i wish i read the reviews before i bought this, once weiner got to post-war italy and incompetent agents handing over sackloads of money to dodgy informants and then took us away from italy without mentioning anything about CIA stay-behinds i started to realise how liberal the author's outlook was. i just started to skim from that point onwards, the hypothesis seems to be that the CIA was a state within a state doing things completely alien and counter to the interests of american democracy, that its allying with israel was some sort of error or accident, etc. etc. avoid at all costs