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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the CIA [Paperback]

Allan Swenson (Author), Michael Benson (Author), Allen Swenson (Author)
1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)


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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Alpha; 1st edition (August 16, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0028643968
  • ISBN-13: 978-0028643960
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,009,826 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars is this book FOR idiots or BY idiots??, September 10, 2003
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This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to the CIA (Paperback)
Either way i found i couldn't relate. What little i knew about the CIA or specific missions (e.g., TPAJAX, Gautamala, etc.) was either wholly inaccurate, blandly whitewashed, or both! The authors have done an admirable job of what one may say is googlizing research (and a poor one at that) and compiling it all into what may vaguely be called a book.

With poor-quality and error-prone books such as this, esp. one on a topic of much import to world affairs of the past half century, one wonders if the cycle of idiocy isn't perpetuated ad infinitum.

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4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Save Your Money, April 22, 2006
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This book is filled with errors. So much is outdated or inaccurate that I wouldn't even donate my copy to the local library.
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5 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Bit of a rip-off., August 12, 2003
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I bought this book for one specific reason: To learn how CIA agents are trained. There was almost NOTHING about CIA training. Aside from that, the book is good. I give it 2 and a half stars.
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Inside This Book (learn more)
First Sentence:
It's not by chance that the United States government has very friendly relations with United Kingdom and Canada but is suspicious of China and Russia. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
intelligence cycle, finished intelligence, four directorates, history staff, root fines, foreign intelligence agencies, trainee program
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United States, Soviet Union, Air Force, Cold War, World War, New York, President Bush, Director of Central Intelligence, The Least You Need, Northern Alliance, Bay of Pigs, White House, Saddam Hussein, Department of Defense, National Security Council, Allen Dulles, Operation Phoenix, President Kennedy, United Nations, Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of Operations, Directorate of Intelligence, East Germany, James Bond, Marine Corps
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