Status Updates From Legacy of Ashes: The Histor...

I’m so glad the U.S. wasted hundreds of millions of dollars and countless lives to gain nothing from 1945-1953 (under Truman).

«The high command sent the order to kill Che at 11:50 a.m. "Guevara was executed with a burst of shots at 1:15 p.m.," Rodriguez radioed to Tilton.
"Guevara's last words were: "Tell my wife to remarry and tell Fidel Castro that the Revolution will rise again in the Americas. To his executioner he said, 'Remember, you are killing a man.’»

In excellent overview of the CIA. It’s really basically a survey and hit all the critical points of the CIA activities since its inception through the early 2000s.. excellent book and definitely recommend reading

«McCone had no confidence that the attacks would change Ho Chi Minh's mind. "The President should be informed that this is not the greatest thing since peanut butter," he advised.»

"They said Indonesia was a failure," Al Pope reflected bitterly. "But we knocked the shit out of them. We killed thousands of Communists, even though half of them probably didn't even know what Communism meant."

«If arms could not buy loyalty in the Middle East, the almighty dollar was still the CIA's secret weapon. Cash for political warfare and power plays was always welcome.»