Author(s): Daniela BACHEŞ
Publication name: Romanian Intelligence Studies Review
Publisher name: Mihai Viteazul National Intelligence Academy
Publication type: Journal article
Publication date: June 30, 2016
Pagination:
Issue/ Volume: 15/2016
DOI:
A must-read according to former CIA director George J. Tenet, the
Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA is one of the
many memoirs books that have been published within the last decade by
former US Government officers having worked in the Intelligence field.
However though, the value of this publication springs from the role its author
had within the CIA throughout his 30-year long career as a lawyer and the
agency’s chief legal officer, which introduces the reader, whether that is
neophyte, a professional or a scholar of Intelligence, to an organizational
culture narrative.
Rizzo has been witnessing the evolution of the CIA and the American
Intelligence community during the leadership of 11 directors and throughout
key moments in the security and Intelligence modern history of the USA (from
the Iran-contra scandal to waterboarding and enhanced interrogation
techniques, the pre- and post-9/11 eras, and the decisions made by various
presidents that marked the Intelligence-politics relationship).
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