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Copertina flessibile : 324 pagine
ISBN-10 : 1250069637
ISBN-13 : 978-1250069634
Peso articolo : 318 g
Dimensioni : 14.15 x 2.36 x 21.01 cm
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Quando e como ações secretas são legais e legítimas.

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Sucinto direto ao ponto quanto as atividades secretas e sua legitimidade pelo Estado. Exemplificado pelas
memórias do autor na CIA, em especial período envolvendo antes e após golpe militar no governo Allende
no Chile, e a Guerra as Drogas e subseqüente caçada à Pablo Escobar.

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Extraordinary Insights into CIA Covert Operations

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GOOD HUNTING: AN AMERICAN SPYMASTER'S STORY has made me far more appreciative of the essential
role of CIA's covert operations both in the past and, especially, as the United States confronts a potpourri
of global threats in the coming years. Jack Devine is not a disinterested writer. He served 32 years in CIA
covert operations, ranging from junior office field assignments to multiple station chief posts and top-level
assignments, including Acting Deputy Director of Operations.Published 16 years after Devine retired from
CIA (does anyone fully retire from CIA?), GOOD HUNTING is the best insider's book on CIA that I have ever
read.

During my years in the Middle East and in the Foreign Service (Congo & Chile), I have met and worked with
(and against) dozens of CIA professionals. I find Devine an exceptional professional and individual, with a
breadth and integrity that makes me proud that he represented the United states in many trouble spots for
over three decades. This is as close to a 'tell all' book that CIA would ever clear for publication.

Devine provided detailed descriptions of some past CIA operations that often correct the general public's
misinformed perceptions. In Chile (where I served from 1966 to 1969), for example, I find credible his
account that CIA was not directly involved in the Pinochet coup against the Allende government in 1973.
However, I was surprised, given his apparent frankness, that he spoke of CIA's resounding success in
reinstating the Iranian shah in Iran and in assuring a Christian Democratic victory in Italy in 1948, when
other studies have minimized the role of CIA.

Devine wrote with specifics and self-deprecating humor about his role as a covert agent. He was staccato in
stressing the importance of a professional covert corps. He steadfastly insisted that all covert activities
should adhere to specific U. S. objectives, as determined at the highest levels. He stated that CIA has been
apolitical, although the government, on occasion, had ordered CIA to engage in operations for political
rather than strategic-interest reasons. His examples included activities related to Iraq, in which CIA bore
the brunt from a misconceived, White-House-directed operation.

What I found most valuable were the many situations in which covert operations were integral to clearly
defined U. S. strategic objectives. Covert operations, by its nature, are a vexing business. How does one
train people to recruit individuals to work against their government? How does seeking out seamy people
affect those who are the seekers? What is the cumulative impact on an organization whose raison d'etre is
to subvert others and to work within a veil of secrecy?

For me, Devine demonstrated that CIA covert personnel could conduct their 'dirty work' and also maintain
their individual integrity. Of course there can be 'rogues' in any organization. Also, there were moles, such
as CIA's Aldrich Ames and the FBI's Robert Hanssen. I found Devine's profiles of numerous colleagues
persuasive evidence that the professionalism of CIA's covert personnel is something of which they and I can
be proud.

Devine makes a strong case that extensive covert operations are an essential component of the American
military, diplomatic, and economic arsenal. His description of how he managed the arming of the
mujahideen with Stinger missiles against the Soviets in Afghanistan detailed an extraordinarily complex
and successful operation that was trivialized in the movie CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR.

We outsiders will never fully be able to appreciate the accomplishments of CIA's covert operations. All too
often the failures make headline news, while the successes remain buried in the halls of Langley. For those
who find 'distasteful' that the United States engages in cover activities, it is important to remember that,
during CIA's infancy, presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy authorized major, massive covert
activities. In our post-Cold War era, recent presidents have continued to utilize this covert arsenal, with
such efforts as seeking to deter Ira's nuclear program an ongoing priority.

Devine made a strong case for the primacy of CIA in the covert field. He acknowledged that, in a major
military operation, the military should have primacy. He often favored CIA-military cooperation in which
military personnel would be attached to CIA paramilitary groups.

Devine highlighted distinctions between intelligence and operational perspectives. I appreciate this from
my years in the State Department Office of Intelligence & Research. Not infrequently the analysis by me
and my colleagues conflicted with assessments by the geographic departments My sense is that this was
even a greater problem within CIA. Devine, on various occasions, sought to integrate intelligence and
operations staff.I applaud his initiatives, but doubt that there is any perfect solution in combining these
distinct functions.

Devine was highly critical of post- 9/11 efforts to create a new superstructure for intelligence
management. He wrote with distain of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, created in 2005.
He expressed concern with the increasingly important role given to the military within the national
intelligence community.

I share Devine's concern with the over-bureaucratization of the intelligence process. I recall, during the
1964 Congo foreign hostage crisis, how I could work directly and professionally with my CIA counterpart
and how we both dismissed the Defense Intelligence Agency as irrelevant. Timeliness and professionalism
are essential in intelligence. As the 'least worst alternative,' I tend to favor Devine's arguments that the
Central Intelligence Agency should be America's central intelligence organization.

Devine concluded with an incisive tour d'horizon of likely hot spots and the role that covert operations
should play. He foresaw few major U. S. military involvements. His ongoing priority problem list included:
terrorism, a Middle East religious cockpit, a Pakistan that could ooze into 'failed state' status,and such flash
points as Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, and China, as well as the global drug trade.These are all ingredients of a
U. S. policy bouillabaisse that, in Devine's view, will require heavy reliance on sustained cover activities.

Both for his personal insights into the 'business' of CIA's covert activities and his shrewd insights on what
America might anticipate in the coming years, I consider Devine's book a must read for anyone interested in
the formulation, the implementation, or the assessing of U. S. foreign policy.
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A LAYMAN'S IMPRESSION by Antony Ivins

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In order to give a focus to what follows, let me explain I am an Englishman and a private citizen with no
experience of the secret world. This book was not primarily written for people like me. It is a most
disquieting book but was not intended to be so. I suspect the reasons for its publication are multi-layered -
part of an ongoing CIA political and public relations misinformation process. A man of the rank of Devine,
who knows so much of the truth of the last thirty or more years, could only write and publish with the
consent of the Directors of the CIA. Every word of this book has been carefully examined and edited by
intelligence-service experts, every described event fully sanitised. It is certainly no exposé. It is not the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Such is the omnipotence that becomes ingrained in the participants in this clandestine world, they firmly
believe that they fool all of the people all of the time. They are concerned to emphasise: that their every
plan and action is approved, in advance, at the very top of national authority; that the civil rights of every
citizen is never abused; that they act only to preserve the free world. Yet they are engaged in a war of far
greater intensity, complexity, immediacy and duration than that executed by the Armed Forces. The CIA
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Victor Mote

TRUE LIFE ADVENTURES IN THE "WORLD'S SECOND OLDEST PROFESSION"-- NO NEED

FOR LEAKS: JACK DEVINE'S LIFE AS A CIA OPERATIVE IS AN
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Dear Julian Assange and Sarah Harrison:
You can call off your hacking dogs! Retired career CIA operative and super sleuth, Jack Devine, has written
an overt,patriotic account of his almost half-century of covert activities in the loyal service of his country,
and how, at six feet six- and- a- half inches, he was able to remain incognito all that time is truly baffling.
GOOD HUNTING has a knockout opening.
Then, on p. 3, Devine brashly asseverates, "It's fair to say that, [although I'm retired from the Central
Intelligence Agency], I can put a tail on someone just about anywhere in the world faster than most spy
agencies."

John J. "Jack" Devine was an intrepid officer in the CIA for 32 years (1967-1999). He was in Santiago de
Chile during the fall of Salvador Allende in 1973. He witnessed the embarrassment of the Iran-Contra
scandal in the mid-1980s, and he was the agent most responsible for the delivery of stinger missiles to the
mujahideen in Afghanistan in the late- 1980s. In the 1990s, he was the head of the Agency's Latin
American counter narcotics division that ultimately brought down Pablo Escobar. He retired from the CIA
after
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