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The Mission
The CIA in the 21st Century'No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has, and The Mission deserves to win him a second Pulitzer' JOHN SIMPSON, GUARDIAN
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De missie
De CIA in de eenentwintigste eeuwAan het begin van deze eeuw raakte de cia in een zware crisis. Na de Koude Oorlog was de inlichtingendienst zijn oorspronkelijke doel kwijtgeraakt; buitenlandse posten werden gesloten, er werd gewerkt met verouderde technologie en cruciale informatie werd over het hoofd gezien. Later, na de aanslagen van 9/11, verschoof de focus naar paramilitaire activiteiten, met geheime gevangenissen en dodelijke drone-aanvallen, waarmee de kernmissie, het verzamelen vaninformatie, nog verder naar de achtergrond verdween. Dit had ernstige gevolgen: talloze buitenlandse agenten vonden de dood, personeelsdossiers werden gestolen door Chinese spionnen en computernetwerken werden door de Russische inlichtingendienst en Amerikaanse hackers geïnfiltreerd. In De missie onderzoekt Tim Weiner de strijd van de cia om na deze jaren van mislukkingen zijn verloren spionagecapaciteiten te herstellen. Dit is de onthullende geschiedenis van de cia in de eenentwintigste eeuw, van 9/11 en de oorlogen in Afghanistan en Irak tot de huidige conflicten met Rusland en China.
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The Mission
Editors' ChoiceNew York Times Notable Book of the Year * A Washington Post Best Book of the Year * A New Yorker Bestseller * A New York Times Updated with a new afterword on the CIA's role during Trump's second term. "No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has, and The Mission deserves to win Weiner a second Pulitzer." —The Guardian A masterpiece of reporting based on-the-record interviews with six former CIA directors and scores of spies, station chiefs, and top operations officers: The Mission is a gripping and revelatory history of the modern CIA, reaching from 9/11 through its covert operations in Afghanistan and Iraq to today’s secret battles with Russia and China, concluding with the Agency's own fight for survival under the current president of the United States Tim Weiner's epic successor to Legacy of Ashes, his National Book Award–winning classic about the CIA's first sixty years At the turn of the century, the Central Intelligence Agency was in crisis. The end of the Cold War had robbed the agency of its mission. More than thirty overseas stations and bases had been shuttered, and scores that remained had been severely cut back. Many countries where surveillance was once deemed crucial went uncovered. Essential intelligence wasn’t being collected. At the dawn of the information age, the CIA’s officers and analysts worked with outmoded technology, struggling to distinguish the clear signals of significant facts from the cacophony of background noise. Then came September 11th, 2001. After the attacks, the CIA transformed itself into a lethal paramilitary force, running secret prisons and brutal interrogations, mounting deadly drone attacks, and all but abandoning its core missions of espionage and counterespionage. The consequences were grave: the deaths of scores of its recruited foreign agents, the theft of its personnel files by Chinese spies, the penetration of its computer networks by Russian intelligence and American hackers, and the tragedies of Afghanistan and Iraq. A new generation of spies now must fight the hardest targets—Moscow, Beijing, Tehran—while confronting a president who has attacked the CIA as a subversive force. From Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Weiner, The Mission tells the gripping, high-stakes story of the CIA through the first quarter of the twenty-first century, revealing how the agency fought to rebuild the espionage powers it lost during the war on terror—and finally succeeded in penetrating the Kremlin. The struggle has life-and-death consequences for America and its allies. The CIA must reclaim its original mission: know thy enemies. The fate of the free world hangs in the balance. A masterpiece of reporting, The Mission includes exclusive on-the-record interviews with six former CIA directors, the top spymaster, thirteen station chiefs, and scores of top operations officers who served undercover for decades and have never spoken to a journalist before.
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La Misión: La CIA En El Siglo XXI / The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century
La historia de la CIA, del 11-S a la actualidad. El periodista ganador del Pulitzer retoma su investigación sobre el servicio de inteligencia más famoso del mundo. «Escalofriante. Un testimonio documental crucial de la actualidad'. --Publishers Weekly A principios de siglo, la CIA estaba en crisis. Tras el final de la Guerra Fría se había quedado sin una misión clara. Más de treinta bases y centros de operaciones en el extranjero habían cerrado, y los que quedaban habían sufrido graves recortes. En los albores de la era de la información y de la revolución digital sus oficiales y analistas trabajaban con tecnología anticuada, esforzándose por distinguir qué señales eran significativas entre la cacofonía causada por el ruido que invadía el mundo. Entonces llegó el 11 de septiembre de 2001. Tras los atentados, la CIA se transformó en una letal fuerza paramilitar responsable de prisiones secretas, durísimos interrogatorios y mortíferos ataques con aviones no tripulados, todo muy lejos de sus misiones tradicionales de espionaje y contraespionaje. Las consecuencias fueron terribles: la muerte de decenas de agentes, el robo de archivos por espías chinos, la infiltración de la inteligencia rusa y de hackers estadounidenses en sus redes informáticas y las tragedias de Afganistán e Irak. Ahora, una nueva generación de espías debe afrontar objetivos aún más difíciles --Moscú, Pekín, Teherán-- al tiempo que se defiende de un presidente decidido a atacar y acusar de forma persistente a la Agencia: Donald Trump. Tim Weiner, ganador del Premio Pulitzer y del National Book Award, retoma su apasionante historia de la CIA para contarnos qué ocurrió durante el primer cuarto del siglo XXI en las entretelas de la lucha interna por reconstruir su identidad después de varios desastres consecutivos. Este combate ha tenido y tiene consecuencias directas en el destino de Estados Unidos y del mundo entero, y pasa por recobrar el sentido de la misión original sobre la cual se cimentó la CIA: conocer y radiografiar al enemigo. La misión es una obra maestra del reportaje periodístico, fruto de un riguroso análisis y de entrevistas exclusivas con seis exdirectores de la CIA, trece jefes de base y decenas de espías de alto nivel, testimonios que nunca habían hablado con ningún escritor. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION New York Times Bestseller * A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 * A New York Times Editors' Choice "No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has, and The Mission deserves to win Weiner a second Pulitzer." --The Guardian A masterpiece of reporting based on-the-record interviews with six former CIA directors and scores of spies, station chiefs, and top operations officers: The Mission is a gripping and revelatory history of the modern CIA, reaching from 9/11 through its covert operations in Afghanistan and Iraq to today's secret battles with Russia and China, concluding with the Agency's own fight for survival under the current president of the United States . Tim Weiner's epic successor to Legacy of Ashes, his National Book Award-winning classic about the CIA's first sixty years. At the turn of the century, the Central Intelligence Agency was in crisis. The end of the Cold War had robbed the agency of its mission. More than thirty overseas stations and bases had been shuttered, and scores that remained had been severely cut back. Many countries where surveillance was once deemed crucial went uncovered. Essential intelligence wasn't being collected. At the dawn of the information age, the CIA's officers and analysts worked with outmoded technology, struggling to distinguish the clear signals of significant facts from the cacophony of background noise. Then came September 11th, 2001. After the attacks, the CIA transformed itself into a lethal paramilitary force, running secret prisons and brutal interrogations, mounting deadly drone attacks, and all but abandoning its core missions of espionage and counterespionage. The consequences were grave: the deaths of scores of its recruited foreign agents, the theft of its personnel files by Chinese spies, the penetration of its computer networks by Russian intelligence and American hackers, and the tragedies of Afghanistan and Iraq. A new generation of spies now must fight the hardest targets--Moscow, Beijing, Tehran--while confronting a president who has attacked the CIA as a subversive force. From Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Weiner, The Mission tells the gripping, high-stakes story of the CIA through the first quarter of the twenty-first century, revealing how the agency fought to rebuild the espionage powers it lost during the war on terror--and finally succeeded in penetrating the Kremlin. The struggle has life-and-death consequences for America and its allies. The CIA must reclaim its original mission: know thy enemies. The fate of the free world hangs in the balance. A masterpiece of reporting, The Mission includes exclusive on-the-record interviews with six former CIA directors, the top spymaster, thirteen station chiefs, and scores of top operations officers who served undercover for decades and have never spoken to a journalist before.
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Die Mission - Die CIA im 21. Jahrhundert
Mitreißend und fast thrillerhaft erzählt Tim Weiner von den Machenschaften der CIA im 21. Jahrhundert.Der 11. September 2001 veränderte die CIA grundlegend. Aus dem Geheimdienst, der seine Kernaufgaben - Spionage und Spionageabwehr - nach dem Kalten Krieg so gut wie aufgegeben hatte, wurde eine Organisation, die Foltergefängnisse baute und tödliche Drohnenangriffe durchführte. Die Folgen waren gravierend: Chinesische Spione stahlen Akten, amerikanische Hacker verschafften sich Zugang zu sensiblen Daten und zahllose Menschen starben in Afghanistan und im Irak. Heute sieht sich die CIA vor neue, enorme Herausforderungen gestellt: von den Konflikten mit Russland, dem Iran und China bis hin zur Auseinandersetzung mit Trump, der den Geheimdienst als subversive Kraft bezeichnet.Ein schonungsloser Blick auf einen der mächtigsten Nachrichtendienste der Welt in einem Vierteljahrhundert voller Krisen, Kriege und globaler Machtverschiebungen - von einem der intimsten Kenner des amerikanischen Geheimdienstsystems.
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The Mission
'No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has, and The Mission deserves to win him a second Pulitzer'JOHN SIMPSON, GUARDIAN The epic successor to Tim Weiner's National Book Award-winning classic,¿Legacy of Ashes: a gripping and revelatory history of the CIA in the 21st¿century, reaching from 9/11 through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to today's battles with Russia and China - and with the President of the United States. At the turn of the century, the Central Intelligence Agency was in crisis. The end of the Cold War had robbed the agency of its mission. More than thirty overseas stations and bases had been shuttered, and scores that remained had been severely cut back. Many countries where surveillance was once deemed crucial went uncovered. Essential intelligence wasn't being collected. At the dawn of the information age, the CIA's officers and analysts worked with outmoded technology, struggling to distinguish the clear signals of significant facts from the cacophony of background noise. Then came September 11th, 2001. After the attacks, the CIA transformed itself into a lethal paramilitary force, running secret prisons and brutal interrogations, mounting deadly drone attacks, and all but abandoning its core missions of espionage and counterespionage. The consequences were grave: the deaths of scores of its recruited foreign agents, the theft of its personnel files by Chinese spies, the penetration of its computer networks by Russian intelligence and American hackers, and the tragedies of Afghanistan and Iraq. A new generation of spies now must fight the hardest targets - Moscow, Beijing, Tehran - while confronting a president who has attacked the CIA as a subversive force. From Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Weiner,¿The Mission¿tells the gripping, high-stakes story of the CIA through the first quarter of the twenty-first century, revealing how the agency fought to rebuild the espionage powers it lost during the war on terror - and finally succeeded in penetrating the Kremlin. The struggle has life-and-death consequences for America and its allies. The CIA must reclaim its original mission: know thy enemies. The fate of the free world hangs in the balance. A masterpiece of reporting, The Mission includes exclusive on-the-record interviews with six former CIA directors, thirteen station chiefs, and scores of top spies who served undercover for decades and have never spoken to a journalist before.
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The Mission
New York Times Bestseller * A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year * A New York Times Editors' Choice "No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has, and The Mission deserves to win Weiner a second Pulitzer." —The Guardian A masterpiece of reporting based on-the-record interviews with six former CIA directors and scores of spies, station chiefs, and top operations officers: The Mission is a gripping and revelatory history of the modern CIA, reaching from 9/11 through its covert operations in Afghanistan and Iraq to today’s secret battles with Russia and China, concluding with the Agency's own fight for survival under the current president of the United States Tim Weiner's epic successor to Legacy of Ashes, his National Book Award–winning classic about the CIA's first sixty years At the turn of the century, the Central Intelligence Agency was in crisis. The end of the Cold War had robbed the agency of its mission. More than thirty overseas stations and bases had been shuttered, and scores that remained had been severely cut back. Many countries where surveillance was once deemed crucial went uncovered. Essential intelligence wasn’t being collected. At the dawn of the information age, the CIA’s officers and analysts worked with outmoded technology, struggling to distinguish the clear signals of significant facts from the cacophony of background noise. Then came September 11th, 2001. After the attacks, the CIA transformed itself into a lethal paramilitary force, running secret prisons and brutal interrogations, mounting deadly drone attacks, and all but abandoning its core missions of espionage and counterespionage. The consequences were grave: the deaths of scores of its recruited foreign agents, the theft of its personnel files by Chinese spies, the penetration of its computer networks by Russian intelligence and American hackers, and the tragedies of Afghanistan and Iraq. A new generation of spies now must fight the hardest targets—Moscow, Beijing, Tehran—while confronting a president who has attacked the CIA as a subversive force. From Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Weiner, The Mission tells the gripping, high-stakes story of the CIA through the first quarter of the twenty-first century, revealing how the agency fought to rebuild the espionage powers it lost during the war on terror—and finally succeeded in penetrating the Kremlin. The struggle has life-and-death consequences for America and its allies. The CIA must reclaim its original mission: know thy enemies. The fate of the free world hangs in the balance. A masterpiece of reporting, The Mission includes exclusive on-the-record interviews with six former CIA directors, the top spymaster, thirteen station chiefs, and scores of top operations officers who served undercover for decades and have never spoken to a journalist before.
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Folly and the Glory
From Tim Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, an urgent and gripping account of the 75-year battle between the US and Russia that led to the election and impeachment of an American presidentWith vivid storytelling and riveting insider accounts, Weiner traces the roots of political warfare-the conflict America and Russia have waged with espionage, sabotage, diplomacy and disinformation-from 1945 until 2020. America won the cold war, but Russia is winning today. Vladimir Putin helped to put his chosen candidate in the White House with a covert campaign that continues to this moment. Putin's Russia has revived Soviet-era intelligence operations gaining ever more potent information from-and influence over-the American people and government. Yet the US has put little power into its defense. This has put American democracy in peril.Weiner takes us behind closed doors, illuminating Russian and American intelligence operations and their consequences. To get to the heart of what is at stake and find potential solutions, he examines long-running 20th-century CIA operations, the global political machinations of the Soviet KGB, the erosion of American political warfare after the cold war, and how 21st-century Russia has kept the cold war alive. The Folly and the Glory is an urgent call to our leaders and citizens to understand the nature of political warfare-and to change course before it's too late.
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Macht und Wahn
Wieder liefert Tim Weiner, der Geheimdienstexperte und Pulitzer-Preisträger, eine packende und eindringliche Darstellung politischer Machtspiele. In »Macht und Wahn« beleuchtet er die bilaterale Beziehung zwischen den Großmächten Russland und USA. Gespickt mit Insiderberichten zeichnet Weiner fesselnd und anschaulich die Wurzeln dieses inzwischen über 75 Jahre andauernden Kampfes nach, den Amerika und Russland von 1945 bis 2020 mit Spionage, Diplomatie, Sabotage und Desinformation miteinander ausfechten. Weiner führt hinter verschlossene Türen und lässt die Protagonisten - Präsidenten, Politiker, Hintermänner - beider Seiten des Ost-West-Konflikts zu Wort kommen. Er beleuchtet die Machenschaften des KGB und der CIA und ihre Folgen für die Zeitgeschichte. Heute sehen die einst als Sieger aus dem Kalten Krieg hervorgegangenen USA ihre Demokratie in Gefahr. Denn Russland griff unter Wladimir Putin bereits zu einem Rückschlag an, der die USA gänzlich unvorbereitet traf: Mittels einer verdeckten Kampagne über Internet und Soziale Medien nahm die russische Regierung Einfluss auf die US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2016 und stellte so sicher, dass ihr Wunschkandidat, Donald Trump, das Weiße Haus bezog. Auch das dagegen eingeleitete Amtsenthebungsverfahren richtete nichts aus. Erneut verhärten sich die Fronten, der Ausgang dieses realen Politthrillers jedoch bleibt ungewiss.
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De stille oorlog
Na de val van de Muur kwam de Koude Oorlog tussen het westen en de Sovjet-Unie ten einde. Maar met de opkomst van Poetin als leider is de politieke oorlog tussen Rusland en de Verenigde Staten in alle hevigheid opgelaaid, met de inmenging van Rusland in de presidentsverkiezingen van 2016 als voorlopig dieptepunt. Weiner onderzoekt de wortels van dit politieke spel, dat wordt gespeeld met spionage, sabotage en desinformatie. Welke rol speelde Poetin in de verkiezing van Donald Trump? Hoe gebruikt Rusland kgb-technieken om steeds meer informatie van – en invloed op – de Amerikaanse samenleving te krijgen? En waarom kunnen de VS hier zo weinig tegen inbrengen? De stille oorlog laat zien hoe gevoelig Amerika en andere westerse democratieën zijn voor digitale aanvallen door autocratische regimes. Pas wanneer we deze politieke oorlog begrijpen, kunnen we het tij keren.
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Ein Mann gegen die Welt
Mitreißend beschreibt der Bestseller-Autor und Pulitzer-Preisträger Tim Weiner den Aufstieg und Fall des Richard Nixon. Er zitiert die geheimen Besprechungen Nixons im Oval Office, unter anderem mit Henry Kissinger, auf Grundlage von Tonbandmitschnitten des Weißen Hauses und weiteren brisanten Dokumenten, die erst seit kurzem zugänglich sind.Lügen, Paranoia und Bestechung - unter Richard Nixon erlebten die USA die katastrophalste Präsidentschaft ihrer Geschichte. Der verlorene Vietnam-Krieg und der Watergate-Skandal wurden zu Symbolen seiner Politik.Weiner blickt hinter die Kulissen der großen Politik während des Kalten Krieges, hautnah schildert er Nixons Treffen mit Mao und Breschnew und deckt auf, was Nixon wirklich über den deutschen Kanzler Willy Brandt und die Entspannungspolitik dachte - für die deutsche Ausgabe verfasste Tim Weiner ein eigenes Kapitel zu Brandt und Nixon. Zugleich zeichnet Weiner den politischen Selbstmord des US-Präsidenten nach und zeigt: Watergate war nur der Höhepunkt in einer Kette von Manipulationen und Fehlentscheidungen.Die Chronik eines Skandals, der in der Geschichte seinesgleichen sucht - und das eindringliche Porträt einer Epoche, in der viele politische Karrieren begannen, die bis heute die US-Politik prägen. Packender als jeder Polit-Thriller.
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One Man Against the World
A shocking and riveting look at one of the most dramatic and disastrous presidencies in US history, from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Tim Weiner. Based largely on documents declassified only in the last few years, One Man Against the World paints a devastating portrait of a tortured yet brilliant man who led the country largely according to a deep-seated insecurity and distrust of not only his cabinet and congress, but the American population at large. In riveting, tick-tock prose, Weiner illuminates how the Vietnam War and the Watergate controversy that brought about Nixon's demise were inextricably linked. From the hail of garbage and curses that awaited Nixon upon his arrival at the White House, when he became the president of a nation as deeply divided as it had been since the end of the Civil War, to the unprecedented action Nixon took against American citizens, who he considered as traitorous as the army of North Vietnam, to the infamous break-in and the tapes that bear remarkable record of the most intimate and damning conversations between the president and his confidantes, Weiner narrates the history of Nixon's anguished presidency in fascinating and fresh detail. A crucial new look at the greatest political suicide in history, One Man Against the World leaves us not only with new insight into this tumultuous period, but also into the motivations and demons of an American president who saw enemies everywhere, and, thinking the world was against him, undermined the foundations of the country he had hoped to lead.
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