The CIA's Greatest Hits

A revised and updated edition of the explosive book that blows the lid off the Central Intelligence Agency.. The CIAs Greatest Hits details how the CIA:. hired top Nazi war criminals shielded them from justice and learnedand usedtheir techniqueshas been involved in assassinations bombings massacres wars death squads drug trafficking and rigged elections all over the worldtortures children as young as 13 and adults as old as 89 resulting in forced confessions to all sorts of imaginary crimes (an innocent Kuwaiti was tortured for months to make him keep repeating his initial lies and a supposed al-Qaeda leader was waterboarded 187 times in a single month without producing a speck of useful information) orchestrates the mediawhich one CIA deputy director liked to call the mighty Wurlitzerand places its agents inside newspapers magazines and book publishersand much more. The CIAs crimes continue unabated and unpunished. The day before General David Petraeus took over as the twentieth CIA director federal prosecutors announced that they were dropping 99 investigations into the deaths of people in CIA custody leaving just two active cases theyre willing to pursue.