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That perspective - plus his own standing as a foreigner both detached from and deeply immersed in things American - lets him provide fresh insights on episodes from the Bay of Pigs to the creation of the director of national intelligence, to the dissing of intelligence by Trump. This book is a pleasure. * Greg Treverton, former chair of the US National Intelligence Council under President Obama *\u003cbr\u003eRhodri Jeffreys-Jones has written a thorough, engaging history of the CIA. In this wide-ranging, thoughtful narrative, he takes us from the pre-history of the agency up through the controversies of the twenty-first century. 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Some of Mao Tse Tung's most eloquent thoughts are merely rehashes of Sun Tzu and his interpreters.\"--The Los Angeles Herald Examiner \"Samuel Griffith's original and scholarly translation of The Art of War shows how good scholarship can make an easily readable translation that is much more useful to modern readers.\"--The Philadelphia Inquirer \"I find this book to be an excellent complement to a traditional text.  It illustrates key strategic concepts from an alternative perspective.  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