The Pulitzer Prize winner portrays in 'The Mission', the second part of his monumental history of the Agency, an authoritarian president who attacks his own secret services and turns US foreign policy ...

The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in this powerful account of the Central Intelligence Agency actions since the ...

Tim Weiner likens the Central Intelligence Agency to a fortified medieval city, where locked castles contain vast libraries. “If you had the keys,” he writes, “a billion secrets were at your ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to author and journalist Tim Weiner about his new book, The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century. Gone are the days when a fake passport and a cover story are all a spy ...

For decades now, the Central Intelligence Agency has reacted to most criticism by saying the agency’s successes are secret while their foul-ups are public. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tim Weiner ...

Gone are the days when a fake passport and a cover story are all a spy needs to get by. So what's an ambitious intelligence officer to do in this era of cameras everywhere, of retina scanners, of AI?

THE MISSION: The CIA in the 21st Century. By Tim Weiner. Mariner Books. 464 pages. $35. The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates ...