of other gems in this book, including some nearly unbelievable tales about John O'Neill, who would be the hero (or perhaps anti-hero) of Wright's book, if it had a hero, which it doesn't. You should really buy The Looming Tower right away and read it for yourself.

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